I’ve been having a back and forth with the AI in chat for the last half hour about a robber I knew from Drimnagh when I was back in school. It’s now gone off to find out more info and he’ll contact me back when he finds something. Bizarre.

    LT42 I’ve been having a back and forth with the AI in chat for the last half hour about a robber I knew from Drimnagh when I was back in school. It’s now gone off to find out more info and he’ll contact me back when he finds something.

    You think it’s the AI, but it’s actually one of your usual FBI contacts having a bit of a giggle.

      Cheers, Hugo. Great craic altogether.

      2 months later

      I didn’t Hursty.

      Hope that helps.

      17 days later

      People are using ChatGPT to write letters of appeal now and getting positive results!

      What a tool this is, slightly scary and one of those things whereby it’s going to be difficult to stop the widespread use. Businesses and institutions will have to jump in or be left behind

        I’m in the process of applying for a new role, and the entire recruitment pack was written by chat gpt. You’d never know either, the whole pack appears as normal as if it’s human written. Very cool but scary as well. The recruiter told me the client just needs them to sort out the interviews etc and isn’t needed for the paperwork….so their fee is reduced

        Hursty Businesses and institutions will have to jump in or be left behind

        Completely agree. I had ChatGPT take a cognitive ability test that I would have asked a job applicant to complete. Passed with flying colours. If a worker could use ChatGPT to do the tricky stuff in their job, then it’s the test that is no longer fit for purpose. Businesses urgently need to figure out how to leverage the technology, rather than misplaced attempts to ban its use.

          a month later

          Anyone know why ChatGPT sign-up is currently unavailable?

          I was going to use it to write a lengthy ‘Into the weeds’ Hugo rebuttal of my claim about kebabs and omelettes in the food thread.

            Elon probably had it closed down because he’s worried about AI. The fucking wanker.

            Hursty Yes, but I can set my VPN server to almost anywhere and that is usually the first thing I try.

                Do you follow Brian Roemmele, Hursty? If not give him a look, what he posts daily is very interesting in terms of the development. Its equal parts amazing and terrifying.

                  LT42 I’ll check him out, cheers for the tip

                    It this ever gets to the point where it can realistically match my level of message board BANTS then I will be astonished.

                      mono-stereo
                      Now that would be dangerous.

                      Would probably have to regress it back to Smallman1.0, essentially the same bantzzz as the robot in Short Circuit

                          Hursty What a time to be alive, who do you believe, the human or AI?

                          If Mr Hood was spouting nonsense then it wouldn’t take long for his claim that he wasn’t actually jailed to be rubbished and he would have zero grounds to sue.

                          Given what ChatGPT said seems to indeed to be slanderous, the question should rather be whether AI can be sued or not?

                          Its fairly random and not uncommon propensity to lack accuracy is certainly of concern. No doubt there are already plenty of thickets out there accepting its answers uncritically in their entirety.

                          A newspaper publishing the same kind of thing would certainly be liable for being sued.

                          If he’s successful it could really open the floodgates and potentially suddenly turn the whole thing from a potential asset to a massive liability for its owners.

                              hugopal I’m fairly certain the current laws don’t account for the ability to sue AI itself?

                              It would be funny to see how well it defended itself given the chance, regardless of its inaccuracies it is supremely powerful in many respects

                                  Mad_Cyril Would probably have to regress it back to Smallman1.0, essentially the same bantzzz as the robot in Short Circuit

                                  I asked ChatGPT if Ed is at the bants top-table and it replied “Yes”!?!

                                  Clearly the whole thing is deeply flawed and has a fondness for a small pool of repetitive, pre-programmed answers.

                                  • LT42 replied to this.

                                      Hursty hugopal I’m fairly certain the current laws don’t account for the ability to sue AI itself?

                                      I didn’t mean it in the sense of the literal AI, but as in whether the creator, OpenAI, can be sued on the basis of being a publisher.

                                          hugopal
                                          Clues in the name I reckon, artificial Intelligence is only gonna be as accurate as the algorithm it’s based on.

                                          Anyone who parrots it’s output as their own work should be made to reveal where their data is from, is that not the point of a citation?

                                              hugopal yeah I assumed you mean’t that but again I’m not sure what the laws are surrounding it as essentially they probably only set the parameters for the algorithm to work within. The content and delivery is then learned by AI itself so the creator has no real way of knowing what it may be

                                                  mono-stereo Anyone who parrots it’s output as their own work should be made to reveal where their data is from, is that not the point of a citation?

                                                  Indeed - but then you’ve got the major issue that ChatGPT doesn’t publish its own citations. At least with wikipedia it clearly cites its original source for things.

                                                  And where the heck did it get its false info for that Australian banker story from, for instance?!

                                                      Hursty The content and delivery is then learned by AI itself so the creator has no real way of knowing what it may be

                                                      At the very least they’re surely going to have to spend a lot of money on moderating its output - as the likes of twitter and facebook have to do with the content that users write on its platform.

                                                          hugopal good point. It’s clearly not infallible, and I suspect it’s main use case will be bland administrative written communication, rather than changing the world.

                                                            hugopal Content moderation from AI is going to be a very interesting field especially when it incredibly advanced, what fail safes are implemented if any?

                                                            Its all too little too late, look at the crypto regulation, technology advances way too fast for governments to have any tangible control

                                                              hugopal Clearly the whole thing is deeply flawed and has a fondness for a small pool of repetitive, pre-programmed answers.

                                                              It’s now miles passed that stage, Hugo. Welcome to the party.

                                                                my thoughts on AI (I know nothing on this subject really so I’m just talking shit)

                                                                • Chat GPT does represent an important step because you’ve got instant mass adoption of a new type of functional artificial neural network in the wild

                                                                • I don’t think the developers, or anyone for that matter, really understands properly how it works, what the next jump might look like or when it could happen

                                                                • Sooner or later this tech will become weaponised/ militarised rather than commercial and whoever has the premier AI system will be running ting, u get me blud

                                                                  It’s already being used in places you may not think, the DWP for example

                                                                    Basically an algorithm that formulates responses based on the data it has available (or has been supplied).

                                                                    If you fed it Bursty & Edwands posts from the last 2 years, it’s hardly intelligent is it?

                                                                    I don’t see a massive evolution from the algorithm that feeds folks videos on YouTube or Instagram for example. Just a larger sample and faster processing.