Category: Philosophy

  • What the Debt Ceiling Bill (H.R.211) actually says

    Thanks to Google Bard, I prompted the following question for each Title within the H.R.211 Debt Ceiling bill: “Summarize the following section as if I was an elementary school student.” I’m not a lawyer nor am I a genius, so somewhere below that is ideal. It’s also worth reminding people that it’s a Language Learning Model, so its specialty is analyzing language! Here are the results:

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  • A Review of the Stock-investing ChatGPT Study

    Many articles have been published lately about how successful ChatGPT has been with investing in stock choices. Some even say it can “pick stocks better than your fund manager“. I read the study, as per usual, and discovered that a lot of the articles overexaggerated the study’s outcomes and is not entirely realistic. I also suggested some tweaks and ran my own tests.

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  • Deregulation Keeps Biting Us

    Silicon Valley Bank recently collapsed as did Signature Bank. The problem is that these were completely unavoidable and were avoidable until deregulations stepped in and allowed these events to happen. As usual, I will reference the actual sources to avoid any biased opinions.

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  • The Ability for AI to Write Articles

    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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