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  • HoraceH Horace

    Any sane company will encourage, if not demand, their employees to use AI in their work. Any company that forbids it, better have an impenetrable moat, because if they have competition that uses AI, they're toast.

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    @Horace said in My AI Training:

    Any sane company will encourage, if not demand, their employees to use AI in their work. Any company that forbids it, better have an impenetrable moat, because if they have competition that uses AI, they're toast.

    But "forbidding AI" may be a popular populist position for politicians to take. (Recall Trump voiced support for the dockworkers union's fight against port automation.)

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      I keep getting notices to attend an AI training session, in the meantime the IT people have blocked ChatGPT in the hospital computer system as unsafe software.

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      • HoraceH Horace

        @Doctor-Phibes said in My AI Training:

        So today I got one of those emails requiring me to do an online training course. Part of it was one of our IT people waxing lyrical about how much better everything was going to be as we adopt the new technology. As the video finished, I got the usual YouTube recommendations for related videos.

        One was entitled 'We're f*cked', and another 'Why nobody hires people over forty any more'.

        Way to go, team! I'm so motivated right now I could shit.

        Your training video was on youtube? That's lucky. Our training videos are the typical large-corporation training videos that use specialized software with quizzes at the end of sections and an inability to skip or speed up content.

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        @Horace said in My AI Training:

        Your training video was on youtube? That's lucky. Our training videos are the typical large-corporation training videos that use specialized software with quizzes at the end of sections and an inability to skip or speed up content.

        We have the same, but for some reason the IT segment was YouTube with some rather ill-considered links afterwards. Unless of course it was deliberate, which is always possible. Or maybe that's just what they want me to think. Hmmmmm.......

        I was only joking

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        • bachophileB bachophile

          I keep getting notices to attend an AI training session, in the meantime the IT people have blocked ChatGPT in the hospital computer system as unsafe software.

          MikM Away
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          Mik
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          @bachophile said in My AI Training:

          I keep getting notices to attend an AI training session, in the meantime the IT people have blocked ChatGPT in the hospital computer system as unsafe software.

          Ah, yes - the joys of healthcare IT.

          "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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          • HoraceH Horace

            Any sane company will encourage, if not demand, their employees to use AI in their work. Any company that forbids it, better have an impenetrable moat, because if they have competition that uses AI, they're toast.

            MikM Away
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            Mik
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            @Horace said in My AI Training:

            Any sane company will encourage, if not demand, their employees to use AI in their work. Any company that forbids it, better have an impenetrable moat, because if they have competition that uses AI, they're toast.

            Spot on.

            "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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            • MikM Mik

              @Horace said in My AI Training:

              Any sane company will encourage, if not demand, their employees to use AI in their work. Any company that forbids it, better have an impenetrable moat, because if they have competition that uses AI, they're toast.

              Spot on.

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              @Mik said in My AI Training:

              @Horace said in My AI Training:

              Any sane company will encourage, if not demand, their employees to use AI in their work. Any company that forbids it, better have an impenetrable moat, because if they have competition that uses AI, they're toast.

              Spot on.

              Fuck that.

              I think I'm done with this stuff. I find all the corporate enthusiasm for it really depressing. These people have no idea what I do all day, but they're telling me my life can be so much better if I use the computerized monkey they also don't really understand.

              What would actually make me happy would be for them to provide me an IT system that actually worked. Too fucking difficult? Oh, let's build a fucking data center instead and drive up the price of electricity to the point where I can't afford to heat my fucking house.

              Sorry, bad morning. I've just been told we've been asked to provide a list of people who didn't show up to the Christmas party. FFS.

              I was only joking

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                @phibes - that IS a bad morning. Nothing good can come of that.

                AI's potential is underappreciated in some areas and overestimated in others. Sure, it can do all the PM documents you might want Gannt charts, project plans, etc., but you still have to amass and feed it the data. Where it can help you is you can train it to do normal engineering reports where you just put in the parameters and it does all the verbalization for you. But it can't amass data it hasn't been given.

                "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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                • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                  @Mik said in My AI Training:

                  @Horace said in My AI Training:

                  Any sane company will encourage, if not demand, their employees to use AI in their work. Any company that forbids it, better have an impenetrable moat, because if they have competition that uses AI, they're toast.

                  Spot on.

                  Fuck that.

                  I think I'm done with this stuff. I find all the corporate enthusiasm for it really depressing. These people have no idea what I do all day, but they're telling me my life can be so much better if I use the computerized monkey they also don't really understand.

                  What would actually make me happy would be for them to provide me an IT system that actually worked. Too fucking difficult? Oh, let's build a fucking data center instead and drive up the price of electricity to the point where I can't afford to heat my fucking house.

                  Sorry, bad morning. I've just been told we've been asked to provide a list of people who didn't show up to the Christmas party. FFS.

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                  @Doctor-Phibes said in My AI Training:

                  I've just been told we've been asked to provide a list of people who didn't show up to the Christmas party.

                  Maybe your benevolent employer just wants to ship them the party favors that have been prepared for everyone?

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                  • MikM Mik

                    @phibes - that IS a bad morning. Nothing good can come of that.

                    AI's potential is underappreciated in some areas and overestimated in others. Sure, it can do all the PM documents you might want Gannt charts, project plans, etc., but you still have to amass and feed it the data. Where it can help you is you can train it to do normal engineering reports where you just put in the parameters and it does all the verbalization for you. But it can't amass data it hasn't been given.

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                    ![alt text](image url)@Mik said in My AI Training:

                    ... but you still have to amass and feed it the data. Where it can help you is you can train it to do normal engineering reports where you just put in the parameters and it does all the verbalization for you. But it can't amass data it hasn't been given.

                    That's another concern ... how do you know the data you feed it will not leak outside your data security enclave?

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                    • MikM Mik

                      @phibes - that IS a bad morning. Nothing good can come of that.

                      AI's potential is underappreciated in some areas and overestimated in others. Sure, it can do all the PM documents you might want Gannt charts, project plans, etc., but you still have to amass and feed it the data. Where it can help you is you can train it to do normal engineering reports where you just put in the parameters and it does all the verbalization for you. But it can't amass data it hasn't been given.

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                      @Mik said in My AI Training:

                      Nothing good can come of that.

                      There are few things worse than mandatory fun.

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                      I was only joking

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                      • AxtremusA Axtremus

                        ![alt text](image url)@Mik said in My AI Training:

                        ... but you still have to amass and feed it the data. Where it can help you is you can train it to do normal engineering reports where you just put in the parameters and it does all the verbalization for you. But it can't amass data it hasn't been given.

                        That's another concern ... how do you know the data you feed it will not leak outside your data security enclave?

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                        @Axtremus said in My AI Training:

                        ![alt text](image url)@Mik said in My AI Training:

                        ... but you still have to amass and feed it the data. Where it can help you is you can train it to do normal engineering reports where you just put in the parameters and it does all the verbalization for you. But it can't amass data it hasn't been given.

                        That's another concern ... how do you know the data you feed it will not leak outside your data security enclave?

                        You don't. Exactly why I stay away from cloud storage as much as possible.

                        "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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