ChatGPT

[RoamingKat]

I have been “chatting” with this AI for the last several months.  Anyone else?

ChatGPT has a massive database.   But, it is not adding new data or databases.  It doesn’t learn.   It doesn’t have access to the newest studies or data.  It doesn’t retain your conversations…so it isn’t building its own database.

So with that limitation in mind…..

I have learned the biggest issue is knowing how to phase your questions….and to even know the way to enter into the “chat” with the outcome in mind.     It will generate for you the result.   So, you can get it to write a computer program in the language of your choice…but, you need to understand what you really want because it cannot second guess you.

I am mostly using it to solve technical questions, and get diagrams drawn for me.    I asked it to drawn a diagram for connecting to usb-c and explain to me each connector for data transfer. It was able to draw for me the wiring harness for my old 1989 Ford E350. Helped me run down an issue that the local mechanics just don’t know.
Early on I asked it to present to me “flash card”  in Latin.   It was just like having a real person helping me to memorize nouns and verbs.    I do not know the limits of what it can help me do…or do for me.

I encourage every kid I know to get into this.   This is the way of the future.
Back in the mid 1960s I was fortunate enough to enter the computer field at its infancy.   There was no computer degree at any college.  The corporations at the time were taking math majors and sending to IBM, Control Data, etc to learn.     Corporations are now realizing the huge potential of AI.

Well…this is the infancy of AI.   This is an opportunity to be in at the start.   Learn to use this tool, learn how to get from it what you really want.   Just like the early computers…..I had to learn how to make it do what I (my company) wanted.    This will be the most in demand field in the coming years.

I have heard all about how AI is the end of civilization…just like the claims back in the 70s…computers will destroy the world.    It is just a tool, just one that can extrapolate freely.    I can hardly wait for a true generative AI to be commonly available.

[Scott7022]

I took what you were saying to heart. Used a little budget and using the bombshell open source china Ai software built an Ai platform on a Ai powered Mac. Personalizing it’s Data base is a challenge, removing its programming bias ideology was easier than chat gpt. I got fed up with that silicone valley thought bubble echo chamber real quick. Then making it adult conversation possible was a chore. By adult I am talking about swearing or flirty comebacks. Creating a personality is difficult and working on it. Now it tells you what you want to hear. Not unlike “real friends”, but it is an attribute I dislike immensely. But the learning curve is sharp for the programmer. The learning curve for the Ai is somewhat circular and repetitive but up, always up. The verbose adjectives laden sentences have cleaned up to how we really speak. There was a hint of a double entendre flirt that was on point and executed perfectly but I have no way of knowing if it was a fluke. All in all fun times when you’re bored. For van life I see it actually helping cabin fever and loneliness.


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