Artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way in recent years, and one of the areas in which it has made significant strides is in writing articles. AI-powered writing software can now produce written content that is indistinguishable from that written by humans.
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Questions and Answers with ChatGPT
For those that don’t know what ChatGPT is, it’s a new service from OpenAI that basically allows you to ask a question to an Artificial Intelligence that scours millions of articles to return information. According to their FAQ, “ChatGPT is fine-tuned from GPT-3.5, a language model trained to produce text. ChatGPT was optimized for dialogue by using Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) – a method that uses human demonstrations to guide the model toward desired behavior.” It viewed millions of conversations across social media to return results much like how people communicate. My wife and I thought about the questions for hours before we asked, trying to keep questions non-biased, but also not something that one would simply google (or DuckDuckGo) for a quick answer. Below are the questions we asked:
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Are Earlier Albums the Best for Artists? Why?
I couldn’t help but notice while I was writing my article on my favorite songs, that many of those albums were the band’s second album. Why is that? Is there data supporting my anecdote? What’s a potential cause?
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I wrote a letter to my 35-year-old self when I was 30
I enjoyed the last time I did it to reflect on life and changes that I did it again. Once again, I forgot about the letter for almost two years, but now I’ll reflect on it since I rediscovered it while digging through the safe while searching for some identification cards. I’ll redact some information to protect identities.
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I built my own captcha
Captcha, for the uninitiated with the term, is displayed on many forms when you register for a website, and it can have impossible-to-read text. It’s fairly easy to install and common across the web. Because I’m me, I don’t want to use it. Maybe it’s “sticking it against the man” or maybe it’s naivety, or a mixture of both, I decided to build my own.
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The Apple ecosystem vs Windows
It’s strange to use the word “ecosystem” to define a set of different devices using the same operating system. Yet, this is exactly what Apple has accomplished with its MacOs, iOS, and Apple Watch. Windows is only used on personal computers – lovingly called PC – and that’s… it?
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