Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v.FB

Bring back the goblins!

ChatGPT Became So Obsessed With Goblins That OpenAI Had to Intervene The company says attempts to make a ‘nerdy’ personality for the bot led to odd word choices.

Higher order thinking and AI

On "Make Me Smart" episode "It's tough our there for new college grads", Kimberly Adams interviewed NYT writer Noam Scheiber. He mentioned in the world with so much AI, there's still going to be a need for people who can synthesize and make a decision and make an argument. That stopped me cold because it's a similar argument that I recall from reading A Whole New Mind back... 20 years ago. Back then, it was saving my job from going to overseas outsourcing. Working in IT, I saw plenty of cases where the vendors I worked with (BEA, Oracle, HP) open overseas support desks....

Higher order thinking and AI On “Make Me Smart” episode “It’s tough our there for new college grads”, Kimberly Adams interviewed NYT writer Noam Scheiber. He mentioned in the world with so much AI…

The accused got advice from ChatGPT. '“If this were a person on the other end of the screen, we would be charging them with murder,” [Florida State Attorney General] Uthmeier said during an event in Tampa.'

Florida launches ‘criminal investigation’ into ChatGPT, fueled by FSU shooting State Attorney General James Uthmeier said Florida’s OpenAI probe is expanding because a “criminal investigation is necessary” after state prosecutors determined ChatGPT “offered significant advice” to the FSU shooter.