Here is a Chiss playing chess while chomping on cheddar cheese:
EDIT: A friend came up with a good one…
Chiss chess champion chewing cheddar cheese.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Someone suggested that he could also be “cheating”. But that’s something that Grand Admiral Thrawn is above doing. He certainly wouldn’t do that with chess. It would be too dishonorable. Still a fun idea though 🙂
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The website Futurism has published a VERY disturbing article about “ChatGPT Psychosis”. Ever since the rise of that and other popular artificial intelligence “chatbots”, there has been an ever-increasing number of people who have become consumed by the technology. Maggie Harrison Dupré has turned in a remarkable report illuminating the issue.
...And that’s not all. As we’ve continued reporting, we’ve heard numerous troubling stories about people’s loved ones being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — or even ending up in jail — after becoming fixated on the bot.
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I love this story!!
I’m impressed by ChatGPT. But I’ve also got a healthy respect for Atari Chess, a cartridge for the classic Atari 2600 Video Computer System from 1977. I got Atari Chess when I was nine years old in third grade. I’d just learned how to play chess and already wanted to get better by having a computer opponent to practice with. Atari Chess beat me EVERY time. Then again I’ve only won a single time at chess but that’s beside the point…
Anyhoo, a Citrix engineer set ChatGPT against the Atari 2600 in a game of chess. And the Atari from almost fifty years ago clobbered the modern AI.
Yesterday a couple of dachshunds I follow on Facebook (the inimitable Barney and Fred) posted some pics of themselves that their “pawrents” had rendered by the ChatGPT artificial intelligence system. It made me curious about how my own little girl Tammy would do.
If you use the free version of ChatGPT it limits you to three renderings a day. Here is what it generated this morning…
I have no idea why the AI put a glass of iced tea into that last one. It does make Tammy look like a proper southern lady though 🙂
I would be lying if I said that I haven’t had fun though.
So, here is the final bunch of artificial intelligence generated “art” that I’m putting on this blog. Be sure to click the pics to enlarge them…
The Joker with a “Hello Kitty” bomb:
Eowyn, from The Lord of the Rings (I especially like the horse detail on her outfit):
Santa Claus with a flamethrower:
“The Horror of Taxation”:
Young Al Capone:
Jesus confronting a Dalek (this was made for a friend who teaches Sunday school and I think he was going to use it for that):
The Hamburglar and his attorney (I tried to make this ...
Still playing around with AI, for the first real time ever. Consider it research. I’m getting professionally involved with an endeavor that is heavy on artificial intelligence so I’m having to see what the thing is capable of doing, exactly.
(I’m adamantly sticking to my policy of NO writing blog posts with AI. If you see something written here and it’s not otherwise stated, you can be assured that it is absolutely entirely written by me with my own gray matter.)
Yesterday I experimented with having ChatGPT compose a poem about the Orks from Warhammer 40,000 (the faction that I play whenever I do a game of 40K). You can, errr… enjoy the results here. Tonight I went further, so after upgrading to the subscription I started playing around with image generation.
The results are, ummmm… interesting.
Here’s the one I’m most proud of: a dachshund sitting atop a ...
No, I am still not going to “write” a blog post using artificial intelligence. I’m sitting in front of a keyboard composing these words. If you ever do see a product of AI being displayed, it’s going to state as much. Which is what I’m doing now. What you are about to read is definitely the product of artificial intelligence. It also represents the first time that I’ve used a “chatbot” to generate text. Up until now I’ve avoided such things. But as I’m currently involved in a project necessitating some familiarity with AI, there was little choice but to see what it is that I’m getting into.
A friend encouraged me to try ChatGPT. I’ve been playing around with it since last night, firing hard at its walls. And I have to say, I am intrigued. One of the things I asked it to do was to describe the ...
This is already the scariest thing I’ve seen all month… and it’s only October 2nd. A terrible, terrible line has been crossed. Advanced technology really is taking us to places that, not to put too fine a point on it, are unnatural to the extreme.
Andy Baio at Waxy.org has applied artificial intelligence to a lot of songs – which are mostly parodies of other artists – by “Weird Al” Yankovic. Baio’s intent with this dubious exercise is to see what would happen if the original artists performed Al’s parodies themselves.
In other words, Baio has Michael Jackson’s voice singing Yankovic’s “Eat It”. Among others.
Let Mr. Baio indict himse… I mean, explain himself:
...In the parallel universe of last year’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,
Dr. Demento encourages a young Al Yankovic (Daniel Radcliffe) to move
away from song parodies and start writing original songs of his
You might have noticed a slight addition to this blog. It’s on the header, toward the right of the screen. There now appears the following label:
I have heard all kinds of insane stories about people using ChatGPT and other “artificial intelligences” as something more than a curiosity. Students have begun having AI write papers for classes. Some ministers have admitted that they have used ChatGPT to compose sermons for Sunday morning. In at least one situation a lawyer had AI create his legal paperwork for a court case: the judge was not impressed.
To be truthful, I’m not impressed by any so-called “artificial intelligence” thus far. Their enthusiasts are claiming that AI is now able to pass the Turing Test (in which a living person can or cannot differentiate verbal responses from a human being or a computer). It’s not something I’m particularly jazzed about, not yet ...
So one of the bigger stories this past week has been IBM’s supercomputer Watson beating all-time champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter during a three-game series on Jeopardy!. Watson’s final haul was $77,147, with Jennings coming in second with $24,000 and Rutter third with $21,600. During Final Jeopardy! on the last night of the contest Jennings wrote “Who is Stoker?” and in parenthesis added “I for one welcome our new computer overlords”.
I thought Watson’s performance was… impressive. But, I’m not too terrified about a droid uprising just yet.
For one thing, Watson is not much more than a glorified search engine. IBM’s engineers assured the Jeopardy! audience that Watson could not access the Internet: that “he” relied entirely on his oodles of terabytes of storage, containing (it is thought) every iota of trivia that has possibly been digitized. Clearly, an advantage was held by Watson.
And yet, even ...