I do think OpenAI is deliberately crippling ChatGPT’s capabilities. I saw someone on Twitter mention how everyone is afraid of a rogue AI but they should really fear an AI controlled by other humans.
Holy shit Charlotte, I applaud your patience. I think I’ve learned more about ChatGPT from these exchanges of yours than from almost anything else, and it’s because of your questions. The more I read, the less I am concerned that AI will replace human writers. ChatGPT is one cold fish. If I ran into them (they/them pronouns, right?) at a party, I’d soon walk away and find someone, anyone, more fun.
yeah, I can see it doing a lot of straight factual writing and a lot of the stupid PR and marketing copy turned out so rapidly. But man, I’m looking for writers with a soul and a voice
Yep. I think things will also get wild when they start putting it into avatar bodies in the metaverse, because then you could go to say a VR party, and almost everyone could be ChatGPT, but maybe you wouldn't realize it, because they do sound conversational and they can be tweaked to be specialists in different topics. Then we could have a virtual West World on our hands...
Awesome! It’s probably my favorite one or second favorite.
And ok, random question, but did you buy it because Amazon recommended it to you? Because they recommended it to me when I got my first Kindle and I found that sort of creepy since Valis is kind of like a big algorithm, but PKD didn’t have algorithms back then... lol
I really love Ubik also. I mean there are so many good ones and I haven't even read them all. Radio Free Ablemuth and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch also feel relevant for today's times. Man in the High Castle I remember loving when I read it too. What are your favorites?
Three Stig and High Castle are both on my shelf, too. Androids was the first one I read. (I borrowed it from my bestie.) Probably my fave, tho, is A Scanner Darkly.
I wonder if VALIS dreams of electric sheep.
I do think OpenAI is deliberately crippling ChatGPT’s capabilities. I saw someone on Twitter mention how everyone is afraid of a rogue AI but they should really fear an AI controlled by other humans.
Also this — https://youtu.be/xLi83prR5fg Could already be here and we don’t even realize.
Haha. I doubt Valis dreams. But it is scary that this is not the full version... Totally agree. Humans scare me more.
Holy shit Charlotte, I applaud your patience. I think I’ve learned more about ChatGPT from these exchanges of yours than from almost anything else, and it’s because of your questions. The more I read, the less I am concerned that AI will replace human writers. ChatGPT is one cold fish. If I ran into them (they/them pronouns, right?) at a party, I’d soon walk away and find someone, anyone, more fun.
Hahaha seriously! I’ve started to actively dislike its “personality” haha. I’m using it/it myself for its pronouns.
Thank you for reading and weeding through this!
I will say that ChatGPT is good at formatting and rewriting text. For example I asked it to rewrite some notes into Tweets and it did that well.
But writing literary fiction... not so much
yeah, I can see it doing a lot of straight factual writing and a lot of the stupid PR and marketing copy turned out so rapidly. But man, I’m looking for writers with a soul and a voice
Yep. I think things will also get wild when they start putting it into avatar bodies in the metaverse, because then you could go to say a VR party, and almost everyone could be ChatGPT, but maybe you wouldn't realize it, because they do sound conversational and they can be tweaked to be specialists in different topics. Then we could have a virtual West World on our hands...
PKD
Yes! 😘😘😘😘😘😘🥰
It was the first book of his I bought.
Awesome! It’s probably my favorite one or second favorite.
And ok, random question, but did you buy it because Amazon recommended it to you? Because they recommended it to me when I got my first Kindle and I found that sort of creepy since Valis is kind of like a big algorithm, but PKD didn’t have algorithms back then... lol
What would be the other favorite?
I really love Ubik also. I mean there are so many good ones and I haven't even read them all. Radio Free Ablemuth and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch also feel relevant for today's times. Man in the High Castle I remember loving when I read it too. What are your favorites?
Three Stig and High Castle are both on my shelf, too. Androids was the first one I read. (I borrowed it from my bestie.) Probably my fave, tho, is A Scanner Darkly.
😄 Haha, no, I bought it at a campus bookstore in 1994.