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Mosh said:
I had a very quick and rocky first impression of AI. At first I was intrigued by how it could be used as a tool to help with creativity, then I was worried about it destroying us all, now I feel like it's kinda shit technology that has been adapted by lazy people looking for cheap thrills. At the end of the day, I think interesting people will continue to be interesting and lazy/opportunistic people will continue to chase after the next shiny thing and run it into the ground until it's no longer interesting.

There have been some interesting uses of AI though. How Peter Jackson has used it to restore old audio and video of the Beatles is pretty amazing. That technology is just starting to become commercially available and I am pretty excited about the opportunities that are going to come from being able to cleanly and easily extract instruments from old recordings. For people in the music/audio field at least, I definitely see a path where AI can help me take care of weird technical problems so I can focus more on the creative side of things.
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There are very interesting ways to leverage AI in particular industries. I know people in my field that leveraged it to diagnose and partially rewrite code to complex PLC systems. I have occasionally picked its (ChatGPT) brain on CNC and G code programming, and it is good for compiling quick lists of commonly used codes, although with most FANUC controllers, each shop is going to have their codes configured differently.

On the music side of things, my stance from day one: it should neve be used in the creative side of the process. I'm sure there are smart ways to leverage it in lets say the marketing or advertising side of the process. Maybe even ways to utilize it in the manufacturing and distribution side of music, but it should never interfere with the creative process. And the art looks ugly. Very, very ugly. We use to be proper metalheads, a band like Accept would put out an album cover like Balls to the Wall, and dammit it is awful, but it was a human choice - and there's charm to it. Your point about lazy people continuing to be lazy is indeed correct.
 
And I think people that are worried about AI taking jobs are slightly overreacting. Jobs are being transformed, not taken away. Where as before, you maybe had a line of presses that needed parts to be loaded in one by one by hand, you can now take that Material Handler position and transform it into a Technician role where this person has the responsibility of performing Maintenance on an automated line of presses and diagnosing problems when they arise. I'm sure when the assembly line came to be people were worried about that taking jobs.
 
DJ James said:
And I think people that are worried about AI taking jobs are slightly overreacting. Jobs are being transformed, not taken away. Where as before, you maybe had a line of presses that needed parts to be loaded in one by one by hand, you can now take that Material Handler position and transform it into a Technician role where this person has the responsibility of performing Maintenance on an automated line of presses and diagnosing problems when they arise. I'm sure when the assembly line came to be people were worried about that taking jobs.
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It was always the case. It comes to: find new ways or die, something like seeing natural selection in a 1: 1,000,000 microscope lens.
 
DJ James said:
And I think people that are worried about AI taking jobs are slightly overreacting. Jobs are being transformed, not taken away. Where as before, you maybe had a line of presses that needed parts to be loaded in one by one by hand, you can now take that Material Handler position and transform it into a Technician role where this person has the responsibility of performing Maintenance on an automated line of presses and diagnosing problems when they arise. I'm sure when the assembly line came to be people were worried about that taking jobs.
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Sure, but we are also just in the very early stages of AI incorporated into our daily personal and professional lives. What you are describing is the best possible outcome, and certainly not the only outcome. This is uncharted territory.

And my brother works as a technician (and started as a handler) at a H&M warehouse, that has just now been semi-automated. So they are a select few technicians, but 140 handlers are as of recently put on notice. The math doesn't add up if we're talking about workers transitioning into similar roles.
 
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Yax said:
Sure, but we are also just in the very early stages of AI incorporated into or daily personal and professional lives. What you are describing is the best possible outcome, and certainly not the only outcome. This is uncharted territory.

And my brother works as a technician (and started as a handler) at a H&M warehouse, that has just now been semi-automated. So they are a select few technicians, but 140 handlers are as of recently put on notice. The math doesn't add up if we're talking about workers transitioning into similar roles.
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That’s a valid point too. Maybe there’s an optimist in me that hopes that those people will be able to be incorporated somewhere along the automation process. As @____no5 mentioned above, industries find themselves to be competitive by nature, and sometimes it takes a lot of initiative on the individual to keep up.
 
Happy Saint Nicholas Day, folks.

Perun said:
I finally got my library card replaced and I feel human again.
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The best feeling in the world. The worst is knowing that you’ll check out this one book now and then promptly not return to the library for another year. Which is what I did this year…
 
Diesel 11 said:
The best feeling in the world. The worst is knowing that you’ll check out this one book now and then promptly not return to the library for another year. Which is what I did this year…
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If nobody else pre-orders it I can extend once a month for a total of nine times.
 
I just re-read and it makes it sound like I checked out a book and then did not return it. Dear reader, I did return the book. That was my second visit of the year. Should've clarified that I haven't been back since returning it.
 
I’ve finally beaten jet lag. Here’s how:
Flew Shanghai -London economy, 20 hours flight altogether. Checked in my hotel, put my running gear and off to run.
Slept like a baby.

Next day first thing I run 10k, then in office working all day until 18:00 then partying with clients up to 03:00 am.
Slept like a baby.

Woke up 10 am destroyed, walked 5km in tee shirt to wake up then went in the office doing fuck all waiting the time to pass. 18 hours flight economy altogether, add 8 hours of time difference I reached home next day 22:00.
Slept like a baby.
 
Diesel 11 said:
I just re-read and it makes it sound like I checked out a book and then did not return it. Dear reader, I did return the book. That was my second visit of the year. Should've clarified that I haven't been back since returning it.
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This is indeed what it sounded like, and I was nearly going to ban you for being such a horrible person.
 
I just made up a new Christmas song:

"Well the weather outside is frightening,
Coz there's thunderbolts and lightning,
Scaramouche does the Fandango,
Figaro, Figaro, Figaro!"

What do you think? :blink:
 
DJ James said:
And I think people that are worried about AI taking jobs are slightly overreacting. Jobs are being transformed, not taken away. Where as before, you maybe had a line of presses that needed parts to be loaded in one by one by hand, you can now take that Material Handler position and transform it into a Technician role where this person has the responsibility of performing Maintenance on an automated line of presses and diagnosing problems when they arise. I'm sure when the assembly line came to be people were worried about that taking jobs.
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Marketing people were afraid that AI would take their jobs or they advertise it as a great tool to automate everything...

From the perspective of 15+ years in the industry, current AI systems are at the level of a moderately bright intern. Their ideas and proposed strategies are very superficial and one-dimensional, as is the content they create. Even with clear instructions to take behavioral economics into account, they create content that is simply not effective. On the other hand - digital marketing has been using AI for years, it has just not been talked about - since ~2010, Google has been using cosine differences to analyze content, so instead of counting keywords, companies like Google can do equations like 'king - man = queen' to analyze the semantics of sentences etc. Not to mention using AI to target and segment ads in PPC systems for years.

The biggest advantage of technology is the ability to write code in my opinion. Outside of programming, there are dozens of places where writing short (50-200 lines) of code can yield huge returns on investment, and tools like ChatGPT are really good at this.
 
A decade ago when I left Middle East, I sold /threw everything I couldn't carry with me on a plane. One thing I didn't throw was my golf shoes. I thought that next time I'd need to play golf I wouldn't need to buy new shoes at least.
10 years have passed and I didn't play a single time. Not only that but during my many relocations I always took the pain to include and pack those bastards. Every single time.
And I am a freak of throwing things and keep my belongings up to strictly necessary.

And now that the time has finally come, that I'm on my way to my first golf game in a decade, that I even flew to Vietnam for that, I have left the shoes behind. Intentionally!
Will play with my running shoes instead :D
 
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A decade ago when I left Middle East, I sold /threw everything I couldn't carry with me on a plane. One thing I didn't throw was my golf shoes. I thought that next time I'd need to play golf I wouldn't need to buy new shoes at least.
10 years have passed and I didn't play a single time. Not only that but during my many relocations I always took the pain to include and pack those bastards. Every single time.
And I am a freak of throwing things and keep my belongings up to strictly necessary.

And now that the time has finally come, that I'm on my way to my first golf game in a decade, that I even flew to Vietnam for that, I have left the shoes behind. Intentionally!
Will play with my running shoes instead :D
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Sod's law ... ::)
 
Not sure it qualifies for Sod’s law, as it was intentional. Though I’m sure there is another law or will be discovered to describe that.

____no5 said:
Intentionally!
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During the last 10 years one thing has changed regarding my shoes preferences. Back then I was wearing EUR 42 (UK8) no matter the type of shoes.
But since I start running while I still wear EUR 42 for “marriage” shoes (only applicable for other people’s marriages, I still wore running shoes for mine :D) but anything less than EUR 44 (UK 9.5) feels completely tight and restrictive.

So when I tried those golf shoes, they felt unpleasant and heavy as hell. I went in a golf shop to check prices and they are quite expensive. So I decided it was overkill to buy a new pair just for one match. If and when I start playing regularly again I may buy shoes and clubs and all.
I bought a glove though, hahah nice touch and above all affordable :)

To conclude, it’s not Sod’ law, but something in the lines of “don’t plan too far ahead” which is also a useful and a good advice to give.
 
Black Abyss Babe said:
Sod's law ... ::)
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Turns out it might have been Sod’s law after all :(

I went for a run this morning and in the middle it started to rain, now my shoes are soaked.
Golf match is tomorrow when it’s forecasted to rain still and I will fly back almost immediately after the match. Which means I will travel either in soaked shoes or in slippers and back home it’s winter…

I should have taken the bastards :(
 
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