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This needs to be considered as a tool to make yourself more efficient.
I have recently used it for 2 purposes both as a technical writter. One was to develop a press release for an event a non-profit was putting on. I just gave basic information and it made it sound much better than I would have in very little time. Then with minor edits it is ready to go...
Another was to create a starting pont for a performance review. Just had to give it a list of accomplishments and it created a well written review that again just required minor edits.

Yes exactly this.

A real estate agent can have chatGPT draft a description for a listing and then do a quick edit. It's a more advanced version of copy/pasting a template to work off which always led to copy/paste errors because it's hard to catch every detail.

It's just a tool that makes people more efficient. The boomers are scared and imagining things because they haven't actually used it.

 

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The future of AI integrated into human like robots is exciting to contemplate, but it questions the future of work, economics and a host of other human activities and concerns.

It is also easy to conjure some nightmarish scenarios, where authorities and governments may determine that robotic militaries are a battlefield advantage they can't ignore.

Interesting times ahead for ethicists and decision makers, but if history is any guide we can rest assured someone will always push past the moral and ethical boundaries.

Rather the decisions are held and robots enhance people as a tool.

A fighter pilot can have drones as wingman that can be sent into danger and protect him. The human still calls the shots.

Try flying a DJI drone. It's doing a lot of automatic stuff to make it easy but you're still in control.

 

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I'm not sure what boomers have to do with all this.

It's great that AI could write real estate ads, or any product ad that requires to meet set information content for readers. Including food product ads for websites, etc. What we hope is the next generations have capacity to still communicate and write well, persuasively for complex concepts and ideas.

I agree it's a crutch like many things. You could make the same argument for calculators, computers, spell checkers etc.

I believe those are all useful tools. There are always tell tales signs of over dependence like people who confuse it's and its because the spell checker doesn't catch some things. Same with chatGPT you have to be aware of and augment its blind spots.

Who hasn't started with a previous report to get the foundation for their own? Are you telling me you write all your reports and briefings from scratch?

 

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AI is mostly pattern recognition, right now, and we use a lot of bad poorly thought out patterns.
AI will inflict whatever stereotypes it is programmed with.

The reason we didn't see the balloons is because "all" the airborne threats were fast and very fast, so the systems didn't look for slow moving objects. Like who'd launch an attack from a blimp?
Now I'll admit NORAD not noticing the balloons is a bad pattern in the pattern recognition algorithm, but that's all the rest of our AI/Deep learning systems are today.

I posted a previously classified slide that NORAD did track balloons both in Canada and Alaska. It's not an AI filter that adjusts itself. If Russia/China are testing response then there is a reason things are classified.

For things like Red Flag or Maple Flag all those filters are off unless there is too much clutter. Things like identification zones are also monitored closer with layered sensors. But yes if you know the exact system there's always potential ways to bypass detection maybe for some time.

None of those slow moving objects were threats. Although it is time for NORAD to upgrade surveillance for real threats. It's not the derelict balloons though. There's talk about how new technologies will work I wouldn't call current system AI.

 

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There is always clutter and noise in any reading.
It is ALWAYS filtered out to some degree.

Now that could be some advanced AI based system, or it could simply be a basic signal filter.

There are many different types of filters and displays for many different reasons. I had like 100 buttons for preset filters and overlays for many situations.

We could also look at the raw analog data in real time on the right display or plot it afterwards with software. No AI is filtering things out by speed or other ways. There are pulse doppler filters and things like beaming a radar, which is a tactic. Even the recent balloons shot down weren't assessed as a real threat and don't compare at all to real threats and things we deal with like maneuvering, jamming and missiles that give you minutes to react. These balloons take days to even get somewhere.

We have people actively degrading radars both friendly, accidentally, and with intent. AI could probably help a lot in those situations but it's always a game of cat/mouse.

 

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To use GPT3 with GoogleSheets:

• Go to OpenAI.com and create an account
• generate an API key
• Open GoogleSheets, go to extensions, and install "GPT for Sheets and Docs"
• Go to extentions, GPT for Sheets and Docs, add API key

Now use the GPT3() call in your sheets as you wish. There are YouTube videos on how to use it but it is extremely straight forward.

ChatGPT is just a chat front end to GPT3. OpenAI is working on some interesting front ends to GPT3.

What are you doing with it scraping web data into spreadsheets?

Google finance is the best tool I have for crypto taxes because it can import crypto data natively. Some data is missing though especially new blockchains or protocols. Maybe GPT can help automate my crypto taxes. I've paid for several dedicated services but none of them can keep up how fast things are changing.

By the way you will be able to allocate and monetize unused computer resources to this stuff. It's still in development but looks very promising. All CLI on Linux of course.

 

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I think the problem is more that it isn't merely a database. Google has had fact cards for years now (often sourced from wikipedia). GPT3 is sourcing data from many sources and synthesizing.

Google, Siri, Alexa etc rely heavily on WolframAlpha. I've been using WolframAlpha for over a decade even before it was integrated into those assistants. Now it's integrated into many things like Excel. It does exactly what james is describing.

So GPT is doing something far more than that. This is just one service that was made public. I've seen others that can watch you do tedious/repetitive computer tasks and then try to automate it for you. Basically what coders do.

 

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Joyful... you mean the teachers have to screen their students' essays to catch any kid using AI? I find this so sad and adds another work burden, when already the teachers are seriously challenged ..ie. behavioural problems, etc. There's nothing celebrate about this type of necessary adult vigilance and of course, kids will not appreciate it that we are trying to help them with skills development.

If only there was a tool that could screen for that.

Some teachers realized they could use GPT to grade essays long before this news about students using it hit mainstream media. I could tell teachers weren't really reading all the essays in the first place. They always ran it through a program to confirm there was no plagiarism and then read the first, last and a few random pages.

Do you think spell checker is good or bad?

 

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Gaining written literacy comes from: word recognition, how to write coherently and with good punctuation.

I agree it's a crutch, like many things. But I doubt you'll turn off your spellchecker, throw out your calculator, or your smart phone/pc

Corporate world is using chat apps now. Asia was ahead I think with WeChat. Writing out an email has so many unnecessary words.

Like that guy who writes cheers at the end of every post Imagine writing good day I hope this finds you well for every post.

 

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How pathetic. This is what I mean pathetic numeric literacy. AND the hand caculator was right beside the cash machine. This is survival skill when our systems break down. And they do.

There's always dumb people. Always has been always will be.

I learned math even though the calculator existed. Kids can learn to write even if chatGPT exists.

Neither the calculator or chatGPT or a PC make anyone smart or dumb. It's just a tool imo