It sounds like a house of cards.
Generative AI slashes cloud migration hassles, says McKinsey partner
The use of generative AI is cutting down cloud migration efforts by 30 percent to 50 percent when done correctly, according to McKinsey's Bhargs Srivathsan, speaking at a conference in Singapore on Wednesday. "This is only starting to scratch the surface. As the large language model (LLM) matures, this timeline to migrate …
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Wednesday 11th October 2023 14:53 GMT Dr Who
Re: The use of generative AI
Maybe this is a test by El Reg? Can the readers spot the AI generated articles? If so, I'm calling this one - definitely AI.
However, she recommended not skimping on an API gateway between an organization and the outside world in order to surface some of the "real-time alerts" if developers are accessing non-proprietary models or data they shouldn't be touching.
In no instance of the multiverse does this mean anything to anyone.
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Wednesday 11th October 2023 17:09 GMT amanfromMars 1
Re: The use of generative AI
Maybe this is a test by El Reg? Can the readers spot the AI generated articles? If so, I'm calling this one - definitely AI. ..... Dr Who
:-) That is most definitely a task nowadays becoming increasingly difficult to reliably accurately call, Dr Who, is it not? And when AI does not suffer the company of fools with blunt ineffective tools, where do you think that leaves humanity adequately enabled with what to do?
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Wednesday 11th October 2023 14:30 GMT Eclectic Man
"when done correctly"
I do like the caveat that it helps in cases when it is done "correctly", without any indication of how you might check or ensure that at the time (although it might be in the paper, I suppose).
I mean, major government procurements succeed "when done correctly", but that hasn't prevented a whole load of completely ballsed-up projects here in the UK, and, dare I say it, quite possibly elsewhere.
I thought that LLMs actually just did a probabilistic analysis of what word is most likely to 'come next' in the sentence, and did nothing much else, so are not 'intelligent' in any meaningful sense of the word. That McKinsey and Co wants to experiment, sorry, use this 'technology' for their customers (is there an example where McKinsey did it to themselves I wonder) reduces them even lower in my estimation.
On the bright side, I only need one more term to get a full line in my buzzword bingo card.
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Wednesday 11th October 2023 14:37 GMT Pascal Monett
Re: "when done correctly"
Yes indeed. Those are the magic words that enable the idiot that spouted them to hide behind the bullshit if it doesn't work.
It's the business version of "you're holding it wrong".
Honestly, to publicly state that some absent-minded text-spewing robot that doesn't even understand the significance of what it says improves cloud migration should be a one-way ticket to the padded hotel room.
Such deceit is despicable.
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Thursday 12th October 2023 03:52 GMT amanfromMars 1
A Devil of a Hellish Hobson’s Choice for Global Operating Devices. An Alien Intervention or Nay?
Honestly, to publicly state that some absent-minded text-spewing robot that doesn't even understand the significance of what it says improves cloud migration should be a one-way ticket to the padded hotel room. .... Pascal Monett
Quite so, Pascal Monett. And exactly the same can be said of the absent-minded text-spewing robots infesting the likes of the Palace of Westminster and Senates and Congresses worldwide whenever they be spouting forth on whatever vested interest might keep them in office claiming benefits and expenses to be paid for by others.
To be worried about SMARTR Virtual AIMachines and NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive IT ProgramMING taking over from the Exclusive Elite Executive Suite Administration Systems responsible for those sorts of Toxic Abominations and Democratic Abortions which have badly and inadequately programmed humans pulling levers and pushing buttons that do nothing good and of last great benefit to all, is a rich vein of madness and hubris to exhaustively exploit, employ and enjoy watching them do self-destructive battle in current future challenges presently designed to defeat them at every readily made available opportunity.
It’s a heavenly gift that just keeps on giving, and it cannot stop itself. The gazillion dollar question then presents itself to a certain mix of Greater IntelAIgent Game Players and they would be asking of themselves ..... Do we want to stop it or are we enjoying the mayhem and chaos too much and be quite content to have the spectacular disgraceful debacle continue on apace further into the darkness of those freely chosen by absent-minded text-spewing robots/badly and inadequately programmed human spaces ‽ .
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Sunday 12th November 2023 09:40 GMT JamesTGrant
Source?
I’d be genuinely interested in the source of the data which caused the AI is cutting cloud migration costs - coz I suspect it’s data which the speaker is using ‘creatively’.
I’ve a formula, take a known pain point that executes understand enough to talk about (cloud-costs in this case). Take the new thing that they don’t, but feel like they should, combine them - presto. Only works if you deliver confidently, even if it’s total nonsense - like the article.
To see the current state of’AI’ - ask gtp to construct a jq query with more than one selection criteria.
BTW - I think GTP-3.5 and 4 are fantastic tools which I use everyday, brilliant for discovering methodology or for suggesting functions which I’d not considered, excellent at ‘what does this code do’ questions.