LLMs are being lauded for providing a lot of benefits, many of which were evolving anyway. No doubt the new level of investment has driven faster and deeper use of the technology for many beneficial and some malign purposes. However, I have no doubt this ānew greatest thingā will also implode, as have all NGTs Iāve seen in the forty plus years Iāve been a participant and latterly an observer in the industry. 
Johnā¦whatās an NGT please?
(Three letter acronyms always baffled meā¦) 
Now if youād asked about NFTs, youād have had me 
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One never hears of blockchain these days, yet it was the latest, greatest thing only a few years ago. LLMs too will be commoditised and subsumed into the wide, wide world of IT. DeepSeek has already pricked the balloon. Another tulip bulb moment for the Industry. 
And for those like me who were baffled by the first acronym, LLMs are āLarge Language Modelsā.
A bit like Naomi Campbell but curvier and more chatty. 
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Yeah, basically the dictionary AI uses to churn stuff outā¦ kind of.
All just IT under another name just as the current popular fad called an Air Fryer isā¦ an oven.
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Bob Mortimer thinks AI is a road that takes him to Edinburgh
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Totally agree, AI = a bit of swanky coding, Cloud services = somewhere in a data centre, hopefully backed up 
, Big data = lots of data sitting on a series of storage devices, on-prem = in your data centre, off-prem = sitting in someone elseās data centre, hopefully backed up , outsourced = paying someone else that the chief technology officer can blame when it all goes tits up or the data is stolen by some 14 year olds in China
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I was that soldier 
I prefer to call it āusing someone elseās computerā when explaining to non-techies. It properly brings it home.
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Marvellous abuse from users on the MS help site about their shitty AI product. Thereās a ton of it Good old MS, same lousy development ethos as in 1985. There is now a button in Word Preferences on my Macs, but it looks like it was plonked in there in a panic 
Canāt find a button in Excel, maybe in the next release But it does have a button to produce gay spreadsheetsā:thinking:
this does not work. why does microsoft keep posting the same answer? iāve done it all. all of it. iāve turned off āconnected experiencesā and still the stupid unwanted unasked for ācopilotā is there in word. doesnāt matter about restarts or reinstalling or anything.
youāve created an intellectually vacuous product that should be optional if someone needs AI to write something for them. every thinking person, writer, student, lecturer, poet, artist, person who wants to journal or write their own thoughts should not have to keep asking for detailed instructions to disable the damn thing that they didnāt want.
if you genuinely were responsive to feedback youād add in a disable button. but you donāt. you just keep posting the same rubbish responses that do not work. imagine any other service - you go to a dr or a lawyer or buy an ice-cream and itās not what you purchased. they they try to charge you more to solve the issue, or otherwise provide pages of meaningless instructions about how you can do something yourself, or wind back a version of the advice provided or the product bought. perhaps you could try to separate the cream and the eggs or the wheat from the other ingredients to make a cone. sound like madness and an impossibility? it is. just like what youāve created.
i note ironically that the damn co-pilot doesnāt come on when iām typing this response. why? because you donāt want to use your own AI algorithm of complaints - they must be endless based on these comments alone in this forum, to say nothing of other forums.
so, will you create a disable feature or failing that, withdraw the upgrade and ask people to opt-in if they want it?
otherwise, how can I and hundreds of thousands of other people disable this unwanted dumb āfeatureā that you have imposed on us? and please for the love of god donāt just reply with the same useless unhelpful info that does not resolve this mess youāve created.
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Not sure what they are, but Iām sure Trump will soon put a stop to them 
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L+G-B/T*Q=
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I think there might be a few more for the complete equationā¦
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Quite common for some of the people I knew
I received 3 documents from the notaire for filling in and signing but could only print off 2 of them, in PDF.
But the 3rd required Word and whatever I did I couldnāt print. At one point I got to MS and they wanted to sell it to me, just to print one doc. My friend Eddie said put it on a memory stick and bring it to me and Iāll print it for you. I did that but then found I could print it myself from there.
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In case it happens again you can get free software that will read and write Word documents, such as OpenOffice or LibreOffice
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I have already got LO, have used it to set up my spreadsheets and also some writing files, but for some reason I failed to work out how to use it with this doc.
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