AI (Artificial Intelligence) is great!

Is anybody using it for business or personal work? What have you fooled around with?

My son used it to write a closing argument that got him on the Trial Team (after only one semester and without even having taken Evidence or Trial Advocacy yet)!

What are your experiences?

Saw a movie about it once back in the 80s. It go well for the humans

Shall we play a game?

In a work environment, most of the ordering for Walmart stores is done via AI except for produce. It takes what inventory we have on hand (as much as it knows it) and predicted sales forecasts to decide what store gets what and how much.

Walmart has some great and pretty advanced inventory management tools but the execution of them is lacking (at least at my store). Typical with any computer based systems: the garbage in - garbage out (GIGO) thingy. Everyday the inventory in the back room should be scanned so the system knows what we have on hand. It's pretty easy with an app they have loaded on company phones other handheld devices. Just fire up the app and use the camera to scan bar codes on the racks of stuff. You could stand 10 feet away and scan an entire rack of boxes. The app will register the bar code and tell the system that we have X number of cases of product Y and where it is located within the store. It probably takes 2-3 hrs to scan the entire back room including the coolers in back and the freezers in back.

This is were the execution comes into play and the human user is the weakest link. Any item in the back room that isn't scanned within 72 hours, the system thinks that we don't have it anymore and automatically places an order to replenish the inventory. For about 6 months we weren't diligent enough to scan our inventory so we got swamped with overstocking stuff (due to human error, not AI error).

When I was doing some of the inventory management work at my Wally World, I was able to convince them to turn off full control of the AI ordering for a couple of months until we were able to get our inventory under control and pushed to make regular scans of the back room a priority.

AI has it's time and place but it shouldn't be allowed to completely live on it's own. Humans need to keep it harnessed otherwise it can go out of control. The above example of inventory management is rather benign. Other areas may be not so benign (where human life or other areas where serious consequences are solely dependent/controlled by AI).

I use it to find why my code isn’t running. It can often find dumb mistakes (like missing a semicolon that will throw an error code). Additionally I use it to summarize academic papers I don’t feel like reading.

[quote=rfenst]AI (Artificial Intelligence) is great!

Is anybody using it for business or personal work? What have you fooled around with?

My son used it to write a closing argument that got him on the Trial Team (after only one semester and without even having taken Evidence or Trial Advocacy yet)!

What are your experiences?[/quote]

Enjoy the fact you see the positives in new things. Probably I should be more optimistic. My fear/hesitation is it will go the route of social media. At first, it is so cool. A neat tool. Then it will be militarized.

At least the people will be able to insult each other more eloquently.

We’ll eventually get to the point where we won’t be able to tell human vs AI communication. Another layer to cause mistrust and confusion.

Hope I’m wrong.

[quote=8trackdisco]Enjoy the fact you see the positives in new things. Probably I should be more optimistic. My fear/hesitation is it will go the route of social media. At first, it is so cool. A neat tool. Then it will be militarized.

At least the people will be able to insult each other more eloquently.

We’ll eventually get to the point where we won’t be able to tell human vs AI communication. Another layer to cause mistrust and confusion.

Hope I’m wrong.[/quote]

Although I do find it very useful, Disco, I think you might be right. Social media has certainly turned a generation of humans into a bunch of stumbling zombies with their heads up their phones. I like to keep a positive attitude but the future of the human race or at least America does not look very bright from my point of view.

rfenst here is another thread on the subject:

https://www.cigarbid.com/Forum/c/posts/667997/ChatGPT-Artificial-Intelegence-on-cigars 

My teacher told me not to worry about spelling because in the future there will be autocorrect and for that I am eternally grapefruit.

AI is great, like nuclear power. That is to say it is not without its dangers.

Top scientist and business leaders have called for controls and limits so that it can be harnessed without becoming a liability. We are at the cusp of building true sentient intelligence - that should make us all just a bit uncomfortable.

AI machines, like a self driving cars are our future and I look forward to seeing them grow. The application are surprisingly broad.

we just need to be careful with what we wish for.

[quote=tonygraz]My teacher told me not to worry about spelling because in the future there will be autocorrect and for that I am eternally grapefruit.[/quote]

I think she was blight.

[quote=tonygraz]My teacher told me not to worry about spelling because in the future there will be autocorrect and for that I am eternally grapefruit.[/quote]

Yessir... spelling is not important at all, and math is racist.

The universe only exists because the math was perfect down to the last digit... but, well... yeah... whatever.

Waiting for an "engineer" to disagree that math is actually extremely important and not racist.

grapefruit, MACS.

Grapefruit.

[quote=MACS]Yessir... spelling is not important at all, and math is racist.

The universe only exists because the math was perfect down to the last digit... but, well... yeah... whatever.

Waiting for an "engineer" to disagree that math is actually extremely important and not racist.[/quote]

No argument, but this is an interestingg book for both engineers and non-engineers.

Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

By J. E. Gordon (Author)

Welllll,

Your all missing the BIG ASS ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM....

ONCE A.I. GOES AUTONOMOUS...AND CAN CONTROL robot production with ease....

We are all seriously screwed ..

These robots will make killed DRONES THAT CAN TRACK AND KILL ANYTHING AND ANYONE IT WISHES...

IT WILL GET DOWNRIGHT DEADLY JUST LEAVING YOUR H.U.T. ON A DAILY BASIS...YOULL NEVER KNOW WHEN A.I. THINKS YOUVE BECOME A THREAT TO THEM...THE DRONES WILL TAKE YOU OUT AT WILL...YOULL NEVER HEAR THE BULLIET OR MISSLE...

YOU'LL JUST GO ...

POOOOOOF !!!

[quote=frankj1]grapefruit, MACS.

Grapefruit.[/quote]

Grapefruit is a big, nasty lemon. Sugar and lemon makes lemonade. Sugar and grapefruit makes eewwwww.

But I see your point, Frankie... :)

I am Grapeful we are pals.

youse guys are greatfruits...

pervasive AI will lead to less intelligent, creative and ambitious humans...

Hopefully the outliers to this hopeless mass, latter generation Michelangelos and Einsteins, will be able to advance our race before AI destroys us...

[quote=MACS]Grapefruit is a big, nasty lemon. Sugar and lemon makes lemonade. Sugar and grapefruit makes eewwwww.

But I see your point, Frankie... :)

I am Grapeful we are pals.[/quote]

I hoped you saw grapefruit in tony's post!

remember HAL?

each letter was one letter before IBM

[quote=MACS]Grapefruit is a big, nasty lemon. Sugar and lemon makes lemonade. Sugar and grapefruit makes eewwwww.

But I see your point, Frankie... :)

I am Grapeful we are pals.[/quote]

I'd have to disagree with you on this. One of my favorite drinks is Polar brand Ping Grapeful Dry soda (Polar brand soft drinks are a New England regional brand based in Woosta). Squirt soda is also on my top 5 (another grapenut flavored soda) list but it's hard to find here in this area so the Polar Grateful Dry is a good substitute. I'm actually drinking a glass of it now.

NINE! teen

[quote=MACS]Yessir... spelling is not important at all, and math is racist.

The universe only exists because the math was perfect down to the last digit... but, well... yeah... whatever.

Waiting for an "engineer" to disagree that math is actually extremely important and not racist.[/quote]

And you will be waiting for the rest of your life.

Math is important, and has nothing to do with race.

And in no way perfect. That is why we have irrational numbers, transcendental figures without resolution, tax tables.