I had found myself using ChatGPT increasingly over the past few months, but then just started backing away from it recently because of how censored the model feels. Even mundane requests that I've left to ChatGPT to take the lead on, with it prompting me with a dozen or so different questions about what it shoud do, will oftentimes end with it saying, "Sorry, I can't do that for you." And I'm just left frustrated like, "Ok, just do whatever the F you can do, I don't care, you've already wasted my time." Or trying to schedule tasks for it to do is so ridiculously painful, with no controls to fine-tune anything. Or just plain inconsistentsies between chats, it's just so incredibly frustrating to work with sometimes. It tells you what you thinks you want to hear but then endlessly doesn't do the things it's supposed to do. I actually hated the idea of using Grok and hate Elon Musk even more, but found myself switching to that for some tasks because it didn't throw up as many complaints as ChatGPT. I am curious to see how the "adult ChatGPT" offering ends up being, but if that is still more work than it's worth, I'd just end up canceling my $20 subscription to it, as it's really not been worth it for the few months I've had it. I've probably ended up moving to going back and forth between the different models anymore though, depending on what the task is. ChatGPT is kind of just a general purpose chat bot, image generation usually ends up being a waste of time. For anything that requires a bit more heavy lifting or less guardrails, I'll use whatever else. None of them are really great for "serious work", but they come in handy here and there with random projects.

I'm assuming he just saw Wrath of Khan recently and that's where the name came from.

Which episode of Big Bang Theory did this come up in?

I think it's underwhelming because the terminology isn't matching up with what they're trying to push it as. They keep trying to push it as being close to human intelligence or trying to get people scared about an AI Apocalypse or super intelligence or whatever, but it's nowhere near being able to do anything like that. If anything, all of this "AI" stuff is an evolution of search engines and autofill (though the image and video generation stuff is getting pretty good, albeit censored).

I just asked it earlier to generate a simple Excel file, something I should think that a Microsoft AI should... excel at, and the excel file was broken, unusuable. The one thing I would think it would be good at and it failed.

By far the worst one I've ever encountered is on Roblox. I have a parent account for my kids and whenever they inevitably have account problems I absolutely hate it and usually have to do a captcha for something or other. It's something like 10 really annoying captchas that you actually have to take some amount of time on. Half the time I quit out because I'm in a hurry and didn't realize I needed to dedicate that much time on it. That probably makes it more secure than any other site, but my kids still claim that there's so many hackers and bots on it (they're 8 year olds, just regurgitating whatever roblox youtubers are saying).

It's never enough for any of these people.

Since all of that data comes entirely from posts by users, can reddit itself claim to own any of the information that they have on their website (outside of whatever stupid TOS crap they have that says whatever you post is theirs)? Since the public are by and large the originators of all of their content, it's not like they put in the work for that content that Perplexity and others are scraping. The bigger issue it seems like is the lack of attribution, with Perplexity and others frequently not citing where the information comes from. Can't they just build the A.I.s to cite their sources whenever it outputs something that has a definite source, or are we past all that since they've already used all this content as training data already.

an advertisement than a warning.

2011-ish and she's still just as useless now as ever. If they had really been serious about AI they would have been making regular updates, but instead just let it flounder this whole time. I'm assuming they'll just add some LLM features on to it, which will make Siri even more unreliable, since she'll hallucinate half the shit she tells you.

Generate an image of a room with absolutely no elephants in it? This seemingly easy task seems to have stumped most of the chatbots– sorry, Large Language Model AI's.

"Write a funny joke about chatgpt that I can post on slashdot" "Why did ChatGPT apply for a job at the comedy club? It wanted to improve its "byte"-sized humor and master the art of punchlines!"

For some reason my Dad thought it'd be fun to have me try to learn programming when I was a kid and getting interested in computers, so he gave me a manual on Pascal to try learning. Didn't quite work out so well, but I always remember Pascal as the first programming language I was unsuccessful at learning. Since then though I'd never actually seen Pascal mentioned or used anywhere outside of that. I think this news is the first time I've seen Pascal mentioned anywhere in decades.

I'm more tired of poorly written crap. Disney was doing ok for awhile because the Marvel movies were at least competently written, not mind-blowing stuff or anything, just competent enough that the flaws weren't so glaring. Since they started pumping out Disney+ shows the quality of the writing has taken a nosedive, just lazy trash left and right. And somehow it's affected the movies because most of the movies have become formulaic now as well. Somehow even Taika Waititi couldn't even properly follow-up Thor Ragnarok (one of the best Marvel movies) and even his last movie was trash. Whether it's Star Wars or Marvel, their writing is rushed, transparent, and formulaic. Nothing logically connects and it's blatantly obvious that this convoluted scene is really just a vehicle to set up the next action scene, which leads to another convoluted scenario, and on and on. The last straw for me was Secret Invasion, just non-stop drivel and character assassination in service of just getting the plot from point A to point B, but no overall theme or soul to the show. I'm not tired of superhero movies, I'm tired of shitty writing that acts like the audience is too stupid to understand anything. Same with Star Wars, I'm just done with Disney's lack of quality in their scripts. Andor was this weird beacon of light that showed what a well-written Star Wars show could be and it just makes everything else look like trash in comparison.

In alot of sci-fi, it's sort of assumed that first contact will happen fairly rapidly, like we'll just get signals and/or meet the aliens and things go from there, but suppose it's a bit more "mundane" than that? What if we start picking up their signals and start seeing their culture beamed to us over a long period of time? Art and music and whatever other culture they produce, but that's all we get, we never really have a "conversation"? We see their culture grow over time, but we never actually make any contact with them for a century or more, if at all. We'd be like strangers in the night, just passing each other by. Imagine a segment of the population that just absolutely falls in love with this alien culture, that just completely takes on this alien culture's identity as their own, and so we have this part of the population that starts imitating a species that we've never even met before.