At 93.4 (at the time of this writing), I find my creative juices are drying up. So, I’ve decided to rest on whatever laurels old writings might have earned, and use these posts in a competition with that newest AI marvel, chatGPT. I’ll set a theme from a given post, with a rough word limit, and request chatGPT to give me an essay on that theme.
A few preliminary experiments have yielded encouraging results. In one, I challenged chatGPT to write a short piece on whether AI could be a 12 Step sponsor. All the right answers were given: AI couldn’t be an addict or alcoholic and would not therefore have gone through the 12 Steps and consequently could not be a sponsor, etc.
The first few pieces have been published; see here. If any of you readers would like to subscribe, please punch the button…it’s free (ignore the pledge bit); or indicate in a comment below. I’ll get your email and add you to the subscription list.
And thank you all.
Do you think that if AI contained all the books in the Library of Congress it would be smart. No wisdom, no free will, no humanity.
Vger is on the loose again. Voyager after the crash.
MaryD, please don’t think that I believe AI will be conscious, self-aware. I’ve written on that elsewhere. It’s useful for science fiction, but that’s it. As Matt Briggs put it, (more or less quote)”AI is like all models; it will put out what’s put into it.”
Don’t have to be wise to be useful.
I am very amused by how a lot of the folks being Very Upset about AI are the ones who are ‘manipulating symbols’ rather than thinking. Machine is good at the first, not at the second; it’s very good for doing stuff like “keeping track of the thread of what rules have been applied,” which can help one catch equivocation.
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