Rayvin

Well said.

Yeah I pay the $20 a month for chatgpt. I believe the bubble will burst from an economic perspective, it's a house of cards. I don't think it'll burst from a functionality perspective though unless it simply becomes too unaffordable for them to maintain without all this hype and the economics of it are impossible.

I see today is the today my political rage is going to be revived.

Agree that this is on the EU now. We need to cut America loose and stop pandering to his nonsense. There honestly needs to be a collective cessation of pandering to right wing pillocks across the entirety of the Western world tbh. Sadly, the EU hasn't quite grasped the nettle in terms of leadership.

And sorry like, do Birmingham City need a 62k stadium? Their current one is 29k and they're in League 1 with an average attendance of about 25k. EDIT - my bad they got promoted. Justifies the whole project for sure.

Jesus Christ. Wonder how much extra they're adding to the build cost.

What the fuck are the chimneys meant to be? Is that just aesthetic?

I'm hoping I remain safe because what AI can't do in my case is actually perform the assessment across various stakeholders, although it 100% can do the report. At the moment that's a win for me more than anyone else as it removes a huge amount of labour. It feels collaborative ultimately and while that remains the case I feel ok about it. That being said I hope this publishing company works out - unless AI manages to undermine the entire scholarly community and its value, I think it should be safe.

Would agree with a lot of that, though unsure about writers and authors specifically... at least in terms of academic content, you're wanting someone who actually has the credibility to make the claims they are. I don't think the wider community would ever accept AI publishing that sort of material, and it can't do its own research particularly. That being said I suspect it means professional writers who do so for other people. Proofreaders and copyeditors 100% are done for - though at least over here they were a dying breed anyway since it had all been outsourced to India. Interpreters and translators, writing is on the wall. That's a big focus area for it too tbh.

Today's edition of TT during international breaks: Spreadsheets vs Bookkeepers.

I think with art, AI allows people who aren't talented in particular skillsets but who have creative ideas they're unable to easily realise, to achieve those. Not as well as someone talented, but well enough. That bit is a novelty though. The fact that I can get it to perform changes to production files for publishing to a high enough degree of accuracy that I can run with it, means it's cutting 20-25% of my production costs. That's not nothing. And in my case, that's the difference between a book being published or not. It essentially permits a democratisation of skills by removing technical barriers. And again, I know how damaging that is - but that's what it's going to do. That's the question it's answering.

What the fuck do you think I look like...

Should also mention I'm using it to eliminate various parts of the academic publishing process in my little publishing company so it's also going to devastate copyediting, typesetting, all roles that are devoted to skilled book production. It's still reliant on human intervention but it eliminates the skill gap between me and a professional who's been at this for 20 years.

I'd agree with that too. Frankly I feel like it could replace me at this point, but then I suppose what it can't quite do is really appreciate context or nuance unless it is spoonfed, and knowing what to spoonfeed it is half the trick. Also the world isn't ready to trust it blindly yet. But in the end, it's going to hammer consultants. Just hope I've moved on by then.

Yes I should be clear - it's not good for society at all that I was able to use it this successfully. It is absolutely replacing a secretary or some manner of assistant. And for $20/month. You're right about translation mind, one of my good friends is a translator, as is his partner, and they're frequently expressing frustrations on LinkedIn around AI and people's desperation to use it. I agree completely it's not ready for such complex tasks. In fact, even for him I basically had to tell it to consistently review the transcripts whenever I wanted an answer, rather than review it's knowledge about the transcripts. Diverting it back to the source every single time is the only safe way of doing it IMO.

Assuming Burnham won the byelection at least. Good of him though.

For a contract I'm working at the moment I conducted 20 hours of stakeholder interviews for a discovery phase to understand their system setup. I inputted all of the transcripts into ChatGPT, fed in workflow documents, and then started interrogating it about what it had 'learned'. I have to say, it was immense. It's probably saved me 30 hours of work. The idea that it's useless simply isn't true. I basically turned it into an encyclopedia on this company. Yes, you have to sense check it - and now and then it did get something confused or make an association that it shouldn't have, but honestly, it's only occasional. I think using them well is probably a bigger issue than their reliability. Just being able to ask it "Where did this idea come from and what do we mean by it" and for it to go "It came from our conversation with xxxx specifically in reference to yyyy and is reinforced by another conversation with zzzz" is incredibly helpful.

About the same as Tino missed.

Is this that Polish bloke from that game in the CL? That is literally the only refereeing performance I can remember in recent times because of how abject it was.

Xero's tools for this are in development but with that caveat aside they are indeed approved.

I've gone down the route of bringing an accountant in tbh.

Ah fair - still not sure I can see it mind...

I mean... it's hard to comment in a way. Corners look more dangerous than penalties, let's say that. Mind you it also brought back memories of the Brentford game so maybe we shouldn't be too critical...

We wouldn't even go for him after having picked up Elanga. I doubt anyone at the club is ready to give up on the lad yet.

The fact that it's all for show is what gets me. This is all about looking tough and heartless to appease Reform voters on what the latter thinks is the biggest issue facing our country. I'd rather Labour focused on the actual biggest issues, but apparently we can't have that.