I just want a calendar on my descktop that I click on on my taskbar.
No internet, no account. just a calendar.
Yeah, fair. Not so good an option then.
Perhaps a Far Side page-a-day calendar? You also get a bonus funny.
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Try one of the free ones in the store.
I did check what I had and my install has a calendar thats not outlook - but a notification popped up saying that Outlook is replacing it this year.
Shit, but then that’s Microsoft. Cant help but be fuckwits.
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Ha you need an outlook account for this as well
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Worth creating a separate thread for discussion of AI or leave here? Aside from obvious stuff like generating images of bucket headed victorians, theres a world of new changes (good and bad) that will reinvent how everyone works or interacts in the digital world. Thread title suggestions?
I’m sure there’s one already. I can’t find it.
As for names
"Open the pod bay door HAL’ - AI and machine learning
Closest thread is probably this one:
I’m afraid I can’t do that Dave.
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Just rename this one to computer and tech thread?
The computers are everywhere now!
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Seems we can’t stop it. Adapt and survive comes to mind until it all comes to a point of no return.
It’sgoing to take and take jobs.
Which in a protestant work ethic society is an issue. UBI and AI or neither.
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Tent cities and just enough crickets to keep you alive to be a useful organ donor.
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I work with ‘AI’ every day, it’s vastly overhyped, completely overrated, at its very best it’s like a uni student who’s read everything and understood nothing, and we have plenty of those.
General Intelligence, meaning like you see in the movies, is decades away, there are some vaguely useful specialist AI models but they’re all regurgitating data they’ve been fed in predetermined patterns and are noticeably worse at it than a human equivalent.
Natural language models can be useful in engaging with complex subjects (we use one for complex event correlation design) but you still have to learn how to articulate what you want in the manner that IT expects.
Clever tricks like creating photos and writing what appear to be coherent paragraphs on a given subject look cool but the effort required to get what you really want is huge in comparison to asking a human expert for what you want. It’s mostly parlour tricks at this point.
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God it’s refreshing to hear someone else say this.
I was asked late last year to lead an “AI Evaluation” project to explore possible use cases for our developer teams.
Our CTO had drunk the AI Kool-Aid and was all giddy about the things he was seeing in his Twitter feed, and having massive FOMO that we were somehow “missing out”.
(I’m not anti-AI, but I also have found the limits of its usefulness at this point, coupled with the fact that churning out code faster isn’t actually our biggest problem - spoiler alert: it’s getting consensus on what to build that’s our bottleneck. Once we unleash our devs on a problem, they have no issues cranking out high quality code, very quickly)
As predicted, results of the evaluation were mixed. Useful in some areas (explaining/summarising things, assisting with brainstorming, writing tests etc.), but very poor in other areas, to the point where you spend more time verifying its output is actually correct than you would have spent doing it yourself.
Apart from doing the grunt work on massive amounts of data, I don’t really see much use for AI for a few years yet.
Having basic AI like Copilot replace meeting minute takers alone makes it worthwhile. No I will not be attending your 2am meeting, I will query the recap.
This is what we’re using it for and with caveats, it works extremely well.
I work in the selling of people business (consultancy), and some people just cannot write, or they think 3000 bullet points are perfectly fine to have on their CV.
Rather than spend 40 minutes banging my head against a desk, I can get my extremely helpful minions to use AI to turn it into a narrative and then review what it has done - that is, making sure it actually represents what was in the bullet points - then adjust as necessary for our corporate writing style etc. It can be a really useful time saver in certain situations.
It’s also okay at providing a framework for concepts. Say you need to develop a customer success plan, but have no idea where to start? Ask for said framework and the key elements - then you can talk to the 10 or so items it’ll come back with, or just take what you think you’ll need.
These are what I’d consider useful parlour tricks, that can genuinely save time. BUT, you need to interpret what it spits out, and really run over the content with an eagle eye or you will trip, fall and smash your face in.