@Zeugs Not that I watch them that regularly, but across the years many of my talks have been recorded and posted online, so it happens. I do regularly listen to myself, since I run a couple of podcasts and do production for them.
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@onepict I've been toying with the idea of giving someone control over "me" for a few weeks. But this also feels terrifying. And that's coming from a middle-aged privileged white dude.
Probably why I should do it.
@onepict We have a situation now in Sweden where the leader of the far-right party is about to publish a video (he has announced) where he is speaking Arabic and telling people they are not welcome hereā¦
@onepict They're also AI-generated. Including voices. Except one, where I uploaded my actual Swedish voice.
You can see the whole showcase here:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/10723290
@onepict Agree about the uncanny valley. I see a lot of risks amongst the benefits.
https://axbom.com/synthetic-video-benefits-risks/
@Mabande Good reference!
@ojala That's a really good and relevant observation. Thanks.
@clive @mollyanglin Thanks Clive! It's funny, a friend of mine pointed this out exactly about email when we talked about it yesterday. For many of us it has left a mark.
@lisamelton Wow, I'm so glad to be able to read a story like this in these times. Thank you for sharing.
@mollyanglin @clive Wow, that was bleak. But good writing. Thanks for sharing!
@ianbicking Not my intent.
I would love for these voices to talk more about the value they are creating and how they are receiving feedback from the people they are hoping to help. What I'm questioning is the idea that working faster necessarily means more value created.
The work being done IS often valuable, and we risk losing sight of that value when speed becomes the prioritised metric.
I do my best work not when I work faster but when I spend time truly understanding the context and expectations of the people I hope to help.
The factory analogy can be helpful when considering how me suddenly working faster can affect the next person who has to manage my output.
@rodet Definitely. I was just discussing backlogs in another forum around this topic. And this works if we are certain the more āefficient codingā doesnāt create other issues by way of documentation and traceability.
Of course, if the documentation and traceability was never there to begin with there is not much of a difference. š
@autiomaa Good example! I really can work so much faster if I do a poor job.
Meanwhile, if I work slower my quality generally improves, I make better decisions and I save others a lot of time.
@autiomaa Exactly. In an organisation that works in silos one department can increase their output, be praised, win awards, receive more funding and the employees get raises. Meanwhile the department that has to deal with the sudden decrease in quality has a much harder time getting their work done, and suffer the consequences for it.
@hbuchel Wow, I feel this so much it hurts. Thank you for writing it!
@ludens āits not a bug, itās proof of sentient lifeā š
@alexanderdyas Exactly, itās the Ouroboros.
@danhon
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Although Iām so on board with that statementā¦
@danhon
Youāre likely looking for something like Renderform.
https://renderform.io/
You can likely also do this with a PHP script if itās always the same image :)
@Beantin
I think that they are by some people intended to be two different aspects of controlling and allowing what goes into the machine instruction. Like this:
1. Prompt design is about writing prompts to get the desired output.
2. Prompt engineering is about the operational management of controlling what prompts are possible, i.e. restricting certain prompts to specific roles within a company in order to maintain data integrity and security, or controlling output length to manage computational costs.
Distinguishing between these two can be useful and set the right expectations, but I do see that prompt engineering is being used as a catch-all phrase. In that sense I would call prompt engineering the umbrella term for both the design/wording of prompts and the construction of rules for prompting.
But given that language is shaped by the people who use it we can only wait and see where these definitions end up. OpenAI themselves seem to use them interchangeably.
@Uva_Be I have experimented with most tools to get an idea of their workings. Both to test usefulness and reliability. For generating templates and structuring content I have seen benefits. And Iām very impressed by the programming capabilities of some language models.
Before these popular current tools I was of course also using AI, for example for speech-to-text and vice versa, which is useful and benevolent in the right settings.
In the end there is always this question that remainsā¦ are these benefits (for a subset of wealthy people) worth the cost? To judge that we need to understand the costs, and they are unfortunately often kept hidden or obscure.
Becoming reliant on many of these tools also means I become dependent on someone else to select and filter what content is deemed valuable for modelling, which is another aspect that worries me.