Category: Half Bakery
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Cursed Pez Dispenser of Inspiration
Part of a conversation about originality with ChatGPT Monday, which OpenAI describes thus: “A personality experiment. You may not like it. It may not like you.” Illustration rendered by OpenAI ChatGPT 4o from prompts by Steven Chalem. Steven: You say “cursed Pez dispenser of inspiration” as if it’s a bad thing Monday: You know what?…
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ChatGPT on Dead Bear Cub
ChatGPT would rather hallucinate an Onion post than believe RFK Jr. would actually leave a dead bear cub in Central Park.
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Starship Factory
Photo shows four* Starship Boosters at various stages of assembly inside one of two Mega Bays at the SpaceX Build Site. The two Mega Bays – one for ships, one for boosters – are adjacent to the Starship Factory in Boca Chica, Texas. A “Super Heavy” booster has very little internal structure. It’s mostly just…
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ChatGPT Discussion at Semantic Arts
A presentation and discussion at Semantic Arts led by Steven Chalem.
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“It’s useless, someone who agrees with you.”
Physicist Carlo Rovelli is asked about his disagreements with friend and frequent collaborator Lee Smolin. He quotes Smolin as saying, “If both of us had the same ideas, one of us would be superfluous,” then comments, “It’s useless, someone who agrees with you.” (A brief note about the substance of their disagreement: As Rovelli describes…
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Marx, Nietzche, and Kierkegaard on Dippin’ Dots – One Year Later
One year ago I asked ChatGPT 3 a question. Today I asked Chat GPT 4 the same question (with an added guideline). What would Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Soren Kierkegaard say about Dippin’ Dots? Answer in 100 words or less using vivid language. Chat GPT 4.0 Marx might view Dippin’ Dots as an embodiment…
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GPT-3 Confabulates about Kittens
(Originally posted May 27, 2022) I decided to revisit my discussion of kitten scientists with AI language generation model GPT-3 from OpenAI. GPT-3 sometimes seems to be just making things up. This is called “confabulation” and it can be a troublesome bug or a valuable feature depending on one’s intent. Since GPT-3 is driven by…
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