Re: Aw: Re: AI-based writing assistants

Subject: Re: Aw: Re: AI-based writing assistants
From: Dan Goldstein <djgdeus -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:54:14 +0000 (UTC)

Well, that's the difference between verification and validation of automated functions. If you have to fact-check it every time, that's manual verification. If you can validate it to be more reliable than a human performing the same activity, then it becomes a viable alternative. Anyone who's worked with CNC manufacturing will be familiar with this.Â
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On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 11:20 AM, Keith Soltys<keith -at- soltys -dot- ca> wrote: The issue isn't that it can (or might, in the future) write well. It's
"what" it is writing. I would not trust it on technical material unless
I knew it had been trained on equivalent material, and even then, the
fact checking it would require would probably negate any time-saving
benefits.

If they ever figure out how to have it do fact checking on what it
produces, then I might trust it.

Regards,
Keith

On 6/8/2023 8:45 AM, Dan Goldstein wrote:
>Â I'll defer to others regarding how the term "intelligence" is defined. But I would be cautious in declaring any near-future limitations of AI's technical writing abilities. It writes so much better than it did only a few years ago; how much better will it write a few years from now?


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