I am an enterprise architect that has been tasked with implementing AI from design to implementation. We have been very busy for the past two years, from governance, safety and control rack, and stack. Yes, AI is very impressive, and does bring a lot to the table for immediate impact on workflows, data science and automation. With that All being said AI still needs human in the loop, I don’t care how much we can build the guard rails, hallucinations are still a plague for us. But I will tell you that Google is very active and their consultant services, about what they are learning from Gemini. Every day employees use Gemini, but all you’re doing is training a system. I know they have that little disclaimer at the bottom that they are not using any Verizon data to train, but they are. They just use different words for it. This has been in the works for a while, and will be used as future metric data, for future cuts. I will tell you that this downsizing that’s coming is not because of AI, it’s not mature enough inside of Verizon. These cuts are trying to curve the bleeding that our past leadership has left us in. They are going to sting, but won’t be part of a overall strategy. Yes they will announce some flashy, news attention seeking moves this week. But nothing truly about the honest direction where we’re about to go. Do you think it was just by chance that our new CEO mentioned perplexity in his first? conversation? He has a very big stake in perplexity.
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When I was a boy many years ago I used to read "Magnus Robot Fighter" comic books.
Little did I know it would one day come to fruition in my lifetime in the form of Artificial Intelligence (AI)!
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/magnus-robot-fighterthe-movie-by-dave-goode--140948663327284386/
Gemini gets a lot of things wrong than right. It has to be the worst one out there compared to other AIs like ChatGPT. If the company is relying on Gemini and taking it literally, there goes the rest of the company.
OP, by any chance are you collaborating with the Cyberdyne Systems Corporation team on the Skynet project?
Well said and I agree.
The truth about how Verizon's AI Tool to retain customers is going;
Apparently, Verizon is using AI to create a custom deal for customers. The company's tools scan customers' bills for any discounts and give the same discount to match a competitor's price. Bottom line, "Verizon failed to offer them a lower price than their current provider."
Source: https://www.phonearena.com/news/verizon-bring-your-bill-response_id175201?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Hallucinations will never go away with the current LLMs. They don't actually think, all they do is pattern match.
I've used these things to generate code, and as a research tool into personal projects. It's sort of mediocre code generator and useful for mundane tasks. It's a decent research tool as long as you stick to known things. It excels at finding obscure information, or summarizing complex information and de-coding it into simpler language.
But as automation and replacing a human? It's cr-p. That doesn't stop media sources from printing the same d-mb "Thuh AI is gonna replace us AlLLLLlLl!!! Rahhhh!"
The fact that AI needs some level of human oversight, is something that our leaders seem to ignore. They want it implemented fast and then wonder why it doesn’t work like they wanted it to. When the AI bubble bursts, there won’t be anyone left that actually knows how to troubleshoot the network. Sad.
Soon we will all be Perplexed.