By Bohyun Kim, September 1, 2023 (posted)
Many sophisticated machine learning (ML) products recently have been introduced as general-purpose content-creation tools. The one that has garnered the most attention was ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by the large language model (LLM) GPT-3.5.
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Editor’s Note: Read more, see link below for original item…
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By David Gill, Published June 10, 2023 10:59AM (EDT)
Philip K. Dick had some strange ideas about the future. In his 40-plus novels and 121 short stories, the science fiction author imagined everything from “mood organs” which allow users to dial up an emotional state including “the desire to watch TV, no matter what’s on” to pay-per-use doors that refuse entrance or exit without sufficient coinage.
Characters in Dick’s mind-bending novel “Ubik” (published in 1969 and set in 1992) include a psionic talent scout named G.G. Ashwood, who wears “natty birch-bark pantaloons, hemp-rope belt, peekaboo see-through top and train engineer’s tall hat” and a taxi driver wearing “fuchsia pedal pushers, pink yak fur slippers, a snakeskin sleeveless blouse, and a ribbon in his waist-length dyed white hair.”
Source: https://www.salon.com/2023/06/10/philip-k-dick-predicted-chatgpt/
Posted on May 15, 2023 in Blog Posts
When discussions about ChatGPT began some months ago, librarians immediately started the conversation about its implications for education. Now, several debacles and many dire warnings later, we’re already on the next version (ChatGPT-4) and dealing with multiple AI-powered chatbots.
Even experienced tech columnists are a little freaked out.
As usual, librarians will have to deal with this, if only because we live in the same reality as the rest of the world and have not been granted a pass on modernity so that we can sit by the library fireplace with our library cat and read all day. In case you haven’t heard, we’ve gone digital.
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Source: https://www.choice360.org/libtech-insight/do-we-need-librarians-now-that-we-have-chatgpt/
Google, which is owned by Alphabet Inc., already has been testing its own conversational chatbot called Bard.
By Associated Press, May 1, 2023
Now, Google is ready to test the AI waters with its search engine, which has been synonymous with finding things on the internet for the past 20 years and serves as the pillar of a digital advertising empire that generated more than $220 billion in revenue last year.
“We are at an exciting inflection point,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told a packed developers’ conference in a speech peppered with one AI reference after another. “We are reimagining all our products, including search.”
Source: Google is giving its dominant search engine an artificial intelligence makeover
By Ian Carlos Campbell, March 27, 2023
Begun, the chatbot wars have. Microsoft was early out the gate with its updated version of Bing, appending chatbot functionality to its search engine and integrating both into the Edge browser, while Google trailed behind, only just recently making its Bard chatbot available to the public.
Both companies have big plans for generative AI (the catchall name for AI that produce images, text, and video), integrating features into productivity software like Word, Excel, Gmail, and Docs, and pitching their respective chatbots as search engine companions, if not someday replacements.
Now that Bing and Bard are available for anyone to try (waitlist notwithstanding in Bard’s case), Inverse put the chatbots in a head-to-head test to get a sense of their usefulness.
Source: Bing vs. Bard: We Compared Both Chatbots to See Which Is Better
Editor’s Note: I asked Bard to summarize the similarities between the tv show Survivor and chess. Here’s the response…
There are several similarities between the TV show Survivor and chess. Both games are strategic and require players to think ahead and plan their moves. Both games also involve a degree of luck, as players must sometimes make decisions based on incomplete information. Finally, both games can be very competitive, as players strive to outwit and outplay their opponents.
Here are some specific similarities between Survivor and chess:
Despite these similarities, there are also some important differences between Survivor and chess. For example, Survivor is a game of social dynamics, while chess is a game of strategy and tactics. Additionally, Survivor is a game of endurance, while chess is a game of mental focus.
Source: https://bard.google.com/
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