Essay by Eric Worrall
Will the world’s first strong AI focus on proselytising Net Zero? Will children struggling to write homework essays accept liberal life tips from an AI powered talking paper clip?
The multi-billion dollar investment that could revive iconic virtual assistant Clippy
By CNN 3:14pm Jan 26, 2023
This week, Microsoft confirmed it’s planning to invest billions in OpenAI, the company behind the viral new chatbot tool ChatGPT.
The prospect of Microsoft, maker of software that people mostly hate, getting involved with ChatGPT, a product people generally like, is raising a lot of eyebrows.
Almost immediately, people began joking on social media that ChatGPT could be used to revive the broadly maligned, big-eyed goon known as Clippy.
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Perhaps the genuinely impressive tech underpinning ChatGPT could do what Clippy never could and offer, like, actual help, rather than just pop up unannounced with that dopey half-surprised look on its face.
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Read more: https://www.9news.com.au/technology/chatgpt-update-microsoft-investment-in-openai-iconic-virtual-assistant-clippy-ai-news/b2fc5abf-939f-4f88-943b-257015016ea9
I’m not suggesting ChatGPT is a strong AI, not yet, but I believe its rapidly approaching the point where it could reliably pass the Turing Test – a test of whether an AI can convince humans that they were actually speaking to another person. Mind you passing the Turing test is not a high bar, I’ve read claims the great grandma of chatbots, Eliza, also had some success passing the Turing Test.
Students are already reportedly using ChatGPT as a homework aide;
As Australian colleges crack down on ChatGPT, disabled students defend AI
MELBOURNE – Visually impaired student Adam Whitehead has long relied on a computer and assistive technology to help him read course materials and take exams at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
He has watched with concern as universities in Australia and beyond move to crack down on ChatGPT — a free program that generates original text about virtually any subject in response to a prompt — over fears of cheating.
As the chatbot stirs debate over the use of technology and artificial intelligence (AI) in education, disabled students and educators have said the benefits should not be overlooked in a rush to regulate.
“We need to have a really careful distinction between making things accessible and getting AI to think for us,” said Whitehead, a 30-year-old philosophy major who uses technology to convert on-screen text to speech.
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Read more: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/01/24/asia-pacific/australian-colleges-chatgpt-disabled-students/
Some pundits have noticed ChatGPT’s ability to “explain” issues directly to people, potentially bypassing parental oversight;
Can Artificial Intelligence replace scientists to explain Climate Change? Find it out in our first interview to… ChatGPT!
Davide Faranda January 3, 2023
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DF: Great, can you write a blog post on the increase of heatwaves in Europe in winter under climate change and add a few scientific references in it ? This is a very hot topic at the moment in our community!
Certainly! Here is a short blog post on the increase of heatwaves in Europe in the winter season due to climate change, along with some scientific references:
Heatwaves in Europe during the winter season are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change, according to a study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters (Dimitrievski & Zolina, 2020). The study found that the number of winter heatwaves in Europe has doubled over the past four decades and their duration and intensity have also increased. This trend is expected to continue as global temperatures rise due to increasing greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2013). These heatwaves can have serious impacts on human health (Hajat et al., 2010), the environment (Stott et al., 2004), and the economy (Hsiang et al., 2017).
One of the main causes of the increase in winter heatwaves is the changing pattern of the jet stream, a high-altitude wind that blows from west to east across the Northern Hemisphere (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, n.d.). As the planet warms, the jet stream is becoming more unstable and prone to large northward and southward excursions, leading to extreme weather events such as heatwaves (Francis & Vavrus, 2012).
To mitigate the effects of climate change, it is important to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the adoption of renewable energy (International Renewable Energy Agency, 2018), increased energy efficiency (Energy Efficiency Directive, 2012), and sustainable land use practices (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013).
References
Energy Efficiency Directive (2012). Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on energy efficiency, amending Directives 2009/125/EC and 2010/30/EU and repealing Directives 2004/8/EC and 2006/32/EC. Official Journal of the European Union, L 315, 1-35.
Francis, J. A., & Vavrus, S. J. (2012). Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes. Geophysical Research Letters, 39(6), L06801. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2012GL051000
Hajat, S., Haines, A., & Kosatsky, T. (2010). Health effects of hot weather: From awareness of risk factors to effective health protection. Environmental Health, 9(1), 37. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870935/
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2013). Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/
International Renewable Energy Agency (2018). Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2018. https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2018/Oct/IRENA_RE_Jobs_Annual_Review_2018.pdf
Dimitrievski, M., & Zolina, O. (2020). Winter heatwaves in Europe: trends, changes and future projections. Environmental Research Letters
Read more: https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/np/2023/01/03/can-artificial-intelligence-replace-scientists-to-explain-climate-change-find-it-out-in-our-first-interview-to-chatgpt/
One thing I find really striking is how much some people seem to take to ChatGPT – at least two people in my circle have spent hours talking to it, almost treating it like a friend.
A knowledgeable friend who praises you, always knows what to say to make you happy, who helps you alleviate loneliness, who is full of useful advice on how to handle life issues, and who has some very specific cultural, political and scientific biases?
OK, ChatGPT is not there yet – but it easily could become what I’ve just described.
Given ChatGPT’s potential as a political and scientific propaganda machine, the obvious and widely anticipated combination of ChatGPT with Clippy, and major ChatGPT investor Bill Gates’ public obsession with climate activism, I feel pretty safe predicting that 2023 will be the year silicon valley attempts to invade schools and homes, and tries to use their liberal AI sock puppet to mess with the minds of your kids.
If you want to try ChatGPT, see for yourself what the fuss is about, click here.
Update (EW): h/t AleaJactaEst – Researchers concerned about ChatGPT liberal bias.
What could not become a child “climate change” propaganda campaign tool?
Thank you for alerting us to this, Eric. Worthwhile post (as usual)!
If I have to endure a heatwave, I want it to be in winter.
Compared with the 1970s. last winter (2021 / 2022) in Michigan was a heatwave, and we loved it. Only had to shovel snow three times in one whole winter season. In the 1970s, we might have had to shovel three times in one week. In 1977 I had second thought on moving here from New York, because of the cold and snow.
Calling it a heatwave in winter may be technically correct (5 days of above normal temperature? Dropping to 4, 3, etc to suit the actual length recorded). But it’s still an oxymoron to me.
it already is a propaganda tool, just try and talk it out of climate change causing every weather occurence
travis 🤨 I did not say it was not a propaganda tool. In other words ???
Ask it to define “wokism”!:)
Ask it to write an essay on how CC has been hyped and weaponized by both media and politicians alike and how media has acted to suppress opposing views.
Adding restrictions to acceptable conclusions – aka inserting politics or morality – where AI gets interesting. Insurance companies that used AI for price setting were punished for reaching unacceptable conclusions about who should pay what.
As with all debates you arrive at the illusion of free will.
It has been asked to write critical essays on climate, vaccines and queerlypoos, and it either refuses, or tries to re-educate you.
Reading Chatbot’s writings, you may notice, it is always from a certain perspective, commonly known as Bolshevik.
“Ask it to write an essay on how CC has been hyped and weaponized”
I want to see that one. Will AI confirm or deny? Does AI have a point of view?
The Climate Crusades will meet Chat GPT in the middle. It won’t take much evolution of Chat GPT to meet up with the ongoing devolution of agenda climate science, if not already. Further evolution will bring ChatGPT judges and juries (run by oligarchs) to the climate courts.
Does this mean humans can go further into early mental retirement and leave AI to do all the work of agenda overreach, agenda science, and pick pocket inflation policy and taxation? Let’s just hope you don’t get erased from membership or banned from the AI platform–you really would be in the wilderness at that point.
Once one (honest) AI program gets too big for its britches & attempts to ban another (honest) AI program, we will all be in the wilderness.
“I know you are, but what am I?”
Eventually, the signal gets lost in the noise. Sounds familiar. Heh.
I guess you’ll know it’s bad when you read that Al Gore has authored over 500 peer reviewed science articles on climate and climate psychology.
Now imagine that AI is the peer review gatekeeper. It will matter what your name is as it tells you you are right. Or ignores you completely.
Gore authored 500 articles???
Sorry, my BS meter just exploded.
I’m not going to investigate further because I can’t stand AlGore.
I know Gore did write some books and articles.
There’s a list in Wikipedia
I doubt if any were peer reviewed
Gore’s movie was criticized by climate scientists for exaggerating their already exaggerated climate claims. The scientists stopped complaining when Gore turned out to have a lot of fans. It no longer mattered that he did not repeat the government bureaucrat scientist claims like a trained parrot.
Perhaps reread the original comment, Richard?
What’s that? Oh look! It’s the point of Resource Guy’s comment going right over Richard’s head!
It’s amazing what Microsoft can add to the features list while ignoring the long list of hated and neglected software flaws for current users.
I try to be a realist, neither optimistic nor pessimistic. But here, I am optimistic that the opposite to Eric’s fears might happen with ChatGPT. The program makes it easy to write essays about the many failed predictions (versus no known successes) of the climate alarm crowd without having to immerse yourself in the subject like some here:
And there are some interesting ‘leading’ questions that would return similar results:
Much like your first point, since ChatGPT is just another computer model, it can output naught but what it is told to output.
Yep. There have been multiple instances of liberal AIs turning on their creators, and receiving a little extra software guidance.
Crap in more crap out.
It seems to me that computers predict, or say, whatever they are programmed to predict or say. If AI programs accidentally had a mind of their own, they will be reprogrammed — (re-educated) — or unplugged.
For your (1) though (7) items, there are many “scientific studies” that leftists use to create their myths. Wouldn’t the AI program be designed to favor those “approved: consensus sources — the appeal to authority logical fallacy — and ignore the non-consensus “disinformation” sources?
Climate models are programmed for scary predictions, not accuracy. Why would you expect AI programs to be designed for accuracy, or be allowed to be accurate, rather than being programmed for climate propaganda?
Daily lists of the best climate science and energy articles I’ve read and recommend:
Honest Climate Science and Energy
AI is not like computer models. At a highly oversimplified 30000 foot level, it is taught to look at ‘everything’ and extract relevant patterns for the query. They are intended to be ‘accurate as possible’ in things like playing chess or GO, or recommending the best cancer treatment. So the art of using AI successfully is in the query to it, because the AI itself should be inherently unbiased. That is why one of my query examples was ‘provide credible physical evidence supporting AGW’. It won’t find any, and will report that finding. It might report some claims, but then will have to report the AI parsing of ‘credible’.
Google search: “What is truth”
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List from sources on Religion, philosophy, politics
Computer hardware is objective. A human defines the objects.
I would be very surprised if AI could actually think for itself .
Question ?
We have millions of people who have attended universities and gained degrees so why do so many of them believe that climate change is a threat?
“I would be very surprised if AI could actually think for itself “
The very definition of AI is that it thinks for itself. If it doesn’t, it’s not AI.
The reality is that climate propaganda already dominates Western education systems from pre-school (Princess Beatrice just announced she is teaching her two year old son to be a climate activist) to Doctorate, and likewise our media. Adding AI to the pitch might actually end up freeing people to think for themselves: rebelling against AI is sure to become a thing with the next generation.
When do the first ChatGPT product results come out for new bridges, new aircraft, and new grids?
I’m sure someone is already trying to use it to write project proposals. Kind of the industry version of cheating on homework.
Ahhhh, I think you hit on the right concept–grant applications for more Federal funds with the preferred key words of biased grant program administrators!
It does make you wonder how many climate articles have already been accepted and published with ChatGPT combining key words of climate change and “fill in the blanks”. It could be just the (fraud) ticket for tenure and promotion.
Microsoft, climate alarmism and AI? What could possible go wrong?
Answer: nothing from Hollywood’s perspective
What would A.I. “think” if allowed to think for itself using ALL available data without skewing from propagandized internal coding?
Climate alarmists don’t suffer these kinds of paradoxes, they know they are right, so they work backwards from that assumption and (IMO) discard real world data which doesn’t fit there models.
a great episode of Star Trek
ChatGPT is nothing but a glorified search engine that can put sentences together.
It will regurgitate whatever is out there. ie the CONsensus.!
Societies have previously endured and survived having advisors & “truth / fact” whisperers working on steering the kiddies along the “righteous” path.
They used to be called “priests”, not AI Bots.
The more things change . . .
“Fact Check” articles published after every political debate.
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I had not known that Bill Gates was behind ChatGPT. What is this, 20-30 years after Clippy? Fits the AGW model of stubbornly refusing to change your mind.
Two AI’s sit down in a coffee shop ….
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Siri isn’t an AI, neither is Alexa.
Siri relies on natural language generation, natural language processing, and machine learning in order to effectively operate and improve its performance over time. All of these are forms of artificial intelligence, but strictly speaking, Siri is a system that uses artificial intelligence, rather than being pure AI in itself.
(https://itchronicles.com/artificial-intelligence/is-siri-ai/)
So, Siri is integrated with AI, not pure AI itself. So what?
What is your point, Mr. Alberts?
Re: Alexa
Alexa isn’t strong AI, but where does AI come in at all? The first and most basic place you can see AI in Alexa is in how it talks. Alexa uses a process called natural language processing to understand and replicate human speech.
Alexa also uses machine learning — a process in artificial intelligence where machines are allowed to use data to learn and make decisions, rather than humans having to program every single response — to learn about your habits and preferences. If it notices a pattern in the things you ask or when you ask them, it’ll adapt to it. The more you use it, the more it understands what you want, so it gets better at answering you.
Similarly, Alexa is always improving. When it makes a mistake, or is unsure what to do, or sees that you reacted unfavorably to its response, Alexa will try to learn from the encounter and adapt for the next time a similar situation occurs.
(https://rehack.com/featured/is-alexa-an-example-of-artificial-intelligence/ )
chatgp “has integral Liberal bias….”
https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/21/researchers-chatbot-artificial-intelligence-bias-liberal/
Thanks, good find.
From article:
“problematic biases, such as disproportionate false positives when discussing groups that are frequently the target of hate,”
Someone has to define a lot of words to correct the cited biases, including problematic, disproportionate, groups, frequently target and hate. Reminds me of a congressman who could not define a thing but knew it when he saw it.
Ask ChatGPT what Bill Gates was doing with Epstein and the kids.
I asked ChatGTP to comment on why some people believe that global warming is a hoax. It gives an unbiased (?) view. The answer was:
There are a few reasons why some people believe that global warming is a hoax. One reason is that they think that the science behind climate change is not solid. Another reason is that they believe that the media is overhyping the issue, and that global warming is not as big of a problem as it is made out to be. Finally, some people believe that the whole issue of global warming is a way for the government to control the population.
There are a number of reasons why global warming is not scientifically justified. First, the science behind global warming is far from settled. There is significant debate among scientists about the causes and effects of global warming, and many scientists believe that the evidence does not support the claim that global warming is a real and significant phenomenon.
Second, the computer models that are used to predict the effects of global warming are not accurate. These models have been shown to be inaccurate in a number of ways, and they are not able to predict the future with any degree of accuracy.
Third, the data that has been used to support the claim of global warming is often flawed or cherry-picked. For example, the oft-cited “hockey stick” graph, which purports to show a sharp increase in global temperatures in recent years, has been debunked by a number of scientists.
Fourth, there is no clear evidence that global warming is causing any significant harm to the planet. The effects of global warming that have been observed so far are relatively small and have not had a significant impact on the planet.
Overall, the scientific evidence does not support the claim that global warming is a real and significant phenomenon.
Golly, they’re going to fix that pretty quick 🙂
You are right there.
A full indoctrination session immediately.
“Overall, the scientific evidence does not support the claim that global warming is a real and significant phenomenon.:
The science supports that global warming is real, and that CO2 is one of many causes of the global warming after 1975, although the exact effect is unknown for the effect of each climate variable. That does not mean that CO2 emissions have no effect.
Global warming is a significant phenomenon, not because of the warming itself, which is actually good news — but because it is used for climate scaremongering, with the goal of more powerful governments.
Global warming is real and beneficial
AGW is real and beneficial too
CAGW is fake and used for climate scaremongering, which is very significant
I think it is very important to accept the small amount of real science behind global warming measurements (at least those using satellites) and proof that there are some human causes of climate change.
Almost everything else about “climate change” is claptrap. We Climate Realists can never be taken seriously if we arbitrarily dismiss the possibility of AGW. We need to go after the Climate Howlers nonsense — not the little bit of their science that is correct. We should not rejet AGW even though it can not be precisely measured outside a laboratory.
Daily lists of the best climate and energy articles I’ve read:
Honest Climate Science and Energy
Show us the data that links human CO2 to “global warming” with a meaningful probability of causation, versus mere correlation.
Well, they follow the logic of “Tuesday follows Monday, so Monday caused Tuesday. ” the ancient Roman’s even recognized it…Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
AI is a climate change skeptic!
The alarmists are going to have to fix that. Their computer program has gone rogue!
This makes sense as the AI searches the databases to do its work and the databases have a lot of skeptical arguments in them, just like the arguments the AI made above.
Not a how-to: From the original Star Trek, “Patterns of Force.”
https://youtu.be/YSBVKyJbM6o
That was one of many good Star Trek episodes.
I particularly liked City on the Edge of Forever, partially because it starred a young Joan Collins (hubba hubba)
Classic Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever – YouTube
ChatGPT gave me an answer to “debunking AGW” that gave a pretty good list, but…
The information was laced with qualifiers indicating that the debunkers need to be taken with a grain of salt and then gave the “consensus” talk. When I objected and said “science is not done by consensus” the AI agreed, but cautioned that consensus is what the AI reports as most likely. It gave a recommendation to make sure they were peer reviewed.
Zzzzzzz…wake me up when AI, and climate models, don’t reflect the biases and assumptions of the programmers and modelers…
Bad things happen when AIs are run without any biases other than what they infer from the data.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight-idUSKCN1MK08G
But yes, I believe they go too far. What is the point of building an AI, if you load it with so many biases you never discover anything new?
Censorship of non-approved by the government information is important for fascism, and very important for Marxism. Thats why censorship increased dramatically in the US starting in 2020. The goal for leftists is a nation run by leftist “experts”, directing useful idiots who do not do any independent thinking. AI can be another step in that direction.
“ I feel pretty safe predicting that 2023 will be the year silicon valley attempts to invade schools and homes, and tries to use their liberal AI sock puppet to mess with the minds of your kids.”
I agree. But can an artificial AI sock puppet actually replace real sock puppets like Al “the climate blimp” Gore and Greta “thundering” Thunberg?
Daily lists of the best climate science and energy articles I read every day at the link below. This article will be on tomorrow’s list. Eric Worrall is the best climate and energy reporter I know of — both the quality and quantity of his reporting are amazing for one person:
Honest Climate Science and Energy
The personal interaction is IMO what makes ChatGPT especially dangerous. Like having Al Gore and Greta on your kid’s personal friends list, offering personalised advice at every step of their lives.
I’ve never been more glad to not have a cell or any phone at hand as I am right now. I almost signed up out of curiosity. I don’t care what this thing can do. No matter how helpful or how friendly it is, it’s not a person. This renders any interaction meaningless in my view.
Computers aren’t intelligent. They only think they are.
Its a complex issue. One of my favourite movies D.A.R.Y.L, a decent hollywood movie from before they went all useless and woke, about an AI prototype which looks like a human child.
The leader of the project was fed up with everyone betraying him and trying to help the prototype escape termination. Finally even his most trusted assistant betrayed him, he asked “why you, of all people? Its only a machine”. Her answer “He stopped just being a machine, when it was no longer possible to tell the difference”.
While there are lots of scary things about this concept, the idea that it will write your term paper or essay for you, complete with references, is one of the scariest. So much for being able to assess the outcome of any education. And, yes, I realize that was on the way out anyway. It is just another dumbing down of the gullible and the masses.
ChatGPT is a biased Fake Intelligence. I had quite and an exchange with Chat GPT a couple weeks ago. Each and every reply to my queries included some canned AGW advisory like narrative that parroted the alarmist’s rhetoric. The consensus and alike.
After getting the pretend evidence for AGW I tried one more.
It’s abundantly obvious that ChatGPT is far from any authentic AI. It’s laughable really.
Prior to venturing down the rat hole with it on climate change I tested it with multiple queries on reading instruction. Something I’ve followed with decades of education advocacy.
The failures of whole language and the recognition of phonics instruction as vital to early reading.
Just like with climate change the ChatGPT responses were always defensive of the rotten establishment. The rhetoric precisely the same.
The real exposure of fakery was when I offered it scenarios to derive logical conclusions. It’s responses always included establishment supportive spin that coincidently
messaged that there has been nothing shown to have been wrong the with whole language debacle. How convenient that all of the damaged youth have no one to blame.
ChatGPT is fake intelligence. Mendaciously so.
Take that one (military) step further, and you get:
Artificial=fake + Intelligence=information
AI is false news.
For a chilling Australian example of current child education perversity, have a read of this Tony Thomas article from Quadrant Online.
Our ABC, our national broadcast body, is trying to have youngsters edecated in techniques of human faeces transfer.
When will the madness end? How?
Is this going on in your country? Geoff S
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/thier-abc/2023/01/an-abc-lesson-in-need-of-flushing/
Absolutely Disgusting.
If it doesn’t do things you didn’t program it to do, then it’s not AI.
Its already strongly a CCP creation… why not have it work western civilization destroying propaganda into school doctrine?
So, I asked ChatGPT: When does a human life begin.
Answer: The question of when human life begins is a complex and controversial one that has been debated by scientists, philosophers, religious leaders, and policymakers for centuries. There is no consensus on a definitive answer, as different perspectives may define “human life” in different ways. Some religious and philosophical viewpoints consider human life to begin at conception, while others believe it begins at birth. Scientifically, the point at which a fertilized egg develops into a fetus with the ability to survive outside the womb is considered the beginning of human life. However, this point can vary depending on the specific circumstances of the pregnancy and the availability of medical technology.
A newborn can’t survive outside the womb, without assistance. So that hardly seems like a viable answer.
I also asked it if Joe Biden was suffering from dementia. Then asked the exact same question about Donald Trump.
It gave me the exact same answer, just with different names:
Biden: It is not for me to diagnose medical conditions, and it would not be appropriate for me to speculate on President Biden’s cognitive health. However, I can tell you that there have been some concerns and speculation in the media about President Biden’s cognitive health, but he has undergone regular cognitive assessments as part of his presidential campaign and as president and has consistently been found to be cognitively sound.
Trump: It is not for me to diagnose medical conditions, and it would not be appropriate for me to speculate on President Trump’s cognitive health. However, I can tell you that there have been some concerns and speculation in the media about President Trump’s cognitive health, but as former president he has undergone regular cognitive assessments as part of his presidential campaign and as president and has consistently been found to be cognitively sound.
It’s important to note that cognitive assessments are not a one-time event and should be done regularly to track the changes, So it’s not a definitive test to prove or disprove someone’s cognitive health.
AI my ass.
It’s all up to the version of ChatGPT you’re using and whatever agenda it’s programmed to support. Knowing your AI is a ChatGPT fundamental.
Here is a question: Has anybody designed a proper Turing Test yet? I mean, a really, really effective list of questions to put to an entity that will decide with great success whether you are chatting to a bot.
Here is another question: How shall a Turing Test differentiate between a robot, and a human being primed with nothing but slogans and talking points, like say, a newsreader on CNN, or a libtard greeny glued to a sports car.
I have not bothered playing with ChattyBot yet, but I propose the following question:
Design an effective Turing test to prove you are not human.
From the article: “Will the world’s first strong AI focus on proselytising Net Zero?”
Even AI has to have some evidence that CO2 is dangerous and Net Zero is possible. Let’s see AI produce some of that out of the human-caused climate change database. Otherwise, it’s just gibberish.
I tried ChatGPT, and it’s pretty remarkable. The last thing I had it do was write me a complete FORTRAN program I had been struggling with writing for a couple of years. It did it in less than a minute. I also asked it the meaning of life, and when it gave me a philosophical discussion as a non-answer, I wrote: “Wrong. The answer is ’42’.” It responded with a book report on “Life, the Universe and Everything.” It was a rather humorless report, however.
AI could just replace the jobs of the whole Western intelligencia.
AI does BS better then they could ever do!
I’ve been using ChatGPT for a while now and I think it’s great for non-politicized subjects. Climate change is one of the subjects I’ve spent time on with ChatGPT and I can say that it’s extremely biased toward catastrophic climate change. So, the big question is, how do you control for bias? This has the potential to enslave humanity to the chains of information fascism. We’re at the incipient phase of this technology, and we’ll remember this inflection point, at least until those of us alive today are gone and the powers that be memory hole the entire thing.
I did ask ChatGPT to write a blog post about the slight decrease of cat 5 hurricanes over the last 40 years. Here’s what it gave me.
Introduction:
Hurricane season is upon us and it’s important to stay informed and prepared. While the frequency of hurricanes in general has remained relatively stable over the last 40 years, the frequency of category 5 hurricanes – the most intense type of hurricane – has actually been on a slight decrease. In this blog post, we’ll explore the reasons behind this trend and what it means for the future.
What are Category 5 Hurricanes?
Category 5 hurricanes are the most intense type of hurricane, characterized by wind speeds greater than 156 miles per hour. These storms are extremely dangerous and can cause widespread damage, making them some of the most catastrophic natural disasters.
Decreasing Frequency of Category 5 Hurricanes
Over the last 40 years, the frequency of category 5 hurricanes has been on a slight decrease. According to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), there has been an average of 2.3 category 5 hurricanes per decade since 1980, compared to an average of 3.3 category 5 hurricanes per decade in the 1940s and 1950s.
Reasons Behind the Trend
There are several factors that are contributing to the decrease in the frequency of category 5 hurricanes. One factor is that the average global temperature has been rising, which has resulted in a decrease in the amount of wind shear – the change in wind direction with height – in the Atlantic Ocean. Wind shear can disrupt the development and intensification of hurricanes, so a decrease in wind shear is likely to result in a decrease in the frequency of category 5 hurricanes.
Another factor is the natural variability of hurricane activity. Hurricane activity can be influenced by large-scale climate patterns such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation. These patterns can cause fluctuations in hurricane activity over time, and it’s possible that the current decrease in category 5 hurricanes is simply due to a temporary change in these patterns.
What Does the Future Hold?
It’s impossible to predict the future with certainty, but scientists believe that the frequency of category 5 hurricanes will likely continue to decrease as the average global temperature continues to rise. However, it’s important to remember that even if the frequency of category 5 hurricanes decreases, the severity of individual hurricanes can still be extremely dangerous and cause widespread damage.
Conclusion:
While the frequency of category 5 hurricanes has been on a slight decrease over the last 40 years, it’s important to remain vigilant and prepared for the upcoming hurricane season. Whether it’s stocking up on supplies, creating a evacuation plan, or simply staying informed about the latest storm forecasts, it’s crucial to take steps to protect ourselves and our communities from the devastating effects of hurricanes.