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Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Local, open source models are the answer to this. You never lose access and should be able to grow with you for years.

Yes, but only if on your own hardware or as a service that stays with the individual rather than the company.

Locally run, open source models, on your own hardware is the only way to really own it. Services put you at the whim of a company and I don't like the idea of handing control of parts of my stack to anyone.

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The flip side to this is that if you come to depend on a companies AI, then if you leave or are let go, you are leaving a significant part of yourself behind that you cannot take with you. This is a real problem companies need to address before I even begin to trust or rely on these tools. It's going to lead to massive growth of shadow IT.

That wacky article in the NY Times where Sergey Brin recommends everyone at Google put in 60 hours a week had a bit about how hey thinks all employees need to be using their AI products more: He highlighted the need for Google’s employees to use more of its A.I. for coding, saying the A.I.’s improving itself would lead to A.G.I. He also called on employees working on Gemini to be “the most efficient coders and A.I. s…

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Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Also the 'agent' features. Our company has been blocking all agent features from regular employee access because they don't want random users building their own automations. This kind of stuff requires care and an eye for regulations like GDPR. To permit this as Microsoft wants would lead to a lot of shadow IT. Which will be really hard to get rid of. I compare it to lotus notes which beside being an email client was…

All I need is Citix and I can automate anything. If it's on a screen and I have a mouse and/or keyboard I can automate it.

I'd jokingly say "Can you automate authentic human connection?" but I wager we're about 2 years away from a million people granting power of attorney to their apple body pillows so I'm going to take it for granted that your claim is completely true to all extremes.

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> the thing that scares me about the existence of this data is that it seems well within the capabilities of current technology to train a model that can replicate me , in some sense There’s already all of your posts on social media accounts, all your emails on various servers, all of your text messages, all the notes you’ve written anywhere in any form that might end up in some database in the future. It does make m…

The vast majority of my communication is not in text. Most of what I have written or typed is not in anyone's database. I'm not sure how that compares to others.

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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It is an interesting problem to train an LLM to make it aware only the things I know and with only my knowledge and beliefs stored in the weights. Not to be corrupted by the knowledge from the rest of the world. For new things it can have access to the web search and learn under my supervision. I.e, what data should be used to update it’s weights.

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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> the thing that scares me about the existence of this data is that it seems well within the capabilities of current technology to train a model that can replicate me , in some sense There’s already all of your posts on social media accounts, all your emails on various servers, all of your text messages, all the notes you’ve written anywhere in any form that might end up in some database in the future. It does make m…

A fatal assumption people make about a person’s online corpus is that the person is actually expressing their true thoughts and personality instead of a LARPed version of themselves that deliberately acts more inflammatory to get engagement.

If the person is not being genuine, you will not simulate their true personality and interests, you will be simulating their character. Most people are probably not genuine, except in their one on one conversations with people they know in real life.

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What is the point in replicating an employee when the AI could be better than all the employees? This is a problem only extreme outliers like Nobelists need to worry about. Rank and file employees are not gonna be replicated.

True, AI can be more productive, but as a starting point, fully automating a remote engineering seat is at the very least a great experiment.

Wouldn't be the first time Google is doing something like this. See recaptcha and building numbers.

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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> the thing that scares me about the existence of this data is that it seems well within the capabilities of current technology to train a model that can replicate me , in some sense There’s already all of your posts on social media accounts, all your emails on various servers, all of your text messages, all the notes you’ve written anywhere in any form that might end up in some database in the future. It does make m…

I made a custom GPT of myself using my blog. It understood who I am, but wasn't able to replicate me very well, and mostly sounded like generic ChatGPT with some added interest in my interests.

I would imagine fine tuning with enough data would be different though

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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> the thing that scares me about the existence of this data is that it seems well within the capabilities of current technology to train a model that can replicate me , in some sense There’s already all of your posts on social media accounts, all your emails on various servers, all of your text messages, all the notes you’ve written anywhere in any form that might end up in some database in the future. It does make m…

I made a custom GPT of myself using my blog. It understood who I am, but wasn't able to replicate me very well, and mostly sounded like generic ChatGPT with some added interest in my interests. I would imagine fine tuning with enough data would be different though

Your output is the map, the map of your experiences. If you make a map of the map (by training a model on your output / the map), this is two abstractions away from the human being experiencing the world with all the errors and uncertainties encoded in both maps.
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