(2024-01-12, 12:25 PM)David001 Wrote: [ -> ]Are you active in this area?
David
Well I work for a company that does use some creative aspects in its software.
And I am looking at the prospect of using Large Language Models, since I think everyone in software has to get up to speed or be left behind...for better or worse.
OTOH I would do my best to avoid pure AI art but I can see some circumstances where an artist is using some AI based tools for the same reason I need to learn about LLMs - to stay in business and put food on the table.
Unclear how much life will be left in these machine "learning" companies at the end though ->
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(2024-01-12, 02:52 PM)Silence Wrote: [ -> ]David, if you haven't invested a fair amount of time in using the LLM AI tools, you're really incapable of opining on its uses and limitations.
Well I am a retired software developer - but since I worked for a small firm, I still have some involvement in the work I did.
LLM's are pretty new and I have explored them in a few directions by now. They are very interesting, and I have done explorations into getting ChatGPT to write small quantities in Python code in relation to a particular library. What I discovered was that its first attempt was syntactically invalid, but when I pointed this out, it apologised and came up with a viable solution.
I have also explored ways to persuade ChatGPT to discuss some of the parapsychology literature by using a form of language that gives it license to explore non-materialist possibilities. I have, of course, written about the results here.
You must decide if my advice is going to be of use to you!
Quote:I've only recently begun to try and "use" it in my professional career. Its choppy in terms of how much efficiency I've gained (likely negative as there is a learning/creative-use curve). However, just yesterday I was struggling with how to phrase an email to a prospective client. I ask ChatGPT with a simple prompt to suggest some language.
Well I don't usually have 'delicate' emails to write, so I leave that job to myself - perhaps that is why you and I tend to jar a bit - LOL!
Quote:I was amazingly good, but certainly not a final draft. That said and for me at least, when I am writing for my job the first draft is far and away THE most time consuming part. This example allowed me to move from initial drafter to draft editor. Took me 30 seconds to edit the AI draft and bam..... off went my email. Probably saved me 10 minutes.
While the bigger questions around AI continue to be a point of potential concern, the day to day application potential seems exponential.
Well do keep us posted! Maybe you should explore its use in writing your posts on this forum?
David
(2024-01-12, 04:48 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: [ -> ]Well I work for a company that does use some creative aspects in its software.
And I am looking at the prospect of using Large Language Models, since I think everyone in software has to get up to speed or be left behind...for better or worse.
OTOH I would do my best to avoid pure AI art but I can see some circumstances where an artist is using some AI based tools for the same reason I need to learn about LLMs - to stay in business and put food on the table.
Have you explore this site?
https://www.img2go.com
Quote:Unclear how much life will be left in these machine "learning" companies at the end though ->
I don't either, but remember some of the previous computer fads - think of Mandelbrot (and other) fractals, the acres written about RISK architectures, fifth generation computers (if you can remember that far back), etc.
It probably takes a while to see these things in perspective.
David
(2024-01-12, 04:48 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: [ -> ]Well I work for a company that does use some creative aspects in its software.
And I am looking at the prospect of using Large Language Models, since I think everyone in software has to get up to speed or be left behind...for better or worse.
OTOH I would do my best to avoid pure AI art but I can see some circumstances where an artist is using some AI based tools for the same reason I need to learn about LLMs - to stay in business and put food on the table.
Have you explored this site?
https://www.img2go.com
Quote:Unclear how much life will be left in these machine "learning" companies at the end though ->
I don't either, but remember some of the previous computer fads - think of Mandelbrot (and other) fractals, the acres written about RISK architectures, fifth-generation computers (if you can remember that far back), etc.
It probably takes a while to see these things in perspective.
David
Apparently if you ask ChatGPT if it uses copyrighted material for its answers it will reply "Yes".