Aaron Thomas wrote to Mike Powell <=-

You're not alone. I asked a lot of people about AI and nobody knows
what its all about. Not even the techiest of people.

Do these people use Alexa or Siri? Do they use autocorrect on their cell phone? Do they never call a support line for anything?

They use AI probably several times a day without even thinking about it.

Heck, I used AI back in 1979 when I ran the ELIZA program on the TRS-80.

AI research has been going on for literally decades and advancedments come out of it all the time that impact most people.


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While Biden was president I was confident that he was going to make this exact
same type of announcement, but now I'm hearing it from my Orange God and I'm feeling a little backstabbed.

Think of any politician as a god and you will be quickly disappointed. ;)


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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

I talk a lot of trash about it, but for the longest time I couldn't
figure out how to make an AJAX login, and Google's AI assistant (or whatever they call it) gave me solid instructions yesterday and I was really impressed. It showed me 2 ways of doing it (XMLHttpRequest and AJAX.)

The AI "assistant" that we can use at work was garbage and got in the way more than it helped. But it all depends.

AI's are like "idiot savants". I wouldn't ask a medical AI about retirement financial planning, for example. But an AI that's been trained on what "good" Javascript code is would probably do really good with Javascript questions.

But now we are in to AI bias because they have to be told what "good Javascript" is.

I tried following peoples' articles on it and they were all crap
(mostly) compared to Google's AI advice. I don't know if they realize
that this accelerates productivity instead of slowing it down like
their web frameworks do.

They probably do. Most of us developers never reinvent the wheel. We usually take a wheel that someone else has developed, and has shown that it works well, and change it to meet our needs.

Google AI simply repackaged that work.


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Even more investment will be coming into the U.S. from the Saudi Crown Prince says kingdom intends to invest Six Hundred Billion in the U.S. during a call w
Trump.
https://tinyurl.com/nt9pxnmj

Is this to build companies and facilities that the Saudis will own, or a
loan to the US government?

I suppose the former is ok, but not sure how I feel about any foreign government investing money into ours as they will want something in return.


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I tried following peoples' articles on it and they were all crap (mostly) compared to Google's AI advice. I don't know if they realize that this accelerates productivity instead of slowing it down like their web frameworks do.

They probably do. Most of us developers never reinvent the wheel. We usually take a wheel that someone else has developed, and has shown that it works well, and change it to meet our needs.

I'm surprised that Google allows their AI assistant to help people with web development needs. They've put a ton of work into sabotaging productivity (Wordpress, pagespeed insights, search console, AMP pages, PWAs, APKs, Angular, etc.)

They get people playing around with all that crap, just to waste their time under the guise of "improving the user experience" and "making things easier."

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I'm surprised that Google allows their AI assistant to help people with web development needs. They've put a ton of work into sabotaging productivity (Wordpress, pagespeed insights, search console, AMP pages, PWAs, APKs, Angular
etc.)

I am picking up on some vibes that a lot of folks are starting to have
issues with AI because it does just that... tries to "help" them when they don't really want that kind of help. They feel they are being overloaded
or overstimulated by all the extra AI-generated input/results.


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I'm surprised that Google allows their AI assistant to help people with development needs. They've put a ton of work into sabotaging productivit (Wordpress, pagespeed insights, search console, AMP pages, PWAs, APKs, Angular
etc.)

I am picking up on some vibes that a lot of folks are starting to have issues with AI because it does just that... tries to "help" them when
they don't really want that kind of help. They feel they are being overloaded or overstimulated by all the extra AI-generated input/results.

With Google's AI or some other AI implementation?

I get thrilled when I get the opportunity to ask my 2 nerdy IT professional friends about stuff, but they are literally starting to get replaced by AI!

Google used to just give you the "most relevant" search result, but now it gives (mostly) solid advice. I think that's great. (Not great how they collude with the WEF to kill us though.)

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

I'm surprised that Google allows their AI assistant to help people with web development needs. They've put a ton of work into sabotaging productivity (Wordpress, pagespeed insights, search console, AMP pages, PWAs, APKs, Angular, etc.)

They get people playing around with all that crap, just to waste their time under the guise of "improving the user experience" and "making
things easier."

So management still hasn't given up on CASE tools (feed in requirements to the system and out comes code).

Remember the the AI assistent is examining your code - which is fed back into the AI to help train the AI.

So think less of "the AI is helping you" and more "the AI is learning from you". And, for the AI "assistents" that I've used, you get to pay for the privilege of teaching the AI how to write code.

Remember Google Rule: If the product is "free", then YOU are the product that they are selling.


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