AI

In ordinary language, we frequently speak of machinery or ideas ‘doing’ things in our lives. But they do nothing. People – human persons – produce, operate and apply their creations. The problem with assigning agency, even informally, to the nonhuman is that this disguises the strength of human control, limited though it is in other respects. It... See more

AuthorityHacker surveyed 1,200 music consumers and got some striking results: 93% said they did not value AI-generated music as highly as music produced by humans. And, while over 60% said they would consider listening to AI music, some 56% also said they would not willingly pay for songs generated using AI. Perhaps most striking: 89% of those... See more

But the pleasant surprise: It has been enormously helpful in my attempts to resurrect and improve my rusty engineering knowledge, and level up my middle-aged forays into maker-ing things. The killer app for me is the ability to go deep in a domain for remedial learning. The most immediately helpful use-cases for me have been:

1. Getting back into

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For example, if you ask a model to “return all active users in the last 7 days” it might hallucinate a `is_active` column, join to an `activity` table that doesn’t exist, or potentially get the wrong date (especially in leap years!).

We previously talked to Shreya Rajpal at Guardrails AI, which also supports Text2SQL enforcement. Their approach was... See more