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Simple task: Which days of class should go on my syllabus?
❌ 4o-mini: shortened Nov break
❌ 4o: omitted days in Aug, Dec
✅ o3
❌ Claude 3-haiku: extended Oct break
❌ Claude 3.5 Sonnet V2: ext Oct br
✅ Claude 3.7 Sonnet
❌ Claude 4 Sonnet: extended Oct break
This is really unreliable AI performance.
#generativeAI

Creatives vs Generative AI
Who do you want to support?
#Creatives #GenerativeAI

#generativeAI experiment : for the page of software package, I am trying to generate a woman computer vision scientist in a superman costume...
I tried different ways to force the generated images to depict a woman, but with no success : I only get the same male scientist!

A sustainability expert weighs in on the environmental impact of #generativeAI https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-footprint-chatgpt

What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT?
Very small compared to most of the other stuff you do.

It bothers me that so many LLM/genAI applications seem to be all about "now that we have new tool X, what can we do with it" while completely ignoring the question "for problem Y, what is the best tool for the job?"
Perhaps unsurprisingly for developers where we have strong evidence of poor ethics (e.g., uncritically using big-brand LLMs), I suspect that many of the people behind these systems care more about the exhiliration of using new tech and the prestige it might bring them than any of the problems they might claim to solve (if they even bother to identify such things at all). Turns out that's a great way to cause a lot of harm in the world, since you likely won't do a good job of measuring outcomes (if you even bother to do so) and you especially won't carefully look for systemic biases or ways your system might unintentionally hurt/exclude people. You also won't be concerned about whether your system ends up displacing efforts that would have led to better solutions.
#AI #GenerativeAI #GenAI #LLM

Took the best screenshot to sum up how I feel when #AI proponents describe these tools vs. the reality of what they can do
#generativeAI #LLM #tech