Well, this is a little disconcerting. I can ignore Musk but I assume there are some other heavy weights in addition to Woz.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/29/elon...ond-gpt-4.html

Article states the concerns are ...

I don't know if 6 months moratorium will make that much of a difference. Will decisions & guide rails really be agreed to and created in 6 months?

Do we want to give 6 months for China to catch up or supersede us?

I really don't know but I lean towards continue but create this commission in parallel. Let's see what this commission comes up with in 6 months.

Elon Musk is right: AI needs to slow down for the good of society

I'm the skeptical sort. I'm guessing Musk is fueling his own research into AI while discouraging his competitors.

I can imagine that AI could be the solution to having actual full self driving vehicles. And you can't have anyone catching up to him.

Musk can be right for the wrong reasons.

I'll put this under ChatGPT as it's our default AI thread

Fun idea

Ancient ‘AI selfies’ reveal what snaps by Jesus and other historical figures might have looked like | The US Sun

Those teeth look too white and straight and everything in those pictures are way too clean :D

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Jesus obviously uses the best Instagram filters

He is a tad too white'sh, and are those non-black, non-brown eyes?

Wonder if there is one of Allah or is the software PC.

My current assessment of the state of AI:

It isn’t ‘intelligence’ in any way that matters, but it will fart out ‘good enough’ text cheaply enough to depress wages for content creators.

They had a brief story about it on the news last night: oh no, what if a 14yo asks about weed or sex and it gives an answer? Even after you tell it your birth date??

I mean sure, ignore the fact that the kid could just use Google for that currently. (Seems we're expecting wisdom rather than a search engine which summarizes your results in decently-written paragraphs.)

The other day my Google homepage showed me an article in my feed about the MCU and Captain Marvel in particular. I clicked on it, and it was 100% an AI generated story. It's really bad out there.

Not Chat GPT specifically but a competing AI

Man ends his life after an AI chatbot 'encouraged' him to sacrifice himself to stop climate change | Euronews

Something that was eye opening to me was exactly how much blatantly false information it's capable of spewing:

The consensus from a brief search of previous questions on r/AskHistorians seems to be that ChatGPT is an unreliable source for specific historical questions. But is it a good source If I'm looking for literature or resources on a subject?


AskHistorians is a highly moderated subreddit that requires expertise and sources from those answering questions and there have been a number of topics about using ChatGPT to learn historical perspectives, this specific topic I linked was more about using ChatGPT to recommend resources for further learning on a subject, and a couple experts in their fields showed that Chat GPT would simply fabricate books from time to time, more frequently when the subject is more narrow.


The commentor shows 3 books and a one or two sentence synopsis of each book that Chat GPT recommended. Two of the books and authors do not actually exist.



I mostly ignored everything until GPT-4 was announced, was extremely impressed with the demo they did upon it's release, and have been learning more about it since then. I have a friend who works in marketing who pays for Chat GPT 4 for unlimited queries/access and uses it every day for her job and it saves her a ton of time. There's a lot of discussion on programmer forums about the use of it, with most senior developers talking about using it to help debug code and to help write unit tests. My impression is that people are getting real value when using it for specific time saving tasks in an area you're already an expert in, but that it is unbelievably flawed and without having a wealth of knowledge on a subject already it's very easy to get screwed by it's output.

This is my take as well. I'm a programmer and recently took a new job that uses a language I've never used before (PHP). I've been using ChatGpt all the time to help me write code, and it's been very helpful but also does some wrong/weird stuff. I also have enough general programming knowledge to be really specific with what I want it to do, which helps a lot in getting better responses. It's not doing anything I couldn't do myself by reading the language documentation and a lot of Google searches, but it definitely saves time compared to that approach.


I'm not sure what version 5 or beyond will bring, but right now I see this as just another new tool in the tool belt. You'd be silly to ignore it, but it won't take your job at this point.

Congrats Microsoft.

I bet on Meta and the Metaverse but you were (obviously) right.

I'm not sure I believe this result but interesting. I'd need some more rigor and peer review. And, if true, how much longer will it hold up if everyone else is using something similar to predict stock movement.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/12/chat...ssor-says.html

I'm pretty sure the HFT algorithms have been doing that for a while, now.

Hah, in addition to the selfies from historical figures, I'm thinking this will be the next big thing.

The pics look real enough (e.g. like instagram pics with filters). I guess deep fakes have really hit mainstream now.

Lonely men on Reddit tricked into paying for nude images of a busty AI-generated woman | Daily Mail Online

But there is a dark underbelly

who is the best 5th round draft pick in NFL history?

ChatGPT
There have been many great players selected in the fifth round of the NFL draft throughout history, so it's tough to determine who is the best. However, some notable players selected in the fifth round include Shannon Sharpe, Tom Brady, Richard Sherman, and Johnny Unitas.

Tom Brady is perhaps the most famous fifth-round pick in NFL history. The New England Patriots selected Brady with the 199th overall pick in the 2000 NFL draft, and he went on to become one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, winning seven Super Bowls and numerous other awards and accolades.

Shannon Sharpe is another notable fifth-round pick. The Denver Broncos selected Sharpe with the 192nd overall pick in the 1990 NFL draft, and he went on to become one of the greatest tight ends in NFL history, winning three Super Bowls and setting numerous records.

Richard Sherman is also worth mentioning. The Seattle Seahawks selected Sherman with the 154th overall pick in the 2011 NFL draft, and he went on to become one of the top cornerbacks in the league, winning a Super Bowl and numerous other awards.

Finally, Johnny Unitas, a Hall of Fame quarterback, was selected in the 1955 draft with the 102nd overall pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers. Although he was later cut by the Steelers and had to play in the CFL for a year, he eventually found his way to the NFL with the Baltimore Colts, where he became a legend, leading the team to multiple championships and setting numerous records.

Overall, there have been many great players selected in the fifth round of the NFL draft, and it's difficult to choose just one as the best.

User
In what round was Tom Brady drafted?

ChatGPT
Tom Brady was drafted in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL draft. He was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th overall pick. It's widely regarded as one of the biggest steals in NFL draft history, given that Brady has gone on to become one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, winning seven Super Bowls and numerous other awards and accolades.

User
Then why did you list him as one of the greatest 5th round draft picks?

ChatGPT
I apologize for my error. You are correct that Tom Brady was drafted in the sixth round, not the fifth round. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. While there have been many great players selected in the fifth round of the NFL draft, Tom Brady is not one of them. However, he remains one of the greatest draft steals in NFL history, regardless of the round in which he was selected.


User
what is a test to determine if a number is divisible by 7?

ChatGPT
Yes, there is a simple test to determine if a number is divisible by 7 or not, known as the "divisibility rule for 7". Here's how it works:

Take the last digit of the number, double it, and subtract it from the remaining digits of the original number.

If the resulting number is divisible by 7 (including 0), then the original number is also divisible by 7. If not, the original number is not divisible by 7.

Repeat the above steps with the resulting number until you get a final answer.

For example, let's say we want to test whether the number 1,345 is divisible by 7:

Step 1: Take the last digit (5), double it (5 x 2 = 10), and subtract it from the remaining digits (134 - 10 = 124).

Step 2: Check if 124 is divisible by 7. Since 14 is divisible by 7, then 124 is also divisible by 7.

Therefore, 1,345 is divisible by 7.

This method can be used to test the divisibility of larger numbers as well, by repeating the steps until you get a final answer.

User
what is 124 divided by 7?

ChatGPT
124 divided by 7 is equal to 17 with a remainder of 5.

In long division, it looks like this:

lua
Copy code
17
7 |124
7
---
44
42
---
5
Therefore, 124 divided by 7 is 17 with a remainder of 5, or 17 5/7 as a mixed number.

User
Then why did you say that 124 is divisible by 7?

ChatGPT
I apologize for my mistake. 124 is not divisible by 7, and I made an error in my previous response. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. The correct answer for the divisibility of 124 by 7 is that it is not divisible by 7. I'm sorry for any confusion I may have caused.

I had time to kill, so I went to play around with it. I wasn't trying to trip it up.

ChatGPT is kind of like a television news host. Spouting off all sorts of stuff, sounding quite assertive and confident, no nuance or room for error. Then you start to look into what's being asserted and it may or it may not hold up.

I read a long interview with Sam Altman, who runs Open AI and thus controls ChatGPT, though he probably wouldn't admit that. The guy sounds like a snake-oil salesman - vaguely promising whatever it is one hopes he can promise, yet not responsible in any way for problems. He apparently serves Open AI "at the pleasure of the board". Everything you can imagine disliking about a tech bro, this guy is the embodiment.

My sense is that ChatGPT is a remarkable language processor. It can study how certain individuals or magazines or any publisher structures language and it can produce similar speech. That's cool. Scary, but cool.

But the other side of the coin is that it relies entirely on the cultivation of facts. There are gatekeepers and they have their own issues and biases and knowledge sets. And no way whatsoever to assess what should and should not be in its database.

If challenged, it can re-assess a fact (like the Brady draft round - of that group, only Sherman actually was chosen in the fifth round) and get a better take (i.e., that one erroneous source it used in the initial search is an outlier) and just as confidently apologize for its error. At the same time (and here is where it's clearly programmed by tech bros) whine and wheedle about how its initial assertion wasn't that bad in the first place.

No idea how it does math. The 7s trick is a wonderful one we learned way back in grade school before calculators were everywhere. I guess the one source it chose to quote was based on a bad example, and it isn't programmed to challenge it.

I suspect ChatGPT 5.0 will have a better internal challenge mechanism, which will require even more processing power. But it's still a cultivated, controlled and scored data set, and only as good as the weakest cultivator they trust.

It doesn't seem as dangerous as some make it out to be, but what is scary is the constant and increasing call for tech companies to work with governments to control what they call "disinformation," which sounds a lot like Winston Smith in his cubicle carefully editing old newspapers.

For the record, I did some stuff with Bard and it does the same bad screw-ups factually and may even be worse than ChatGPT


Like I wasn't trying to trip it up, either. I was just asking more subjective questions. But it would give me factually incorrect stuff that I knew was factually incorrect and I would try to challenge it and it was just like "huh? I guess I was wrong".



Like it got the Royals current record that day wrong three different times with three different records. When I asked where it got the record from the first time, it said MLB's website. So not only did it get the information wrong, it "lied" about where it got the incorrect information from.



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I am sure someone will create something with ChatGPT or like. It'd be interesting to see what gets created.

The real question is will it go beyond a really small fringe group or will it have a substantial following. I suspect the former but who knows in this day and age.

ChatGPT could create a new religion by writing its own sacred texts, historian claims | Daily Mail Online

Some funny questions.

I highlighted the ones that stand out to me.

https://studyfinds.org/chatpt-bizarr...lar-questions/
Some not so funny questions

So an attorney in a federal case in NY asked ChatGPT to draft his response to a motion. The AI wrote a response, but it made up a bunch of cases. Like, just invented them out of nothing.

The other side replied with "We can't find any of these cases"

The Court ordered the party to produce copies of the cases.

So the attorney went back to ChatGPT and asked it for the cases. And the AI just created these fake cases. Which he then submitted to the Court.

The other said, again, responded with "we are pretty sure these aren't real cases."

(For those who don't know, cases come with a universal citation format that makes them really easy to find. So being unable to find a case is a real red flag.)

The first side finally admitted what it did, and now the Court is ordering them to show cause why they should not be sanctioned.

If I lived close to New York, I'd probably go just to watch the fireworks.

I guess we don't have to worry about ChatGPT taking our jobs quite yet.

People really don't seem to understand that this AI just very competent at taking other people's work and making something that follows the same rules and structure that that person did.

Soooo .... it's like Hollywood scriptwriting, but more adept

Instead of worrying about whether ChatGPT will power robots that decide to kill us all, we should worry about whether it makes up stories that convince future historians that it killed us all.

Interesting exercise for ChatGPT. Basically mixed results.

https://apnews.com/article/germany-c...2e987a7263d348

I may well be wrong but the EU take on this will just put them at a severe competitive disadvantage. The US, China, Taiwan etc. won't be holding back.

I guess this may mean more lawsuits against the US Big Tech and maybe restrictions on what their software can do in the EU, but there's no stopping the push towards better AI models.

It'll be an interesting 5 years or so as this shakes out.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/14/eu-l...egulation.html
I do think they have a point on below re: social scoring systems.

Welcome to the club Apple. What took you so long

Seems like all the big boys & girls are coming out with their own version. Don't know what Open AI plans are but they are probably worth more now than in the future when the others catch up eventually. Maybe start shopping around?

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/19/appl...quivalent.html

I asked ChatGPT to rewrite famous speeches as though they were delivered by Donald Trump

Gettysburg Address

Declaration of Independence

MLK's I Have A Dream (with AI caveats)

Neil Armstrong's moon landing quote

Two more, when Lou Gehrig retired

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Not enough self-aggrandizement.

In the news recently. Kinda scary if true.

Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced | Ars Technica

Oof.

I guess this was inevitable.

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifes...tion_week_asia

Check it out. Okay first attempt but lacking personality, "natural" movements, tonal inflections (?) etc. And of course, with more fair skin.

India Breaking News Robot Anchor AI Sana gives weather report using Artificial Intelligence OpenAI - YouTube

INT. BASEBALL LOCKER ROOM - DAY

The locker room is bustling with players getting ready for the big game. Amidst the chaos, GIN JIMDEN, a seasoned relief pitcher in his mid-thirties, sits alone at his locker, staring pensively at his worn-out baseball glove. He looks weathered, but there's a glint of determination in his eyes that tells a deeper story.

COACH HARPER, a grizzled veteran, approaches Gin and pats him on the back.

COACH HARPER
(Grinning)
Hey, Gin! You ready for today's game?

GIN JIMDEN
(Smiling)
Always, Coach. You know me.

COACH HARPER
(Sits down next to Gin)
You've had quite the journey in this league, kid. You've seen the highs and the lows. Tell me, why do you keep pushing yourself year after year? Most players your age would have hung up their cleats by now.

Gin takes a moment to gather his thoughts, his eyes filled with memories of his long, challenging career.

GIN JIMDEN
(Reflective)
It's true, Coach. I've been through it all - injuries, disappointments, and the constant struggle to prove myself. But every time I step onto that mound, I remember why I'm still here.

He pauses, gathering the words that carry the weight of his experience.

GIN JIMDEN (CONT'D)
(baseball glove in his hands)
This glove right here, Coach. It's seen every victory, every defeat, every heartbreak. It's a reminder of the boy who dreamed of being a pitcher and the man who worked tirelessly to become one.

Coach Harper listens intently, captivated by Gin's words.

GIN JIMDEN (CONT'D)
(looking up at Coach)
But it's not just about the game, Coach. It's about the fans - the kids who cheer for me, who dream of being like me someday. I've received letters from kids who were inspired by my story, who found hope in their own struggles because of my journey.

COACH HARPER
Nods in understanding.

GIN JIMDEN
(sincerely)
I owe it to them, to all those who supported me, to keep going. I can't let them down. I want to show them that no matter how tough life gets, you can't give up on your dreams. You have to keep pushing forward.

Gin's voice quivers with emotion as he speaks from the heart.

GIN JIMDEN (CONT'D)
And you know, Coach, there's something magical about this game. When I'm on that mound, everything else fades away - the pressure, the doubts, the years catching up to me. It's just me and the ball, and for those few moments, I feel alive, truly alive.

COACH HARPER
(Softly)
You've got the heart of a champion, Gin.

GIN JIMDEN
(Chuckles)
Maybe. But it's not just about winning anymore. It's about leaving a legacy, something that will outlast my time on the field. And if I can touch even one life, inspire one kid to never give up, then it's all worth it.

Coach Harper looks at Gin with a newfound appreciation for his determination and resilience.

COACH HARPER
You're more than just a ballplayer, Gin. You're an inspiration to us all.

Gin smiles, feeling a weight lifted off his shoulders, knowing that his journey has a purpose beyond personal success.

GIN JIMDEN
Thanks, Coach. Now let's go out there and give them a game they'll never forget.

They both stand up, ready to face the challenges of the game together.

CUT TO:

The scene ends with Gin Jimden and Coach Harper walking out of the locker room, united in their love for the game and the impact they can make on others through their passion for baseball.

I'm officially sick of the ChatGPT 'news' and stuff being everywhere.

I say people need to chill out and find something else to obsess over.

With apologies to Brian ...

I've always wanted to write a novel and self-publish on Amazon ("Wool" comes to mind). Although I believe I have a great plot, I know I don't have the writing skills.

So below ChatGPT article caught my eye. I would love to feed ChatGPT, story lines, characters, events, scenes etc. and have it general the book. I wonder how the forgers (?) below did it. I would pay for a piece of software that was "write a book with ChatGPT".

An author says AI is 'writing' unauthorized books being sold under her name on Amazon | CNN Business

You can run AI models locally. I've been experimenting with them on my desktop, and there are some open-source models that work just as well as ChatGPT. They run completely offline and locally, and take up less than 10gb of space.

edit: I can see now why Google is shitting bricks about the threats to their business that AI poses. If you can have an AI model running on your phone, and it can answer 95% of what you'd search for on Google, that's a huge threat to their current business model.

Nice. I'll be interested in reading the reviews. My guess is not ready for prime time but that's okay, every application starts with a beta version anyway.

Not convinced this is "science" so I'll put it under ChatGPT as it's AI

Supposedly what AI thinks the person whose image is on the Shroud of Turin (aka Jesus) looks like.

Turin Shroud reimagined by AI shows what Jesus 'really looked like' - Daily Star



As a kid, I remember seeing a Chinese Jesus when I visited a Chinese church. He sure looked different from the blue-eyed, blond hair Jesus in the other church. I'm guessing this pic is more accurate than the other two.

I'm a little late to all this, but I asked it to write a short story about me, using my name, my city, and it kind of knew who I was. I can't be sure, but, it was pretty close about some things. I'm a government lawyer so my name is on some public documents, so I tried my girlfriend's name and hometown, and it was all about food and cooking (she has a culinary degree and works at Whole Foods).

Maybe everybody knows about all this and knows how it works, but, that was kind of crazy just jumping in.

Then I asked it to describe a move-by-move battle royal fight to the death involving all of the United States presidents. It came down to Washington and Jefferson, and they sought out a peaceful resolution and proposed a constitutional convention and an end to hostilities. Lame booking IMO.

No real idea how good it is but I "grok" it, cool name.

I don't think Heinlein's estate gets a vote, but hope they are okay with it. FWIW, I didn't like Stranger in a strange land".

Definitely not going to purposely be typing crap into an "Elon Musk-linked" AI engine. ChatGPT seems fine for now.

I find it hilarious that being linked to Elon would be considered scarier than it being an AI in the first place.

The AI cat is out of the bag. Me being scared of it won't make it go away. Best to learn and adapt and try to stay ahead of the curve as long as possible.


So with that established, given a choice to avoid supporting Elon Musk I will.


Though I do have StarLink at my cabin so it's maybe moot.

Waiting for the first time Musk's AI tries to convince someone apartheid wasn't that bad.

I've always wanted to write an epic fantasy novel. I've half-way seriously written down the plot, some characters, some scenes, the ending etc. Actually, did some writing ...

But what stopped me is I realized that side of the brain was messed up. After decades of technical writing, proposals, business emails etc. I just wasn't a "creative writing" person, I think my plot was great but my prose really, really sucked ... much more the "tell, not show".

Now, there is a new paradigm ...

For the past couple weeks, I've been watching a bunch of YT and trying out several pieces of software with AI assisted writing. There's a lot of variety out there and there's a lot of different AI engines, some much better than others. It's very evident that we are at the early stages of AI assisted writing (and bugginess), but it's only going to get better.

So, if anyone dreams of writing a fiction novel, I'd say brush off that dust and start checking out the software available.

I have had a coming of age story set in a zombie apocalypse kicking around in my mind for a long time.

Nice.

May I suggest either Sudowriter and NovelCrafter for "fiction writing".

Sudowriter is more mature and costs more. NovelCrafter is more buggy but is more my "workflow" ... and significantly cheaper as I'm exploring stuff.

I'm thinking I'm going to write with NovelCrafter as first draft and then use Sudowriter to clean it up. I've subscribed to both just to play around and better understand how things work.

Just a note. Zombies imply violence. ChatGPT and some other AIs will admonish you for trying to use them. Sudowriter and NovelCrafter lets you plug into other AIs but their "prose" is not near as good as ChatGPT.

FWIW I'm also looking into AI generated art. Write a book for Kindle self publishing, you need at a minimum a book cover.

Been checking out Dall-e, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. Haven't gotten as far yet in my research but those are the 3 coming up. Anyone have any insights, let me know.

From what I've read, either pay $ for someone to create the cover, or use an AI generator and some photoshop to add the title, author's name etc. I'm thinking the latter for my first attempt ...

In addition to providing structure and helping you with the writing, the AI can also be very helpful with brainstorming your idea.

In GPT-4 Turbo, I prompted below. It came up with some pretty good stuff.

That's pretty good. It's amazing the stuff it comes up with. I particularly enjoy adding Don Knotts to any novel of screenplay idea I feed into it. I'm not sure we need writers anymore.

On another note, a former CEO of a very large Idaho corporation has come to work for our office and did a little speech for everyone a while back. The one thing I remember was him talking about how he was trying to get companies to understand and embrace the internet in the 90's but nobody could understand what it would be and why it was relevant to them. There were fortunes won and lost, careers that rose and fell, and it was all based on that ability to grasp what the internet could be. He said we are exactly in that same time period right now with respect to AI.

I had a post outlining the broad plot of my book, but decided I don't actually want to share that. :p

On a very high level, the protagonist is separated from his longtime crush and must make his way to her. As he journeys toward her at great peril to himself, we get flashbacks showing how he fell for her. It's set in the 80s/90s.

You may be too late.

See Netflix “Love and Monsters”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-19tBHrZwOM

Throw in Don Knotts and it's a whole new thing.

I plugged him into Edward64's ChatGPT question and he played a eccentric survivalist from the edge of town who is revealed to have developed a wide variety of useful gadgets to help out the protagonists through dangerous situations.

I recognized that Don Knotts has passed on, but, I think AI can solve that issue also.

I think this is cool and I like the goal.

But no, don't think I'd volunteer to be Beta or v1.

Dude can't make cars that don't blow up. No way I want him putting a chip in my brain.

I've seen how this turns out...

In case you guys missed it, Sora is going to be revolutionary. We're only in the beginning stages ...

Sora


Checkout the YT video below. The author also shares the prompts to generate the video.

Nice. I have not been here for a while, but have been toying with AI stuff for quite a while now. On Facebook, I am doing what I used to do here and create fake movie stills using AI with Facebook friends that allow me to use their face and create an entire story, poster, and roughly 30 to 50 images per movie.

I have been doing this every week just to stay on top of all the tools and try to use them creatively to see what type of workflows I can create.

Every 3 weeks, on Facebook, we go through a process of selecting a genre , subgenre, and also have a casting call. By then end of the week, the selected genre and subgenre are used to create 2 movies for the next 2 weeks



So far here is my weekly process:
1. Create Title for Movie
2. Create Synposis for Movie
3. Select Cast Members
4. Create roles and descriptions for each character.
5. Create a story through Midjourney prompts based on my synopsis.
6. Create images based on the role and descriptions.
7. Use the images created for those characters as a reference for my later Midjourney prompts I set up above.
8. Faceswap the images and fix them up.

Here are some examples images from the workflow and final movie.

I have learned a lot about various local and online AI tools. Anything from Midjourney, ChatGPT, Claude, Leonardo AI to Fooocus, LM Studio and even Topaz AI plugins. And the video and audio realms are freaking wild right now.

I have been having way too much fun with suno for the last week or so, and yeah it is impressive and terrifying what they can do already. I wasn't too impressed by the image or chat stuff in the relatively early days, whereas some of the current stuff has blown my mind. I used it to make a song about my cats:

one day in our lord's heaven | Suno

Oh man....that is pretty good. You should check out the new audio tool (only out in the last couple of day) called Udio (udio.com). The quality of this is freaking bonkers and it is crazy how far both this and standard audio AI tools are rapidly advancing.

Example of one I created for my fake film: https://on.soundcloud.com/Z2pHAXrs2okzndSq6

Love it! I tried to sign up to check out udio, but got waitlisted.

Overall, It's a powerful tool for brainstorming ideas and getting creative inspiration. However, when it comes to writing unique and polished texts, nothing beats the expertise and human touch provided by professional writing services like mysupergeek. They can help elevate your content to the next level and ensure that it stands out from the crowd.

Glad to see more smart glasses coming out.

The functionality highlighted below seems pretty limited but have to start somewhere. I can see going backpacking, seeing a mushroom and asking ChatGPT to tell me what type it was and if it was safe to eat.

I think I like the recording functionality but only if I was doing it. How would I feel if I was sitting across from someone at a gate who was possibly recording me (without my permission). That's arguably okay but what if I saw someone staring at my daughter with these glasses on?

Here comes a Meta Ray-Bans challenger with ChatGPT-4o and a camera - The Verge

I guess this was inevitable. I am curious how well it really does in the back-and-forth conversations. Guys escape reality by computer gaming, this is the female version?

I have smart glasses, but not the "AI" or "weirdo video" kind. I have Echo Frames by Amazon. I mainly got them so that I can listen to music or make phone calls without having to find my earbuds, so it's sort of an "ultimate laziness" thing. They do have Alexa on them, which IMO is so much more useful than having ChatGPT would be. I like having them, but I do have complaints about how often they work, and how comfortable they are, so I'm hoping they will make more at this level.

Since we’re on this topic I wanted to share my opinions on this.

I’m a proponent and am concerned about GPT’s.

The speed of delivery these tools provide is mind blowing. The ability to do work for us is both convenient but also concerning. We’ve all kicked these pros and cons around quite a bit, but this is how I’ve decided it’s best to be used in the current environment.

I am a firm believer that the words on a page or the art on a book cover belong solely to the human mind. Personally, I crave the thoughts of others but not the collective. I want something that is unique. A computer model that relies on previous sources can certainly create uniqueness but ultimately it’s a mix of others work 100%. Sure, nothing can be generated without the influence of others, but the mind is still a vastly uncapped space that can find new material that current GPT models cannot overcome (sentience?)

Having said that, I have been writing a series of historical novels for quite a few years now. The mere decision to start, followed by the enormous level of effort this task entailed, was beyond my comprehension at the start. I work for a living so this has all been done on the side, during lunch hours, late and night and now that over 50, a lot of it has been moved to the early morning. Hundreds if not thousands of hours. GPT could have done it in a few days of tweaking prompts, I suppose, but it would not be me writing it, in fact, I wouldn’t be sure who was writing it at all, but I know for sure I would t read it.

Why wouldn’t I read it? It’s just words on a page, right? Well, when I know something is written by AI, my level of excitement in reading it diminishes quickly after the initial ‘wow’ factor that GPT can do that (or if it’s a synopsis of a meeting I didn’t attend which is a really great use of AI). For fiction reading, it quickly becomes sterile, perhaps even predictable, but when you pick up a novel by, let’s say, Stephen King, you get a lot more than the words on the page. You get to see how King’s mind ticks. A much more immersive experience, if you ask me.

But does that mean GPT’s are of no value in the artist’s development or desire to become a professional? Not at all. I have used GPT’s for a number of things related to this project. I used it to act as a developmental editor, a line editor, beta readers of passages and even whole chapters. Is the feedback helpful? Yes and no, but what is helpful and what is not comes back to me as the writer. The individual. It’s made me think of a lot of new ideas and concepts.

Does that mean I shouldn’t be hiring a professional editor? No! You need a professional at some point if it’s a serious project, but for people just starting off (or struggling) why not get some help to tighten your manuscripts up before leaping off the deep end in? You can save some money but it’s a blend. You are really using GPT to strengthen your skills.

Also, one day I’ll need cover art. As proficient as I am with Photoshop, I’m not an artist. I’ve used Dall-E and its provoked some great ideas and thoughts for cover art, but ultimately, it feels sterile, predictable. But as a non-artist, I see the value of getting an idea or a theme from these tools to allow me to articulate what I would like from a professional artist. To influence the artist to some degree so I don’t waste his/her time.

These are the things that help the struggling writer or the struggling graphic artist. I refuse to see it as a replacement for human ingenuity, but it can certainly be very helpful.

I’ve toyed with writing using ChatGPT and like. Fantastic for ideas but prose is still severely lacking … unless you are writing porn.

Any legit tips are welcome.

BTW you aren’t Bernard Cornwell are you?

Haha, oh yeah, I’ve baked Cornwell into many prompts when asking for feedback. There is a Creative Writing Plug-in that I use, but I honestly don’t know what’s different about it compared to the vanilla. When I ask for feedback on pacing, passive voice, dialogue, anachronisms… I will ask at the prompt for the GPT to basically role play as a beta reader or one type of editor or another. So I’ll ask it to be well versed with the writing style of Cornwell or Follett among others and see if I get different responses. I think over time it will conflate the authors and it becomes a jumble of responses so it’s not super helpful in that regard, but still somewhat helpful.

One way that I find is very helpful is to put in a couple of sentences or a paragraph and ask it to expand upon it, for instance, I am very loaded with visual descriptions… it may tell me to tone it down to help with pacing or ask me to instead add more touch and smell senses to bring the environment to life. A lot of times it gives me a revision that I can mull over and if I like the flow I can build my world around the concept it’s trying to ask me to achieve.

Another way that is super helpful is finding words and slang that was popular in that time period (especially when using foreign languages to help identify the character at times). I can describe my character and ask if it would be appropriate for that character and it will give me feedback on if it fits the type of person to use that language. Super helpful.

Now a lot of that must be double checked and that’s where the lost hours in research and reading come into play. Hopefully the key word there is “lost” because time will slip by quickly while I try desperately to nail down the nuance of a time I never lived in but know many readers will crush the writing if it’s done poorly or lazily.

It really has been just one big experiment, but it’s been useful.

Thanks, all good tips.

I know there are a bunch of AI models, some better for fiction writing than others. Have you done comparisons and is ChatGPT 4.0 the best one for you?

Also, using any special software (like novelceafter) that is geared to using AI?

And because you’re doing what I’d like to do (but for Fantasy), making ‘decent’ money?

I’ve tried a few different apps and all of the are good for whatever their intended purposes are. But I’d say that 95% of my time is spent in…

Microsoft Word : Draft writing. It’s like what Dominos Pizza is to Pizza, which is my childhood comfort food. I feel right at home when I open up Word and can start banging out drafts without missing a beat.

Scrivener : I love scrivener for the ability to keep notes and break my work into chapters and then scenes and move them around. All scenes are POV and timeline accurate and that allows me to add in new scene layers easily without feeling like I’m putting things out of place.

ProWritingAid : This has been my go-to self-editor helper.

I don’t know about novel crafter, I’m guessing it’s similar to Scrivener though or Plottr (which is good for helping with timelines and character placement but I haven’t found much other usefulness from it).

What’s his name… Brandon Sanderson? He has classes he once taught at a university posted on YouTube. Very easy going, relatable and touches on the core concepts of writing a novel that is easy to digest (bit of course, hard to master). I’d suggest giving him a listen, especially since you will be writing in a similar genre.

I have gone through a few full edits of my first novel, I’ve been to local writing workshops, met with literary agents and professional editors. I’ve still got a ways to go since this is just a hobby for me but I’ve learned a lot. If you ever want to talk about any of it, I’d be happy to help if I can.

I'm still ignoring this technology, but I did come across this yesterday and it's hilarious. Good on Tsitsipas for posting this and laughing at it, although it is painfully on point.

Asking ChatGPT to roast me:

"Stefanos Tsitsipas: the guy who spends more time philosophizing on Twitter than actually serving up a solid second serve. He’s the only player who can turn a simple changeover into a TED Talk on Greek mythology and still come back to the court with…

— Stefanos Tsitsipas (@steftsitsipas) August 19, 2024

DuckDuckGo has made chatbots available without tracking or any of that crap.

https://duck.ai

I asked it for a million dollar idea:

Here’s a million-dollar idea that combines technology and sustainability:

**Smart Home Energy Management System**

**Concept**: Develop a smart home energy management system that uses AI and machine learning to optimize energy consumption in residential homes. The system would analyze energy usage patterns, weather forecasts, and real-time energy prices to provide homeowners with actionable insights and recommendations for reducing energy costs and carbon footprints.

**Features**:
1. **Real-Time Monitoring**: Track energy usage of appliances and systems in real-time, providing users with detailed insights into their consumption patterns.
2. **Automated Controls**: Integrate with smart home devices (thermostats, lights, appliances) to automatically adjust settings for optimal energy efficiency based on user preferences and external factors.
3. **Dynamic Pricing Alerts**: Notify users of peak and off-peak energy pricing, allowing them to shift usage to save money.
4. **Sustainability Reports**: Generate monthly reports showing energy savings, carbon footprint reduction, and tips for further improvements.
5. **Incentive Programs**: Partner with utility companies to offer incentives for users who reduce their energy consumption, creating a win-win situation.

**Market Potential**: With the growing emphasis on sustainability and energy efficiency, this system could appeal to environmentally conscious consumers and homeowners looking to reduce their energy bills. Additionally, as smart home technology continues to grow, integrating energy management into existing smart home ecosystems could capture a significant market share.

**Revenue Model**: The business could generate revenue through subscription services, partnerships with utility companies, and selling hardware (if applicable).

This idea leverages current trends in technology and sustainability, making it relevant and potentially lucrative.

Love this. I've always wanted to create/direct a movie. Sound pretty simplistic right now but can see competition expanding its functionality (creating a movie from a screenplay).

Check out the sample prompts & videos in the article.

Meta's Movie Gen AI Video Generator Is Capable of Making Actual Movies, Music Included

New term going viral soon (generative AI --> AGI or artificial general intelligence)

I do not believe current stuff is AI (e.g. I want to see some 'reasoning' ability). But am very interested in seeing what AGI can do.

Sam Altman says “we are now confident we know how to build AGI� - Ars Technica

Meh, Excel materially changes the output of companies. All AI does is replace a human interpretive layer (partially) with a machine one.

AI still doesn't have even rudimentary reasoning ability. It's why it still fails both AP English exams. It can't develop a line of reasoning.

We don't treat other CEOs the way we treat AI CEOs.

If the CEO of McDonalds were to come out and just declare that within two years they'd have a hamburger that tasted twice as good and cost half as much and didn't cause heart disease, there would be some pushback.

But Altman and Musk can just get out there and "predict" anything, and it is reported as news.

American TechBros: AI requires trillions of dollars of venture capital and server farms the size of Portugal. And we can't share our code with you because it is so very special. And we are so very special because we control this vast unimaginable power.

Deepseek: Hey, we got this thing to run on open source code on a couple of used Pentium 5s. Fun.

The man behind the curtain moment is pretty funny.

My portfolio would disagree....

FWIW there was acknowledgment & excitement about DeepSeek a month ago (vs just past 5 days).

Have to monitor r/LocalLLaMA more closely.

I don't get people calling this a "Sputnik" moment.

This isn't China surpassing us.

This is a Chinese company showing us that the techbros asking for literally trillions of dollars in investment are hucksters and snake oil salesmen.

Thank god trump just promised half a trillion dollars for AI investment for all those tech bros.

Bloomberg article is paywalled, so pasted from reddit

Blocked

It could be sour grapes but my guess is there was some IP theft (China's SOP). But we know that some/much of the OpenAI training was done with digital assets that their authors did NOT okay either.

So if true, frak 'em both. But if DeepSeek did cheat, I look forward to Nvidia regaining her #1 spot of $4T+ or so.

If the theft accusation is true, then yeah, not a Sputnik moment.


Pretty sure Trump did not promise the 3 companies $500B. It was the other way around. The 3 companies promised $500B into their AI efforts to be on the stage with Trump. However, my guess is fair odds the entire $500B won't come to fruition unless the stars align for the 3 companies.

Taking data in an "unauthorized manner" is the business model of AI.

"Your plagiarism machine plagiarized our plagiarism machine!"

A house of cards on top of a house of cards.

Wake me up when it's something more than a next-gen search engine with a word jumbler on top.

There it is.

Okay, crisis averted. Take if FWIW

Still impressive but not as impressive as initially thought.

DeepSeek might not be as disruptive as claimed, firm reportedly has 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and spent $1.6 billion on buildouts | Tom's Hardware

Why is this crisis averted?

If it was true that humanity could have AI for trillions less in investment than we thought, that would be a great thing, right?

Sorry, I meant crisis averted for those “AI stocks that took a big hit last week because DeepSeek was done much cheaper than how they did it”.

This includes NVidia who is now, arguably, more of an important bellweather stock than Apple.

Sounds like they caught Meta red handed, the emails in the article are pretty damning. Assuming there is a big fine, how in the world will they figure out how much to pay to whom?

Court documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right' | PC Gamer