Your AI chatbot name is your middle name, plus the name of the first car you owned, and your credit card number. Paypal me $25 and I’ll tell you my secret for getting total strangers to give you money. The check is in the mail. Trust me. In this issue: The ultimate trust fall (754 …
I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m not alive, I’m Maroon 5. Whoops, sorry for that gibberish. We’re not sure how that got in here. Other than, you know, the fact that a human pretty much had to type it. Ahem. Cough. Cough. In this issue: -Moving goalposts (504 words) -How alive is alive enough? (463 words) …
Bing plus ChatGPT! Google and Bard! Baidu and … uhh.. Ernie bot? Okay. Sure. Baidu and Ernie bot! 2023 is the year of the chatbot, for sure. In this issue: Alan Turing’s spirituality (649 words) Isaac Newton’s bullies (312 words) Bill Gates’ boundaries (178 words) Alan Turing’s spirituality With all the hubbub, hullabaloo, and fluff …
Go on…More than meets the AI: The chatbots are here. Now what?
Today’s issue of More Than Meets the AI: 3 wishes for generative AI (676 words) A tribute to humanity (188 words) Love and War (39 words) 3 Wishes Whenever people talk about the future of AI, it’s always “the singularity this” and “artificial general intelligence that.” But I’m more interested in what’s happening right now …
Go on…More Than Meets the AI: You ain’t never had AI friend like me
Since OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT to the world last November, people have wasted little time finding imaginative uses for the eerily human-like chatbot. They have used it to generate code, create Dungeons & Dragons adventures, and converse on a seemingly infinite array of topics. Now some in Silicon Valley are speculating that the masses might come …
Dr. Henry Frankenstein turned to his associate, Victor Moritz, and yelled “it’s alive!” The doctor didn’t say “she’s alive,” “he’s alive,” or “they’re alive!” He said: “Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive… It’s alive, it’s moving, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive!” The word of the day is “personification.” Football …
Never offer feedback on a demo tape. You probably didn’t come to this article today to get advice from a recording studio engineer, but here we are. First, though, we need to intro today’s column. Issue #2: The Nick Cave Trap (436 words) Boston Dynamics is out of control! (144 words) A quantum rant (262 …