Comment on Google’s Bard AI can now access Gmail, Drive, Docs, and more

• SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s already starting to, the AI groups of devs basically showed off an alpha to their CEOs, then those CEOs thought it’s game changing…while the devs were like “no it’s an alpha/pre-alpha and is really dumb”…but the CEOs rolled with it and are now finding how bad it is…so it’s been getting slowly dropped. It’s %100 a fad and has limited applications. It’s really cool tech and I have used it, but it’s not something that’s going to replace many people.

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  • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is only true for generative and sumariziation systems that are directly consumer facing. Current AI systems have a myriad of applications for internal tooling and B2b type systems. At my work we’ve built a vast array of tools using all kinds of modern AI that have delighted our clients. Things that previously wouldn’t have been possible for the average small buisness like filling out patient information by voice.

    People like to shit on AI because they think of the thing google search uses or ChatGPT but it really is changing the world just not all at once. There will be more consumer facing advencments but more than likely these will come in the forms of things like existing products that get augmented in some way to aid usability (AI tooling is fantastic at facilitating accessibility).

    AI is never going away it is here to stay and it is continuing to grow and advance

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    • whofearsthenight@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agreed. My lead at work wanted us to start trying/using Cursor.so (VS Code fork with AI as a builtin feature) and it’s been pretty transformative. I don’t see a lot of “hey write me a program that does x” but in my (limited) use of this, a simple “why doesn’t this function work” has been pretty amazing.

      I have a feeling this is a branding issue more than anything. When you could ask google plain language questions a decade ago and get responses, that seemed amazing. This to me seems like that but more advanced and I just hope they sort out the truthiness and privacy implications. On the one hand, I want the tech to advance, on the other, I would like it to not be such a privacy nightmare.

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      While that’s technically AI… it’s really just ML dressed up. What the public thinks of AI is AGI…all you have done is describe automation at a higher level, and it’s been around for nearly two decades.

      What the CEOs heard was AI…like legit AI(AGI)…what everyone who was developing it said was “here is a cool ML and general purpose automation tool”.

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      • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You clearly haven’t been in a meeting with stakeholders. This is not how these conversations go nor is this the expectation

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  • mephiska@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean who doesn't like a search engine that very convincingly and assertively lies to you? They all come off as very authoritative while also being so very wrong more often than not.

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    • aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean current search engines are not much better withthe drivel they provide

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  • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s %100 a fad and has limited applications. It’s really cool tech and I have used it, but it’s not something that’s going to replace many people.

    You are you trying to convince? Lol the more I hear this the more it seems like projection. You say it to comfort yourself because you’re not certain that it will but you want it to be true.

    The more it gets integrated into the ecosystems that enterprise corporations use the more it will replace people. Our Data Automation engineers are currently training an in house model on company data so you can ask if for anything from the accounting spreadsheets to when the next holiday is (accounting for ACLs of course, can have accounts receivable getting access to accounts payable.)

    If you genuinely think it’s a fad you most likely don’t work in an industry where it has an application or use-case, yet.

    I don’t know where you’re getting this information that it’s dying out because that’s just objectively untrue. Microsoft is probably pricing out AI model Saas E5 licensing as we speak, Bing chat just got an upgrade with Enterprise Tenants recently that supposedly safeguards your company data, this shit is not going anywhere no matter what lies you’re telling yourself. It’s not replacing human oversight anytime soon but it absolutely will reduce the amount of humans behind screens at virtually every company in the next decade.

    Meanwhile new jobs will open up in AI specific integration as it inevitably becomes too much for Cloud and Data engineers to handle.

    “siLlY gOoGle, iTs tHe nEXt cRyPtO” just shows how little you know about it. Probably because you work in a completely unrelated industry and get your information from websites that tell you what you want to hear. Meanwhile your attempt at using AI probably amounts to breaking it’s moral safety locks and then running out of ideas. If you worked in a field that AI is being used for, and know enough to lean on its ability to work through large data sets quickly while doing simple QA work to verify its information (which takes vastly less time than searching through all the data yourself) I guarantee you that you’d find it incredibly useful.

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol no I literally work in this field. The shit that’s being presented now is a fad. We’ve been doing ML for over a decade now, and all the cool little things you’re talking about are not new. It’s not even brand new within the last 5ish years. You’re acting like this is some brand new industry because chatgpt is the new big thing. It’s not it’s a product of the industry that’s been at this for a long time. All automation removes jobs and it’s cool, but don’t sit there and tell me it’s going to replace jobs that require thought that you cannot build into a DB. If it doesn’t have the parameters to do the job it’s not capable of doing the job.

      Also I thought your Google crypto quip is great…

      It’s not replacing human oversight anytime soon but it absolutely will reduce the amount of humans behind screens at virtually every company in the next decade.

      Lol this is how all automation and any tech works…this shits been happening for centuries… it’s not new.

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• regbin_@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why? I think it’s amazing. I fiddle with text-to-image and LLMs daily (running locally of course) and I find them to be very interesting.

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  • dukk@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t mean that…I mean how pretty much every product nowadays has some sort of new “groundbreaking AI features”. AI’s got tons of practical applications, but companies are really overblowing the whole thing.

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