My last post was two sentences about subscriptions. Seems I was somewhat right: SaaS is the norm and AI \/ large language models are everywhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My opinion on these developments? Technology is a tool, not a solution. You use it to help with your work. It’s still up to you to solve your problem. Nothing can replace critical thinking and problem-solving. Tech is a tool, and if you let it replace too much, you’ll have more problems than you started with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do I use AI? Yes, but in very specific ways. For example, I had years of financial data that I knew the contents of, but hadn’t sat down to pull all the analysis I could from it. With a paid subscription, I used the tool to review the data, requesting specific pieces. I also asked for a report detailing how those conclusions were reached. What would have taken me a week only took days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Days? Yes, days as I had to review everything and see how much of it I could replicate. I needed to understand the conclusions and clearly communicate the information. If I hadn’t spent the time understanding it, the conclusions would be useless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also use Grammarly to help write emails. I write way too fast and often miss things like “the,” “to,” and “of.” I avoid using the rephrase tool too often and will re-read a sentence when it highlights something (the number of times I’ve realized the sentence doesn’t actually say what I wanted it to… embarrassing). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Am I using it properly? Who knows, but after using it, I feel like I have a better footing to have an opinion. That opinion is this: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
People are treating AI like it’s everything when it’s simply a tool that should be used for certain tasks and not for others. <\/em>It can’t be creative – it can only do what it’s been told, as much as people would like it to be otherwise. I see it more like when computers were introduced to the workplace. Things will change, missteps will happen, and new norms will be developed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What will change things the most is when the actual compute time costs are passed on to the consumer. How will that affect AI usage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, we need to consider whether this is worth all the environmental issues. This is a big one. Right now, I don’t think we need all the infrastructure that’s in the works. We should be more considerate when planning a data centre, and not push it through just because it’s an AI-related project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My last post was two sentences about subscriptions. Seems I was somewhat right: SaaS is the norm and AI \/ large language models are everywhere. My opinion on these developments? Technology is a tool, not a solution. You use it to help with your work. It’s still up to you to solve your problem. Nothing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}