Artificial Intelligence

[daveisaclaret]

It is frightening to think of someone reading a menu in two languages they can read and needing to ask the computer what sounds tasty. It is abdicating the human experience to an algorithm and for seemingly inexplicable reason.

[daveisaclaret]

I use it all the time, mainly as a replacement for google as it offers direct answers without have to scroll though useless websites.

I find ChatGPT superior to Gemini, which are the two I’ve used.


I’m currently writing my masters dissertation, and although I’m not daft enough to have it formulate written work for me, I’ve found it as a very useful sounding board for ideas.

Asking “is this an appropriate systematic review topic” for example, will break down the question and utilise PICO framework. It will also suggest areas of interest and articles to read.

Universities, and all educational institutions are very wary of its use, but they will have to move with the times. Before the internet everyone spent hours in the library trawling through articles. When internet libraries come about, what took hours/days now took minutes, and also provide the most up to date research globally.

Out of interest - have you ever asked it a question such as "is this an appropriate systematic review topic" and received an answer that wasn't exactly what you wanted to hear?

[CoolClaret]

It is frightening to think of someone reading a menu in two languages they can read and needing to ask the computer what sounds tasty. It is abdicating the human experience to an algorithm and for seemingly inexplicable reason.

Beyond frightening.

It's truly dystopian.

[ClaretOfMancunia]

I mainly use ChatGPT. I've had a play around with Google's offering, and Microsoft's Co-pilot - but they're nowhere near as good.

[Leon_C]

It is frightening to think of someone reading a menu in two languages they can read and needing to ask the computer what sounds tasty. It is abdicating the human experience to an algorithm and for seemingly inexplicable reason.

I think there's a difference between "example use case for the technology" and a change in the way of life. I use this example in my work, and the irony that a data centre is making menu choices is indeed duly noted!

The point of this example is that the service daisy-chains OCR, translation and reasoning to complete a task. The emphasis in the example is that, with context including dietary requirements, preferences and allergies, you can extract from a set of documents (in this case a menu) specific, relevant responses.

[Falcon]

I have used AI to generate images. At first (last summer) just to see what it could do, and then more specific examples. I’ve been just using the free sites. The results have been varied but it usually takes a fair few goes to get something good enough, and each time you had to wait several minutes. I assume the paid-for services are quicker and higher quality.

I’m already getting fed up of seeing poor quality AI generated images (with misspelt words, weird bodies, missing fingers, wrong size ratios) in promotional posters on websites, in pub toilets etc.

I’m just as guilty though. I recently uploaded a photo of someone to chatgpt to make a promo image for an event I’m planning, asking it to place the subject in a certain location, in a certain outfit, with a couple of specific things happening in the background, and it did it really well. I showed it to a graphic artist friend and he just sighed and said ‘I could’ve done that for you much better’. He costs £30 though…

I have a deep distrust of the AI generated results that come up at the top of Google search now. It is often inaccurate, or flat out incorrect. When it doesn’t know something, it just makes stuff up. I think it is incredibly dangerous that Google elevates this rubbish to the very top of their results.

[Inchy]

Out of interest - have you ever asked it a question such as "is this an appropriate systematic review topic" and received an answer that wasn't exactly what you wanted to hear?

Yeah. When I was figuring out what to focus on because I had no idea that the start.

I’d put in the research question and it would suggest it’s too broad and would give example of how to narrow it down.

[ecc]

Well, I used to be a translator. That's a noble profession shot to pieces by AI.

Even Google Translation can turn out some amazing renderings.

Today's translators mainly post-edit to finetune AI translations. Nobody ever wanted to pay for proper translations and now they don't need to.

I'm fed up of hearing about it TBH.

But I suppose I'm a latterday Luddite.