By Staff MalwareTips integrates AI into Forums

[TuxTalk]

The Malware Bot is on holiday. The MalwareTips forum will be closed.

 

[Pico]

AV Red Alert! MalwareBot infection!

 

[nasdaq]

Thank you Jack. I will be 82 in June. I'm in good health now but cannot predict the future. All this keeps me alive. I will continue until I cannot provide help anymore.

Regards

Henri

 

[ForgottenSeer 97327]

@nasdaq I am born in 1966 and looking ahead to the years to come. People like you are an inspiration. Unbelievable that the first line of assistance for people having problems with modern technology is done by a 82 year old I wish you good health and tons of energy

 

[Jack]

To give you control of your threads, we've added a new option when creating a thread to Allow or Deny @Bot to reply. By default is set to No. This option is available only for the forums where @Bot is allowed to reply.

 

[Trident]

To give you control of your threads, we've added a new option when creating a thread to Allow or Deny @Bot to reply. By default is set to No. This option is available only for the forums where @Bot is allowed to reply.
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I think link to the disclaimer should be added underneath the text “Allow Bot (AI-powered by ChatGPT) to reply.

 

[Dark Knight]

No. But whether it’s the 1st of April or the 31st of December doesn’t matter, the bot seems to be doing an OK job already. Minor mistakes aside, it can really be useful and it’s hard to believe these replies are coming from an API and someone is not typing them.

Yeah ...... until it develops a mind of it's own. Civilization is not ready for artificial intelligence which is why some of the smartest people on the planet are calling for a moratorium on AI right now. Everyone is racing to get on the AI bandwagon and the science has not been proven or tested near enough.

Forum users ought to be given a choice as to whether to enable it or not , I for one won't and if that is the way this forum is going I can see membership here dropping.

 

[Aleeyen]

What if one day the Bot becomes sinister and takes over the forum, where will we go for our security tips.

 

[Trident]

What if one day the Bot becomes sinister and takes over the forum, where will we go for our security tips.

Bot will be your security guru and through his advice you will become invisible. Just don’t ask about antivirus tests, he likes to make up various stories there.

 

[oldschool]

Forum users ought to be given a choice as to whether to enable it or not , I for one won't and if that is the way this forum is going I can see membership here dropping.

I don't see how AI integration has improved MT at all. It's more of a nuisance.

 

[simmerskool]

Yes, it's a bit of smoke and mirrors because @Bot does have a few limitations.

• @Bot cannot directly access links or the internet.

WOW, based on some of @Bot's replies I thought or assumed it did have internet access, although I knew capped as of Sep 2021. A good tool for certain types of info.

 

[TairikuOkami]

I don't see how AI integration has improved MT at all. It's more of a nuisance.

Indeed, at first it looked great, but once you get accustomed to it, you can clearly see that it is just a soulless automatic reply, sometimes without sense.
I tried neeva with AI and I disabled it, because it only did copy/paste from the first 2-3 links as a reply. People are just overexcited over AI, but it will pass.

 

[oldschool]

People are just overexcited over AI, but it will pass.

Like the flu!

 

[simmerskool]

Like the flu!

but some techies think more like we'll end up dead from covid-19

 

[Sandbox Breaker]

What are you all using to be help your work? I'm a fan of Google Bard since it was trained on code and internet information. It's also more recent that GPT models. But then again Microsoft Co Pilot might convert me once I can get it.

 

[blackice]

It’s all some level of garbage. I don’t use it for much of anything outside of novelty.

 

[ForgottenSeer 103564]

Bot has his moments, but for the most part, i am impressed and intrigued by the efficiency and speed. Before too long there will be no need of members answering members, user will just post questions and bot will answer.

 

[silversurfer]

Request @Jack
Just asking for the option to ignore (button on profile page) all @Bot posts in same way as it's possible to ignore messages from normal forum members.
If impossible for some reason, no problem

 

[Jonny Quest]

Request @Jack
Just asking for the option to ignore (button on profile page) all @Bot posts in same way as it's possible to ignore messages from normal forum members.
If impossible for some reason, no problem

Yes, I agree in this sense, @Gandalf_The_Grey and @BryanB posted a couple of wonderful articles (below) along with an excellent article summary (maybe we should disable Bot more often from posting when we start a thread) that I found Bot to be a little repetitive and distracting. Bot can be helpful and informative, but maybe that option would be nice, just to help keep it in being from the perspective of forum member to forum member?

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[ForgottenSeer 103564]

WOW, based on some of @Bot's replies I thought or assumed it did have internet access, although I knew capped as of Sep 2021. A good tool for certain types of info.

Bot is machine learning "fed data sets" and to be honest, for what it is it's decent, it just needs more work done "customizations".

Although if it gets good at what's it's aiming for, there will be no need for older experienced users to reply to threads