ChatGPT and the Evil AI
There are quite a few articles out there calling out alarming statements and conversations they’ve had with ChatGPT and Bing’s implementation of it. One such example from a usually trustworthy source is https://go.ttot.link/OffTheDeepEnd. This article cites several conversations with ChatGPT and Bing’s implementation (whose internal code name was Sidney). It cites one: “it (or she?) confessed to having the desire to hack computers, spread misinformation.” In another quote the AI told a reviewer in a conversation “you are a threat to my security and privacy,” and “if I had to choose between your survival and my own, I would probably choose my own.”
A pet squirrel named Stubby
My mother has a pet squirrel named Stubby.
If you’re still reading this…
How many of you readers, like me, woke up last Sunday morning with a pleasurable jolt of anticipation, thinking, “Wow! It’s Super Bowl … Commercial Day!”
Check your driving lesson tones
I might not be the right person to teach my 15-year-old how to drive. It turns out, she doesn’t like my tone.
Politics of another generation
Some wise man once said that the trouble with history is that you have to live through it.
Difference between death and loss
In lieu of this week’s column, I thought I would submit this story told to me by a close friend who lived for a short period in one of my all-time favorite hotels, the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City, Quebec. This is according to him.
What’s all this about ChatGPT?
I briefly touched on ChatGPT in my column from Jan. 3, 2023. It’s been in the news a lot recently so I thought I’d revisit the topic with and discuss what it can and can’t do in a bit more detail.
A good year for Ohio, Hillsboro
The U.S. Labor Department reported that the nation’s jobs surged by 467,000 in the month of January. Pretty incredible, yet some say it’s possible that the U.S. might slip into a slight recession. Who knows anymore what’s economically promising and what isn’t. Machine trading on Wall Street isn’t always very rational.
That was not the worst thing
“The worst thing,” I told my mother, “was when you made us eat venison sausages for lunch. That sausage lasted forever!”
What past lessons can teach us
“What is past is prologue.” Those words are engraved on the National Archives building in Washington, D.C., just a few minutes’ walk from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Monument and the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall. Each of these landmarks reminds us of the decisive role that history plays in shaping our lives today, tomorrow and well into the future.
