Discussions with AI

AI sometimes is wrong on facts. I asked about the Goldman Sachs savings ISA and received two plainly incorrect answers: one based on out of date info and the other based on a single angry review on a website.

Luckygirl3

Chat GPT is great, I use it a lot. For example about poetry and books - it will send me analyses of poems, information about authors etc. I had a very interesting discussion about my father's war experiences in Singapore and it told me a great deal which explained some things that Dad would not talk about. I ask it to interpret medical test results, help when my TV goes on the blink or my phone or wi-fi has a problem .... lots of stuff.... I go to it first before the manufacturers.

It also designs posters and Facebook publicity for local events - you can set the tone you want, colours etc. - in a flash they come up with something that would have taken me hours - if I don't like it I can say things like too flashy, I need it to be more classy, please tone the colours down or emphasise a particular word etc. etc.

It also finds goods online, advises about returning items - I could go on. It is such a help to me, stuck here with poor mobility and on my own. My robot mower broke down and the company were hopeless. I asked ChatGPT and it told me to send it back to amazon as it was just within the year's guarantee from them - I sent it back and they replaced it straight away - second time round it was on a special offer and I got refunded £100! I had thought the guarantee lay with the manufacturer but ChatGPT was able to tell me that I was also covered by amazon.

I use it every day.

Ne, too. I find it very useful and it's effectiveness depends on how you word your questions.

Oh and another worry are authors, artists and musicians rights are overridden.

I find chatgpt really helpful. I list my problem it finds the answers, writes letters in either French or English, helps with cooking ideas, directions to places etc all very quick and easy. However, I do worry about the planet on the energy it uses and if one day, because everyone has become so reliant on it, we will have to pay.

MawsRosie

An inanimate object can provide facts - it is not a sentient being however, god preserve us from things with opinions

They can also provide wrong or misleading information. I am always very careful about what is defined as a 'fact', as the person getting to choose which facts matter has a lot of power in any situation.

Anyway, after I have been given information by AI, I cut and past it back in and ask it to check it over for accuracy, and it often corrects itself. Of course it doesn't have opinions, but it trawls the internet for information, and selects from a range of 'facts' about every topic.

I’ve had conversations with them for research studies. The first one was to see how easily swayed people are by AI. It was illuminating to say the least. I’ve done a few now and have been given food for thought by a couple of them. They reflect back what you’ve said in a very convincing manner!

Try this:
Ask AI a question then ask it to reply again but ask it to be brutal.
In most cases you get nearer to truth from the second answer.

GG13 That’s actually very very funny indeed!

You'd hear that kind of whirring sound before their eyes sprang open.
I've always been fascinated by them.

MissAdventure

I bought my daughter one, and then she bought me one.
They would sit and chat to each other.
I found them fascinating.

I don't understand all the "modern" chat options, but I've just leaned to ask the assistant bot on amazon questions about items, and its very helpful.

Our boys had a wicked sense of humour from an early age.

They would move the Furby round various kitchen cupboards, it used to make me jump when I opened the doors 😹. Along with winding up their sister by hiding her toy 😡

I bought my daughter one, and then she bought me one.
They would sit and chat to each other.
I found them fascinating.

I don't understand all the "modern" chat options, but I've just leaned to ask the assistant bot on amazon questions about items, and its very helpful.

I talk to my white goods especially the iron, I have a love/hate relationship with that!

The Alexa stopped working and has been dispatched to the tip. (Thank goodness)

The thought of having an actual conversation with anything which is artificial fills me with dread.

MissAdventure

Apparently there is "conversational A.I. now.
A bit like a furby.
The more you speak to it, the more it learns about conversations.

The dreaded Furby

The year they were in we were going away for Christmas. Furby was wrapped ready for Father Christmas to deliver. Flipping thing woke up and started talking in the car and wouldn’t shut up…

I use it a lot to chat about books, what I liked, what I didnt like, get recommendations for my next book.

Chat GPT is great, I use it a lot. For example about poetry and books - it will send me analyses of poems, information about authors etc. I had a very interesting discussion about my father's war experiences in Singapore and it told me a great deal which explained some things that Dad would not talk about. I ask it to interpret medical test results, help when my TV goes on the blink or my phone or wi-fi has a problem .... lots of stuff.... I go to it first before the manufacturers.

It also designs posters and Facebook publicity for local events - you can set the tone you want, colours etc. - in a flash they come up with something that would have taken me hours - if I don't like it I can say things like too flashy, I need it to be more classy, please tone the colours down or emphasise a particular word etc. etc.

It also finds goods online, advises about returning items - I could go on. It is such a help to me, stuck here with poor mobility and on my own. My robot mower broke down and the company were hopeless. I asked ChatGPT and it told me to send it back to amazon as it was just within the year's guarantee from them - I sent it back and they replaced it straight away - second time round it was on a special offer and I got refunded £100! I had thought the guarantee lay with the manufacturer but ChatGPT was able to tell me that I was also covered by amazon.

I use it every day.

Today I took photographs of 2 Doctors’ Reports and thought I saved them in one of my folders. But guess what, it had gone as a WhatsApp message to my daughter-in-law’s mother. How that happened I will never know.
She replied saying ‘glad everything is ok with you’ 😂 -
Real mystery !

*is not it!

Some people use AI therapy and it does have an actual conversation with you. It’s not an inanimate object, it’s literally “coding” which is written in such a way that it “learns” from interactions, the more you interact the more it learns, to the point that it can “make suggestions” and “make decisions”.

I think it’s both amazing and shockingly scary!

It can remember facts, but then learn from these facts and analyse them.

I guess was it missing, so far, is “emotion”, no doubt that’s either here already or on its way! 😱😱😱

I have frequent "discussions" with copilot. I tell it when it is wrong and ask it to try again, and one evening I found myself having a long chit chat on the personalities of Siamese cats, it is a quick learner!

It is very useful for checking out problems with organisations who need a boot up the backside, even writing the letters for you. For quick fact checking it can make you a bit lazy it is so easy. But I agree if you ask for its view on Trumps latest lunacy it will suddenly go mute!

Be afraid, be very afraid 😧

Apparently there is "conversational A.I. now.
A bit like a furby.
The more you speak to it, the more it learns about conversations.

MawsRosie

An inanimate object can provide facts - it is not a sentient being however, god preserve us from things with opinions

There are people who are arguing that Claude is sentient.

🤷🏻‍♀️ I have no idea and never used Claude

Not quite. Some of it is direct information and therefore helpful

Information is by definition factual - bandying facts does not constitute a discussion

Ours can never understand my DH's Hampshire accent. He gets thoroughly cheesed off with some of the bizarre answers it gives to his queries.