ANI - this is what we currently call “AI” in the hyped sense with several related variants … it’s not what I would consider real AI (see below)

AGI - ability to learn and reason and apply to new tasks (on the same level as humans) - theoretical and doesn’t exist yet (or we haven’t encountered it).

ASI - super intelligence (the stuff you see in movies) and intelligence that is far beyond human functioning (this would be the one we might need to fear or maybe not) - again theoretical and doesn’t exist yet (or we haven’t encountered it).

Having used ANI in my daily workflow my experience so far:

1.  JetBrains ReSharper with AI Assist - Works reasonably well with coding (more accurate) … better than CoPilot.  This has saved me time in coding and has helped prevent some coding errors in early passes.

2.  CoPilot - can rewrite some of my emails to be very “friendly”, however, it misses on subtle context that is intended to be “firm” or establish leverage.

3.  Google AI Overview (aka Gemini models) started out reasonably good with 70% accuracy, but as the training has progressed the accuracy has actually declined to about 50%.

4.  ChatGPT - written content is too generic and defuses content that needs to be specific.  For image recognition it was about 30%, maybe I just don’t do a lot of “common” image subjects … but often images I take with my cameras are not identified accurately or once again back to “generic” like “large animal” rather than the specific animal in the image.

5.  Running AI locally on older videos to improve image quality (using Topaz Video which limits to one model local or pay AI credits to do remote server processing as they will not make other AI models available locally even though one may have sufficient processing power) is mostly a failure with a few exceptions (does better with B&W).  In most cases the video loses color range during denoise (can add in as grain but that sorta defeats the point).  Converting B&W footage to color is horrendous, still need to do frame by frame colorization to get it right from an established palette based on actual color stills that one can find or from those people still alive and can remember (few).

6.  Using AI in Photoshop, can work reasonably well but costs of “Generative Credits” is not worth the results.

7.  Medical field - 2nd hand experience provided from a brain surgeon I know, she indicated that AI (some proprietary system) was able to cut down her research from 8 hours down to about 2-3 hours.

8.  iPhone/Siri — about 60% accuracy and sometimes useful (hands free chat in car, etc.)  … biggest challenge is how to get OUT of it’s listening mode.

So ANI can be helpful, it’s NOT a game changer for me and has sometimes led me down the wrong path but it’s not something I would “pay as I go” with possibly the exception of JetBrains ReSharper.

I’ve not used voice AI in MSFS but would be interested in others findings/results on accuracy and usefulness.  I had vocal cord surgery from years ago which has left me less than clear so that tends to trip up AI voice recognition.

As far as commercial interests in AI, I mistrust the corporate hype based on my actual usage experience.  I don’t believe ANI is a “game changer” that it’s being hyped it up to be.  What these companies seem to be doing is trying to centralize all computing so they can “charge” for it (everyone basically becomes a thin-client) … by streaming games or establish AI tht can only be process on “their” servers by the purchase of AI credits.  What nVidia and others are doing is forcing a market shortage by consuming hardware that isn’t being utilized (many empty racks at data centers) but does inflate prices of RAM, GPUs, PSU, etc. in order to reduce the affordability for home users ensuring a future “pay as you go” sales for games/AI etc.  The US federal government seems word not allowed or ill equipped or just cashing in on the “control” these companies are establishing (probably all 3).

Would be interested to hear how AI has helped or hinder others.

Rob.

 

This corporate practice is illegal and isn’t being stopped.