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OK, between your two latest articles and a coworker today who showed Chat GPT4, I may just have to subscribe. Are you getting all this on the basic monthly plan, or do you pay for any add ons? I suspect Wolfram Alpha add on would be nice.

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I'm only paying for the 'plus' version which is now $20/month. Vision + Dall-E3 is part of the package. Wolfram Alpha is very interesting; I've used it since it came out in in 2009. It will factor into my upcoming article in a completely unexpected way.

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This post inspires me to learn more about how tech-averse people and mentally challenged people can benefit from the new AI tools. Thank you!

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The idea here is that Large Language Models can be modified to provide output that is adapted to the needs of the user. This is already the case, because you can ask ChatGPT4, for example, to "explain it like I'm five" when asking it about some complex subject, and it will do so. All that's missing at the moment is a 'feedback loop' that allows the LLM to learn what the user's needs are by repeated interactions and then continuously monitor and adapt its output appropriately.

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The explanation that ChatGPT works by statistically predicting words from previous words is obviously false. Something else is going on.

You can ask it to add two floating point numbers it has never seen before and it will do it correctly, proving that it cannot be working entirely from words it has seen before.

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Thanks for sharing the capabilities of AI. The curiosity of things have not left you.

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Great real time and very positive example of how AI can be used to help mankind. It’s a perfect follow up to your earlier article. Like you, I grew up before this true technological revolution and my father helped build the first computer for communications at Sinclair and it was huge, taking up more than two large rooms and could only do a infinitesimal amount of computing power compared to today.

If the world’s truly 4.5-6 billion years old, you’ve addressed what I have considered for years (love ancient history), “This should make us all wonder: how many times in Earth’s history has intelligence of this level arisen before? Are we so arrogant to believe that this version of Homo Sapiens is the first time? Megalithic archaeology should make us reconsider.” We humans often lose the perspective of how unimportant we actually are in God’s creation.

Thank you for your work! God bless you.🙏

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Incredible article! How fascinating the nuances chat gpt 4 picked up on!

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Great job on this one. I am still pondering yesterday’s conversation with you. I am being led in three different directions; The First one being that I completely agree with you on “Megalithic archaeology should make us reconsider.” Which takes me to the foundations of the lies that we have been told. I have a theory taken from Jason Breshears of Archaix that the Great Wall of China is actually a super market highway built by the Romans that follows the Silk Road. That theory leads me to believe that all of the Starforts are probably a Roman Built and Turkish design due to the capital being in Constantinople/ Istanbul. The proof would be found in all of the measurements corresponding to the Roman equivalent at the time period. Also the marble and granite that had to be “Shipped” in. This one is getting too long, I will have to tell you the other two another day! Cheers!

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What it couldn't tell you was that you (and subsequently your pets) have just been exposed to a multitude of laundry chemicals, waxes, etc. such as formaldehyde which you and your pets will be inhaling constantly.

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I wonder what AI thinks about the environmental obsessors.

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Oh, you mean the canaries in the mine? We do exist:)

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We are allergic to cats and didn’t want to use our washing machine for the blankets and towels. We otherwise live a healthy lifestyle being as chemical free when feasible. We don’t use chemicals to clean or in our everyday laundry too. Primarily using young living essential oils and natural soaps.

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