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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...
Chat GPT - Statistical Analysis
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I have a theory about the lottery I can't let go.
I'm one of those wing-nuts with a bulletin, yarn, thumbtacks, pictures of the Queen, Justin Trudeau, Lady Gaga, connecting the dots to a Komodo Dragon, a Pyramid, All-seeing eye, ...
Doing all the thinking myself...
I'm trying to get Chat GPT to help, and it's been useful, sort of, until I started fact checking it.
And I discover errors. Statistical Errors. Input read errors. Several of them.
An example:
Stalking the Wild Pendulum - Izhak Bentov
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Found this via Reddit - and am quite enjoying it. Nothing I didn't "Know" - or speculate, but I'm not even 100 pages in.
You can find it online here: https://archive.org/details/itzhak-bentov-stalking-the-wild-pendulum-on-the-mechanics-of-consciousness
The writing style reminds me of Guy Murchie's "The Seven Mysteries of Life", or "Godel, Escher & Bach", by Hofstadter, which were books that I also greatly enjoyed once upon a time. And any number of others which seek to reconcile science and spirituality. But I'll come back to this...
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Note, having finished it it was fine. Not Terrific, but I've long been informed of these various theories through various other channels. But he has a way of wrapping it all up. In the vein of "Dancing Wu-Li Masters" or various other books from the 70's that attempt to reconcile science and spirituality.
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