Artificial Intelligence (Previously "Chat GPT")
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A bot is using one of my old mobile phone numbers to try to scam people ... which leads me to a confession: I am not actually a sexy big-titted eastern european blonde who poses topless in abandoned warehouses.
Well that’s disappointing
Prolly too cold in eastern European warehouses this time of year, especially abandoned ones.
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I've been trying some of the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) models. These prioritize specific documents you specify. Quite impressive when applied to scientific papers.
They can take data/conclusions from tables already, if they can interpret figures (graphs) then they will be very useful.
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Fed some SQL in yesterday asking it to put the commas before the fields. It just gave me back the exact same SQL and said done!
There is a guy at work who has been banging on about how great it will be for doing analytics etc.
Told him 2 years ago "Don't expect much just yet. It won't solve complex stuff" but he kept blathering on - mainly because he's a shit analyst at best.
Anyway, we're a Google client at Woolies and they've been creeping in a few of their tools via Gemini to things like Sheets and Chat etc. "Summarise this chat" for when you miss things, or email trails. Yeah great.
So he proudly got us around a table to see what the offering was. I fed in a bunch of work notes from field teams and asked it a few basic questions.
While it saved me about 15 minutes writing regexp statements in BigQuery, it was hardly mind blowing.
At this stage I can see how it helps cut a few tasks down, but we're hardly talking about J.A.R.V.I.S. here...
For many people it is very useful to sort out semi-structured data, and answer the first question so you can revise and then figure out what question to ask next. Like building pylons for a bridge, I guess.
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Scale it out to the models that take a million tokens. Now put in three years of work notes, and you can ask for trends or data points that might not be as obvious.
Absolutely has limitations, but the compute being thrown at these things is increasing 10x every six months. Elon is worried about electricity shortages…