On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 3:33 PM Colin McGregor <colin.mc151@gmail.com> wrote:
 
At present questions I am asking are "Is AI JUST this year's IT Bonus Buzzword Bingo Word?"

Given that "AI" is not even a word, it's an odd question.

Superficially, one could ask whether it's just the current replacement for "cryptocurrency" only to be replaced by some other hot new term in the near future. While fleeting public obsession with a term might be an interesting observation, it's highly unlikely that the technology itself is transient.

At the very least, try getting a job as a translator these days.

As a for-instance that is close to home, a number of AI tools are being created that will make redundant many of the maintenance and troubleshooting sysadmin jobs out there. While a human component is likely to always be useful, the few jobs that will survive will be senior positions which will supervise the actions of the bots. Such tasks are already being made redundant in other low-level jobs such as paralegals. A discussion elsewhere on this list indicates that at least some here have found AI to be good at not only creating but debugging code.

I've already found chat-based AI -- accessed easily through tools such as Voilà on my desktop and Pi on my phone -- to be good enough to replace my regular Google and DuckDuckGo searches for all except two kinds of queries: those that (1) are location-aware and (2) are asked for opinions rather than solutions.

and "A year from now, will everyone have forgotten about AI having moved on to <<some other buzzword>>?".

Here's a screenshot of ChatGPT's answer  to that question. Maybe as a thought experiment you might want to consider asking your LlamaPie setup the sema question and tell us how that goes....

- Evan