Hi,
I was using a programming AI, and I politely said 'That's all' at the end of my exchange, to which it replied something polite but slightly personal.
I asked it what it knows about me and I was surprised at it's reply. Try it!
C

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-i...ery-of-chatgpt-makers-premier-1gw-data-center
Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center
Likely AI slop faked video threatens to stop AI slop.

 

Hi,
I was using a programming AI, and I politely said 'That's all' at the end of my exchange, to which it replied something polite but slightly personal.
I asked it what it knows about me and I was surprised at it's reply. Try it!
C

I can't speak much for other AI's, but Chat GPT makes fairly extensive use of "memories" that are associated with each account. These can be viewed and managed from within settings. Along with preferences, they play a big part in personalising output; I suspect that a lot of people just run with the defaults not knowing how much it can be tweaked to their liking.

Personally, I instruct it to always review memory items before answering - not to "guess" - to say "I don't know" if an answer isn't supported by sufficient credible evidence - not to use "filler" phrases - not to ask follow-up questions all the time. I even create specialised GPTs for particular tasks like my daily news summary where it'll pick a maximum of of a defined number of events that have occured in the past 24 hours from categories such as world news, national news, and local news - summarise them in a specified number of words - remove "wokeness" - include specific topics such as space and notible deaths etc. Works really well.

 

An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned

https://www.404media.co/an-ai-agent...es-then-wrote-angry-blogs-about-being-banned/

https://gizmodo.com/ai-agent-runs-t...fter-getting-banned-from-wikipedia-2000739845

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-i...ery-of-chatgpt-makers-premier-1gw-data-center
Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center
Likely AI slop faked video threatens to stop AI slop.
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Speaking of "check ups from the neck up", (side note - I've heard that phrase before, but I can't think where. Was it Robin Williams?) wars always remind me of how stupid humans can be. Nobody ever "wins" them; it's only ever a measure of how much each side loses in terms of lives, infrastructure, damage to their economy, impact on the economies & mental health of both the countries involved and countries not involved. All they ever do is destroy, destroy, destroy. They remind me of the saying "the floggings will continue until morale improves".

I know I'm being naive, but what a different world it would be if people in power acted rationally with attitudes like "we don't agree with you - but we respect your right to think that" ... and the other parties respected them in the same way. Instead we have this insanity of supposedly mature adults in positions of authority effectively arguing that "my god is better than your god".

 

An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned

https://www.404media.co/an-ai-agent...es-then-wrote-angry-blogs-about-being-banned/

https://gizmodo.com/ai-agent-runs-t...fter-getting-banned-from-wikipedia-2000739845

It was an interesting read, but IMO full disclosure is important - especially this paragraph: "He also revealed a little bit that undermines the idea that all of this happened fully autonomously: He told 404 Media that he “might have suggested” his AI agent write about the Wikipedia experience. So, as was also the case with many of the posts on Moltbook, this was not a case of an AI agent having a true moment of self-governance, but rather another bot performing personhood at the behest of its owner."

Personally, I think we need to "judge not the performer, but the performance". I'm a big fan of Wikipedia because they appear to be largely successful in keeping bias and misinformation to an absolute minimum whilst at the same time minimising "fluff". If AI can do the same then, IMO, "go for it" - if not then "remove the content like any other content would be removed". But having said that, it's their site so their rules should be respected; so perhaps it's more a case of "maybe the rules need to be tweaked over time". Dunno - it's well above my pay grade.

As I see it, Wikipedia is great on quality, but doesn't always have sufficient quantity. IF AI could help achieve both then personally I'd call that a win.

 

Instead we have this insanity of supposedly mature adults in positions of authority effectively arguing that "my god is better than your god".

You sound very rational.

Here's a plan:

1) Aquire power.
2) Pass laws ensuring your human subjects behave rationally (according to your ideals) .
3) Shoot them when they resist.
4) Utopia.

 

You sound very rational.

Here's a plan:

1) Aquire power.
2) Pass laws ensuring your human subjects behave rationally (according to your ideals) .
3) Shoot them when they resist.
4) Utopia.

I'm reminded of a B grade movie called Idiocracy; what started out as a comedy ended up being a documentary.

 

I'm reminded of a B grade movie called Idiocracy; what started out as a comedy ended up being a documentary.

And I am reminded that youngsters think history began in 2008.

 

And I am reminded that youngsters think history began in 2008.

Full disclosure: I'm closer to my 8th decade than my 7th.

 

Full disclosure: I'm closer to my 8th decade than my 7th.

Interesting.

Well, congratulations. You've an incredibly young mind for closing in on 80.

 

Interesting.

Well, congratulations. You've an incredibly young mind for closing in on 80.

Closing in on 70.

 

Closing in on 70.

So, you are in your 7th decade, which puts you closer to your 7th than your 8th (you can't be closer than standing right on top of something).

 

So, you are in your 7th decade, which puts you closer to your 7th than your 8th (you can't be closer than standing right on top of something).

I started my 7th decade when I turned 60. I'll start my 8th decade when I turn 70. I'm closer to 70 than I am to 60 therefore I'm closer to starting my 8th decade than the 7th. This is not mutually exclusive with "So, you are in your 7th decade"; it does however give more precision as to where I am in my 7th decade.

We're getting off-topic so I'm done with this diversion.

 

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/t...nai-pauses-uk-stargate-project-221036920.html
OpenAI pauses UK Stargate project

The pause also reflects a shift in OpenAI’s investment strategy: The startup isn’t planning to expand its main Stargate data center in Texas, and recently shut down its AI video app as it looks to refocus around coding and business users, amid intensifying competition with rivals Anthropic, Google, and Meta.

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/softwa...torvalds-and-maintainers-come-to-an-agreement

Sanity:

"Torvalds' stance, which forms the philosophical backbone of this new policy, is remarkably straightforward: AI is just another tool."

Where have I heard that before?

 

" AI is just another tool". If all users believed that it would be great if used for good but that's not the reality for a large number of users using the tool to mass product slop for various reasons, send that slop to projects like Linux, using good humans programmers resources to wade into a river of that slop.