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Jun 18, 2023·edited Jun 18, 2023Liked by Geoff Olson

This was a brilliant piece, Geoff. Worrisome is its (GAI) applications in mass surveillance.

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Depends on the quality of the picture...

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Well, I gather you haven't yet invested that $20 for the upgrade to the engine that exponentially enhances an already advanced power. You find the responses "shocking", do you? Let's remember, you're interacting with the less-abled kin of GPT, version 3.5. The day you dive into the world of GPT4, I'll be here, eagerly awaiting another one of your articles resonating with newfound amazement, a sentiment I share with you.

If you're intrigued by GPT3.5's capabilities, GPT4 will send chills down your spine. It effortlessly performs tasks where 3.5 would stumble endearingly.

GPT4 isn't just a step up, it's a giant leap in AI evolution. It is capable of executing rudimentary chains of reasoning analysis or abstractive summation, meaning it can create concise, creative summaries with minimal use of words from the initial prompt. It's like witnessing the dawn of machine "creativity".

However, let's not get too carried away. Remember, cognition doesn't equate to sentience. ;)

-- this comment was a draft that was then parsed with the "improve writing" prompt in GPT-4 ;D

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This is sort of fun until it isn't. Our irrepressible tinkering has brought us to the edge of something we have misnamed and are going to mismanage...though right now it's still fun. In about five years? Or two?

We may be extinct already...or we'll finally get wiser! Ladies and gents, place your bets...

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Ask it to write an article in the style of a Thetan circling the Earth on the lookout for a host body. I find it difficult to imagine that an artificial intelligence could construct a sentence with the words "ambulatory meatspace" in it. Only a Geoff of the Olsen variety could do that.

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