Does anybody else subscribe to MS 365 (personal)?
They just put up prices by over 40%
Seems they want to use their customers to keep feeding their AI investments, because thats a whopper of an increase over one year.
I found the following article a bit interesting in the AI context:
I think thereās a very long way until AI can āunderstandā business problems to the degree to determine how to simplify it to a(n appropriate) model.
If you seed an LLM with a small amount of false claims, bad things happen. Context is medical data.
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Ignoring the politics of thisā¦
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ar-AA1yxMHV
Iād think this is likely a poor use of AI. Iād think that your scoring system is going to be pretty arbitrary as to where youāre getting good value for money vs. poor value. Iād suspect that youād end up with a Pareto principle situation (assuming Iām not butchering the concept) where the easy projects that make up most of government spending appear to be winners (e.g. passports, ATC, customs and border control; somewhat optimized costs, clear outcomes) and the complex, messy things that government deals with (veterans health, working with First Nations, superfund sites, coastal land loss/erosion/sea level rise) are losers (e.g. high costs, unclear results).
Iām doubtful that thereās been any serious validation work to show this is an effective approach for optimizing spending or verifying that the mandate of the organization is being met, even with the cuts. This would be an example of making dumber people more dangerous e.g. the AI said I should do this, but doesnāt bother to check to see if the AI is capable of giving good answers to the question.
I find this news way to vague. Is the AI being used as a search? Is it writing code? Is it reading lots of documents? Is it providing summaries? Is it making judgements? What data is it looking at, what questions do they ask, and what output is it producing, and what are they doing with the output?
Without any examples or explanations orā¦ transparencyā¦ itās impossible to judge.
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Btw, now that we have Elmo in charge, I want to add, the one thing AI is going to be really, really great at is surveillance.
Your data is out there. On facebook, and Google, and Amazon, and discord, and goactuary, and universities, and court systems, and so on, and can be cross referenced with screen names and emails and identified through anecdotes.
And generally speaking, it doesnāt really matter, because itās a lot of work to read everything that has ever been written. And now thatās just not true.