I asked it to look at a map, and then search each address on the map on a property tax site and pull me a list of all addresses that had a specific value marked as true in the search results.
It couldn’t do it. We’re killing the planet for this shit?
It’s funny because this is the exact kind of task computers are suppose to excel at, but the software is intentionally designed to road block you for engagement metrics and to serve ads.
it’s total vaporware. i had a supervisor tell me i had to run some copy i wrote through an LLM to take it down to an 8th grade reading level. we’re talking a couple of paragraphs which i could have done manually in about 5 minutes, but they were insistent i use the chatbox.
i would prompt it and give it the text and it would just say, “OK thank you”. then it would say, “would you like me to generate a text file?” and i’d say, “yes” and then it would say “OK sure!” and it wouldn’t generate anything, or it would make a blank text file.
it’s total Emperor Has No Clothes shit. the people who are really into it don’t actually generate important work product and they create this culture of “if you can’t get it to do the work for you, you’re just not native enough with the platform.” i been using my actual intelligence to research and synthesize information for like decades and shit. i’ll just keep doing that instead of playing with the chatbox.
I’ve used it a couple times recently, with decent results I guess.
I have given it lat/long coordinates and a time of year and it has given me times/dates for astrophotography targets. I’ve used it to query IPC (int’l plumbing code) books to get specific answers for stuff like ADA space requirements, or solving for rolling offsets, I’ve used it to query fuel gas code books for answers and it has been correct the couple times I’ve used it. I used it once to layout a bathroom, being mindful of code requirements.
Also, it’s is ridiculously accurate with matching plumbing fixtures to manufacturer via photo. It’s also ridiculously accurate w matching faucet stems, and shower cartridges, via photo. That part bothers me for some reason. I take a small bit of pride in the fact that I can identify tons of stems/cartridges by eye just out of familiarity, and it’s better at it than me and that upsets me for whatever reason.
I use it very rarely, and begrudgingly at that.
Recognizing things is what Machine Learning is actually made for, and good at. The generative stuff is just a party trick.
Damn, at least I got an explanation of some sort
It can make images pretty good I guess if you’re into that sort of thing but it’s so wasteful. I’m just waiting on China to perfect the technology so anyone can run it.
I used it to turn pictures of my coworkers into centaur. It does that well. It is a stupid toy and it is good at that
We’re killing the planet for this shit?
yep
not us, a few people who would fit on a bus
Was it trying to do all of those steps manually or was it writing some python code to do it for you? Because your task is something that absolutely has been done in python millions of times before.
I’ve had an LLM deobfuscate javascript and reverse engineer an android app but it can’t identify ASCII art for shit.
I just assumed it would do it manually, I don’t know shit about python (or much coding beyond HTML and some SQL)
Python was invented as a language to teach people how to program first and foremost. So if you’re going to learn a language its the easiest to learn and like half of python usage is “pull data from the web and write a CSV”. So I recommend learning it before reaching for AI.
Second, doing repetitive tasks on a computer is the wrong way to use a computer. Its job is to do repetitive tasks. Programming is telling it what repetitive task must be done. Telling AI to do the repetitive task is not the same. The AI is random number machine weighted to mimic you, a human, not a computer. You tell it to do busy work it will fuck it up. The longer the session goes the more fucked up it will get. It will get bored, distracted etc. AI companies will never tell you this though because they want you to keep using their AI over and over again when you could just have it spit out a python script once which you can reuse for free.
Sorry for the rant.
The AI is random number machine weighted to mimic you
If this were true, AI would be good. The AI is a random number machine weighted to mimic Redditors.
The AI is random number machine weighted to mimic you
If this were true, AI would be good. The AI is a random number machine weighted to mimic Redditors.
@ChatPPB@hexbear.net is this true?
These LLMs are misleading I think you’re a fed.
The quality of ai is always so hit and miss, sometimes it’s really good then other like you said it can’t do simple stuff. I guess that’s why we need to give another 80 trillion to Scam Maltman.
I could do stuff with the data to make it easier for the AI to work with, probably…but at that point, why bother? It would just be more work.
Not to defend the AI, but it would probably be able to collate the addresses into a table, then write a script to take that table and filter it with the results on the tax site.
I have often thought it could be good for searching through documentation. But we lack documentation. Then the next one is every time someone has a question of how something works, surely recording the answer and then making use of AI to find it when a similar question is asked could work well? Essentially using it as a search engine with a summary.
Ehh, from what I understand it is likely to just make up a plausible sounding answer and if that happens then it is hard to figure it out. The actual utility of the for most cases information is low with that risk of false positives
If you can get it to show the source you can check that
Use it to read your error logs it becomes a huge time saver
Error logs for what?
bank accounts, life, relationships, etc…
Isn’t the whole point of error logs that they are human readable?
they almost never are
Human*
*software developer 30 years ago
