Imagine having the aussies at 80-4 and chucking it away....

Went for dinner at my parents the other day and my 7 year old niece piped up and said "can I tell a joke" so we all prepped ourselves for a terrible joke, fake laugh etc etc. 

Anyway it had us in absolute stitches coming from a 7 year old.

Why do pumps smell? 

For the benefit of the deaf 

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2023/7/2/working-with-ai?utm_source=tldrai

Fantastic read and perfectly articulates what AI will do and its impact on jobs etc

25 minutes ago, Ewood Ace said:

If you were attempting a run though you would be run out. Bairstow was stumped.

That's what I said. If you're attempting a run or batting out you're crease then fair enough but bairstow was doing neither. 

To me it's the same as in football not giving the ball back from a throw in after its been put out for an injury and then going on to score. 

It's bad whoever does it. If we've done it before then we've no right to complain but it's still poor form. For me if you come out of your crease as part of your batting action or in an attempt to get a run then you're fair game for a stumping but if you're doing neither of those things it's a bit poor. 

That other clip posted of de grandwhathisface, I'd say is very different as he's down on his knees batting and has to come out of his crease to stand up. It's a different situation entirely, not saying it's right but they're very different. 

1 hour ago, Ianrally said:

I agree that results show that they are a better team than us, and also we should “fight fire with fire”. 
I thought the correct thing for Carey to have done was to warn Bairstow that if he kept walking out of his ground then he would stump him. Obviously the Aussies didn’t think that was required, fair enough. 
So when we come to the next test and Australia bat, Englands opening bowler runs in, and whips off the bails thereby stumping the backing up non striker, also not giving a prior warning. 
It’s  not in the spirit of the game but it is allowed in the laws of the game. Australia would have no complaints I presume.

That is certainly fighting fire with fire.

One thing I like about cricket is everyone (well most people) playing within the spirit of the game. That said, as a leveller it would be hilarious to see Warner sent back first ball because of this 

"In control" is subjective but I would have said if he's still falling he's not in control. Could he have turned round and passed the ball to someone stood next to him with out that ball touching the floor? Not a chance. 

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

4 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

the wife on her phone talking like the rest of the world is deaf.

🤣🤣🤣 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. 

12 hours ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

Those working in IT will gradually just put themselves out of work the more they embrace and become to rely on ai. Sadly i think the majority of them will end up the way of the miners... There will just be no use for them once it's realised that companies can now just have 1 person with the use of ai doing what a team of people currently do in the same amount of time

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

5 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

You're showing you have a bloody tediously boring job🤷 and likely live in a bit of an IT bubble

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. 

42 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

And that's why the countrys economy is going to 💩 since the lockdowns (although sheep will blame brexit🥱🥱) nobody actually wants to go out and work anymore, work ethic has gone out of the window. But hey as long as you're enjoying your life.... It's the kids and people from poorer backgrounds that will be left in the 💩 for decades to come

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...

22 hours ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

Jist briefly browsing through previous comments it seems its main use is to do peoples work for them because they're too lazy to use thier brain do it themselves 🤷 (seriously does nobody actually do a solid full weeks work anymore week in week out) 

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.