Here's the article. https://www.afr.com/technology/commbank-claims-ai-is-already-making-it-work-30pc-better-20240206-p5f2uu
So what does everyone think about the claim that 30% efficiency? ie to me as head of IT instead of hiring 10 developers to build applications now only 7 is required. To me that just doesn't seem realistic. On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 3:04 PM Tom Rutter via ozdotnet < ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 12:32, Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet < > ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: > >> Worse, in the baseball umpiring exam I mentioned, someone said to me >> “isn’t that what you’d get if you just asked a whole lot of fans about the >> rules rather than asking umpires?” >> >> >> >> There’s probably something important about that. How does it know which >> of the material it was trained on is valid? >> > > Yep that’s the thing, it doesn’t actually know what is “valid”. From what > I understand it just gets “pushed” in certain directions during training > and not in all cases obviously. > > My experience with things like ChatGPT so far basically brings it down to > a better Google really. Early days > > >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> Greg >> >> >> >> Dr Greg Low >> >> >> >> 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile >> >> SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com >> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sqldownunder.com_&d=DwMFAg&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=2rgtwrXggQFZiZbisdwDooYFalucb-vLhjG0McaanBZKn0UVuognuHqfHnjp2AVc&m=I23jyX4AKIv9q2x7A3CQAer9PGCjq8R6DwW7BE1IAhZ1JbigKMrMPRCjs6AqW7h3&s=o3oFliHztOF8D9Nbqaa7KQdqC-zkQNXWl4IqnEG58Wc&e=> >> | >> About Greg: https://about.me/greg.low >> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__about.me_greg.low&d=DwMFAg&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=2rgtwrXggQFZiZbisdwDooYFalucb-vLhjG0McaanBZKn0UVuognuHqfHnjp2AVc&m=I23jyX4AKIv9q2x7A3CQAer9PGCjq8R6DwW7BE1IAhZ1JbigKMrMPRCjs6AqW7h3&s=NsAibgiqfCxsyc8m2DBKogKQcs3OqE3mkyCjmpoYxTk&e=> >> >> >> >> *From:* mike smith via ozdotnet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> >> >> *Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2024 12:19 PM >> *To:* ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> >> *Cc:* mike smith <meski...@gmail.com> >> *Subject:* Re: AI >> >> >> >> "old system views" >> >> >> >> That makes me wonder if it has any way of differentiating between >> something it found from a decade ago to more recent data. >> >> >> >> Mike >> >> On Fri, 23 Feb 2024, 11:43 Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet, < >> ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Tom, >> >> >> >> For me, it depends what you want it to do. It certainly can appear to >> help someone who’s new to an area. >> >> >> >> For most code writing, I’ve been pretty underwhelmed. As an example, if I >> ask it to write SQL, I get a very poor outcome. It will use old deprecated >> views instead of the current system views (that have been around for a >> decade), and often does things in a convoluted way. >> >> >> >> What I have been impressed with, is how it can help you understand >> acronyms, etc. Quite amazing. I’ve also been pretty impressed with using it >> go generate some test data, including in multiple languages. And the test >> data is fairly believable. If I ask it for family names, and I also ask for >> Chinese, it does pick common Chinese family names in the test output. >> That’s pretty impressive. >> >> >> >> It can do a reasonable job of things like “here’s some DAX code, can you >> simplify it?” It often can. Or “here’s a regular expression, can you >> explain what it does?” and it does that just fine. I’ve seen people happily >> using it to explain code that they don’t understand, or to (sort of) >> document some code. >> >> >> >> But it also is so confident on things, yet so wrong. I gave it a 25 >> question baseball umpire test the other day. It was 100% confident >> sounding, but 40% correct. The weird thing is that some of the questions >> that it got right, are things that new human umpires often get wrong. Yet >> for simpler questions, it would say that something legal is illegal. >> >> >> >> It’s certainly interesting, but it’s very much a work in progress. It >> will be part of our futures. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> Greg >> >> >> >> Dr Greg Low >> >> >> >> 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile >> >> SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com >> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sqldownunder.com_&d=DwMFAg&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=2rgtwrXggQFZiZbisdwDooYFalucb-vLhjG0McaanBZKn0UVuognuHqfHnjp2AVc&m=I23jyX4AKIv9q2x7A3CQAer9PGCjq8R6DwW7BE1IAhZ1JbigKMrMPRCjs6AqW7h3&s=o3oFliHztOF8D9Nbqaa7KQdqC-zkQNXWl4IqnEG58Wc&e=> >> | >> About Greg: https://about.me/greg.low >> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__about.me_greg.low&d=DwMFAg&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=2rgtwrXggQFZiZbisdwDooYFalucb-vLhjG0McaanBZKn0UVuognuHqfHnjp2AVc&m=I23jyX4AKIv9q2x7A3CQAer9PGCjq8R6DwW7BE1IAhZ1JbigKMrMPRCjs6AqW7h3&s=NsAibgiqfCxsyc8m2DBKogKQcs3OqE3mkyCjmpoYxTk&e=> >> >> >> >> *From:* Tom Gao via ozdotnet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> >> *Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2024 11:58 AM >> *To:* ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> >> *Cc:* Tom Gao <t...@tomgao.com> >> *Subject:* AI >> >> >> >> Hi guys, I haven't posted in a few years and haven't been on the tools >> for a long time now as well. I'm on a panel on a digital conference coming >> up in march. We had a pre meeting today and the topic of AI came up. Two of >> the panelist said cited CBA and Westpac using AI and were able to save 30% >> on development effort. >> >> >> >> Personally I just finished an AI course my view is quite the opposite. My >> personal opinion of the generative AI space and AI in general having spent >> time with the academics is that the benefits are significantly over >> inflated. >> >> >> >> I want to get some other opinions if you are seeing any significant >> benefit and that I may be just out of touch or not aware. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tom >> >> -- >> ozdotnet mailing list >> To manage your subscription, access archives: >> https://codify.mailman3.com/ >> >> -- >> ozdotnet mailing list >> To manage your subscription, access archives: >> https://codify.mailman3.com/ > > -- > ozdotnet mailing list > To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/
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