AI - Artificial intelligence

They all are basically the same - Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot and Grok. Where they differ is their "persona" but the model behind them all is often the same. There may be tweaks as to how they process the info but it's minor. There's more specific AI tools for different jobs like image processing/creation and SW coding. Claude being the dogs dangly bits for the latter. Remember here though that the data is not always up to date, and what yer getting back is an interpretation of the data in the model. It makes what are essentially guesses on what you ask based on the billions of entries and the patterns in the text and does the same when regurgitating the answer back. They are getting more accurate all the time but will always be prone to hallucinations - it is, after all, a mathematical model trying to interpret and reply in an non mathematical way.

And AI isn't new. We did it in college in the early 2000s and some lads in the class done their dissertations on neural networks and other AI related topics back then. Even in the day job they had an AI product for managing infrastructure 10 years ago. Just now it's a buzz word, being fed money in a circular way with each company investing in the other.

As a personal project, I'm flat to the matt trying to reverse engineer some apps on my phone just for the craic and it's surprisingly good at it. Agentic AI is the next "big" thing where you'll hand over responsibility to an AI agent to do things for ya - be that menial mundane repeatable tasks or something like booking a holiday and it will book yer flights, hotels, car, restaurant reservations, etc, etc.

I've worked for American tech multinationals in various IT/Engineering roles for most of my career, worrying about them axing our jobs has always been an issue, every year for 18 years there was wave after wave of redundancies because of changes in technologies or just changes in the company's direction, mostly voluntary but always the threat of some compulsory too. I took a voluntary package eventually myself, which was the best thing I ever did and I'm much happier working for a smaller Irish company now. At least there is no more writing essays about how great I am to boost my performance based bonuses at the end of every year (although that must be interesting now that everyone probably lets AI do it).

Who is completely in the know? I suspect there is a rather large bubble to pop, but that won't end AI either.
It's not like the internet went away after the dot com bubble, there will be winners and losers for sure.

No apparently about it. It's managing subtitles on TV now too. Plus, channel 4 have trialled an ai program to create and display the sign language people in the corner