#uses of artificial intelligence

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

no i don't want to use your ai assistant. no i don't want your ai search results. no i don't want your ai summary of reviews. no i don't want your ai feature in my social media search bar (???). no i don't want ai to do my work for me in adobe. no i don't want ai to write my paper. no i don't want ai to make my art. no i don't want ai to edit my pictures. no i don't want ai to learn my shopping habits. no i don't want ai to analyze my data. i don't want it i don't want it i don't want it i don't fucking want it i am going to go feral and eat my own teeth stop itttt

[pjoshi12]

Thriving In The AI Era

How Coditude's Developers Are Redefining Success in the AI Era

In the ever-changing tech landscape, the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) marks a profound shift in software development. Once confined to sci-fi, generative AI now leads innovation, transforming industries and developer roles. We're not just witnessing change; we're part of a revolution blending human creativity with powerful computing. This article examines how developers and AI synergize, exploring the uses of artificial intelligence, along with the challenges and opportunities, shaping the future of software development.

Understanding Generative AI

Generative AI, fueled by machine learning advancements, creates diverse content from text to images. Cloud computing's rise, exemplified by AWS, enables training complex AI models. Technologies like GPT-3 and Codex automate tasks, reshaping software development.

Generative AI challenges creativity and intelligence concepts, blurring lines between creators. Developers navigate AI's ethical and societal impacts while embracing its transformative potential. Generative AI augments human creativity, ushering in collaborative digital realms.

This future embraces a partnership between human ingenuity and machine intelligence, unlocking boundless possibilities.

Generative AI blurs lines between creators, challenging creativity and intelligence concepts. Developers navigate ethical implications while embracing its transformative potential.

Generative AI's Impact on Software Development

Generative AI revolutionizes software development, presenting new opportunities and challenges. It transforms how developers approach creativity and problem-solving. We explore its impact through real-world applications and developer perspectives.

Transforming Traditional Coding Practices

Generative AI, exemplified by tools like GitHub's Copilot, transforms coding practices by providing comprehensive code suggestions based on context. This departure from traditional programming accelerates development timelines, with developers reporting a 30% increase in productivity using AI-assisted tools. AI becomes a collaborative partner, generating sophisticated code snippets and reducing the need for extensive documentation and debugging.

Automating Documentation and Testing

Generative AI streamlines documentation by dynamically updating it based on code changes, enhancing code maintainability and reducing errors. In testing, AI-generated test cases cover diverse scenarios, improving software quality and reliability. This automation saves time and resources, transforming critical but tedious development tasks.

Case Studies: Real-world Applications

Generative AI drives diverse real-world applications in software development. For instance, a fintech firm modernized legacy systems by automating codebase conversion. Another startup enhanced user experience by dynamically generating interfaces based on user behavior data, boosting engagement.

Developer Perspectives: Opportunities and Challenges

Generative AI presents vast opportunities for software development, yet developers face challenges such as over-reliance and code originality concerns. Striking a balance between leveraging AI for productivity and maintaining a deep understanding of codebases is crucial.

Moreover, integrating generative AI raises questions about intellectual property rights and code ownership, given the complexity of determining the origin of AI-generated code snippets. Despite these challenges, generative AI transforms development by automating tasks, facilitating code generation, and expanding creative possibilities. However, navigating this landscape requires a thoughtful approach, an understanding of AI capabilities and limitations, and ongoing discussions about ethical implications.

Navigating the Generative AI Landscape

Integrating generative AI into software development requires a cultural shift, prompting developers to reevaluate skills and approaches for strategic adaptation in this new era.

Updating Skills and Knowledge

Generative AI demands skills beyond traditional programming, emphasizing AI fundamentals, data literacy, collaborative work, and ethical AI use.

Integrating Generative AI into Development Workflows

Successful integration entails incremental adoption, fostering a culture of experimentation, continuous learning, and balancing AI with human expertise.

Evolving Role of Creativity

Developers pivot towards creative problem-solving and strategic thinking, leveraging AI for experimentation and focusing on system architecture and user experiences. Interdisciplinary collaboration becomes vital as coding, design, and user experience converge in AI-driven applications.

Navigating generative AI demands technical proficiency, ethical awareness, and forward-thinking. Developers unlocking new possibilities for innovation and collaboration, shaping the future of technology in the digital age.

Future Workforce and Generative AI

Generative AI reshapes software development by altering job markets, skill requirements, and work nature, profoundly impacting the future workforce.

Balancing AI Automation

Generative AI impacts software development employment by automating tasks but also creating opportunities for human expertise to excel, emphasizing a need for a balanced approach where AI enhances human capabilities.

Impact on Developer Job Market

The job market shifts towards roles emphasizing oversight and creative use of AI tools, with traditional coding jobs evolving to focus on designing AI algorithms and integrating AI into system architectures, highlighting the need for adaptability and continuous learning.

Preparing Next-Gen Developers

Educational institutions adapt by incorporating AI fundamentals, ethical AI use, interdisciplinary skills, and lifelong learning into their curricula.

Overcoming Challenges and Ethical Considerations

Generative AI's rise in software development poses challenges and ethical dilemmas, from technical hurdles to philosophical considerations. Navigating this new era demands addressing these issues while upholding ethical standards, crucial for the development community and society.

Addressing the Fear of Obsolescence

Developers combat obsolescence fears by emphasizing irreplaceable skills like creative problem-solving and ethical decision-making. Lifelong learning ensures their continued relevance in an AI-driven future.

Navigating the Hype Versus Reality

Amidst utopian and dystopian narratives, a balanced view of generative AI is crucial. Stakeholders prioritize real-world utility over hype through rigorous testing and validation, ensuring genuine innovation.

Ethical Considerations and Responsibility

Generative AI presents ethical concerns like data privacy and algorithmic bias. Developers must prioritize transparency, accountability, and fairness in AI use to ensure responsible and equitable outcomes. This approach unlocks the true potential of AI while addressing ethical challenges.

Concluding Thoughts

The advent of generative AI marks an exciting yet challenging era in software development. As developers, we must harness this technology while navigating its ethical complexities. At Coditude, we recognize the importance of human creativity alongside AI's power, fostering an environment where developers can excel. By prioritizing continuous learning, ethical AI use, and a culture of innovation, Coditude is shaping the future of software development. Join us to be part of a community driving the generative AI revolution and creating a future where human ingenuity thrives.

[enyasaints]

SA + Illegal Termination. Legal Fund

Feeling incredibly discouraged. I want to quit crowdfunding. It’s so emotionally damaging to my psyche. I feel like I’m being left out, I’m not popular enough or good enough to listen to. I feel like I’m wasting my time and it’s hurting my feelings. I also don’t like reliving my assault. BEGGING for allies to advocate on my behalf. I cannot do this alone. I am trying to stop being hyper independent and lean on community.

Direct Aid:

PP: enyasaints@gmail.com

[renthony]

I'm not worried about putting anti-AI distortion filters on my work, because people have been stealing my drawings and uploading them on "free clipart" sites for years. My writing gets screenshotted and posted on "meme" pages with no attribution (even though screenshots of original blog posts aren't "memes," oh my fucking god). My work is already being stolen. AI hasn't really changed anything for me on that front.

The horse is out of the stable and it's not going back in. I'm not worried about slapping a (dubiously effective) filter on every single piece of art I make as much as I'm worried about supporting entertainment industry unions as they fight for worker protections so that generative AI use doesn't fuck artists out of a job.

The mythologizing of AI has gotten out of hand. "AI" doesn't even have a set meaning. It's incredibly imprecise and creates a lot of needless confusion when the same term can mean "sorting algorithms for computer processes" and "programming for video game NPCs" and "brush stabilizing tools in digital art programs" and "program that generates images from prompts and a database of unethically-sourced media."

AI is being treated like a boogeyman with faerie rules by a lot of people who don't really have any idea how computers work or why it's actually a concern to working artists and their unions.

The actual problem is that generative AI can be used by companies to avoid paying human workers a living wage.

The problem is not that "computers have no soul and can't make real art!"

The actual solution is not "every artist do your part to defeat AI by using dubiously effective filters on literally everything you ever post online, ever," it's "unionize and fight for policies that protect creative professionals from exploitation."

Join a union. If you aren't eligible for something like SAG-AFTRA or the WGA (East or West) or TAG or IATSE or any number of other creative unions from around the world, you can join the IWW.

[ratflame]

Starting a collection of these

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

I've been gathering all the elligible creatures for next tournament, double checking my work. And I hit the retriever.

AND THIS FUCKING THING.

This thing stopped me for hours. Because they keep changing what it IS. Because look at it, cool spider robot, right? oh, and it knows languages, that means it's either a mindless automaton (fine because it's like a toy) or it's an intelligent creature, right? Wrong? Turns out it's NEAR mindless. Red flag, especially given it has 3 int. Usually sentient creatures don't go below 5, so it's likely either a smart automaton like your phone or animal, right? Well turns out it's made from an imprisoned bebelith that had most of its intelligence removed. MOST? Is it animal level or not, because that's down to the usual animal range but it apparently still understands language. Does it even matter, does being made from an imprisoned spirit that follows orders mean it couldn't consent anyways? I made an argument for that with golems, and we know that spirits imprisoned spirits cannot fight even if they want to as long as the vessel's durable metal. But then you look at the MPMM, this new book we're going into. and hey look, they removed the "imprisoned bebelith" part that's been in every description for decades. But it is gone because it's not true anymore, or is it gone because the MPMM shortened nearly every description? Some PLAYER RACES got reduced to 3 sentences, so is that no longer canon, or is it just not included in this summarized version of it because they assume you know from Tome of Foes?

ultimately, sorry, not including it in next tournament. 14 foot spider droid with paralysis and restraint powers would've done numbers. But I am really unsure if this is sentient and if it could consent even if it was (since the ritual seems to override its free will). And I can't in good conscious include an option unless I'm confident it can consent. I'll take "I can't think of a scenario in which it would want to, but it technically could." but not "incapable of consent."

[sag-dab-sar]

Clarification: Generative AI does not equal all AI

💭 "Artificial Intelligence"

AI is machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and more that I'm not smart enough to know. It can be extremely useful in many different fields and technologies. One of my information & emergency management courses described the usage of AI as being a "human centaur". Part human part machine; meaning AI can assist in all the things we already do and supplement our work by doing what we can't.

💭 Examples of AI Benefits

AI can help advance things in all sorts of fields, here are some examples:

Emergency Healthcare & Disaster Risk X

Disaster Response X

Crisis Resilience Management X

Medical Imaging Technology X

Commercial Flying X

Air Traffic Control X

Railroad Transportation X

Ship Transportation X

Geology X

Water Conservation X

Can AI technology be used maliciously? Yeh. Thats a matter of developing ethics and working to teach people how to see red flags just like people see red flags in already existing technology.

AI isn't evil. Its not the insane sentient shit that wants to kill us in movies. And it is not synonymous with generative AI.

💭 Generative AI

Generative AI does use these technologies, but it uses them unethically. Its scraps data from all art, all writing, all videos, all games, all audio anything it's developers give it access to WITHOUT PERMISSION, which is basically free reign over the internet. Sometimes with certain restrictions, often generative AI engineers—who CAN choose to exclude things—may exclude extremist sites or explicit materials usually using black lists.

AI can create images of real individuals without permission, including revenge porn. Create music using someones voice without their permission and then sell that music. It can spread disinformation faster than it can be fact checked, and create false evidence that our court systems are not ready to handle.

AI bros eat it up without question: "it makes art more accessible" , "it'll make entertainment production cheaper" , "its the future, evolve!!!"

💭 AI is not similar to human thinking

When faced with the argument "a human didn't make it" the come back is "AI learns based on already existing information, which is exactly what humans do when producing art! We ALSO learn from others and see thousands of other artworks"

Lets make something clear: generative AI isn't making anything original. It is true that human beings process all the information we come across. We observe that information, learn from it, process it then ADD our own understanding of the world, our unique lived experiences. Through that information collection, understanding, and our own personalities we then create new original things.

💭 Generative AI doesn't create things: it mimics things

Take an analogy:

Consider an infant unable to talk but old enough to engage with their caregivers, some point in between 6-8 months old.

Mom: a bird flaps its wings to fly!!! *makes a flapping motion with arm and hands*

Infant: *giggles and makes a flapping motion with arms and hands*

The infant does not understand what a bird is, what wings are, or the concept of flight. But she still fully mimicked the flapping of the hands and arms because her mother did it first to show her. She doesn't cognitively understand what on earth any of it means, but she was still able to do it.

In the same way, generative AI is the infant that copies what humans have done— mimicry. Without understanding anything about the works it has stolen.

Its not original, it doesn't have a world view, it doesn't understand emotions that go into the different work it is stealing, it's creations have no meaning, it doesn't have any motivation to create things it only does so because it was told to.

Why read a book someone isn't even bothered to write?

Related videos I find worth a watch

ChatGPT's Huge Problem by Kyle Hill (we don't understand how AI works)

Criticism of Shadiversity's "AI Love Letter" by DeviantRahll

AI Is Ruining the Internet by Drew Gooden

AI vs The Law by Legal Eagle (AI & US Copyright)

AI Voices by Tyler Chou (Short, flash warning)

Dead Internet Theory by Kyle Hill

-Dyslexia, not audio proof read-

[minecraftcoalblock]

Ai art is not good

[iww-gnv]

Voice actors are taking to social media to criticize SAG-AFTRA, the union representing actors and other entertainment professionals, for an agreement it struck Tuesday with an artificial intelligence company that would allow video game developers to use digital replicas of actors’ voices.

[what-shitfuckery-is-this-ew]

FUCK YOU INTERNET FOR MAKING ME THINK ASSAD ZAMAN WAS PAKISTANI. FUCK AI BEING USED FOR ARTICLES.

I LITERALLY LOOKED AT HIM AND SAID THAT'S A BENGALI MAN. HIM WITH A BEARD IS LITERALLY MY (RELATED) UNCLE

BUT WHEN I SEARCHED IT UP EVERYTHING SAID PAKISTANI AND I WAS GOBSMACKED, BUT I ACCEPTED IT

AND NOW I FIND OUT HE IS BENGALI

THE SHEER MISINFORMATION CAUSE OF AI ISTG

[cringywhitedragon]

I know a lot of people are not happy with the whole Ai stuff but holy crap was this bad

So I guess you guys heard of the Willy Wonka Dashcon repeat and holy crap this was bad…

Now this is an example on why you SHOULD NOT USE AI FOR STUFF. Ai can be a useful tool IN SOME ASPECTS LIKE TO GET IDEAS OR JUST FOR MEMES AND FUN, BUT PLEASE DO NOT USE IT TO PLAN EVENTS OR CREATE ART AND CLAIM IT AS YOUR OWN AS SO MANY ARTISTS HAVE SAID!!!

But hey, we got some memes from it.

And Tumblr, Ik you guys like funny gremlins so would you all be ok with adopting the Unknown as your own creature. He’s now homeless and needs a home. Who knows, we might actually be able to give him his own lore.

[4lph4kidz]

i was thinking about your dirk and hal poll and i want to mention that i think your concept for ink and iron where dirk creates hal from his reflection by enchanting a mirror is so cool 😌

thank you! hal's predicament and purpose within the canon narrative is so fascinating and i felt it was really important to find a way to explore what i find most interesting with him. i can't take full credit for the concept though i took inspiration from a few placees (one of my friends pitched the idea of the mirror accidentally dumping him onto jake's doorstop for example) but overall i think the idea is very fun and i'm really excited to write more hal stuff!!! also i'm going to take the opportunity to share this oldish doodle i found:

the mispelling of angel as angle was NOT intentional (<- dyslexia haver) but it probably explains a lot. he's pointy

[bunnyboilewd]

Really upset and absolutely enraged that I follow the tag artificial intelligence for cool science, like the machine that was recently made allowing a woman to speak using AI for the first time in years. Instead by following this tag in the last year I keep seeing the Art Theft Maker 5000 and being deeply disappointed.

[redlettermediathings]

[alperen1emre]

TLOU

[beauty-funny-trippy]

Anybody know what Trump's drag name is? I'm guessing,"Orange Blossom"? ...or, "Meg O'Lomania"? ...or,...?