Category: AI
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Green Acres vs. Lojban
Recently I have been reading about the constructed language Lojban, an offshoot of the “logical language” Loglan, developed in the 1950s. Unrelatedly, I have had the theme song from the 1960s TV show Green Acres stuck in my head. So naturally…
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Troped!
The Lyttle Lytton Contest is an annual challenge to write the worst (but somewhat brief) opening line of a novel. Back in 2011, I decided to submit the following entry for their consideration: “You just may be the most beautiful perp I’ve ever laid sensors on,” thought the robot lieutenant as his humanoid partner ate…
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Chatting with ChatGPT
In November 2022, a chatbot named ChatGPT went live. A great deal of media coverage followed, reporting on both the bot’s impressive capabilities and its fairly significant downsides. I decided to try it out recently. It is an impressive technological achievement. It is also fairly terrifying. Its ability to understand the prompts you provide and…
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