We all thought Dreams was going to have a spare Sunday looks like he's got his money worth

🤣🤣🤣 I i laugh because I relate to this so much!

Well that's not cricket

So again I don't know much about cricket but should openers not be scoring more than a bowler playing on one leg?

"the biggest investment anyone can make in their future career right now is understanding and mastering the basics of AI." Couldn't agree more with this. Blockchain, VR, AR etc you get away with passing you by but AI is essential. With this in mind - what would people recommend trying out? At the moment I've only used ChatGPT (free) and Bing on top of some background reading on AI but really feel like I'm only scratching the surface.

*sits in corner and waits for dinosaurs to arrive*

I can't see people losing jobs because of AI as such (certainly not I huge numbers) but I can see people not being replaced. If I can do my job twice as fast with AI then I have more capacity. If someone leaves my team of 4 then the remaining 3 will have more than enough capacity to divide up the leavers duties. At the moment I basically see it as similar to having a graduate work for you. You meed to give it specific prompts and double check the output but it really saves the ballaching mundane element of your job.

AI is coming whether we like it or not. Best thing to do is adapt and be the ones who can use it. It'll never replace a whole team but will reduce the size of a team (long term)

I'm not sure on timescales but I'm fairly certain in the next 6-12 months my work is going to rollout Microsoft copilot. I think it'll be really interesting to see the impact. There will be an element of people being lazy and you'll see some obviously AI generated work copy and pasted without being checked or tweaked but there will be others who will become 10x more productive as a result. There's a Microsfot teams plug in that I have a few concerns about. There'll need to be a behaviour shift from many in how they conduct themselves on Teams calls based on the features i saw demo'd

I'm a cleanshirt desk jockey yeah but that's the way the world is going. Out of interest what did / do you do? I bet that field has been made easier amd better at somepoint by new tools / technology / ways of working. That's all AI is, a new tool.

You should be measured by output not input. I embrace new technology and can therefore do jobs quicker than people who don't and to a better standard. AI is just another tool I use to do this. If I can do the same task to the same quality or better nuti can do it in 4 hours rather than 6, your logic would dictate I'm in the wrong. I watched over my colleagues shoulder as she painstakingly went down 100ish lines of data doing a manual calculation on her calculator and typing the number at the end of the row. After 5minutes and much pleading I jumped in, did a nested IF statement in less than 60 seconds and boom job done. An hours works done in 2 minutes. When Microsoft copilot rolls out I imagine it could be done in under 20 seconds. But my colleauge was showing fantastic work ethic working away in the stone age. Sorry but you're showing a really antiquated view of work. AI will revolutionise the workplace.

Yeah ironically AI would probably be quite good at passing the not a robot test. We could probably train it to be better than humans at it

Again with my limited cricket knowledge - purely mathematically, it seems that it might have been better if they were chasing 100 runs from the last 2 wickets rather than 50? The declaration would have only been a success if we'd taken a wicket or two that evening

Note that he didn't deny being a robot...

You say lazy like it's a bad thing. If there's someone not pulling their weight in the team then yeah that is bad but what's wrong with finding different, more streamlined ways of delivering the same output? if there weren't lazy people looking for shortcuts we'd all still be working in the fields. It's just another tool to use in your job to make tasks quicker and more effective. It's no different to farmers using machinery to harvest crops "are people too lazy to pick it all by hand these days". It helps me do jobs quicker and to a better quality, i still need to fact check it and use my knowledge / experience to turn it into something useable. The other day I had a query around power purchase agreements and leases - without AI that would have probably been a full mornings work as I could think of a few different areas I'd need to research. Within 30 seconds ChatGPT had given me all the areas I'd need to consider and a couple of others that wouldn't have crossed my mind. All in it took about an hour to turn something round to my boss.

Makes sense to play TAA in midfield. He's transitioning there with Liverpool and could be class in that position - why not give him a go there in a dead cert game. It's not really a defensive move as he's been widely criticised for his defensive abilities.

Very part time watcher of cricket so for the layman, why would we declare now with root still in and scoring on day 1? Is it to catch the aussie batsmen off guard? They wouldn't have been expecting to bat this evening and mentally clocked odd?

Finding it a real time saver when using excel. I'd sat I'm competent excel but there's loads I don't know. I'd used to Google something previously and spend ages trawling a load of answers that weren't relevant. Now I can ask the question as if I was talking to someone and get the exact answer I want. It even writes out the code / formula that I can copy straight in. Even quite complex formulas are 90% there and all I have to do is alter the cell references. Technical accounting queries, ChatGPT gives me a solid starting point of an answer as well pointers in terms of sources, relevant legislation etc. We're quite a techbophobic organisation so it's giving me a real edge in terms of speed and quality of work.

Be funny if city lost

35ish games short of premier league appearances record and physically has a season or 2 left in him. I don't think he'll be rushing into management. I do however think he will be a fantastic coach when he does retire

Ideally it would be part of a 3 man midfield with some physical beast behind JRC and Wharton. I think that could be mouthwatering.

https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2023/04/chatgpt-just-failed-this-accounting-exam.html?m=1 I can sit easy for now. ChatGPT does seem to be really bad for accounting in comparison to other areas. The article talks ChatGPT struggling with advanced maths but accounting isn't advanced maths, it's basic arithmetic (apart from some the corporate finance / stock market stuff but that's a tiny % of the qualification). The challenge is knowing which numbers to add up which is dictated by the accounting standards which is just a big wordy document. Given it passed the Bar exam it should make light work of accounting standards. One other quirk is that it gets Credits and Debits mixed up. I think this will partly be because most people talk about crediting a bank account meaning an increase in money however accounting from the business point of view, crediting the bank is a decrease in money. Just shows that ChatGPT is only as good as the information already out there and as we know there's a lot of bullshit and misconceptions on the Internet

I feel better than a lot of other seasons. We go into the summer with something to build on rather than having to rebuild the squad. We've gone into previous windows just needing bodies through the door as a minimum. Now there's an expectation that we need to add quality not just quantity, the bar is already higher under the current regime than the last

Missed the play offs on goal difference, no one would have predicted that 11 months ago but its a disappointing end to the season given how many points clear we were at one point. A goal scorer and we were comfortably in the play offs this season. The squad isn't a million miles away, add some quality this summer and we'll be there next season. Is that they closest we've come to the play offs since we came down from prem?

Obviously I don't know how but assessments should be designed with AI in mind. Children of today will be spend their professional careers working alongside AI. Rather than creating tools to detect and prevent it's use, design assessments that embraces it. I don't remember as I was just a kid at the time but what impact did the explosion of the Internet have? Suddenly kids had easy access to a wealth of knowledge on the world wide web where they could simply search for answers. It surely posed a similar headache but we soon embraced into the education sector.