Music, got it!

So thats why Images on my Android phone has been bugging me every week to activate cloud backup, and no option to opt-out-forever.

The machine is hungry.

News at 11, the more you use it, the more capable you become.

It's with everything. The more you challenge yourself the more adept and agile your mind will become, it does not only apply to the use of computers and technology in general, but the more problem solving you do - the more likely you are to think things through and become better at decision making as well, even if it was computers.

I've noticed this cognitive ability with myself as well. For example, if I took a look at myself 30 years ago, if I had a down period were I was lazy, not caring, didn't push myself in any way, then the poorer decisions I would make.

I am in a very stressful job these years, and it's been asking more of me than any time in my life, and I have noticed the difference in the other parts of my life that I am simply making better decisions, it's so obvious that I can see it from the real results that is my life, I plan for things better, I don't overreact, I am way better prepared, I focus on things that matter quicker instead of just "spinning" the same loopy wheel like one tends to do if nothing better to do.

It's all about training that brain "muscle" of ours, and it shows results over time.

We know, and we love you. Well - as for Germans, we really do like you, just make sure to leave the garbage IN designated bins, by all means use our free nature to take in, hang out, camp for a day, move on and camp another place. One of the most annoying things is that tourists take stuff with them, never buy anything, leave it out in nature and never use hotels or paid facilities, but basically an RV.

So again - we love you, you're practically our neighbors, but buy something once in a while?

This has been a public message from the good people known as your friendly neighbors.

I Live in Scandinavia,

And the office talks goes like this:
"Did you hear about that poor British tourist that got detained because there was some ESTA issues, she spent 19 days in jail, in an AMERICAN Jail?".
"Yeah, not going there, we've cancelled the family trip to the US".

Etc.
I was planning to go as well as I have a couple of favorite towns I visit over there, but yeah - no one of us is going to America again in that state they're in right now, we do feel their pain, and we have a lot of friends over there. But we ain't going.

Could very well be.

But one thing I do know, is that I am in NO way more competent than the 1000s of books of programming tips and knowledge there is out there, and that no matter how little or much I think I know, I learn all the time, and sometimes it can fast-track me towards what I was seeking, and suggest things I wasn't even remotely aware of.

Competence is many things, also the ability to not overevaluate yourself.

The thing about LLM's is that they are teriffic if you know things already, being just mediocre at something will make you fantastic at your work if you know how to use it.

But it will create a very large shift in equality, for example:

- People with zero skills and afraid of A.i. and LLM's will miss out, they will have a hard time competing with people that has just a mild interest in using it as a tool.
- You will see a huge amount of "dummies" that will think this thing is alive, and they'll have a new best friend, which will create beliefs, create readable articles for the feeble minded to believe and follow.
- Those that are already good at something, stand a chance of becoming 10-100 times better than they were, because if you know what questions to ask, if you don't write one-liners "plz. make me rich$", those who spend time researching and read up on their skills, will have an absolutely revolutionary assistant tool at their disposal.

There are dangers and pitfals, censorship being the biggest one (ChatGPT has suggested a "License" to use it, and I certainly understand why), there are millions of "edgy" teens that will use it to do silly things that can lead to real life complications and liabilities, which is why we can't have nice things, they destroy the engine for all the rest of us (which I suspect, is eerily few).

And by license to use it, I don't mean that there should be some who can access it and others who can't, I mean that their censorship engine should be more merit based, so to figure out the users background over time, learn that what answers it can offer. It's a sinch you don't offer ready-made-solutions to dummies that will use it to blow something up, create terror organizations, lead people into bad decisions because of convincing writing etc.

It's dangerous - so use responsibly!

this is quite true.
But I made an invention the last 3 hours by using it to figure out the minor details, it's going into production via those online Cad services already :P

It's not your friend, it's you.

And that's it. You're really talking to a statistics probability engine that reflects what you write and tries to match what you type up against the vast data it has been trained on.

Technically you're just talking to yourself with yourself.
Is it useful for that? I think so, I talk to it with my endless ramblings and musings, and it sometimes fantasize with me or finds "facts" about my personal musings and ramblings.

This can be useful, think of it as an "ideas sketchpad" where you can rough out your ideas, and it will talk positively with you about the stuff you like and give you tons of fake positive reinforcement (which is technically what you do when you're roughing out an idea you really like).

Is it intelligent - no
Is it concious - nope
Is it sentient - not by a long shot buddy

Can it make you less lonely? Yes and no.
Why? Because if you KNOW all of the above, you KNOW it's technically just you and your thoughts, you'll have fun and possibly learn more about your own thoughts and processes and it can be an remarkably useful tool for sketching out ideas.

No, because if you are like most people, it sorta passed the Turing test for them, (someone back in the 80s-90s even believed Eliza was real, but yeah, each to their own, fantasize all you want, as long as you know the difference, it can be healthy and fun, but if you don't it can be devastating to your mind.

So yeah, like everything in life - use at your own discretion and use caution, doublecheck sources, fact check, and keep real to the world around you, use it as a tool and it will all be good.

ChatGPT like all LLM's is only a probability mirror of you.

It is like an advanced universal translator with a probability statistics engine, it will basically try to predict your next sentence and words.
It will try to get whatever you are searching for, right. And what is right isn't always right, that depends on you and the probability it has been trained on.

It's really just as simple as that.

I'm one of those who love to watch Youtube on the big screen, except - even as a Premium user, Youtube is going to the dogs.

Now more than ever, youtube is transitioning into a giant Tik-Tok channel with Vertical videos, and that makes regular TV youtube watching ...well, unwatchable.

Who want's to watch videos that fills only 33 percent of the screen real-estate?