I figured because AI is taking over or impacting every aspect of our world. We can share articles, tools we are using, technology that is coming and anything else related.
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Today, I got see a pretty cool demo of a new tool we built in house. Not only can a verbalize what I want to see...example, build me a dashboard that contains trending charts, using data x over period to period and it did it. I was also able to able to sketch out how I wanted it to look format wise, scan it, and it built it using my chicken scratch. I have to admit it was pretty amazing. That's something it would have taken me hours and hours and hours to build in the past.
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I hope they invest more in their home AI products. Alexa is still one of the dumbest AI's IMO on the market. We have some Alexa products and they don't hold a candle to ChatGPT, MS Copilot for example.
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Amazon to invest up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing infrastructure for US government agencies
Federal agencies will gain access to Amazon SageMaker AI, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova among other AI services from AWS.
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Study shows AI has already replaced nearly 12% of workforce.
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This industry is coming if we like it or not. I was at a conference and spoke to a guy working at a startup company right here that has not gone public yet. They are working on something similar that uses all your photos, stories, and video to recreate AI versions of your deceased loved ones that you can interact with on any device.
Feels like an episode of Black Mirror waiting to happen. The tough thing is, my niece who passed away, I could see her father doing something like this to help fill the grand canyon void he has had this past couple years.
Feels like an episode of Black Mirror waiting to happen. The tough thing is, my niece who passed away, I could see her father doing something like this to help fill the grand canyon void he has had this past couple years.
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A couple apps are available already:
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My wife answers phones and helps callers who call in to ASU (basically a Help Desk). There has been talk for years about AI taking over these jobs eventually. Well, now she is seeing it firsthand. They have AI involved in their workplace and the ironic part, as it is with many jobs, is that the current employees and training and correcting any mistakes made by AI as they work. They are daily improving the AI that will eventually replace them.
She has enjoyed creating some things with the use of AI although she used to fear it and worry about her impending job loss, but now she is embracing it and already looking towards her early retirement. She has worked there for nearly 30 years, and she'd like to retire even though she is younger than me.
She has enjoyed creating some things with the use of AI although she used to fear it and worry about her impending job loss, but now she is embracing it and already looking towards her early retirement. She has worked there for nearly 30 years, and she'd like to retire even though she is younger than me.
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I hope they invest more in their home AI products. Alexa is still one of the dumbest AI's IMO on the market. We have some Alexa products and they don't hold a candle to ChatGPT, MS Copilot for example.
Amazon to invest up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing infrastructure for US government agencies
Federal agencies will gain access to Amazon SageMaker AI, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova among other AI services from AWS.
I was going to try out Alexa on my phone to see how it worked.
After downloading the App, for some reason I never could get it to start a new account, accept my email address or phone number. I was mainly interested in it for music and reading.
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We’re all screwed.
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Do you have Amazon Prime by chance? I think you can use that sign in.
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No, I do not have a Prime account. I only order from Amazon perhaps a half dozen times a year. Read that you can still get it if one has the App, which I was able to do.
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The Amazon Prime app uses Ai now and frankly drives me nuts. It's constantly recommending the wrong size for me when I buy something. It will say based on your prior buying history and then recommend a size 7 shoe when I buy the 9.5 extra wide. It took me 4 tries today to delete some from my shopping cart. It just kept adding it back like "what's the matter Dave. Buy the cereal Dave. Are you going to unplug me Dave."
I posted it on the Cards board at the time I was researching the number of RB's picked in the first 2 rounds over like 3 or 4 years and Gemini gave me the wrong answer every time. it kept omitting Jeanty the Raiders pick.
I posted it on the Cards board at the time I was researching the number of RB's picked in the first 2 rounds over like 3 or 4 years and Gemini gave me the wrong answer every time. it kept omitting Jeanty the Raiders pick.
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Yeah, the Alexa AI has a lot of problems just playing music. Much more than I used to have before they did the upgrade,.
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I have had some Alexa products for years. It seems extremely dumb compared to new AI tools so not shocked they are having issues. It’s like the leaped ahead with Alexa products then put it aside. Now they are playing catchup.
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Holy crap. I just got to see an expense report on the amount of money we spent over the last 6 months hoarding components like RAM for our AI data centers. Holy hell. No wonder server/PC component prices have skyrocketed because we have not been the only ones doing it.
I just updated my Home Media server adding 4 new 8TB drives but waited until there was a sale to do it. Saved me about $200 bucks or I wouldn't have done it otherwise. The prices are ridiculous and skyrocketing. We just received a pricing sheet from a vendor and some components have gone up 30% and we are being told it could go higher.
Yikes!
I just updated my Home Media server adding 4 new 8TB drives but waited until there was a sale to do it. Saved me about $200 bucks or I wouldn't have done it otherwise. The prices are ridiculous and skyrocketing. We just received a pricing sheet from a vendor and some components have gone up 30% and we are being told it could go higher.
Yikes!
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Another example with it. I'm using the online Turbo tax to do a mock return. I have to get mine done professionally but I'm doing it as a mock just to have an idea what I'll get. The online version is AI "powered" and quite different than the desktop version.
The good: you can quite easily upload docs if you have a PDF of it on your computer you just upload and it takes the information. The bad: it is TERRIBLE at doing it. I had one document where it insisted the amount in box XX is incorrect it can't be higher than the total amount of the distribution. When I checked, it had taken the tax ID # of Vanguard and put it in a box where a dollar amount goes. Different document it said the zipcode was incorrect, it had taken a WI for Wisconsin and recorded it as TX for Texas and was telling me there was no such zip in Texas.
I haven't used the desktop version for this year it may in fact have the same AI interface if it does probably the same results. But if you use Turbo Tax be aware I've only uploaded 6 documents to it and it made errors on 4 of the 6. I can't recall the last time just normal Turbo Tax made an error with me uploading. I didn't just connect directly because I had a soft copy of the docs on my desktop already so maybe it's better if you let it do it that way.
I guess to be fair I'm assuming the problem is the AI not just Turbo Tax because it's always worked well before
The good: you can quite easily upload docs if you have a PDF of it on your computer you just upload and it takes the information. The bad: it is TERRIBLE at doing it. I had one document where it insisted the amount in box XX is incorrect it can't be higher than the total amount of the distribution. When I checked, it had taken the tax ID # of Vanguard and put it in a box where a dollar amount goes. Different document it said the zipcode was incorrect, it had taken a WI for Wisconsin and recorded it as TX for Texas and was telling me there was no such zip in Texas.
I haven't used the desktop version for this year it may in fact have the same AI interface if it does probably the same results. But if you use Turbo Tax be aware I've only uploaded 6 documents to it and it made errors on 4 of the 6. I can't recall the last time just normal Turbo Tax made an error with me uploading. I didn't just connect directly because I had a soft copy of the docs on my desktop already so maybe it's better if you let it do it that way.
I guess to be fair I'm assuming the problem is the AI not just Turbo Tax because it's always worked well before
32TB??? Did you download Pornhub or something??
He said adding, not that that was total…
But that's really not that much for a media server. I'm running more than double that in mine. Ripping 4k discs takes up a bit of space.
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LOL. No. It is a family server. If you run things in redundancy (Raid), and also have a ton of 4K content, which is a space hog if you use lossless, that takes a ton of space.
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I just got word our entire division will be fighting for it's life in 2026. They are looking for AI to take over many jobs that are focused on analytics, processes and positions like "Scrum Masters". One of our other divisions didn't lay them off but announced they are phasing out the position. Meaning as people leave they won't back fill and anybody that remains will be "transitioned" to new roles. This is the most worried I have been about my job since 2007-2009 time frame. I honestly don't know if I will survive this one. I have started reaching out for opportunities for the first time in almost 2 decades. Many of my peers are in pure panic mode and doing the same. Looks like that will be the trend in 2026.
Man hope this impacts you to the littlest degree and wishing you the best of luck to land on solid ground.
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Appreciate it. I am trying to take some additional AI training while I can. If you can’t beat em and all.
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This is the way, Covert. Unfortunately. We’re living in adapt or die times, at what looks like an exponential rate with AI. Good luck man.
what in THE hell??? 
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