Harper is doing okay. I just got a couple of great DJT shirts! Harper is doing fine. She got me a funny DJT shirt from Amazon, which I just found out has be taken off the site. The shirt says “Let me get my shoes!”
I also got one from GAB that has a B&W stylized version of the iconic after shooting pose.
Happy Wednesday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Sven!
Teh Older and his bride have had to put the cone of shame on their cat a couple of times. After the first, disastrous attempt, they found a softer, more flexible cone that accomplished the same task, but was tolerated by their cat.
Sven -- the conference was good and I’ve got a slew of links that I’ll need to check out to see if they will be of use to me. The discussion on AI in education was good, but the panelists had no good answer to the problem of detecting AI use in student work. While it can be easy to tell if a student relied on AI to write something, proving it is another matter. The best answer seemed to be to require students to submit work that they generate in class, which doesn’t help in my situation.
I can see that being tough -- detecting AI-generated papers and such.
Do you ever watch Evil on Paramount? The last episode, Season 4 -- Ep9, used AI generated chatbots for grief management as the episode’s premise. I thought they might be reaching on it, but looking online there’s several companies already out there offering this: griefbots.
Many companies are developing AI chatbots based on the digital footprints of the dead for us to interact with. These griefbots create a simulation of a lost loved one. Built on artificial intelligence that uses large language models, or LLMs, the bots imitate how the deceased person talked by using their emails, text messages, voice recordings and more. The technology is meant to help the bereaved deal with grief by allowing them to chat with the bot as if they were talking to the person. But does it help?
Technically, no. Not much of a stretch at all. Someone dies. You watch old movies. Read old letters. Look at old photographs. Remember. Daydream. Relive in your mind. Talk to them and sometimes they talk back. Is this just a further enhancement of that or something completely different and to be avoided?
I think it is something not right -- it crosses a line much in the same way as you see with lonely guys having a virtual girlfriend. Can I define that line? No.
I agree. It’s one thing to hold someone in your memory, it’s quite another to have a computer pretend to be that person. Add in enough pictures and you could have an image of them talking with you. I don’t see how that can be healthy.
The conference was held at Epcot in the building that houses the aquariums. The wall behind the presenters had a large window that looked into one of the aquariums. During one session, the head of Science is Cool (the conference organizers) was interviewing Kari Byron from Mythbusters. At one point you could see a diver in the tank. Soon, there were several divers and they all approached the glass and waved. The presenter saw the motion out of the corner of his eye and gave a startled yelp, which caused Kari to turn, see the divers, and almost fall out of her chair.
I’m not really an Andrew Tate super fan or anything, but when he makes a produced video, it really is of excellent quality. I was really impressed with this one:
Thanks for those videos, Jerry.
Thanks for the updates, Dv8. Hope Harper is well.
Did you learn anything at your conference, Paddy?
We’ve only had to cone one cat -- it did not go well.
Harper is doing okay. I just got a couple of great DJT shirts! Harper is doing fine. She got me a funny DJT shirt from Amazon, which I just found out has be taken off the site. The shirt says “Let me get my shoes!”
I also got one from GAB that has a B&W stylized version of the iconic after shooting pose.
Happy Wednesday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Sven!
Teh Older and his bride have had to put the cone of shame on their cat a couple of times. After the first, disastrous attempt, they found a softer, more flexible cone that accomplished the same task, but was tolerated by their cat.
Sven -- the conference was good and I’ve got a slew of links that I’ll need to check out to see if they will be of use to me. The discussion on AI in education was good, but the panelists had no good answer to the problem of detecting AI use in student work. While it can be easy to tell if a student relied on AI to write something, proving it is another matter. The best answer seemed to be to require students to submit work that they generate in class, which doesn’t help in my situation.
I can see that being tough -- detecting AI-generated papers and such.
Do you ever watch Evil on Paramount? The last episode, Season 4 -- Ep9, used AI generated chatbots for grief management as the episode’s premise. I thought they might be reaching on it, but looking online there’s several companies already out there offering this: griefbots.
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/want-to-chat-with-the-dead-ai-grief-bots-change-future-of-mourning/news
Not surpriseing.
Good morning, dv8 (and Harper!)!
I hadn’t heard of griefbots before, but given that chatbots are already AI-powered, it isn’t much of a stretch.
Technically, no. Not much of a stretch at all. Someone dies. You watch old movies. Read old letters. Look at old photographs. Remember. Daydream. Relive in your mind. Talk to them and sometimes they talk back. Is this just a further enhancement of that or something completely different and to be avoided?
I think it is something not right -- it crosses a line much in the same way as you see with lonely guys having a virtual girlfriend. Can I define that line? No.
I agree. It’s one thing to hold someone in your memory, it’s quite another to have a computer pretend to be that person. Add in enough pictures and you could have an image of them talking with you. I don’t see how that can be healthy.
Hey everyone. Hope the Conference went well, Paddy. Considering it was Disney, how was the [insert pedo joke here]
The conference was held at Epcot in the building that houses the aquariums. The wall behind the presenters had a large window that looked into one of the aquariums. During one session, the head of Science is Cool (the conference organizers) was interviewing Kari Byron from Mythbusters. At one point you could see a diver in the tank. Soon, there were several divers and they all approached the glass and waved. The presenter saw the motion out of the corner of his eye and gave a startled yelp, which caused Kari to turn, see the divers, and almost fall out of her chair.
I’m not really an Andrew Tate super fan or anything, but when he makes a produced video, it really is of excellent quality. I was really impressed with this one:
https://rumble.com/v56xyo1-you-have-three-lives.html
Interesting. That’s not an angle I had thought of. Thanks for sharing that.
Tate has a bad reputation but the first part of that was funny.