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Can ChatGPT Write a Good College-Admissions Essay? -By Sanibel Chai​​

If it's not on your mind, it's on your kids mind. Trust me

(btw, start peppering your daily speech with the word "Bildungsroman". It'll be fun)

​May as well get out ahead of the issue: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/can-chatgpt-write-a-good-college-admissions-essay.html

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In reality, the gazelle only needs to outrun the slowest gazelle.

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what if there are two lions?

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Outrun second slowest, etc. ;)

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How to stop Meta from using some of your personal data to train generative AI models

Meta updated its help resource center with a form that gives users some control over what personal data is used to train generative artificial intelligence models.

The form doesn’t account for data on Facebook properties, such as Facebook comments and Instagram photos.

Last week, a consortium of global data protection agencies issued a joint statement about data scraping and protecting people’s privacy to companies including Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/30/how-to-stop-meta-from-using-personal-data-to-train-generative-ai-.html

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What's the point of using chatGPT to write stuff that's completely biased? What do you have to gain unless you're too busy to write your own papers or do your job.

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Well, 95% of topics you may cover are not politically loaded, for one. It's also useful to realise your competition will be using this, perhaps not for final output, but using it nonetheless.

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Aug 30, 2023Liked by Jimychanga

Yeah, I can see that but my fear is that almost everything has been politicized. Healthcare, education, etc. It just feels like they'll always be a slant to something. I often wonder if they'll manipulate facts like they manipulate history.

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Aug 30, 2023·edited Aug 30, 2023Author

Yep, but if we're going to have a voice we'll need to be conversant and familiar with it, especially if we have kids. It will permeate their lives and if you don't know how to use it easily, they will dismiss what you have to say IMHO.

I just know its here and most seem to be pretending it isn't.

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I've used it to our advantage business wise. It's great in a limited way. I don't think that it's anything close to being intelligent though.

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Do you have ANY IDEA HOW FAST things are moving/changing.

You need to hear this interview

https://youtu.be/gOFOa5R7p1E?si=es4-X_f7Nw5jCUFk

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Chat GPT just drew a graven image of God. Do you want to see?

https://youtube.com/shorts/Twpp0mJjDRQ?si=jVBaSyM3-_yO1Dbl

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While many positions like research and data analysis are in line for AI automation, for example, companies will still need someone to prompt the AI, make sense of the results and take action.

“My advice for anyone is to understand how AI could impact your position in your industry right now,” Toothacre said. “At least you have an idea of what to potentially expect versus having no idea what’s going on.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/16/ai-job-losses-are-rising-but-the-numbers-dont-tell-the-full-story.html

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I love this. Danica Patrick doesn't known shit about cars. That doesn't stop her from being on of the greatest race car drivers in history.

"I just drive 'em, really, really good"

https://youtube.com/shorts/NTYg9cgHvkA?si=rIpR0mBdCNoOG97G

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The numbers are mind-boggling. DeepMind built a model called Chinchilla and trained it with 1.4 trillion tokens. That huge training set enabled Chinchilla to outperform OpenAI’s GPT-3 (which was trained for 300 billion tokens) despite the fact that GPT-3 had more than twice as many parameters (175 billion) as Chinchilla (70 billion).

In short, to make powerful language models, you need a lot of computing power and you also need a lot of data. Which raises an important question: could we run out of training data?

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/ai-and-open-source-in-2023?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fchat%2520gpt&utm_medium=reader2

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"Top 30 ChatGPT alternatives that will blow your mind in 2023 (Free & Paid)” found at https://writesonic.com/blog/chatgpt-alternatives/

is a great way to learn !

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Stunning - Robot Beats Top Ping Pong Player - Video

AI is Changing things fast..

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/nmHzvQr3kYE

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If I was brain dead and unable to think for myself, maybe, just maybe chat gpt would have a very, very small place in my life. After going through the A/I assistant with an insurance company yesterday, the A/I revolution is about the most retarded invention ever. You can have it. I will NEVER need it to survive and live quite well.

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Uh, no: https://youtu.be/9yHYAG01aaY?feature=shared

Hallucination is reason enough not to get on board the ill-fated ChatGPT train:

> https://bra.in/3jbJ8k

But there are plenty more:

> https://bra.in/4jb7NB

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Thanks for the link.

Made an account. Wish I hadn’t.

The answers it gives about academic questions , middle school questions, covid questions, vaccine questions, all crap.

At least it’s good at chess.

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