An AI's opinion on Humax PVRs' Real-Time Clocks (RTC) and their power source

[Owen Smith]

You have my sincere sympathy. It's pathetic.

I'm going to have to restrain myself from taking the piss during the course. 10 years ago we had a secure coding training course (buffer overflows and the like) and at least half of what the trainer said was rubbish and I said so during the course. Myself and the more experienced engineer doing it both got told off for being disruptive. I hope we achieved our goal, which was to get people to question the rubbish he was spouting eg fixing problems in ways that required adding more casts, thus denying the compiler and lint the ability to spot issues.

 

[Luke]

For something like this I wouldn't expect it to be worthwhile to use as a means to an end.

Did that come out the way you intended??

Yes.

I was trying to see how easy it would be to get a correct answer to my original question to the AI, and not using it to fill in gaps in my knowledge, and neither was I using it to confirm what I already know.

 

[Luke]

I'm going on a mandatory AI training course at work next week.

Is it some sort of generative AI fundamental awareness course, or something a bit more? Or perhaps far more detailed, concentrating on some of the practicalities of using OpenAI's CodeX's or GitHub Copilot's CLI (for example)? (Yes I know from your description that the CLI offerings would unlikely be a tool that would be useful for you.)

 

[Owen Smith]

Is it some sort of generative AI fundamental awareness course, or something a bit more? Or perhaps far more detailed, concentrating on some of the practicalities of using OpenAI's CodeX's or GitHub Copilot's CLI (for example)? (Yes I know from your description that the CLI offerings would unlikely be a tool that would be useful for you.)

It was a course advertising that we have an internal AI that we're allowed to use when doing our work, unlike external ones that are banned for work use (copyright issues, exposing our code to external AIs we don't control, etc). They wasted an hour of the salary they pay me telling me things I already knew. Their loss.

 

[prpr]

They wasted an hour of the salary they pay me telling me things I already knew. Their loss.

But it ticks a box. I'm guessing this a larger rather than smaller company? That's all they're really interested in.

 

[Owen Smith]

But it ticks a box. I'm guessing this a larger rather than smaller company? That's all they're really interested in.

It's a very large company.

 

[Luke]

It was a course advertising that we have an internal AI that we're allowed to use when doing our work, unlike external ones that are banned for work use (copyright issues, exposing our code to external AIs we don't control, etc). They wasted an hour of the salary they pay me telling me things I already knew. Their loss.

A whole course on that!

Instead of a course, my company sent an easy to read memo in early 2024, instead of a providing a mandatory course to expain the same.
-- Summary
Do not use AI directly unless its through one of the company's enterprise licensees. Here is a link to register for our enterprise licence. You must never use an AI through a non-company licence. The reason is x, y and z."
--

That was 18 months ago and from my vantage, the message appears to have reached even those who do not read memos.

We now have a choice of AI options, numerous seminars with Q&As (all recorded for later playback), various active discussion groups, and a lot more training courses which are mainly optional (but some are mandatory depending on a person's current role and position).

It's a very large company.

Is that defined by the number of employees? How many employees does a company need to be a very large company?

 

[Black Hole]

How many employees does a company need to be a very large company?

Ask ChatGPT.

 

[Owen Smith]

Is that defined by the number of employees? How many employees does a company need to be a very large company?

Doesn't matter. Any way you measure it, employees, revenues, margins, number of times we've been sued, countries we operate in, I work for a very large company.