Phil Pascoe
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I don't think artificial intelligence is all it's cracked up to be. I had a pop up advert for a product to alleviate all foot pain. It's years since I had feet.
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Phil Pascoe
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71, bald since I was about 23, I've just a page suggestion from FB - Mickey's Hair Design.
Well I know I've no need for Ann Summers collections, but I keep getting pop ups showing scantily dressed women.
Long may it continue
Long may it continue
Phil Pascoe
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Maybe they have informers?
Tris
What am I doing here?
Not sure that's going to increase the sales of canned meat products 'more meat with this tin' 
ThornOfCamorr
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Love it when people use ebay's AI to generate item descriptions. Some of the best ones so far:
Agent_zed
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I was a bit surprised at a suggested Youtube video the other day, but I guess it made more sense when I realised I'd been searching for Reindeer pictures to make a wooden Reindeer for a Christmas Fayre. Now I just need to find a Moose....
To me it’s amazing what AI can do already. My final year dissertation was on developing a speech recognition systems which could recognise single words it had to learn for each user. Thirty years later and speech recognition is better than my own cognitive abilities! Goodness knows what AI will be able to do in another ten years, never mind 30!
There is a fear that before LLMs evolve better language generation, their training data (the internet basically) will come to be dominated by their own meaningless early attempts, and we'll all disappear up our own meanders...
The magic of modern speech processing is in subsuming most of the DSP and all of the acoustic and language modelling into a single multimodal model, and on solving the scale challenge by training predominantly on unlabelled text plus a little audio. A single model trained on a bunch of predominantly english text plus a bit of speech data can hear and speak multiple languages and replicate a person's voice from a 1 minute recording. I wouldn't advise anyone to use 'my voice is my password' any more...(edited because I got carried away!)
If people are using AI to sell any item I've concluded they don't know what they are selling and they don't deserve my money. The descriptions do amuse me however.
Currently on my college course there are students who are using AI to do their work for them. AI produces masses of information but then the tutor comes along and says "it needs to be to the point".
My view of AI is like anything artificial, lawn, leather, hair etc. It looks convincing but will never compare or better the real thing. My hope is that people will see it as a novelty rather than actually helping and lose interest in it
At work we’ve our own LLM and we use RAG to make the output more relevant. AI saves us time and it is insightful, but we still get at least 50% plus Phil’s missing feet magic foot cream type results.
Spend most of the time saying to people, review and validate. Funny thing is 50% of people do and 50% don’t.
Like most tools, use with caution.
Spend most of the time saying to people, review and validate. Funny thing is 50% of people do and 50% don’t.
Like most tools, use with caution.
