I recently realized that I like a lot of different types of music. Okay, yes, if you know me, you know that’s not a grand discovery. But. What I mean is that, I like — have always liked — contradictory and conflicting styles of music. Again, perhaps not a shocking revelation. What I really mean […]

This entry is part 11 of 21 in the series Artificial IntelligenceToday, a friend of mine who’s largely the person I talk about weird AI shit with mentioned this: “my ai guy” has mentioned several times that sending a bunch of “a a a a” to chatgpt can sometimes make it output training data.. I’m always game to try new weird shit with AI chatbots. This […]

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Are You Awake?Well, not actually. But he did post this, and I figured, since I drafted and then scrapped a long Thread about where I ended December with regards to the novel I am writing, I figured this would be a good excuse to write a blog about it instead. So, where am I? I didn’t hit […]

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Are You Awake?A couple months ago, I started a new side project that I’ve been afraid to talk about for fear of giving it a name it couldn’t live up to or jinxing it and not being able to finish it. I’m over 40,000 words in and by any count that’s pretty good. It’s already the longest…anything […]

This entry is part 10 of 21 in the series Artificial IntelligenceI’ve previously experimented with trying to get ChatGPT to suggest songs to build a soundtrack for my D&D campaign when it ventured into the territory of Planescape. Planescape is weird. It’s a multiverse-based setting where the intensity of beliefs can actually change the geography of the world. As such, there are the obvious ideological wars […]

This entry is part 9 of 21 in the series Artificial IntelligenceI have several other posts to write about different things I’ve been playing with on ChatGPT, especially since they’ve dropped a ton of new stuff into Plus, but today, I want to talk about an experiment I like to call “what band am I thinking of?” The test This didn’t even start out being an […]

This entry is part 8 of 21 in the series Artificial IntelligenceMy very first post in this series tried to see what I could do by combining the language processing of ChatGPT to generate prompts for DALL-E (complete with quirky keywords that make sense to robots (I guess) but not humans). The disappointing answer at the time was that ChatGPT didn’t know about DALL-E, and therefore […]

This entry is part 7 of 21 in the series Artificial IntelligenceSince OpenAI introduced Bing Search as a beta feature in GPT-4, a thing I’ve noticed recently is ChatGPT saying things like “I will get back to you with that information.” Excuse me, what? If you’ve used ChatGPT and understand a bit about how it works, you would understand the problem here. There is no context […]

This entry is part 6 of 21 in the series Artificial IntelligenceHave you ever wondered what people who don’t know you might find if they looked you up on the internet? Earlier this month, OpenAI added the ability to add a Bing search capability to ChatGPT 4, so I wondered “what can ChatGPT find out about me?” The results led me down a rabbit hole that […]

This entry is part 5 of 21 in the series Artificial IntelligenceOne of the first tests I did of AI’s (or, more accurately LLM’s) ability to creatively storytell was by prompting it to write a story in the style of H.P. Lovecraft. At the time, I was impressed by ChatGPT’s (the only model I tested) ability to pick out common elements from Lovecraft and develop an […]

This entry is part 4 of 21 in the series Artificial IntelligenceOver the last few months I’ve been bouncing back and forth between ChatGPT and Claude.ai for my AI interactions. ChatGPT is what everyone is most familiar with, of course. Claude.ai is a newer kid on the block and I really only discovered them by way of their amazing docs site that was linked to me […]

This entry is part 3 of 21 in the series Artificial IntelligenceAfter the wild ride that the early incarnation of Bing Chat sent Kevin Roose on, I’ve been fascinated with this idea of these language-learning algorithms expressing things that feel like emotions. But obviously, they are not. AI is not actually artificially intelligent — at least not in its current state. It is not actually self […]