Posted on 01/14/2023 2:55:42 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Tech media site CNET has been publishing the articles since November, and lots of readers don't seem to have noticed.
The publication mentioned on its website that it doesn’t compromise on its journalistic integrity and that a team of editors is involved in the editorial process “from ideation to publication.”
Ironically, Jackson Ryan, a reporter for the tech and news site wrote an article on the website last month where he said that journalism jobs are safe from being pounced on by technology when talking about ChatGPT and artificial intelligence.
“It definitely can’t do the job of a journalist,” Ryan wrote of ChatGPT. “To say so diminishes the act of journalism itself.”
One person said: "I'll admit I was quite taken aback to see that CNET is now publishing entire articles generated by AI -- a grim inflection point in an already-bleak job market for journalists."
(Excerpt) Read more at the-sun.com ...
“a grim inflection point in an already-bleak job market for journalists.”
Well now... they could learn to code but GPT does that too. When metaphorically idiots screw the pooch they cant get the pudding till they have eaten their meat. This is universal justice and unfortunately many will suffer.
Um, If the bat is $1 more than the ball, the ball cannot be 10¢ because that would make the bat cost $1.10 and the ball would still cost $0.10, thus the total price would be $1.20.
They made the mistake of adding the difference between the bat and the ball to the ball to get the total, not the total of the bat, being a dollar more than the ball plus the cost of the ball.
The bat would have to be $1.05 and the ball would be $0.05, which together then equal $1.10.
I guess AI is only as intelligent as those who program it, which does not impress me in the given example.
“It definitely can’t do the job of a journalist,”
Yes. It might not make sense to to the AI to apply journalistic principles unevenly. Thus the demon party would be in a world of hurt.
x + y = 1.10
x - y = 1.00
2x + (y-y) = 2.10
2x = 2.10
x = 1.05
y = 0.05
A good reminder - I’ve been seeing Adobe’s charges onto a business credit card account nbr for three months now. I’ll cancel that charge from the credit charge side.
I’ve always been reluctant to set up anything for auto-payment from either a bank or credit card account, and your situation highlights a growing problem with it. Many years ago I had a subscription service that I paid by check each month, and couldn’t reach a human to shut it off. Finally figured out they’d contact me if I didn’t send a payment OR return the material for a couple of months - and that is exactly what happened (and how I canceled it).
Once it has been programmed to obfuscate and twist facts, look out, Ryan.
People often speak of Automation replacing low-level jobs. Burger flippers, Assembly line workers, etc. You know they want self-driving cars so that they can fire all those truck drivers. That’s a huge job category.
Computers are replacing lawyers and journalists and a lot of other white-collar jobs. And the capabilities will increase and the jobs that are endanger will expand. This isn’t going to get better and, no, humans are not all going to become gainfully employed as robot technicians.
The need for human labor is decreasing. People will have idle hands. What happens then?
Leftists whined about “living wage” for so long, industry innovation and free market enterprise is responding.
I read an article a couple years back about one of the big agricultural schools in California running a pilot program to use machines and AI for crops. From tilling, seeding, tending, weeding, harvesting, no human field workers required beyond maybe a handful of technicians, mechanics, a supervisor.
I read that, and other stories like it, with a bad Brooklyn accent in my head that said “I gotcher fifteen dollars an hour right here, buddy!”
It presents a whole new meaning to ‘fake news.’
If a merchant receives too many credit card chargebacks from their customers the merchant’s bank will start hitting them with higher fees.
Monthly chargebacks over 1% of gross sales will typically start triggering the extra fees, which are much higher than the chargebacks. A merchant with a 10% chargeback rate can get hit with fees of 50%. (This often happens a with pron websites.)
—”Once it has been programmed to obfuscate and twist facts, look out, Ryan.”
And that’s a fact, Jack!
—”AI for crops. From tilling, seeding, tending, weeding, harvesting, no human field workers required beyond maybe a handful of technicians, mechanics, a supervisor.”
A friend owns a vineyard and that is one of his favorite topics!
Not everything about it is on the plus side.
The rows need to be wide to accommodate the tractor, California requires a driver on the tractor, for harvesting, trimming, and weeding different machines $$$...
CNET bots publish articles and other bots generate page hits to those articles. Sounds like an ad revenue scam.
“requires a driver.”
Until the right palms are greased and the technology improves. It’s not like the things are going out onto county roads to run stop signs and hit unsuspecting locals. (too oblique a reference there?)
But seriously, about the rows being “too wide”, it’s not a problem if the machinery is ELEVATED and wheels on stanchions go BETWEEN rows. I’ve seen a lot of machinery like that already.
Things will change, but not while the unions own so many politicians.
Once it has been programmed to obfuscate and twist facts, look out,
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They all ready have, and there are a few on this board
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Imho
I call them weasels
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Maybe nobody read it.
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