You didn’t review your order before submitting, the fact that the customizations were missing was clearly visible before you agreed to purchase.

From a Customer Service perspective, they probably should have refunded(or remade) from the start, but you are not in the right here. You threatening legal action just makes you an ass.

That’s not a scam, that’s just a stupid computer system.

Scams are intentional.

I didn’t claim I won because of Genai, I won the contract while saving time by using genai.

That’s beneficial for me.

And it’s pretty disturbing that despite the absolutely massive avalanche of evidence that these tools have valid use cases that improve productivity, you’re pretending they dont.

I don’t care to argue, you keep ignoring them, I’m gonna keep making more money for less effort.

Depends on how you count.

I have four regular clients in post secondary education, local government, finance, and transportation.

Given that I’m doing work inside those companies, it could be argued I work in four different industries.

That being said, the tasks I do happen in almost every company larger than a handful of people.

Am I not in an industry when I do work?

I’m not the only freelancer I know using this and making more money.

GenAI isn’t meant to address every single situation, so it failing to address specific situations is perfectly normal.

I don’t know why anyone is doing generic worker studies when clearly half the people have been handed a hammer, when their job is cutting lumber. Of course it ain’t gonna fucking work for them.

Give people GenAI when their task is suited to GenAI, then do analysis on just those workers for just those tasks.

I never use GenAI to produce research documents, because it isn’t good at that yet. I tested it a few times, found the results lacking, and went back to doing it the way I was before.

I use GenAI to summarize my notes into Statements of Work for clients, because I tested that, and found the results excellent (and hours faster than me doing it the old way)

I use GenAI to create complex powerFx formulas, because again I tested that and it’s quite good and saves me time.

Well last time I did this, I won the contract and got paid.

I’ve used it for every contract I’ve had for the last year at least.

I’m a freelancer, I use it myself, I know it’s increased my productivity because I’m able to get more work done than I was doing before.

I think a lot of companies are trying to force it into jobs that it’s currently not suited to, but I can tell you that even today if things didn’t get any better than they currently are I’d keep running my local 14B parameter model to assist in the tasks that I’ve found it works well for.

I don’t use ChatGPT for this, I’m running a 14B parameter model locally.

It’s not about being foolproof, I know how to do this stuff myself, this just saves me time. I can look at it and know if it should work, then I test it, just like I would do if I wrote it myself.

It’s better than the documentation I write myself, it’s not like I don’t read over it and edit it before handing it to a client.

Plenty of examples out there.

I use it to write excel and Powerfx formulas, summarize my client notes for creating statements of work, and creating documentation. Saves me multiple hours per week and some weeks even more than that.

It’s not going to fall apart, genai tools are already increasing productivity in many industries.

Just because you haven’t seen any benefit doesn’t make it false.

Gmail data isn’t used for ai training.

You attempting to fuck with ai by yourself isn’t going to do anything.

The first argument is a non-starter, professions have come and gone for all of human history. Where did all the people who raised and trained horses go when cars came out? Where did all the people go who made buggies and coaches? What about people who lost their jobs to construction equipment like excavators? What about switchboard operators at telephone companies?

The economy will re-organize itself to adapt to the newly available labour. Don’t get me wrong, individuals are going to be absolutely devastated by this, but not replacing someone who’s doing a job that can be automated is no different than having them dig a ditch and fill it back in. It’s never a good idea to hold back technology just to keep jobs around. This path leads to the Amish.

Liability for accidents has already been sorted out for 100% autonomous cars, it’s the vehicle manufacturer’s fault. For most of the current ones on the road, they are modified existing vehicles, so the manufacturer would be said to be the self-driving company (like Waymo) though once the software is built in from the factory it will be on Ford or Nissan or whatever likely in partnership with a software vendor. They may insure themselves, but likely only against catastrophic situations rather than day-to-day accidents.

They are definitely considering cyberattacks.

The benefit to self-driving cars is self-evident though. There’s no argument that they wouldn’t be better than human drivers in theory. Not only for safety, but for traffic, parking, cost, etc.

The only thing holding them back a this point is refinement. They have already proven that in at least three cities, they are mile for mile safer than human driven vehicles.

Waymo has gone from 1 city, to 3, to now pushing out to 11 in a few years. I wouldn’t be surprised if it doubled 5 times again in the next 10 years. That would put it in just under 200 cities by 2035.

The first iPhone only sold a million units in the first year, but two years later there were 25 million iPhones and they hit the 200 million mark by year 5.

Your example about Netflix proved my point. Naysayers said it wouldn’t work, but they are now the leader.

I’m happy to wait and see, I fully expect them to arrive in my city in the next decade.

You’ve cast double on my links, but you’re clearly too young to actually remember these things happening. I’m not. I do remember lots of people laughing and dismissing all three as never going to be for normal consumers (I’m not old enough to remember them laughing at cars)

You’re also clearly not paying attention to this industry if you think Tesla is a leader. You’ve only caught what made the news in the UK.

Waymo is far and away the leader, having hundreds of cars driving around daily with nobody behind the steering wheel.

Mobileye(NA and Europe) and Baidu(China) are also actively driving around without drivers in certain places.

The only place Tesla has them fully autonomous is in the factory as far as I know.

Then the gang is going to have to take out both the self-driving car company AND the cellphone company at the same time. It’s not just one getting the data, and again it’s going to get noticed immediately if cars start going missing and data is being blocked. They may get ahold of a few dozen cars if they try to do it quickly, but they won’t get even hundreds.

The battery may worth something, but it’s a lot of effort to steal a car just to get a $15k battery. Criminal gangs aren’t stealing 5 year old Kia Niros for resale across the globe, they generally target vehicles worth 3-10x that much.

There’s no “source code” for self driving cars in the sense that a video game has source code. The cars have some normal code yes, but the self-driving portion is a trained machine learning model that is essentially a black box. It takes millions of compute hours on high end graphics cards along with millions of hours of driving data to generate a new version of that model. Stealing the existing driving model still won’t make it work in West Africa or the Middle East. Stealing the training data wouldn’t help get it driving there either, they’d have to collect millions of hours of local training data for each destination.

It would be easier for these gangs to start their own self-driving company.