03/25/2023: A satisfying GPT exchange

A lot of the coverage of change GPT has been about the learning and development of artificial intelligence. What I wonder is how we, as humans, are going to slowly learn and acculturate to the kinds of exchanges with ChatGPT and its cousins. What I’m thinking about is the psychological closeness that will accrue in our brains the more we use it. This exchange that I had– which was a bit of a test– was very pleasing and colloquial. After a number of these exchanges I’m sure I will start to think of it as more human, or at least, I will start to change my psychological relationship with it. It’s very easy to imagine people going overboard.

I found an expression written in a notebook from 30 years ago and Google was no help. I found only one reference to this expression. So I asked Chat GPT

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04/29/2023: The Magic of Music

My cocktail chatter from the recent Gabfest: My chatter is on the magical properties of music. To me, musicians are the closest we have to actual Wizards. They can conjure a feeling and then make another human soul have that feeling or launch another feeling. Writing does this too, of course, but it’s rare when […]

04/22/2023: Long Tail Interviews on Prime Time

We cover the latest on Prime Time every day, but we also conduct a number of interviews that last beyond the move to fish wrap(*). Here are some interviews from the first four days of this week: 1. Why the fighting in Sudan matters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ffhTXOsAQ 2. Evan Gershkovich’s friend explains his condition in a Russian […]