On the subject of AI - it can take weeks or even months of preparation to teach an AI platform what you really want! And then there are too many AI systems online and only one of them actually works and it only works after a great deal of setting it up so that it knows what you want. And that AI is Chat-GPT.
I have tried all the others and their sources are doubtful, to put it mildly!
The AI has to know at what level of intellectual rigour you are working. You must give the AI reference points - tell it where to look and where not to look.
Humans ask questions in far too broad terms. They take their own background and reference points as given. I had to deal with the word "Disco" this morning, only to discover that the person using that word meant something in 2:4 time at 120 BPM - typical British Europop stuff. Someone else might mean a Niles Rogers kind of funk-beat and an urban American will mean a 4:4 slow 102-106 BPM groove, MC Doug E-Fresh kind of thing.
But they just said "disco" without defining that word. The same applies to any word and to any person. It also applies to any culture and language, and of course, jurisdiction. The AI has to know where to look and in what language - and above all, at what level. Legal questions, for example, require the AI to avoid "opinion" websites and stick to formal examples of legislation and subsequent case law - and not the opinions of 16-year-olds on TikTok.
And now for this forum - I watched it develop into a vibrant and lively forum filled with some fairly oddball characters (whatever did become of Twinkletoes?) and then disintegrate into heavy-handed over-moderation.
Experienced and successful business people do not take kindly to "warnings" and deletions from someone who still has eggshell behind their ears. And some of those who have been around the block are going to be blunt.
Some of the proposed business plans that used to be posted here were hilarious - and got some fairly blunt and hilarious replies! It made for good reading! A straightforward reply, stating that having a "brilliant" but unspecified idea, but neither experience nor money, is no recipe for success. I always enjoyed those!
And our 18-year-old bedroom "entrepreneur" posted "Why do you feel the need to be rude and put my idea down!"
I also enjoyed
@Clinton 's replies to "I want to sell my business!" posts, even if he was a bit OTT sometimes. But people do need to hear the truth. The Ss in SMEs do not sell. The physical assets can sell, but that is about it. A business that is "Me, Myself and Eye" is a job.
I am fairly certain that I was never rude to anyone (unless they made disparaging remarks about the lovely Niki Minaj and her metaphorical lyrics about her tomcat that liked to go swimming).
Anyway - time for some work!
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