MangoCats

LOL sure

I'm not talking about the ones that get hired in your 'leet shop, I'm talking about the whole damn crop that's just graduated.

I have limited AI experience, but so far that's what it means to me as well: helpful in very limited circumstances.

Mostly, I find it useful for "speaking new languages" - if I try to use AI to "help" with the stuff I have been doing daily for the past 20 years? Yeah, it's just slowing me down.

It's a farmed turkey, it's mostly white meat.

You are saying it's Grok TACO Wednesday, again?

I don't think the system has that much sophistication.

I do think they can "weight" the training set and feed it endless variations of "approved content" to be regarded as correct, and maybe also feed it other content to be identified as "incorrect" and rebutted from the approved content.

Last time I checked, Grok was still 'woke' (meaning: repeating the most common opinions published around the internet) - that's been a couple of months. I was shocked that it was permitted to be accessed by the public back then.

I'm beginning to think those people are already lost... anyone who is going to fall for this has already fallen for similar things and reflexively distrusts anything that doesn't back up their world views.

I also think people who are opposed to this are very unlikely to change their minds based on something controlled by someone like that.

Finally, we've been at this hard for almost a decade, I'm pretty sure the undecideds are lying to the pollsters.

Took 'em long enough to get around to this result, I'm shocked that the boy genius would let it operate in "bash me because that's what the majority of the world thinks" mode for so long.

Probably just to save money really.

That always helps. It also helps politically that M$ is based in a country that's outraging the Danish people on a fairly regular basis...

same thing with 365 but we do a lot of traveling

Back in 1990-something, I got our office using Ami Pro - it was a vastly superior word processor to anything else available at the time. Then, a couple of years later, we started sharing documents back and forth with business partners via dial-up internet and that was the end of Ami Pro, all our partners used M$ and file format translation / import / export was nigh impossible in those days.

I did this in my personal usage 20 years ago. I even was demonstrating to colleagues at work in 2005 how Open Office was better at integrating large numbers of digital photos into documents than Word was.

I have been more successful with baby steps like: "Write a python 3 program that converts X to Y." Tweak prompt until that's working as desired, then: "make it work recursively through all subdirectories" - and again tweak with specifics like converting the files in place, etc. Always very specific, also - force it to fix its own bugs so you can move forward with a clean example as you add complexity. Complexity seems to cap out at a couple of pages of code, at which point "Ooops, something went wrong."