It’s weird that we’re exploring an amazing new technology, but because Twitter is so disrupted, there’s no single place to report your discoveries. A pretty big handicap.
Has anyone ever asked you, on the social web, what you think about something? Not a message to everyone to which you could reply, but a message specifically to you?
I try to do it when I think of it. I find you can get really interesting ideas that way sometimes. And also it's a way spreading some love around the world, because people like to be asked what they think, I've found.
@davew OK, in that case, not really. On rare occasions, I used to get asked questions on a blog that I wrote, but that hasn't happened in a long time. Perhaps I have nothing of interest to share (at least from other peoples perspectives).
I'm going through Battlestar Galactica for the third time. I thought it was a good time to do so because one of the major themes of the show was that the robots that the Capricans created went to war with the humans and almost but not quite wiped them out. Almost every episode was about the conflict between humans and AIs. It's a fantastic show, the acting and the writing as far beyond most TV series. I'll let you know if I figure anything out from watching the series again.
@davew I'm not jealous much....
It is a great watch. We're on Blood Bloods (series 9 currently). First time for us - can't tell the boss that I quite fancy Vanessa Ray (blonde - not got a type at all)
@davew Have you read After World by Debbie Urbanski? Not a war theme, but a love theme. Similar with AI and humans inter-relating. I interviewed Debbie for my video podcast Imaginize.World. You might find her work and thoughts relevant be it quite different from Battlestar Galactica. https://imaginize.world/debbie-urbanski-podcast/ #robots#AI#human
Do people understand the impact ChatGPT can have on how we control our software? No more hunting through menus among a thousand options to figure out how to do something. Just use natural human language. The UIs we've had to design and live with will be a thing of the past. Yet no one seems to be talking about this.
And if you do describe the actions that the computer is to take, in rigorous, clear, unambiguous terms that cannot possibly be misunderstood, congratulations, you're a programmer using a programming language.
@davew simple enterprise example: I was tasked with moving 100,000+ items from one system to another. Export is excel and the formats differ a little from system A to B.
I'm no excel/data analysis expert, but was able to use copilot to help me write and iterate on some python scripts using the Pandas library to help quickly manipulate all of the files at once.
that's so important. now projects in environments you're not skilled in are approachable. I wish I had had it when I was learning JavaScript and jQuery. huge difference.
I can’t wait for the UIs of settings on systems like Mac Or Android to go through the AIs. No more hunting through menus to not find the setting where you’re sure it should be.