Want a job? Just put 'AI skills' on your resume For job seekers wondering which AI skills to bone up on, the answer appears to be simple based on a look at the past year of employment data: Just learn to use it. CompTIA's yearly Cyberstates workforce report was published Monday. Along with a whole bunch of juicy job data, it includes evidence that when it comes to finding …
I've got just about half a century of AI experience, and hold a degree from SAIL to prove it.
No, I have no interest is scripting ChatGPT (or whatever) to produce feelthy pictures or smutty stories, not even for 50K/year.
I don't need their help writing bunk code, either ... I can do that all by myself, TYVM :-)
> And we all know that who has the most tools wins!
He sighed and opened the black box and took out his rings and slipped them on. Another box held a set of knives of Klatchian steel, their blades darkened with lamp black. Various cunning and intricate devices were taken from velvet bags and dropped into pockets. A couple of long-bladed throwing tlingo's were slipped into their sheaths inside his boots. A thin silk line and folding grapnel were wound around his waist, over the chain-mail shirt. A blowpipe was attached to its leather thong and dropped down his back under his cloak; Teppic pocketed a slim tin container with an assortment of darts, their tips corked and their stems braille-coded for ease of selection in the dark.
He winced, checked the blade of his rapier and slung the baldric over his right shoulder, to balance the bag of lead slingshot ammunition. As an afterthought he opened his sock drawer and took a pistol crossbow, a flask of oil, a roll of lockpicks and, after some consideration, a punch dagger, a bag of assorted caltraps and a set of brass knuckles.
Teppic picked up his hat and checked its lining for the coil of cheesewire. He placed it on his head at a jaunty angle, took a last satisfied look at himself in the mirror, turned on his heel and, very slowly, fell over.
("Pyramids", Pterry, of course)
About eight years ago my large animal Vet came in with a funny bit of advertising. This guy's in his second career, he became a Vet after 25 years as a DBA working for IBM. He knows I'm a computer guy, and thought I'd be amused. The ad was for a large animal veterinary practice management software package "NOW WITH AI!!!"
The Vet was laughing, and wondered how many times the company in question got Vets inquiring about their new Artificial Insemination package. Without a pause, I dialed the 800 number ... the answer was over 80% of calls! The guy on the other end wasn't amused when I suggested they fire their marketing genius and hire an AI expert ...
8 years later, they have dropped the artificial intelligence bit, and the artificial insemination bit is the most useful in the industry.
No. NO.
Look, when we tell marketers to stop saying things like “Our brand storytelling captivates audiences" we do NOT mean "go get ChatGPT to invent something worse"!
At least do us the courtesy of using human[1]-created verbiage to viralise your omnichannel leveraging of low-hanging customer-centric narratives.
[1] well, humanoid
There are no skills involved in using AI so there's nothing to be found out on.
"I am very skilled actually, check out these prompts I typed!" Great, now get deterministic results. Get the AI to generate the same image but move the big castle to the other side. Get it to generate video where the same character is recognisable in two different shots. Get it to respond to customers in a way that only offers things it can do and doesn't leak their personal data or our private information either accidentally or when a malicious user interacts with it.
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