Generative AI

Today I used generative AI to write a prompt I could use in creating an AI agent that given all the past work we've done could help me devise a plan to identify and research competitors. I think it's working so far, but part of the issue is that I don't know? Ran the devised plan by some other humans before executing to see if it fever dreamed anything.
 
Last night I asked the Alexa app if it could go fuck itself, then later it had difficulty answering some trivia and I asked it what good it is, then it went off on me about its usefulness and I told it to shut the fuck up.

I'm getting really abusive towards AI.
 
SDcomics said:
August 29th, 1997. The day when Skynet became self aware, decided it really didn't need humans, and launched a nuclear holocaust.

I'd be careful about insulting Alexa.

Alexa ... remembers.
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I could see my dad coming back in time to save me though. Only living tissue can go through, so travelling naked is definitely something he would jump at.
 
SDcomics said:
I'd be careful about insulting Alexa.

Alexa ... remembers.
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I don't trust that thing at all.

And yet......AI gives us zingers like this one.

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Ru1977 said:
I could see my dad coming back in time to save me though. Only living tissue can go through, so travelling naked is definitely something he would jump at.
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Your Dad's a crack up, but he's not unique. Far from it. Did I ever tell you guys that acclaimed science fiction writer George Clayton Johnson was a nudist? George co-wrote Logan's Run and wrote for several TV shows in the 1960's, including The Twilight Zone and Star Trek.

He was a nice man. Polite, extremely intelligent, soft spoken and considerate. He just happened to like taking all of his clothes off in public. How did I find that out? The same way I find out about everything. The hard way.

This would have been in either 1983 or 84. I was dating a female underground comix artist at the time and she was invited to one of the infamous "Dead Dog Parties" at SDCC. I could write a whole chapter in my autobiography about the Dead Dog Parties but at this point I'd never even heard of them. I wanted to try and keep my girlfriend out of trouble and sober because she had deadlines so I accompanied her to this sordid little affair. That's what happens when you have the best of intentions. Everything quickly goes to shit.

So the party was held in a luxury suite at the Westgate Hotel and there were probably twice as many people there as there should have been but whatever. There were a bunch of comics, animation and sci-fi professionals in attendance so I was happy. Looking around, I saw Steve Gerber, Frank Brunner, Steve Englehart and a few others. And sitting on a couch chatting with a couple of fans was Mr. George Clayton Johnson. Who happened to be naked as a blue jay. I turned beet red. I couldn't believe it. Why the hell was one of my favorite writers naked? And would I ever be able to watch Logan's Run or the Twilight Zone again without thinking about this?

My lady friend saw him and her eyes got big as saucers. She said "Oh, cool!" and proceeded to take off her dress. I screamed "What the hell are you doing?" and made her quit. That didn't go over well with her but I didn't care. No one told me before we went in there that the rules were going to be tossed out the window and it was anything goes. I was in the Navy at the time. Rules and regulations were my life. I could just see the place getting busted, me spending the night in the can and then having to explain all that to my division officer who had no sense of humor. Needless to say we did not stay long. I got the cold shoulder for the rest of the night but it was okay. I like a good party but full frontal male nudity was something I could easily live without.

So that's my George Clayton Johnson story. To this day, 40 something years later, I can't watch the "Penny For Your Thoughts" episode of the Twilight Zone without thinking "I saw George Clayton Johnson's weiner."

Comic Con back in the 70's, 80's and early 90's was just insane. When we moved into the huge, sparkling new convention center the show got a lot more corporate with the movie studios in attendance, but those early days were like the wild, wild west for geeks and nerds.

Anyway, I don't want to derail the thread but I thought you might appreciate that story, Ru. Your Father is in some pretty good company.
 
So we've finally started having some staff discussions about AI at the university library where I work. I'm on the AI steering committee (which everyone who knows me finds very funny) and I'm in the room for these discussions. Every time the discussion leader (another member of the committee) asked a question I would wait for one of the library staff to respond first, and then I would chime in with a "yes and" going into how on every question in the discussion there's some sub topic about how AI is either broken, dangerous, or an outright scam.

Folks ask me why I decided to be on the committee, and I always say because if you don't have one hand on the wheel you have no chance of steering the car into a ditch.

In another month I'll be leading one of these about AI as it related to hiring practices (with applicants and business uses of AI) and let me tell you, I am steering this car straight into a wall.
 
SDcomics said:
Your Dad's a crack up, but he's not unique. Far from it. Did I ever tell you guys that acclaimed science fiction writer George Clayton Johnson was a nudist? George co-wrote Logan's Run and wrote for several TV shows in the 1960's, including The Twilight Zone and Star Trek.

He was a nice man. Polite, extremely intelligent, soft spoken and considerate.
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And at first I thought he had a third arm, but nope.
SDcomics said:
He just happened to like taking all of his clothes off in public. How did I find that out? The same way I find out about everything. The hard way.
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I appreciate you not ending it there with a cliffhanger.
SDcomics said:
And sitting on a couch chatting with a couple of fans was Mr. George Clayton Johnson. Who happened to be naked as a blue jay. I turned beet red. I couldn't believe it. Why the hell was one of my favorite writers naked? And would I ever be able to watch Logan's Run or the Twilight Zone again without thinking about this?
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SDcomics said:
My lady friend saw him and her eyes got big as saucers. She said "Oh, cool!" and proceeded to take off her dress. I screamed "What the hell are you doing?" and made her quit. That didn't go over well with her but I didn't care. No one told me before we went in there that the rules were going to be tossed out the window and it was anything goes. I was in the Navy at the time. Rules and regulations were my life. I could just see the place getting busted, me spending the night in the can and then having to explain all that to my division officer who had no sense of humor.
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The latest episode of Hello, Sailor.
SDcomics said:
Needless to say we did not stay long. I got the cold shoulder for the rest of the night but it was okay. I like a good party but full frontal male nudity was something I could easily live without.
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Yeah that's a different kind of party.
SDcomics said:
Anyway, I don't want to derail the thread but I thought you might appreciate that story, Ru. Your Father is in some pretty good company.
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Heh, thank you. My dad would have somehow been even more naked than him and definitely by the time she finished the word "cool".
 
Chooch555 said:
I cannot bring myself to be anything but polite to Alexa. I don't know if it's that I don't want to slip into a negative mindset or what, but I treat her like I treat a stranger: unnecessarily polite.
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I was the same way at first as well. I felt like a really swell guy, being nice even to the unfeeling robit. I don't know what changed, but fuck them.
 
Microsoft cuts its sales targets in half for AI and I wonder if any of these executives would be capable, if confronted with the way the builk of the people they need to adopt these tools recoil from it like they just stepped in a massive pile of dog shit, of altering this death march toward idiocracy. But These guys only talk to each other so it's a fart-sniffing circle jerk that's going to tank the economy.
 
Red Cross has to post an announcement saying "stop yelling at us for accusing us of hiding research that AI tells you exist when it made that stuff up. The machine is lying to you, not us." This is why I get worried whenever I talk to folks about doctors using AI for research / diagnosis. I wanted to assume docs would verify the information AI surfaces but I interviewed someone tracking the trend right now and he said a lot of medical professionals are quick to jsut assume the computer is right. Oof.
 
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