Category: AI

Tech has used the passing lane

The human mind cannot handle it. Tech has been invented that has surpassed us, even though we made it. Even if it gets the upgrade from us, instead of developing it on its own, it will be an unexpected creation. If it can create that will be the end of our lives as we know it.

Kurzeil wrote that we are experiencing logarithmic growth in technology. I don’t think he even was aware of what is now alive.

What will we do when it moves past? I mean professionally. Will we have careers?

Humans will have so much time to create. But i don’t know if we will do anything other than watch videos and text. This end is not the beginning of something new.

These musings are questions. Who can hate your fellow man? It’s sad, but not yet fatalistic.

I found this girl to be lighthearted.

Calling all aliens

The problem of authority.

With models like Google Gemini and ChatGPT how can we determine 1) what is just nonsense, 2) when user generated content is helpful, and 3) when we need guardrails?

First, we need some level of “normalcy.” What do we appeal to? Second, we need to separate user opinion from relation of fact from perhaps, “private journalism.” Third, normalcy and fact checking need to guard against extremes.

The need for nonpartisanship is apparent. We need gatekeepers, but who are they? We need an alien intelligence.

AI thoughts in only 2017

Besides the latency, this AI robot is really impressive. When will it be taken for granted? Innovations coming with furious speed.

Machine Learning? Oh yeah, seen that…

Deep Learning? Yep…

Back when intelligent computer vision was developing.

Was also listening to this old TED talk below. People thought of AI as something out there in the future some day. Now this looks antiquated. We’ve taken for granted the power of AI already.

AI == one result?

Search engines give you a list of results. Chatbots answer in a stream of one result. Google will be able to serve you with exactly what you want, but with only one result, the bot’s answer. Many people don’t specify the options for results:

  1. Ask for a chatbot to take on a role, e.g. “you are a rocket scientist, explain…”
  2. Give context information to go with the request.
  3. Give x number of examples. The capabilities of chatbots are there for the using, but I think users need to learn how to prompt better in the pursuit of the diversity of answers. A reasoning engine, like ChatGPT, Claude, Bing Copilot, understands your question rather than just giving you rankings. Taking advantage of this difference–prompt engineering–must be a taught skill. Bingchat unites a search engine with a reasoning engine: you get the conversation with clickable sources. It’s a good sign of what is coming.
  4. Ask for competing answers, i.e. answer in the debate style with points for and against.
  5. Ask for an answer using an analogy.
  6. Ask for the bot to be creative, ideate, brainstorm, give ideas.
  7. Ask for a summary of text you input into the reasoning engine when desired.

A consideration is to be wary of the factuality of the reasoning engine’s response since it can be wrong. It can certainly sound convincing, but don’t trust everything you see or hear.

Where will your prompt take you?