I haven't used generative AI for almost a year now, but here is another
of my experiences...
I asked for a set of bylaws for a youth sports non-profit. I got what
I considered an incomplete set of bylaws (I've been involved with a half
dozen non-profits of various flavors, so had an idea of what I was
looking for). So I tweaked the query and got another, shorter result.
I did this numerous times and got anything from a very simple outline
format to a fairly lengthy, but insufficient result. I then tested
using my most detailed prompt multiple times, and received multiple
different (though similar) results. It became obvious that because
there are a lot of examples on the web, what was being returned was all
of the stored examples likely in order of popularity (since the AI
'learned' that I didn't like the previous one).
After several days of this, I asked an attorney friend of mine if he
could provide an example. He sent me a copy of the template his office
uses, which is a proprietary template unavailable to the public and not
available without a paid subscription to the service that provides
them. It was very thorough and complete, which was what I had been
looking for.
So, more examples is 'better', but by no means necessarily complete.
It is clear that it is no replacement for a true expert or professional
who has proprietary information, despite a lot of the hoopla about it
replacing such. It's 'good enough for government work', as the saying
goes. I suppose YMMV, but I say again - GIGO.
Enough said from my end...
On 1/14/2025 4:30 PM, Rob Schramm wrote:
It is all about the prompting to prevent the AI from being lazy and making
things up or mixing things up. I think it would be less of an issue the
more examples that were consumed by the AI during training.
Rob
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM Bob Bridges <
00000587168ababf-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
Yeah, I like to think that if I were a manager, in any field (including
politics God preserve me) I would want to include on my staff a few people
who disagree with me ... if repeat if they can present arguments for their
opinions. Or maybe I just flatter myself; maybe I would fall prey to the
desire for the echo chamber, like most other people.
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I worked for a manager who said multiple times that if all of his directs
only gave him the answers that they expected him to want to hear that they
were redundant and he would fire them. He never did fire anyone, that I
know of, but he was always looking to be challenged.
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