ChatGPT

[seebs]

i'm not even convinced either way on the training-data thing, like, if you had a human read everything on the internet and learn things from it, that's obviously fair use, and it's not instantly obvious that "use it to do this with a different structure of brain" has to be different.

i do think there's a lot of stuff that's just utter garbage being done with these, but at the same time, i think that if you look at the good end of things, and what those models can do, it seems pretty obvious they're actually very useful and potentially valuable -- just not in the ways that naive management consultants want them to be.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Not sure what to say about this one: inTouch

[Crumb]

Wow.

[specious_reasons]

Mom wouldn't voluntarily talk to me on the phone half the time, and I can't imagine the horrors she'd unleash on me and the AI if I signed her up for this.

[specious_reasons]

Why is she staring at me while eating?

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This is almost creepier than an AI program that calls your parents.

[Ensign Steve]

I'm using ChatGPT to update my resume. It's pretty great so far. I don't know if I'm a decent "prompt engineer" or whatever, but I'm like: "Here's my last resume. Here's what I have been doing since last it was updated. Here's the description of the job I'm currently interested in. Do your thing!" Not in those exact words, but with about that level of complexity and finesse.

It's pretty great! It's nowhere near perfect, but it uses far less emotional and mental labor than doing it myself. It mostly just looks like boilerplate resume bullshit, but it's customized to me and the job, so what more could you want for a document that people famously read for zero to 10 seconds?

I've read stuff on LinkedIn about how there are going to be tools to detect whether people's resumes are GPT-generated or assisted, and it's like, who cares? I work in an industry that threatens to drum you out if you don't adopt and master this tech immediately (hey, remember crypto?!), so let them figure that out I guess.

[seebs]

Introducing the analysis tool in Claude.ai \ Anthropic

claude got shiny new features (plural, actually), and one of them is it can now write, and run, little javascript programs to do math. i asked it what 2^53+1 is because i'm like that, and i was impressed by the answer i got.

[specious_reasons]

Phil Plait has a newsletter, and he had this amusing little tidbit.

This is a AI generated "documentary" about Art Garfunkel, with an unusual cameo.

If you don't want to give this views, it's a video-only clip of Phil Plait talking while the AI narrator drones on about Garfunkel. The clip after it is James Cordon and Bryan Cranston in a Simon and Garfunkel sketch.

[JoeP]

Hospitals adopt error-prone AI transcription tools despite warnings - Ars Technica

In one case from the study cited by AP, when a speaker described "two other girls and one lady," Whisper added fictional text specifying that they "were Black." In another, the audio said, "He, the boy, was going to, I’m not sure exactly, take the umbrella." Whisper transcribed it to, "He took a big piece of a cross, a teeny, small piece ... I’m sure he didn’t have a terror knife so he killed a number of people."