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The Weekly: Being Obviously Wrong
… also in this issue: life of legos and eggs, a brief crosspost, and a nagging question. Being obviously wrong, i.e., in a manner that is obvious and clear, can be a strength for automated systems. Because when a machine breaks — digital or mechanical — with a lot of sound and drama, it becomes…
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The Weekly: Language is not Math
… and more from this edition of the Weekly. Counting and numbers as concepts strike me as different from words and language. This became obvious to me when I saw my toddler learning how to speak and count. We may assign words and language to numbers, but the abstract ideas of counting and arithmetic do…
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Midjourney and Bing 2023/09/30: A farmer in space looking over his crops
Midjourney Prompt: /imagine a farmer in space, looking over his crops, the crops are growing inside a futuristic spaceship. Futuristic, sci-fi, digital art, hyper detailed. Bing Prompt: Generate an image of a farmer in space, looking over his crops, the crops are growing inside a futuristic spaceship. Futuristic, sci-fi, digital art, hyper detailed. A “Days…
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Spatial Computing does not scare me. Artificial Intelligence does.
The past six to eight months have been a study in contrasts, in tech. Roughly eight months ago (may have been earlier), OpenAI put out a simple looking demo, backed by incredible engineering and technology, but little to no product finesse. ChatGPT was a roaring success. It heralded a new age in AI, a new…
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Productivity gains swing both ways
Productivity gains that we make with technology, apply to both good and bad actors of this world. I was watching Skyfall yesterday. It is my favorite Bond movie. I love the scene when M quotes Tennyson to a Parliamentary hearing, while fending off questions about the relevance of the double-O section. It is a well…
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A (pithy) case for skipping GenAI while composing emails
When the goal is communicating or collaborating with another human to get something done, I suspect that nothing will substitute the manual acts of reading and writing (pithy?) emails. Think about that for a moment … are we really going to automate away the acts of reading and writing to machines? And whatever happens to…
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AI Poetry Slam: Chuck
Welcome to Poetry Slams on Winter Rant! Today’s LLMs [↪]: GPT 4 on chat.openai.com GPT 3.5 on chat.openai.com Google Bard Microsoft Bing on Edge Prompt: Write a poem with rhymes for the following title: "Chuck" GPT4 In a town where the laughter and cheers would abound, A jester named Chuck would oft be found, A…
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AI Poetry Slam: The Different Infinities
Welcome to Poetry Slams on Winter Rant! Today’s Large Language Models: GPT 4 on chat.openai.com GPT 3.5 on chat.openai.com Google Bard Microsoft Bing on Edge Prompt: Write a poem with rhymes for the following title: "The Different Infinities" Results: GPT4: In the vast expanse of the cosmos untold, Lies a secret that whispers, a story…
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AI Poetry Slam: A Writer’s Block
Welcome to Poetry Slams on Winter Rant! Today’s Large Language Models: GPT 4 on chat.openai.com GPT 3.5 on chat.openai.com Google Bard Microsoft Bing on Edge Prompt: Write a poem with rhymes for the following title: "A Writer’s Block" Results: GPT 4: In the realm of the scribe, a shadow looms near, A presence that’s haunting,…
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AI Poetry Slam: Right on Red
Welcome to Poetry Slams on Winter Rant! Today’s Models: GPT 4 (chat.openai.com) GPT 3.5 (chat.openai.com) Edge Bing Chat Google Bard Prompt: Write a poem with rhymes for the following title: “Right on Red” Results GPT4 GPT 3.5 Bing Bard In a city of hustle, where traffic ignites, A rule is remembered, through days and through…
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