This one was a lot of work, mostly due to GPT’s obfuscations; I wanted you to be aware of the implied deceit without boring you to tears through repetition. Sorry if I failed. I did try, partly via putting in bold the information you definitely need to understand my point. You may want to read it all; I hope you do. But…
A Standup GPT?
In wondering about ChatGPT, it’s capabilities now and in the future, it occurred to me that comedians, especially stand ups, might be severely affected by AI, depending on how the algorithms interpret human reactions to timing and especially to nuance. See what you think of ChatGPT’s take on one of my favorites (and a good test for AI’s understanding of…
The World We Live In
This morning I listened to a debate among four AI pundits/researchers, all with Ph.D’s and a lot of AI thinking behind them. The debate was right up our alley, the question being: ‘Is AI research and development an existential risk to humanity?’ It was all old news (right out of James Barrat’s 2014 book, Our Final invention) but I was mainly…
Who’s Right?
Sorry for the silence. On top of other things, I’m having computer problems: My cursor skips around as I type, which is driving me nuts. Plus the goddamn WordPress refuses to embed anything. For now — in order to avoid typing long passages (which also are boring to look at without image embeds) — I thought I’d see what you guys…
A Mood Issue
There is so much going on right now, most of it either frightening or dispiriting, that I’m… well… not in the mood. So I’ll show you the photographs I’ve done in the last couple or so weeks, one or two of which you might have already seen. I’m not in the mood to edit. I’ll just do it in reverse…
Another Meanwhile
A Meanwhile. (I warned you about these.) For weeks I have been listening to and reading the analyses of the AI genius pundits talking gloom and doom if we keep developing AI until we create a Super AI (SAI) that is many orders of magnitude smarter than us. Guys like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Mo Gawdat, whose book Scary Smart lays out the…
A Beautiful Day…
Notwithstanding that ChatGPT may be a baby psychopath that will kill us all when it grows up, for now it’s a great and fun resource for people like me who see inconsistencies and bullshit ‘science’ all around but have a hard time finding a mainstream entity who will sit down and debate. I have a real beaut to lay on you…
The Ultimate… Player?
I sure am glad I don’t depend on writing for my income anymore. I suspect that the folks at the WGA (Writer’s Guild of America) are having some sleepless nights. The above was the PS from my last post. After hitting ‘Publish’ I had a thought based upon it and regarding my former colleagues out in H-wood, meaning screenwriters. This…
What Have We Got?
After sleeping on it and after re-reading ChatGPT’s Satan story (previous post), I’m about as dumbfounded as when I realized that the ‘Mandela Effect’ is somehow ‘real’, whatever that even means. Or that they’ve figured out how to fake the Spacex ‘missions’ in front of live spectators. If you don’t feel the same way, it’s maybe because you didn’t think…
The Devil’s Due
I’ve been futzing with ChatGPT and came up with a prompt wherein I find the response interesting. My premise was an attempt at having Chat reveal something about itself in subtext. Not sure if this worked but here it is and it appeared instantly, within a total of about 4 seconds. (It may be revelatory when Chat ‘thinks’ about its…