My personal experience with A.I

[pentode]

To all of the TRS members who don't understand exactly how these LLM models work - and that includes me and likely the people who build them- please vet every single answer you get with several sources.

From my testing, they're wrong and/or hallucinate at least 50% of them time, even with simple questions. They have no actual ability to reason. They're just machines that write impressive grammatically correct sentences. Please don't trust them with your important questions. Including which oil filters will fit.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Please don't trust them with your important questions. Including which oil filters will fit.

As if the typical parts store experience is much better...

 

[bobbywalter]

you kids will shoot our eyes out.


skynet is a self fulfilling prophecy.

and remember those who wrote that....they wrote the other side of it too.

first.

 

[scotts90ranger]

And here I thought I was pessimistic about this AI stuff, then Bobby comes out of the woodwork and makes me realize I'm somewhere in the middle

I still don't get all the hype, don't think it should be forced down everyone's throat like it's been... heck I miss the days of 20 years ago when Google actually gave you the search results you were looking for instead of 9 ads per page and one result that might do something helpful... I want my old internet back, this new one sucks . Don't even get me started on Clouds and whoever thought of having cloud storage through Microsoft Teams... they tried to force that at work and it's a nightmare...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

And here I thought I was pessimistic about this AI stuff, then Bobby comes out of the woodwork and makes me realize I'm somewhere in the middle

I still don't get all the hype, don't think it should be forced down everyone's throat like it's been... heck I miss the days of 20 years ago when Google actually gave you the search results you were looking for instead of 9 ads per page and one result that might do something helpful... I want my old internet back, this new one sucks . Don't even get me started on Clouds and whoever thought of having cloud storage through Microsoft Teams... they tried to force that at work and it's a nightmare...

 

[scotts90ranger]

And I will not stop yelling about Microsoft One Drive and whoever decided you should even attempt to store several hundred gigabytes worth of files using Microsft Teams where you have to open teams, navigate to your chanels or whatever it's called, click the folders button then open folders for which there's no back button but you see the file structure so you have to click the one back from where you are... you can search it but it won't find what you want... if you don't like that mess there's an option to sync it to your computer to get a normal file structure but doing this puts a copy of every file on your computer using all of your local storage to the point where you have to restart the computer several times a week because of Windows 11 bloatware that uses roughly 11gb for it's normal processes, once your local drive is under a gigabyte you can no longer open up a 100kb excel file... I have valid reasons, they keep breaking things that worked perfectly fine...

Give me an argument that improves usability over shared server drives... I for one find it annoying to have to wait for files to download and open that used to be local and open instantaneously... I imagine it is safer but if we would just have a way to "locate and eliminate" these hackers then life for everyone would improve dramatically

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

And I will not stop yelling about Microsoft One Drive and whoever decided you should even attempt to store several hundred gigabytes worth of files using Microsft Teams where you have to open teams, navigate to your chanels or whatever it's called, click the folders button then open folders for which there's no back button but you see the file structure so you have to click the one back from where you are... you can search it but it won't find what you want... if you don't like that mess there's an option to sync it to your computer to get a normal file structure but doing this puts a copy of every file on your computer using all of your local storage to the point where you have to restart the computer several times a week because of Windows 11 bloatware that uses roughly 11gb for it's normal processes, once your local drive is under a gigabyte you can no longer open up a 100kb excel file... I have valid reasons, they keep breaking things that worked perfectly fine...

Give me an argument that improves usability over shared server drives... I for one find it annoying to have to wait for files to download and open that used to be local and open instantaneously... I imagine it is safer but if we would just have a way to "locate and eliminate" these hackers then life for everyone would improve dramatically

The cloud... save it for the cloud.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Yee, just know I was holding back

Just realized that is yet another correct Simpsons prediction...

 

[Shran]

Don't even get me started on Teams, let alone OneDrive and the new Outlook. I am so glad I am not working directly in IT! I don't understand what happened with Microsoft... just speaking as an IT guy whose experience dates back to the DOS & Windows 3.1 days, it seemed like there were always improvements made in new software and stuff seemed to actually work (or it was fixable!) The golden era of that seemed to be right around the end of Windows 7 - the beginning of the cloud era - Now it seems like every time there's a problem, nobody knows how to fix it and instead of error codes that identify the problem you get nothing or just "error." Hopelessly broken software - how helpful.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Welcome to the mashup of greed and “disposable” stuff. There’s more money to be made if you use nothing of quality and it has to be thrown away and replaced every 3-5 years than if you make something capable of lasting and being repaired. Never mind that disposable stuff is horribly wasteful and destructive, there’s money to be made.

 

[oldgeek]

Don't even get me started on Teams, let alone OneDrive and the new Outlook. I am so glad I am not working directly in IT! I don't understand what happened with Microsoft... just speaking as an IT guy whose experience dates back to the DOS & Windows 3.1 days, it seemed like there were always improvements made in new software and stuff seemed to actually work (or it was fixable!) The golden era of that seemed to be right around the end of Windows 7 - the beginning of the cloud era - Now it seems like every time there's a problem, nobody knows how to fix it and instead of error codes that identify the problem you get nothing or just "error." Hopelessly broken software - how helpful.

Ah, back in the days when a PC was promoted as not having to be a workstation connected to a mainframe or server. Guess things go full circle.

 

[oldgeek]

To all of the TRS members who don't understand exactly how these LLM models work - and that includes me and likely the people who build them- please vet every single answer you get with several sources.

From my testing, they're wrong and/or hallucinate at least 50% of them time, even with simple questions. They have no actual ability to reason. They're just machines that write impressive grammatically correct sentences. Please don't trust them with your important questions. Including which oil filters will fit.

I have been getting quite good information on the correct procedure of replacing the muffler bearings.

 

[sgtsandman]

And I will not stop yelling about Microsoft One Drive and whoever decided you should even attempt to store several hundred gigabytes worth of files using Microsft Teams where you have to open teams, navigate to your chanels or whatever it's called, click the folders button then open folders for which there's no back button but you see the file structure so you have to click the one back from where you are... you can search it but it won't find what you want... if you don't like that mess there's an option to sync it to your computer to get a normal file structure but doing this puts a copy of every file on your computer using all of your local storage to the point where you have to restart the computer several times a week because of Windows 11 bloatware that uses roughly 11gb for it's normal processes, once your local drive is under a gigabyte you can no longer open up a 100kb excel file... I have valid reasons, they keep breaking things that worked perfectly fine...

Give me an argument that improves usability over shared server drives... I for one find it annoying to have to wait for files to download and open that used to be local and open instantaneously... I imagine it is safer but if we would just have a way to "locate and eliminate" these hackers then life for everyone would improve dramatically

Money, it costs the company less to use the cloud and they don't have to pay for travel associated costs using teams and zoom.

Even the government has bought into it. The last major exercise we had in Georgia, the admin people couldn't wrap their head around the idea that most of the people in maintenance don't have access to a computer. One lady kept trying to send me messages in teams about things for hours before she finally came over and saw there was no computer. Just a white board with slide tabs and a radio. And she refused to use a radio.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Money, it costs the company less to use the cloud and they don't have to pay for travel associated costs using teams and zoom.

Even the government has bought into it. The last major exercise we had in Georgia, the admin people couldn't wrap their head around the idea that most of the people in maintenance don't have access to a computer. One lady kept trying to send me messages in teams about things for hours before she finally came over and saw there was no computer. Just a white board with slide tabs and a radio. And she refused to use a radio.

In theory it is great.

For example the one cloud/sync thing I deal with at work works great... until the guy on the other end updates the sync and then the thing is down for two days until it finishes its update. I finally got him convinced to not screw with it until a weekend.

I really want to just setup a local cloud thing at our house. I get so sick of portable hard drive issues it would be nice to just do away with them.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

I say, " I'm a novice " in these threads a lot.

I do this for 2 main seasons.

1, I did 20 years in prison so technology has advanced quite a bit in those 20 years.

And 2, I want I don't want anyone mistakenly thinking that what I'm saying is correct everytime no matter what and there's no other way of doing something.

I know very little about computer technology and AI in general.

So I have a question.
Before I went to prison I had a friend that had built himself a home server.

If we was able to build our own servers at our houses, would it work to circumvent the cloud and other things that we have to use in today's society?

There's my question I look forward to everybody's replies, Thank you.