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3 Body Problem
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This has been getting a lot of publicity lately. So I watched it. No spoilers (or none of any relevance), but I was surprised that I quite enjoyed it. Not perfect, or great even, but a damned sight better than most of the other "made for Netflix" series I've watched. Now to survive the cliffhanger until the next season...
Lazy Chat GPT
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Asking simple questions, looking for simple answers. Chat GPT is not the place, it's like that colleague at work that's good at the idle chit-chat around the water cooler but otherwise gets buggerdly-fuck done.
Vertex, Gemini
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And more statistical analysis, feeding my numbers this time into Vertex, Gemini - Google's own AI.
And, again, it's not doing the heavy lifting, rather instead giving me long-winded explanations as to how I can calculate these things for myself. Totally not the point. Asking the computer to do it for me is why I'm asking the computer to do it for me.
Although I was impressed, it guessed that I was feeding it lottery numbers.
I'm beginning to smell a cover-up by big-lotto.
While I doubt the "intelligence" in AI is going to be upon us as soon as they say, I'm rather dismally impressed at their ability to chat with natural language, make excuses as to how tough what I'm asking is, deny, stonewall circumnavigate and ignore my questions. We've developed computing programs and AI models that spend all their computing power arguing that I should be doing all the work. Our AI overlords are proving disheartening like our own leaders.
"In our own image", unfortunately does not imply intelligence.
The Job (2) ...
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Last night, first night, half busy. Given my idiocy on the computer and payment tech busy enough. 6 hours on my feet and I've discovered just how out of shape I am, I need to get some sneakers, start, running, back to the gym to tone up. My shoes, never broken in for more than 3 hours at a stretch, are killing me. And the floors are slippery, slippery enough I might have to sacrifice appearances for a good pair of deck shoes.
6 hours, relatively merciful as far as the industry goes, but bloody hell I'm hurting today. A long winter too much given over to my vices. Now to try and get this train back on track...
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