My little space in the interwebs.
Today I noticed that Gmail will help with composing an email, or edit/rewrite an email after it is written. I tried the rewrite feature and it wasn’t terrible. The AI preferred “reach out” to my preference of “contact” (e.g., I’m contacting you regarding…) in typical business correspondence. It also added some enthusiasm that I didn’t…
This video explains one aspect of AI (generative AI mostly) that keeps me from worrying too much that the “robots will take our jobs”. The contrast the Dickerson draws is between knowing and understanding: AI will never understand anything. In statistics, an AI tool could someday perform a thorough data analysis. Maybe even perform it…
I really liked this one.
The #7syllablesentence writing prompt is just like it sounds. Write a seven syllable sentence using the prompt (or based on the prompt). I liked this one, but others did not.
I’m not sure if this AI trend will last or not, but vibe coding is coding (writing a computer program) by simply prompting a large language model (an LLM, e.g., ChatGPT) to write the code. Software developers are concerned that LLMs are coming for their jobs, and vibe coding is understandably a serious concern if…
(A follow up to this post. ) The development of AI tools for performing statistical analysis and training machine learning models is concerning to me. Will the tools hit a point where a user can simply state an analysis (like a prompt in a LLM), provide some data, and the AI will take over? Can…
I was sent a mathematical formula for the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) by a colleague (the medical/biological details and background of the formula are unnecessary). He copied the formula from an AI summary from a search engine (Google I think). A screen shot is below. The formula he sent is related to a formula…