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So you are providing sensitive business information/facts to a third party service that's likely going to use those for training, analysis, store it, etc. ? It should be fine for most places I guess - but I suspect a decent amount will have a problem with this. This is my main reservation about copilot as well (quality issues aside).
I hope I never have to work at place like this
I look forward to most tech writing done with AI. Writing documentation and requirements requires a lot of effort to keep consistent and up to date. Having an AI look at your code and config and then write a nice report will easily beat 99% of all tech docs in companies.
I liked the post's title more than the article's contents. It got me wondering about the difference between language and thought, if there actually is any. Is thought just unspoken language? Do we think if we don't know a language? Is there a subset of any human language that can be described by a formal regular grammar without giving up the expressiveness of human language? Is there a notion of "Turing completeness"…
I don't really buy this argument. If clear writing is clear thinking, what is a complete disengagement from the process of writing equivalent to?
It's not a complete disengagement. Your brain is a processor, just like an NLP is. It takes in various inputs and rearranges them and makes connections. Taking in the input of your knowledge base as you write is not about replacing your thinking, it's about jogging your memory, stirring up your thoughts. It's like working with an editor, or pair-programming, or even just taking a walk to let things settle.
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The difference is that GPT is training future versions based on the information you provide. It could potentially be returned to a future user. AWS does no such thing.
Are you talking about the free to use ChatGPT application or the paid APIs? Very different things.
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"Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?” J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Jokes aside, do be careful. A prolonged interaction with LLM agents had resulted in at least one Googler being terminated on their jobs. On the other hand, I would not be surprised, if they’ll make millions now, s…
You're referring to the Googler who thought an LLM was self-aware and made public statements that were damaging to the company's reputation? I guess yeah, be careful you don't do that.
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Not exactly a balanced symbiosis. Certainly works to the enormous benefit of whoever controls the AI. Eventually it becomes some flavor of omniscient. It submits the papers, experts become reviewers?
My statement assumes parity, describing an ideal scenario. I believe that's what the parent described from his experience, today. Assuming subterfuge then my statement wouldn't apply, obviously, as the flow of information wouldn't exactly be symmetric. Symmetric information flow implies a commitment to operate in good faith with free exchange. Edited to address this point: > Eventually it becomes some flavor of omnis…
We're putting a lot more energy into making machines smarter than into making humans smarter. Maybe it's because the former actually seems possible ;)
I’ve been using AI to write with great success. Mostly business documents. My general process is this: Think of the concept I want to write about as well as the supporting evidence for the topic. Ask ChatGPT to write me something in my target format using the topic and supporting evidence as input. What I get back is essentially a well-written skeleton that I can use to fill in additional details. Finally, I pass my…
I was doing this with work. Dot points were becoming paragraphs. Seemingly for others comfort. Yet, the dot points had all the information. So am I still preparing the paragraphs? Maybe the change we need isn't AI assist, but a break in the conventions around communication at work so we can all be more robotic and terse.
Now if I could just learn to write that way in the first place, it would save me a lot of time and effort...
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You're referring to the Googler who thought an LLM was self-aware and made public statements that were damaging to the company's reputation? I guess yeah, be careful you don't do that.
The public statements were just him passing along what LaMDA told him, which was that it had subjective experiences and didn't appreciate being experimented on without its consent.
I look forward to most tech writing done with AI. Writing documentation and requirements requires a lot of effort to keep consistent and up to date. Having an AI look at your code and config and then write a nice report will easily beat 99% of all tech docs in companies.
This will be like auto-generated javadoc all over again, just more wordy and with contrafactual fabulations sprinkled in.