How Does AI Affect Your Online Shopping?

[Deset Gled]

It’s a shame because meteorologists are now concerned that public trust will erode in regards to computer models actually used in weather forecasting.

I have no idea if this is a serious statement, a joke, sarcasm, or some combination.

 

[Belen]

I was using AI this morning to search for references for a paper I was writing. It made up every reference. Every time.

 

[Tea Cozy]

I have no idea if this is a serious statement, a joke, sarcasm, or some combination

Meteorologists are concerned people are going to confuse machine learning forecasting models with the generative AI used to make that graphic.

It’s mentioned in the WaPo article.

“…these kinds of errors could make the public distrust other forms of AI that are completely different from the technology you’d use to create a weather graphic.”

 

[Morrus]

I was using AI this morning to search for references for a paper I was writing. It made up every reference. Every time.

Then why were you using it?

 

[Belen]

Then why were you using it?

I was testing it to see if it could locate references faster than I could.

I am required to use it as part of my job.

 

[CleverNickName]

I am required to use it as part of my job.

It feels like the current shareholder thinking is, "AI is guaranteed to get better the more it's used...so if we require all employees to use it, our investment is guaranteed to grow."

There are no guarantees, of course, but I don't think that gets mentioned in meetings.

 

[Morrus]

I am required to use it as part of my job.

This is all too common, sadly.

 

[The Firebird]

I was using AI this morning to search for references for a paper I was writing. It made up every reference. Every time.

How are you using it? I've had a lot of success for this purpose with the Deep Research feature of ChatGPT.

 

[Belen]

How are you using it? I've had a lot of success for this purpose with the Deep Research feature of ChatGPT.

Our company uses Gemini. I am required to incorporate it into every day activities. I mainly use it for editing emails and creating marketing content: LinkedIn, Press Releases.

I have used it for deep research for a few recent STM publishing proposals where I was doing research on peer review products. It is good at scraping sites and the internet for all of their marketing language, demos, user engagement. It probably compressed 2 weeks of work into 2 days; however, I am forced to check the data to make sure that it is correct such as the references today. Luckily, I read all references and it was very apparent that it was making up papers that do not exist.

I think this is mainly to do with so few academic papers being RAG-ready so AI searches, find people who wrote on similar topics, and hallucinated papers based on whatever information was scraped from multiple sources.

 

[Belen]

It feels like the current shareholder thinking is, "AI is guaranteed to get better the more it's used...so if we require all employees to use it, our investment is guaranteed to grow."

There are no guarantees, of course, but I don't think that gets mentioned in meetings.

They are paying for it so they need to justify the ROI.

So few people use it correctly that productivity is all over the place. It is fine if you use it to enhance or improve your work but it fails utterly when people get it to do their work. The person who brought their unedited AI garbage to a meeting did not do so well.

For soon to be ex-company, they are really just using it as an excuse to off-shore jobs.