Regardless of using AI tools or not, there’s always a variety of information to sift through if you want to research something and get a solid, full spectrum result. If an LLM can save me time in that process, then great. If it can’t, then there’s no point in asking it.

To me, GPT is like having a buddy who’s both a knowledge hound and a master bullshitter. Always keep that in mind, and it’ll be much more useful as the tool that it is.

And IME, training it over time greatly helps with such hallucinations and ‘confidently incorrect’ stuff. In a way, it’s not unlike carefully curating a feed over time.

Quite true, which is why I try to double-check whatever the output is, and of course read all the other results, comparing and contrasting. One must do this with news and loads of other data, so it’s at least a developed skill.

Thanks. And it’s indeed very good from my experience.

Google Translate has the pronunciation database (a separate project) and the ability to translate from whole images, but it’s pretty clearly not as good.

Would DeepL actually be considered an LLM?

I doubt OpenAI will fundamentally change how GPT works, but you never know. Possibly the next gen of LLM’s will learn from the failings of this generation and be fundamentally constructed better.

Not saying I don’t realise the cost, either. Better LLM’s will arguably have a much worse outcome for humanity. I’m just talking here about personal ways to get some use out of them. I actually started writing an article about how this might help in brainstorming sketches, but I’m probably not going to ever finish / publish it.

I know very little about the history of the project, but I feel pretty confident in saying that it’s come a long way since then. I mainly use it these days for complex searches which would be useless in Google.

I must say, it’s really great at understanding nuance and pulling information from a bunch of sources. Maybe ~90+% success rate for that, while Google’s built in AI for searches is hilariously inept about a third of the time. My current takeaway is basically: ‘get to know where its strengths are, while avoiding its wonky areas.’

Haha, I feel this.

One thing I want to mention is that with GPT you can add a bunch of global settings to craft the kinds of responses you get. It helps a lot with that first DATA response, FWIW.

Also, as there are always people outside on the porch, the wasps are totally chill with everyone and no one has ever been stung or swooped at.

In the States, our yellowjackets don’t swoop and sting much, but they have a super-annoying tendency to hover over one’s food. Possibly the behavior’s a bit different where you are, possibly via related but different species.

The most gobsmacking moment I’ve ever seen from a game show was from a 70’s-80’s show called “Joker’s Wild,” in which contestants would pull a ‘gambling lever,’ and spin three new trivia categories in to slot machine-style windows. Such a cheesy-ass concept, but it was actually kinda cool, and very effective for the day!

You can see a short clip here to give you an idea of what it was like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC61NPPiZrA

During a 1972 episode, a contestant spun the category “Annual Events,” which was illustrated with a groundhog. The subsequent question was about Groundhog Day, but the contestant pointed out the answer was already visibly depicted on the category slot.

I’ve seen video of it, and the host of the show, Jack Berry I think? …lol, simply COULD NOT accept that, like a crooked ref. He did everything he could to wriggle away from the fact that the contestant was not only RIGHT, but pointed out a hilarious flaw in their game design.

Haha, that was a fun show. I used to watch it in the 80’s…

I still don’t quite understand what’s going on with him.

Is his torso the result of wearing a girdle all his waking hours?

Amazing, thorough, and even-handed analysis. I both thank and salute you for that. So I’ll edit the title in a bit, reflecting this stuff.

In my defense, I have a disease which leaves me tired most of the time, and I also happen to have floaters in my eyes. This seemed a pretty low-stakes video, so I ‘went for it.’

Altho interestingly, from what I understand of how the eyes and brain work, it seems we commonly fill in a lot of context above and beyond the info our raw vision imparts to us, helping to make our finished vision a smoother and fuller experience. Indeed, i seems like these AI videos actually kind of prey on how that works for us. Very clever, but routinely giving the impression (upon inspection) of being nothing but big fat lies.

Cats sometimes do funny and unexpected things and sometimes people are filming at just the right moment to capture it, but it’s precisely because those things are unusual and rarely captured that they’re big hits online.

I have to disagree here. I’ve had several cats across my lifetime, and almost every one had one or more unique, quirky behaviors that didn’t take much effort to replicate for a theoretical video. Because cats are curious, playful creatures, so whether its using a frozen pool as a skating rink, diving in to boxes of packing peanuts, or yes… playing on trampolines, when you add a favorite person of theirs and perhaps a treat, Robert’s your avuncular figure. The video got me NOT because it seemed far-fetched, but because it was highly plausible, cute, funny, and bite-sized in length.

Dang, are you sure? I’ve seen cats do stuff like this with their owners and trusted people, so am kinda baffled why someone would need to use AI for this.

Dammit…

It’s not AI, far as I can tell. Are you saying it is?

I choose to believe!

I’ve no idea what those shows(?) are, but I imagine it would all be pretty amusing.

Yeap, that glare…

Cute!

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Oof, what a great mini-series. Almost like Alec Guinness finishing up Star Wars, throwing his hands in the air and exclaiming “I still have no idea what THAT was all about” and proceeding to kill it as George Smiley, in a more familiar-style piece.

Looks like a bit of Matt Dillon rubbed off on him in that pic.

Too bad he’s so cool in some ways, yet a high-ranking member of a terrible cult OTOH.

There are couple free versions for Android (and I would guess, Apple too).

Lone Wolf Saga was adapted from what were originally books, I believe. There’s even a sequel series, I think. Choice Games, (i.e. the one with Ranger saga, Wizard saga, Thief saga etc) is also great, with some seriously impressive writing.

There are a couple others on my phone I could scrounge up if anyone’s interested.

HAHAHAHA, that’s awesome.

Like the next gen of… what was it again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwVh8pmOot4