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If you want to move into AI, there’s no better time—it’s still in its infancy. Very few people know what they’re doing, and even fewer know what to expect. I reckon it’ll go something like this: big companies will solve all the general problems, and people will subscribe to an AI that attends to them like a call center or customer relationship management tool. I’ve already seen some cracking models for doing that, ones you can build yourself with AI.
But there’ll always be specialist use cases. I recently posted about putting a chip in a dog to let it speak! Then I got to thinking—how would you apply AI to training a dog? You could have a video system that watches the dog and rewards it when it does the right thing. The AI could communicate with the dog using a series of whistles—already done by sheep farmers all over the world.
I mentioned that as a semi-comical, semi-ludicrous idea, just to convey what I think could be possible, so you can match your AI skills to a customer. The beauty of AI programming is you can use an AI to write the Python scripts to program the AI! You just need the nous to understand what can go wrong and how to fix the problems. It brings your basic intuition and experience from access programming into a new arena without having to learn a whole programming language! I can’t see anything easier for a competent programmer to do. You’ve got to get in there, make the mistakes—and you will make some horrendous mistakes—and it takes time to spot them.
I’ve had previous experience of this when I moved from writing on the keyboard to using a transcription service. We all understand typos in typing, but there’s a different level of typo when you vocalize your words and have them converted to text. Again, that’s a learning process, and it doesn’t happen until you actually start doing transcription.
Same with AI—you’ll soon learn to spot when it’s swinging the lead, when it’s telling you what it thinks you want to know and not what you need to know. There are thousands of YouTube videos on the internet; the AI itself is fantastic at teaching you what you can do. It’s like having a top-grade university lecturer at your side—possibly a woke lecturer who’s amused when he leads you up the garden path!
But there’ll always be specialist use cases. I recently posted about putting a chip in a dog to let it speak! Then I got to thinking—how would you apply AI to training a dog? You could have a video system that watches the dog and rewards it when it does the right thing. The AI could communicate with the dog using a series of whistles—already done by sheep farmers all over the world.
I mentioned that as a semi-comical, semi-ludicrous idea, just to convey what I think could be possible, so you can match your AI skills to a customer. The beauty of AI programming is you can use an AI to write the Python scripts to program the AI! You just need the nous to understand what can go wrong and how to fix the problems. It brings your basic intuition and experience from access programming into a new arena without having to learn a whole programming language! I can’t see anything easier for a competent programmer to do. You’ve got to get in there, make the mistakes—and you will make some horrendous mistakes—and it takes time to spot them.
I’ve had previous experience of this when I moved from writing on the keyboard to using a transcription service. We all understand typos in typing, but there’s a different level of typo when you vocalize your words and have them converted to text. Again, that’s a learning process, and it doesn’t happen until you actually start doing transcription.
Same with AI—you’ll soon learn to spot when it’s swinging the lead, when it’s telling you what it thinks you want to know and not what you need to know. There are thousands of YouTube videos on the internet; the AI itself is fantastic at teaching you what you can do. It’s like having a top-grade university lecturer at your side—possibly a woke lecturer who’s amused when he leads you up the garden path!
