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cmw
cmw
05:53
OK, Chat GPT is scary. I asked it a code question, and said to use "Cicero, Caesar, and Catullus" as options. It appropriately named the variable "authors".... Then I had it create additional sub-fields, and it offered "On", "The", and "Commonwealth" as sample sub-options for selecting "Cicero."
For Catullus, it only had 1 option: Poems!
Caesar was, you might have guessed, "Gallic" and "War".
It did all that without my prompting, without my inputting of any information about those authors, without ever calling them authors.
The code isn't anything you could use in production (by a long stretch), but that it could guess the subject matter in a completely different topic is very, very impressive.
Oh, and when I examined the actual code it gave, it actually gave the correct titles:
So it messed up somewhere, since the code options for Caesar were "Gallic War" and "Civil War", but somehow it's reading the first as two items.
Update: I asked it to debug the code, and it did, and it fixed it! The dropdown menu for Caesar now says "Gallic War" and "Civil War"! It made other errors, but damn, it fixed my immediate problem.
 
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Joonas Ilmavirta
Joonas Ilmavirta
08:59
@cmw I recently heard that they're working on a version that attaches a confidence score to each answer, which, if working properly, would be a huge step in a useful direction.
These things can do quite a bit, and the rate of improvement is impressive.
 
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Adam
Adam
13:24
The magic of prediction machines! How long until people start using it to "predict" the future, or at least give the most likely event to occur after weighing the confidence of a number of different options.
 
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Joonas Ilmavirta
Joonas Ilmavirta
14:25
@Adam Automatic trading on the stock market has been a thing for decades. Does that count?
Adam
Adam
@JoonasIlmavirta It could depending on what it uses as sources and if it makes individual predictions from those. Do they scan reports and articles about businesses?
 
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Joonas Ilmavirta
Joonas Ilmavirta
15:30
@Adam At least the older ones only look at the market itself, but they don't have any pre-defined logic. The machine comes up with the strategy, not the coder.
I'm not sure what the modern ones do. I'd expect the modern versions to be exposed to all kinds of news and other input, as that's computationally feasible and might increase the profits.
 
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Adam
Adam
17:38
@JoonasIlmavirta That seems much more comprehensive to me.
By the way, are you ready to retake Mandalore?
 
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Joonas Ilmavirta
Joonas Ilmavirta
18:41
@Adam If you mean sitting comfortably on my sofa every Wednesday while some beskar-covered people do the actual job, then absolutely!
@Adam Agreed, but I don't know what the technology really is. All I know is that basic machine learning in trading is decades old.
Adam
Adam
@JoonasIlmavirta Haha, yes! Although given the opportunity to don the beskar, I might be convinced to do it despite the dangers.
I also thought they had a missed opportunity to have Boba Fett show up on Navarro, but maybe they're going to do that later with Bo-Katan.
Joonas Ilmavirta
Joonas Ilmavirta
18:56
@Adam If there is going to be a next season of Boba Fett, this season of the Mandalorian will be low Fett. But I wouldn't be surprised if he showed up.
Adam
Adam
@JoonasIlmavirta True. I don't think they've confirmed a second season of that, have they?
Joonas Ilmavirta
Joonas Ilmavirta
@Adam We did learn that the planet is safe(ish), and I'm sure we're getting back to it.
@Adam Nope, but it might be announced this week. The annual Star Wars convention happens over the coming days, I think.
That has been a typical venue for announcements.
Adam
Adam
@JoonasIlmavirta Oh, nice! Crossing my fingers, making offerings to Iuppiter, etc.
Joonas Ilmavirta
Joonas Ilmavirta
May the Fourth is the Star Wars day, and apparently also the day Finland joins NATO.
Adam
Adam
I'm also looking forward to an Asohka series, and still hoping they do a Lando on with the actor from Solo.
@JoonasIlmavirta Oh, it's happening that soon?
Joonas Ilmavirta
Joonas Ilmavirta
19:00
@Adam There must be a deity of streaming services. A river spirit of some sort?
@Adam That's what the news here say. All the documents are signed, and they are scheduled to be delivered tomorrow in a NATO event.
@Adam Yeah, Ahsoka sounds very promising, and we already got a back door pilot. She has already had a long and interesting story, and there's room for satisfying continuation.
I'd definitely watch Lando, but I'm less enthusiastic about it. If they choose to do it, I'll trust their judgement; it's worked so far.
 
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Adam
Adam
20:15
@JoonasIlmavirta I wonder if Neil Gaiman made one for American Gods. I think he did have one called "Media"
@JoonasIlmavirta Well, welcome to the club!

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