AI for writing documentation

Yeah. And, I know that (is why I'm not on social media or stuff). ...Just sort of depressing though (ai); I'm just contemplating licensing. -i.e. not sure if I've ever truly contemplated if someone were to use *my* code to actually "kick puppies". Kind of a #BurnItDownAndStartAgainMaybeWeCanDoBetterNextTime kind of thought.
 
Just had a conversation with Google.
Answer of Google A.I. : - I put words into your mouth you did not used.

Google becoming a manipulative politician. Time to read 1984.
 
The truly scary part of that thought is that people will still blindly trust it because it is the "easy button". -i.e. I can see using it for collating, finding, and maybe possibly suggesting but at no time should the output be trusted (but now, we're back to the crux of this thread's topic; at what point does it become easier to just do something yourself?).

I still think that upper case 'i' needs to be lower case because its intelligence isn't deserving of an upper-case classification.
 
An AI seems to be able to write better than a human being these days... perfect mastery of English language, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, even striking a "technical report" tone, and mentioning uncertainty.

I recently came across a fine example of that: https://windowsforum.com/threads/kb...-driver-timeouts-in-windows-11-gaming.393563/

If you pay attention to who exactly wrote that article, it's freakin' ChatGPT!

There's a pretty long list of checkboxes for what makes a well-written article. All those checkboxes are stuff that people are normally taught in k-12 primary education systems. And ChatGPT seems to have hit them all. Somebody's too lazy and unskilled to put in the effort it takes to hit even half the checkboxes on that list, so they outsource the work to ChatGPT. This is how ChatGPT will take away people's jobs. All that will be left is hosing down the machines that mine the raw silicon for Intel and Qualcomm.
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astyle said:
Somebody's too lazy and unskilled to put in the effort it takes to hit even half the checkboxes on that list, so they outsource the work to ChatGPT. This is how ChatGPT will take away people's jobs. All that will be left is hosing down the machines that mine the raw silicon for Intel and Qualcomm.
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Who's the audience that article is for? Microsoft has official notes with the same text and descriptions, officially. I install updates and don't expect breaking changes and don't read notes :p If I needed deeper info, MDL/etc has actual people decompiling and examining updates, and that kind of info isn't plainly-detailed in the open for AI to be able to try to construe into a nice-looking article.
 
Espionage724 said:
Who's the audience that article is for? Microsoft has official notes with the same text and descriptions, officially. I install updates and don't expect breaking changes and don't read notes :p If I needed deeper info, MDL/etc has actual people decompiling and examining updates, and that kind of info isn't plainly-detailed in the open for AI to be able to try to construe into a nice-looking article.
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I would not be surprised if the LLMs (that were used to write that article) are available by subscription / fee only. Same idea as legal databases of court cases, enterprise licenses and ACM articles. Very common practice for places like windowsforums.com to have a few such subscriptions as business expenses.

It's amazing what you can find on the Internet if you just bother to look.

Curating information is one thing. Understanding the information, realizing if it's applicable to the situation at hand - or realizing that something is just plain bullshit or nonsense - that's a different thing altogether.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
I thank the Romans every day for the alphabet.
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Actually the latin letters became by a modificated mix of greek and etruscan. But the system per se was revolutionary. It's called a phonetic language. Roman writing system was neither the only one, nor the first. Greek, hebrew, arabic, cyrillic are examples for others. It just became the standard, because the romans conquered most of europe, north africa and the "middle east", latin was until the middle ages what is english today, the most used language to communicate internationally, and then, after 1492, the europeans then impressed their stamps on the world, including calendar, the roman language(s)... many good things, many bad things.

At the first glance it seems to be way more easy to have signs in form of pictures showing directly what's meant, instead of the need to learn the whole alphabet and the combination of letters first before you even can start writing and reading. But in the mid term it becomes clear: You need much painting, so much more effort writing and still not being clear what's actually meant. Not everybody has a talent in sketching. Or using standardized and then way more signs to be learned. So better is to use only a few letters which in combination portray the sounds of spoken words: phonetic.

To me that's like the difference between vi and emacs. You either have to learn the complete alphabet and the art of combination first before you can do anything with it at all. But once you have that, that's it. Or you have to learn a new sign - key-combo - for everything new you need to do, having hundreds of "signs" never stop learning.😁😎
 
Maturin said:
Actually the latin letters became by a modificated mix of greek and etruscan.
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Wait... don't you always say the German's invented all these things?

Here in States we speak "English"... because well.... we didn't invent that either :cool:

I guess "there is" a difference between "British English English" and "American English". Should we say "mac" or "rain coat"?

"And the banker never wears a mac in the pouring rain, very strange". --- the Beatles, Penny Lane
 
Ai output is based on statistics so it's output cannot be profound in the same sense as a human's (because it can only operate on the information it has and not on conjecture). -i.e. Proper/correct word use: yes. New terms: no. Concepts: yes. Ramifications of situation X: limited. Code to "produce a random number": only good enough to pass the given test definition of a random number (never above and beyond).

Eventually, all write-ups the same. ...one of us!
 
In a literal sense if AI wrote a book would it be considered Fact or Fiction ?

Since the author did not actually experience the topic I would assume it falls under Fiction.
 
CShell said:
Wait... don't you always say the German's invented all these things?
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Of course. But only in the last two hundred years. When the romans conquered europe, the "germans" were still living on trees. The romans only got half of "germany". Some say it was because the "germans" heroically defended their homelands successfully against the roman intruders. I say, that's national propaganda BS. I believe the romans finally give up, because it wasn't worth all the trouble and effort just to gain some wet, cold, rainy, windy, stinking swamps in dark, moist forests not capable for doing any real agriculture, and if any growing rye and rutabaga only at best.
And what we didn't invent, we made better: Take the latin alphabet for example:
We added Ä, Ö, and Ü to the alphabet. English speakers do not grasp that those are not just A, O, and U with useless funny decorations, but different letters with actual different pronunciation.
You see, writing about the weather in german saying: "heute ist es schwül" in english means, 'today it's sticky',
but saying "schwul" instead of "schwül" gives the whole thing a complete other twist, because that means 'gay'.
Of course as an english speaker you cannot understand and give a shit, since all the letters in your language are pronounced randomly, like e.g. 'u' can come differently like in useful or sun. So it's completely strange to you that in other languages letters do have a clear defined pronunciation by rules. But since we are also business people, we sell you Porsche cars anyway, no matter you cannot say it right. Some say 'porsh', while others "correct" them, saying 'porsh-uh'. Both wrong. So, we smile, and on the other hand we don't give a shit if you tell us, we pronounce 'Illinois', 'Arkansas' or 'Worcestershire' wrong.
At least we can tell Greenland from Iceland from Ireland from Maryland from Switzerland... 😁:p😂:cool::beer:
 
Maturin said:
And what we didn't invent, we made better: Take the latin alphabet for example:
We added Ä, Ö, and Ü to the alphabet. English speakers do not grasp that those are not just A, O, and U with useless funny decorations, but different letters with actual different pronunciation.
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Ok -- but "English" is a Germanic language - (Link: Wikipedia): English is a West Germanic language

So why aren't we all speaking German instead of English?

From the Wikipedia Link:
English is the most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations) and the United States. It is the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. However, English is only the third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.
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CShell said:
Ok -- but "English" is a Germanic language - (Link: Wikipedia): English is a West Germanic language

So why aren't we all speaking German instead of English?
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Here I cannot make a joke out of it anymore, simply because I don't have an idea and too few expertise on european languages to make one. I never had rated english a germanic language but a romanic language since it's way closer to french, spanish and above all italian. From a pure european linguistic point of view the latter one had been best choice to be world's language: easy to learn, very clear grammar with very few exceptions and speaking and writing are going clearly hand in hand without the need for any special signs or spelling bee contests.
I'm no linguist, I only look at the vocabulary, not respecting the fact english had its roots originally from the normans conquered GB, UK,...??? - England (at this point any british is seriously clearing the differences, still giving a shit to confuse himself holland with the netherlands for example), and then adapted much language during roman occupation.

But I can answer your question: This is the fault of the US americans. They are the reason english became international crossing language, and they are also the reason why it not became german. They had a voting if the nation's language should be english or german. Back then in the young USA the two largest group of speakers had been english and german speakers were similar the same size. The outcome of voting was very close, just a very few ballots (2?) more in favor for english. Otherwise the US nation's language had become german. And I doubt then neither german nor english had become world's language, because german is a very difficult language to learn, which is another important point besides just the number of speakers. Then presumbly today we would talk is this forums in spanish, french, or something else.
 
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