ChatGPT

[Popeye_Card]

AI has learned the most important lesson of all. It doesn't matter if you are wrong or right. Just be specific and confident, and everyone will believe you.

[ghostrunner]

AI has learned the most important lesson of all. It doesn't matter if you are wrong or right. Just be specific and confident, and everyone will believe you.

Lol. I almost typed something similar to that.

[BottenFieldofDreams]

An unsettling thought occurred to me. Is AI going to use IP addresses and known logins and cookies and histories to scrape the web for every [expletive] -y thing I've said? It would be damning. I wouldn't care, except it would be a really slanted image of me. As I've so often come to the web to scream into the void, especially before I developed more understanding of myself and tools for wellness and release (still so far from zen, to be sure).

Some guy in the final stages of terminal cancer is training an AI to talk to his loved ones. It's very sweet if it goes well. But if this is done with my online body of work, that bot is going to be a real ahole.

[BottenFieldofDreams]

Oh weird, OpenAI wants to be for profit now. Who could have guessed? …besides absolutely everyone.

[Leroy]

Not Chat!

[thrill]

Not Chat!

Whoa. Was he an early AI bot?

[ghostrunner]

Kind of a big deal over the weekend

US stocks dropped sharply Monday – and chipmaker Nvidia lost nearly $600 billion in market value — after a surprise advancement from a Chinese artificial intelligence company, DeepSeek, threatened the aura of invincibility surrounding America’s technology industry.

DeepSeek, a one-year-old startup, revealed a stunning capability last week: It presented a ChatGPT-like AI model called R1, which has all the familiar abilities, operating at a fraction of the cost of OpenAI’s, Google’s or Meta’s popular AI models. The company said it had spent just $5.6 million on computing power for its base model, compared with the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars US companies spend on their AI technologies.

That sent shockwaves through markets, in particular the tech sector, on Monday.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq plunged by 3.1% and the broader S&P 500 fell 1.5%. The Dow, boosted by health care and consumer companies that could be hurt by AI, was up 289 points, or about 0.7% higher. Stock market losses were far deeper at the beginning of the day.

Meta last week said it would spend upward of $65 billion this year on AI development. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, last year said the AI industry would need trillions of dollars in investment to support the development of in-demand chips needed to power the electricity-hungry data centers that run the sector’s complex models.

[ghostrunner]

I'm quite a bit more into GPT and AI than I was last time I posted here. I've been tasked with getting our staff up to speed and we're probably moving our data to OneDrive from Dropbox to make it accessible to CoPilot, which is safer than just uploading docs to the web version. Supposedly a bit less impactful environmentally as well.

There's quite a bit I still find kind of useless, but some specific things I can see it helps with:

1. First drafts of documents - any kind of report or documentation you might need to prepare for work, as well as presentations. I actually used CoPilot in 365 to create a presentation on AI, just to give an example of something it could do. I had compiled some research and also input the Youtube transcript of an AI basics video I used. But I didn't know it could do that until I looked it up and tried it. Had to clean it up somewhat but it mostly worked.

2. Coding - this one seems obvious

3. Really any bit of drudgery you don't want to invest time in, especially if it's something you won't remember or may not need again - i had it help me with getting a graph in Excel i was trying to generate, and couldn't get to work. It's pretty damn good for planning trips.


It's still bad for research IMO. It can find some things and will give you links but if the data beind referred to isn't yours or something you already know I don't think you can trust it. The links often don't support the statements.

There's a lot of talk about prompt engineering and how to do that well, but in many cases I honestly feel like you spend the same amount of time re-iterating and perfecting it that you would just reading. What I will do sometimes is ask it for good sources, especially since Google is becoming worse all the time. Or as above, I'll tell it what to refer to.

I still find the supposed creative uses pretty unpleasantly pleasant to look at or read, very uniform in style, and the more specific you get in terms of instruction you can see how it basically cribbed everything from someone else or a group of people. I'd rather artists just get paid. I hope Europe is aggressive on this, because I don't think the US will be.

I don't think it's ever going to replace movies, books, or anything long form. At least not unless it achieves some sort of sentience. Spotaneity is what makes art work, and it flat out doesn't have that. Maybe at some point it will seem to, but not even a hint of that being convincing right now.

[BottenFieldofDreams]

Watching “OPEN” AI complain about DeepSeek is hilarious on many levels.

I’m at least having a little fun with AI before it locks in our new oligarchical society.

It’s brought life to my bull [expletive] ing in fun ways. Had to post, as this song started on a post here after Thrill posted ‘Heart Like a Truck.’ ….and when I eventually returned from the ER from barfing out all my organs and hope.

https://youtu.be/o-qj1Epd1Ow

[mikechamp]

Would love to hear from our academic friends on this one:

Northeastern college student demanded her tuition fees back after catching her professor using OpenAI’s ChatGPT

A senior at Northeastern University filed a formal complaint and demanded a tuition refund after discovering her professor was secretly using AI tools to generate notes. The professor later admitted to using several AI platforms and acknowledged the need for transparency. The incident highlights growing student concerns over professors using AI, a reversal of earlier concerns from professors worried that students would use the technology to cheat.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/northeastern ... 24481.html