My supervisor (experimentally, and while warning me ahead of time so i could be prepared to fix it)…

ms-demeanor: > ms-demeanor: > >> ms-demeanor: >> >>> My supervisor (experimentally, and while warning me ahead of time so i could be prepared to fix it) tried to use CoPilot in PowerPoint to replace our images with CoPilot graphs for better visuals and I am fascinated. >>> >>> It increased our error rate while reducing the overall ticket count by two. And redistributed numbers. >>> >>> It smoothed out our data trend, erasing the actually important-to-report information (that big dip and increase is important): >>> >>> It erased my security and networking practices and came up with resubmitted tickets out of nowhere and shows an overall downward trend in ticket counts when only one of the five categories is actually trending down. >>> >>> On another slide it also changed the status of a device from “attention needed” to “healthy,” and on yet another slide it removed the captions that I’d grouped with a set of images. >>> >>> This is your reminder that the robots are stupid and if you work with them you need to check their work. >>> >>> Some of the stuff it did really well, and genuinely looks better and the numbers were copied correctly. But some of it is resubmitted tickets. >> >> I maintain that there are uses for AI that are fine and genuinely labor saving, but also it is hot garbage and I would largely prefer not to interact with it. > > Look, I want everyone reading this to understand that the power and water use estimates associated with AI are frequently blown drastically out of proportion, and that it is perfectly fine to do an occasional AI query. > > I don’t say this because I think that YOU should be using AI for stuff (and if you hate AI, I get it, I don’t want to use it either) I say this because one of the absolute best ways I’ve found to get people to step back from believing everything the AI tells them is to ask the AI a question about something the person you’re speaking to is an expert on, or ask it something that YOU are an expert on and point out where the AI’s answer is wrong. > > I screencapped these images because I want to show them at work to demonstrate to a couple of my coworkers that NO you cannot have the AI compile the report for you without double-checking it. It can’t even accurately duplicate a graph it’s looking right at. You have to check on the robots, they aren’t even actually stupid, they’re just autocompleting what they thought you want, and sometimes autocomplete ducks everything up.