Kinda want to send this to my company lol
I love that the only AI goal the oligarchy can focus on is making sure we can all use it to work more.
If you can be in three meetings at once with AI then every single one of those meetings could have been an email
Or a group chat
There’s meetings other people need to have and I just need to know broadly what was said. Transcription and summerizing would be great for that
That is, if I could trust its accuracy. Which I don’t.
So a followup email with meeting minutes written by someone actually there…
GenZ thinks they invented interns lol
I mean basically. Call me a paranoid communist but given half the chance they’d fucking bring back slavery.
that’s pretty much where we are now
shit minimum wage, corporations owning housing, and monopolies in pretty much every market. it’s just slavery with the illusion of freedom because you can choose which shitty apartment building to live in for over half your income, and which franchise stores you shop at, while your essentials are getting price gouged and constantly worse quality for higher cost, yet the workers don’t make more
that’s just slavery with extra steps
Too true. The real steal of the century is convincing the commons that their lack of success is a personal failing rather than a system designed to keep then down
There are bad things in communism - a reductionist model advertised as fitting for everything (a bit similar to Unix, that), and there are good things in communism - attention to balance of power. Revolutionary ideologies generally have advice for situations warranting a revolution more fleshed out.
If you think communism is reductionist, then you might need to read more theory…
Just saying, ending comments with “…” doesn’t make them look smarter.
Which specifically, accepted by most communists, should I read? Will that something allow a model different than that of classes and formations and dialectic materialism? If not, then it is reductionist.
Just saying, ending comments with “…” doesn’t make them look smarter.
You seem mad…
That “…” again. I am.
Hmmm… Perhaps it was intentional…
I mean, I would describe myself as more of an anarchist: I don’t trust the state or capitalism. When I said “Call me a Paranoid Communist” I was referring to the fact that capitalism is gonna fuck us.
OK, then - no, not capitalism. Expectation of truth will fuck us. All the stabilizers of the humanity were built reliant on that - if it looks like a duck and so on. It doesn’t work anymore. Can’t blame something on capitalism if with other things equal the change affects capitalist and socialist systems similarly.
Also a new world war seemed like something slowly rolling, with tanks and cargo ships and propaganda speeches.
What people don’t understand is the sheer scale and precision of operations available today. You can prepare for 50 years something that will take 30 seconds, and then we will all have a different world.
I think honestly the Internet is just that - a very slow trap for the rest of the world, being sprung by some parties associated with US military/deep-state/whatever first, and then being continued by Silicon Valley powers that be, only with their own dreams for it.
I don’t see where a government would need a chatbot. Anyways, chances are that half the staff was already using some form of LLM before this trial.
Why wouldn’t they want one? If it’s a tool their employees want, they should provide it.
The point is that this is all happening in a cloud. One that is probably located in the US. Not a good thing for a non-US government to send potentially confidential or even secret data to.
It doesn’t have to, you can run LLMs locally. We do at my org, and we only have a few dozen people using it, and it’s running on relatively modest hardware (Mac Mini for smaller models, Mac Studio for larger models).
Yeah, shitty toy ones. This here is about productivity, not about a hobby. And not even real state-of-the-art models were able to actually give a productivity advantage.
Our self-hosted ones are quite good and get the job done. We use them a lot for research, and it seems to do a better job than most search engines. We also link it to internal docs and it works pretty well for that too.
If you run a smaller model at home because you have limited RAM, yeah, you’ll have less effective models. We can’t run the top models on our hardware, but we can run much larger models than most hobbyists. We’ve compared against the larger commercial models, and they work well, if little slowly.
Yeah… You do it, but do you think the UK government does?
My point is they could if they were concerned about data leaks.
Tools that decrease accuracy should not be provided to government employees
Whether it improves or reduces employees’ accuracy and efficiency depends on how the employee uses their tools. They should be trusted to pick tools that help them do their job more effectively.
Not if you’re defying safety regulations.
The employees should know what’s within regulations and what’s not.
Lots of LLM shills in these comments. I hope your work doesn’t value reality/accuracy.
I use Copilot for generating images of concepts for presentations at work. It helps me get my point across and no accuracy is needed because it is taking the place of clip art and Google image searches. There is absolutely a place for Generative AI in the workplace. Whether it is worth the cost and whether people are trusting it too much is another question.
It helps me get there more often than not, anywhere from programming I’m unfamiliar with to brainstorming in graphic design. I see a lot of anti-AI folks diss it without considering how it’s actually used. It’s a tool like any other, and you get what you make of it.
Ugh, thought this could’ve referred to a Trial as in “All rise for the judge”, not Trial as in “Your free trial has expired”.
We’re way overdue to put AIs on former trials.
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If they do, who would buy their stuff?
They really don’t think past the next quarter or two. And even if they did they aren’t lacking on new ways to exploit people.
Pretty sure its main function is to back up your data to cloud fully accessible by microsloth
From reading the study, it seems like the workers didn’t even use it. Less than 2 queries per day? A third of participants used it once per week?
This is a study of resistance to change or of malicious compliance. Or maybe it’s a study of how people react when you’re obviously trying to take their jobs.
I don’t think it’s people being resistant to change I think it’s people understanding the technology isn’t useful. The tagline explains it best.
AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don’t bother with anything more complex
It’s a gimmick, not a fully fleshed out productivity tool, of course no one uses it. That’s like complaining that no one uses MS paint for the production of a high quality graphics.
The figures are the averages for the full trial period.
So it’s possible they were making more queries at the start of the trial, but then mostly stopped when if they found using Copilot was more a hindrance than a help.
okay, but why did they used a guy beatboxing to illustrate their statement ?
Turns out it was a better use of his time, than trying to use Copilot.
“speeding up some tasks yet making others slower due to lower quality outputs”
So use it for the tasks that were made more efficient, and stop using it for the ones that slowed down or were low quality.
I think they mean that the output that makes task X more efficient slows down task Y that uses the previous output.
If that’s what they meant then it’s bad writing.
I mean… it’s software. It’s only as good as you leverage it.
Given that it’s people who work for the government, expectations are already low, if no training is provided results will be even worse and last but not least, if the product is absolutely crap, why would you continue using it?
Seeing a big uptake in use in the education sector. Teachers paying for their own ChatGPT pro license to lesson plan etc.
Can’t comment at this point if that’s right or wrong, you hope the teachers using it would identify hallucinations etc. But you can see there is already a change occurring.
I’ve show my coworkers some practical implementations of copilot and that was enough to kickstart the use.
If you’re composing the same mails a lot, for example, you can ask copilot to make a template text and then when you have to compose the same email again you ask copilot to compose and personalize the mail for you. That’s an awesome function.
I’ve made an agent that answers HR related questions of my team. This saves me and HR a lot of time and they are assured their questions are handled discrete.
If you’re composing the same mails a lot, for example, you can ask copilot to make a template text and then when you have to compose the same email again you ask copilot to compose and personalize the mail for you. That’s an awesome funtion.
Uhm, email templates are far older than LLM.
They also don’t make random artifacts out of nowhere
It sounds like it’s creating the template and also modifying it as needed. That is a step up.
There’s plugins that replace keywords for Thunderbird and Gnome Evolution (should realy change that name).
Why? Because using AI for something like this is a waste of computing power. And likely a confidentality breach.
Yea, but it’s still different to templates. My parents said playing video games was a waste of computing power. The confidentiality breach will be no worse than Gmail or Hotmail. So, not good, but also not new.
It’s not bad just because it’s AI. AI is much worse than it’s purported to be and hasn’t really progressed in a few years, but it has its uses.
Summarising and composing emails and other communications see a to be a strength.
This template adds or deletes links to relevant webpages and adds recent figures when needed.
We’ve been using templates for years but this adds personality and customisation
So there’s this thing called drafts.
Because they don’t know how to use it.
I work for the government and we’re trialing Copilot too.
Yesterday I gave copilot several legal documents and our departments long term goals and asked to analyse those documents and find opportunities, legal complications and a matrix of proposed actions.
In less than 5 minutes I have a great overview to start talks with local politicians. This would have taken me at least a day before AI.
And you made sure that there are no invented points?
Yes. If you feed the documents this goes well enough. It just speeds up the process where I start indexing and gathering information a lot.
In that case they would have spent “less than 5 minutes” more time than without this, or, one can say, “at least a day” plus “less than 5 minutes”.
100%. I’m also trialing Copilot at a medium-sized corpo job and it saves me roughly 12-20 hours of work per week.
I use it often in PowerShell scripting. It occasionally hallucinates and makes up commands, so sometimes it takes a bit of back and forth to get it to do what I want, but it’s still a hundred times easier than writing from scratch or tweaking+combining similar scripts I find online.
Probably my favorite part is being able to ask it “Where did I leave off with John on x issue last week?” And it will remind me that I’m supposed to do x and John is supposed to do y. Or even, “I helped a user with this specific issue six months ago. How did I fix it?” and it pulls the exact email and Teams chats outlining what we did, and I can click the link to open those messages and ensure it didn’t misinterperate. Way easier than digging by hand.
Finally, I absolutely hate making PowerPoints so I’ve been having it make all of my rough drafts from transcription notes in meetings. Super nice time saver.
Something I’m concerned about and playing with this week is pronoun usage in transcripts. I’m working with our LGBTQ ERG to ensure that we can make Copilot use preferred pronouns for everyone. If it can’t, we’ll need to pull back certain features.
It’s far from perfect but it genuinely makes my job a lot easier and I’d hate to lose it. I think it will only get better from here.
