Yeah.
Gee, I wonder where such a machine might exist. Oh, yeah, it's this machine that does all of the work.
For the slew And, that machine is always grow at least in recent years, then greatly, we are grateful that's been hosted by Omni Tech which is the Lambert's company.
And so I'm gonna turn it over to Lee here in a minute. Lee, of course, has been a frequent speaker through the years, with treasure of our organization.
But and it's always a font of wisdom and interesting tidbits. And as I say, he's been very gracious of providing us with computing services hardware access through the years.
So Lee's gonna tell us, kind of the idea of what needs to be done.
And that he's putting together a team of people and so any of you want to join that team, Lee will tell you how they're going to go about it with that.
Lee, take it. All right. Oh, I am still gonna start.
And make sure that screen.
Okay.
Yeah, there we go. Alright, folks. As Gary said, I kind of been around stuck to the walls for probably 20 years or better, so.
I don't grow my fur as long as he does, but we both have beards.
The issue here is that we have a single production server. I will use terms like Part for production. That refers to a server that should be up, 24 7 3 65 because it.
Produces critical work or does critical work for an organization.
And in this case, our. Our server is called Bach. Okay As in, Amber Bach from, family.
One of the things we've been doing. Since they invented computers was naming all our servers after Bush products and as your push.
Meeting is being recorded.
Do they still make Amberbach.
Yes they did. Of course, there's something in the fridge. Always.
Oh damn, I should come over.
Okay.
Bach in this case is actually a VM on a Zen host.
As Gary mentioned, the 2 primary functions are websites. We've got a gazillion of them.
And then our email. For the organization as well as the list. That organized by topic. We have.
Announce which is goes to a lot of people but it's very very low volume and anything post to announce has to be approved by assisted men.
We have discussed which is a general discussion group. A lot of people are on that.
We have a steercom list, which is kind of where we yak about making the sausages, Gary likes to refer to it.
And then we have a system in which we'll talk about more here in a minute.
Currently our Bach is, Debian 10 machine. It's been, oh, probably 2 or 3 years now since we upgraded from Debian 9 to Debian 10.
And you can see on the screen here there's 2. Physical partitions, the system is a 45 gig.
Using 68%. And then we have a X DV one. Which is the our media partition.
It's 200 gig and we're using 75 gig of that. That's where we store all of the media files, meeting presentations and recordings of the meeting.
The biggest issue we have. And the one which we found out about a month or so ago.
Is that the male man on Debian 10, which we have, is version 2. Mail man on debut 11 is also version 2.
A male man on Debian 12 is version 3. It's a major change in the mailman system.
We can you tell us what mailman is? Oh, sorry, Gary. A male man is the program that actually manages the lists.
In other words, if somebody sends an email to discuss, it's loop.org. Mailman receives that.
Figures out what lists it is. Blorbs it back out to everybody on the list as well as saves a copy in the archives
And the work required to do that is currently unknown because nobody Yeah, So that's gonna be our major core.
Problem that we have to deal with.
The 10 to 11 should be fairly straightforward. As mailman v 2 is available. You know, and that would obviously be one option.
But since we don't know what it's gonna take to upgrade mailman from 2 to 3.
We decided that we shouldn't try to do it in line. But separate. In other words, the 10 to 11 upgrade is fairly straightforward.
But we Oh, sorry, 12 should be down here. At the wrong place. The 10 to 11 is fairly straightforward, but that maintains male man 2.
And the problem we anticipate is the 11 to 12 version which we probably should do this. Anyway, because 11 is end of life this year
So that's the that's the basic problem. We got this mailman product here, which is critical to our operations.
And it was all 4 of our mailing list. It's operated pretty good for but. 20 years now or whatever and a girl on the various systems.
But we need to upgrade it sometime this year.
So what we decided to do
I'm sorry, this is the decision process if we upgrade our. And work through whatever breaks as in 10 to 11 and upgrade mail man.
Which gonna take back out of service for some time frame. And it could actually be catastrophic if we wanted to if we run into a problem we could we might have to start over.
Build a new system and restore the backup one of the backups.
So we decided to do a 2 step process.
For their main ideas to Clone B so we have an exact copy from a particular time point in time.
Upgrade that, take good notes and work through all the issues. Once that's working. Then we repeat the process.
And use and then take that version active or possibly to switch. The working one here. Activate once we get everything working.
It's actually pretty straightforward and pretty simple. We have some resources here.
Some of them are hips, some of them are hidden though. If you post a or if you're on a system in list and you need any of these links or passwords.
Let me know. Our post to, or just let any one of us know. The Wiki page is wiki.
Dot sloop.org slash build. I'll show you that here in a second. The system in list though is hit.
Basically what I do is I go to the steercom or even discuss and just change. The last word on the link here to And then if you wanna get to the archives.
Click the archives link and the credentials are here. Sis Adam and one B route
And let me go to a browser here. Well, he's looking up the browser. The idea here.
Of keeping the name of the listed and the credentials not being the same as discussed, which we make very public.
It is. You know, on a sis admin list. No, you don't want to be sloppy and give away.
The root password or You want to be Careful enough to give away the store. But yeah, if you're working with other sis-admins and documenting stuff, there's always the possibility of a slip-up.
And, Hopefully it's caught and not, you know, put the place where somebody who wants to do the organization harm can get to it.
But yeah, just in case there's a slip-up, we, we keep this list.
A little bit less public.
Okay, here's the list. No sloop.org slash mailman slash list info slash
So nobody's seen my hand raised.
Sorry. Eric.
Sure.
So, I just want to interject a couple of things. 11 is not Good expire until 26, right?
That's what I'm seeing on. Oh, search, 10, ten's expiring this year.
Hey, and 10 is expiring in June. And 11 doesn't expire until 2026.
Okay. Thank you. Yeah.
And I did, I did see on the sis admin list that the mailman 3 issues. Was brought up back in August.
So it's been a while. I'm talking about.
Bye bye.
Yeah. Yeah. And again, the whole point here is to. Get the 10 to 11 upgrade done.
We can actually put that in into production. Just to get just to get out, get off of 10.
But the issue of mailman is going to be a big one. So that we want that to be a separate step, a separate operation.
And by isolating that into a middle step. Before we before we even consider going to 12 if we can get mail man 3 running and set up then.
You know, we're half a step ahead and then the upgrade to 12 will go a lot easier when when we get that far.
As I said, here's the page for the system in list.
If you go, you can use this to subscribe.
Here's the archives.
Not too much. And in February, but we've had a whole bunch of stuff in January.
In fact, we're pretty much ready to. Phone back and then start working on the 10 to 11 upgrade.
Once that once that's working. We can put that into production or we might just. Maybe clone that again and run for a bit and see exactly What kind of problems we see with the mailman 2 to 3.
And we won't be at that point here. You know, for a little bit. Once we get the clone working.
Is it so is it just the archive? The archive lists and the. Like a configuration file or how much how much stuff is gonna be how much stuff is needed to upgrade from 2 to 3.
That I don't know for sure
My understanding is mailman 2 versus mailman 3. Is analogous like. Python 2 to Python 3.
They're quite different. Mailman 2 is relatively simple and reminiscent of most mailing list managers.
Mailman 3. A much larger, much more complex system. It operates completely differently. They're like.
The last time I saw some reading about it. It is. 4 or 5. Systems that operate together like you must have an SQL database for it.
You must have the front end web server. You must have the MTA. There's many separate pieces.
It's not just a code upgrade. It's Massive. It's big.
I'm just, I'm just looking, I'm sure. Trying to think of what would required to do some testing to see how.
If I can play with it.
But like what would I need to simulate what you guys have now.
Any system you want to install. Mailman 3 on and play with. Go for it.
It doesn't even necessarily need to be. Internet Somewhere you can go through the motions.
If you want to be able to route internet email to it. There are plenty of ways and I've got things.
I could help provide, I could walk somebody else through. Configuring, I mean, you could even like.
We have fetch mail pull something from Gmail and send it in to mainland 3. Yeah.
Yeah, I was just gonna I was just gonna ask that. I just pull my archives from my, Play with that as a list.
You think?
I know that the archives between the 2 systems are completely different and there's conversions involved.
Right.
I've seen and on the I subscribe and have subscribed to the mailman. Support mailing list for more than a decade and they're people that have converted From mailman 2 to mailman 3.
And left the old archives still running under Mailman 2 and create a new archive. Under mainland 3 and it's just flag day if you want something from the old archive go to the old URL if you want it.
For current, go to the new one. So.
But is that's not what the plan is for this though, right? You're gonna convert them over or are you gonna?
I don't know what the plan is on that park yet.
Yeah, the well the the plan is to convert it But and hopefully nothing, nothing, makes that insurmountable.
I know that the URLs used. 4 things are different and I don't know how MoD rewrite compatible, they are.
Yeah, so the biggest issue with the archives is going to be taking the file archives from mailman 2.
And stuffed them in a database for mailman 3. I would expect.
So those G, those G zip text. Files that are downloadable there. You know, download those and load them into Mailman 2 somehow and then play with them trying to operate down the main 1 3 or.
Yeah, you could. I mean, that's certainly an option.
Yeah. As far as I know, the archive support for mailman 2. Is almost traditional inbox.
Format. So you could probably download the GZIP, decompress it. And overwrite the file that's there and ta-a you've got the archive it might need an index rebuilt.
Against what's in it, but, Okay, fairly simple.
Alright.
Yeah, The most most interesting part would be probably the indexes, you got a thread subject author and eighth.
Also, regenerating the index indices in mail-man 3, I expect is going to be the biggest issue.
But if you want to play with it, you can you can grab.
You can grab each month right here.
Alright, anybody else? Obviously the scope of the work is something we're not going to do tonight.
But, the idea was to introduce you all to this is a project it benefits our group and it also benefits people working on it to ones who maybe don't do these kind of upgrades all the time.
This is your opportunity to stick your toe in the water and kinda understand how this cabinet upgrade would affect the system.
For those of you who are used to just running a single user system. So make it a little more.
Yeah, okay. How do I do this for something which is supposed to be up 7 by 24 and available to?
Multiple uses for those of you in the carpet world who are used to serving those kind of needs. This is something that gives you a little more slack and that we're a little more tolerant of knocking the system down by accident.
We wouldn't want to do that. That's understandable. So anyway, it's also a call.
So if anybody who hasn't yet joined this little band of of people who are doing this project now as you chance you know you don't have to Raise your hand or say something right now, but by all means contact Lee or myself and say hey I wanna I want to be part of the team working on this project and it's something that hopefully will be done in the next month or so.
But 2 months, whatever. But, well, whenever we want to, take back down for Yeah, per hour I'll make a call.
So, kind of like, yes, this is a call from volunteers, and hopefully it's not imposing too much on anybody.
A lot of people. Volunteer. So. Yeah, for those of you who have volunteered, thank you very very much both for this project and a big thanks to all of the membership through the years.
There's a lot of people who have made contributions and helped out. On building our mailing list, our websites, our systems.
We just looked up. What year is it? We're not 32 years old as a corporation.
Yeah, 32. So for 32 years, bunch of people who've made a lot of good contributions.
Thank you. To all of them. So. Definitely.
Thank you to we and the other people working on this project for moving it forward. So. Anybody got any other?
Comments to make on this particular Project.
Okay, Okay, other odds and things. Let's see, I guess it said that.
For those of you who aren't familiar with our meeting format on our Wednesday night general meeting, this is the Gushi middle.
We do the tutorial on the front. We do a main presentation on the back. And here we are in the gushy middle where we do.
Announcements and a little bit of general Q&A. And, so let's see, by way of announcements, Let's see. Biggest, most important announcement.
It is that time of year. Once a year, Slug, which is a 500, and one c 6 corporation, holds an election for its board of directors.
It's 5 people on the board of directors. It's a rotating push to 3 year terms.
So every year, some one or 2 people come up for an election. And so there's 2 2 seats which need to be.
Refilled this year. Let's see.
So, the main home page.
Say again, Stan. I got it. I got it. I got it.
Your audio is real hot, Stan. It's a story.
Hey, they turn down your gain or back off and like
Please go ahead and talk.
I have no idea how to do that.
Oh, come on, Stan.
Okay. And then move the mic another 2 feet away from your face.
It's going through the laptop
That's fine. That's better.
Oh.
We share the homepage screen.
Sorry, I forgot I close it. Okay, hold on. You got it.
Okay. There we go.
Right on down.
I think right there. Looking for a ballot?
St.
I tell you one thing is that this thing is an absolute masterpiece, Stan.
Well, it's a Kluge because it doesn't work right.
Looks like it works to me. You can you can click the boxes. If you can unclick them.
Most enough.
It, Things sort of work. Let's put it that way. But. Well, the big magic button at the bottom.
You should send your your ballot back through the email, but it doesn't quite work.
Well, you wanna save it as a PDF first, right?
Right.
Alright, so basically you'd you'd print it first. Printed out. Princeton.
You can print it to print it to a file and then then email the file if you want to do that.
Right.
If you want your v to be secret You could print it out on paper, put it in an envelope and nail it to us.
As we talk about up here.
Correct.
Sliding on down is his current board of governors members Dave. First and myself are incumbents our term is up.
So the term is for 3 years and I the other names on here are people that did not send me $10.
Yeah.
Yeah, I didn't send you $10. You didn't nominate me
Well, I'll try your name in that block there when I vote, okay?
Don't you dare.
Okay. But anyway, to.
Okay. I've been wrestling with this thing since Saturday. They did some changes.
And everything kinda was broken. I did this worked on it last year in March. And it was working fine.
And I gave it up and, when I went back to it to build it. This time around the upgrades that leave her office 7.3 is some kind of bug or maybe it's just a matter of.
Gotten things out of sequence or something. But I've seen that. The documentation. Doesn't go into very much detail on this and It shows at 1 point it shows a graphic and the graphic doesn't talk about the options that I think that are necessary.
And I also think that the actual documentation is wrong. Because After filling with one day for 4 or 5 HI decided to do completely opposite what the documentation said to do and that worked.
For part of it.
Well, you gotta figure it out.
Anyway. Yeah, sorta. I'm not completely satisfied with it. The problem is It.
Depending on, on the file. You may or may not see the X's when you Click on.
So I'd say that people should do is make sure that they type in the candidate name that they want to vote for.
If you want to vote for Gary Meyer. Whatever it type his name in. If you want to vote for me, type my name in.
If you wanted vote vote for Wally the the nitpicker, type his name in, you know, whatever.
Yeah. Can I make a suggestion just on a kiss principle? Change a byline to say.
You know print to PDF and you know send to vote 24 soup.org as an attachment.
I've been doing that and I've tried 15 different options and I forgot to change this particular option on this.
Okay.
I iteration. I have probably rebuilt this thing. No less than 40 times since Saturday.
Oh my gosh.
Because I, something was just not working.
Yeah.
1, 2, 3.
Particularly that big green button at the bottom.
Personally I think there's too many ways that could break stand on different systems. I wouldn't even worry about it.
I've also found that the results that you get number one. If you print it to a file, I got it to a point where I it wouldn't print on the output would not print on my printer.
So I had to rebuild it. You, so I've been belted and Change something and went back to an older, older iteration and that seemed to work.
Also What else breaks? Oh, different PDF viewers. Display the thing differently.
Yes.
Also displaced differently in a browser.
Oh. Guaranteed that if you print it out on paper and mail it to us You'll see what you're voting for.
Before you stick it in the envelope. And then we can see it when we get it.
You might wanna mention that, with mail so iffy nowadays, I mail it.
Probably about February, twenty-fifth to make sure we have it.
Right.
Cause I was at the post office this morning, some gal there was complaining it took 6 days to get.
A letter from 6 3 1 4 one back. To 6 3 1 4 1.
Ouch.
Yeah.
Well, it takes no less than a week for something to get from here to Las Vegas.
I know that.
Okay.
My son lives in Las Vegas.
You know what Mr. Kelsey said after the Superbowl game Sunday night as he was talking to Bullets as he was.
Taylor Swift, s arms wrapped around him. He was saying, Viva, Las Vegas, and a very drunken voice.
Yeah.
Yeah, alright, any other questions on about?
And as Sam pointed out, it's been a pain in the butt. Since obviously something changed in the last 11 months.
Other people who would like to help the testers contribute to this effort. I think Stan would probably appreciate it if anybody wanted to give him a hand just if nothing else is a tester but if you know something about PDF and of it would help.
And
Yeah, I didn't I did make a mistake by mailing a ballot out on the discuss list.
And got some. Assistance from Ron and out of British Columbia. That was very helpful. But, as I told him, I'm old and tired and cranky and forgetting things that I New last year and.
And. It's been a real pain.
Yeah.
Although him and I both love leader office. It's a wonderful tool. It really is.
It's just that sometimes things break. Or they don't document it well enough for when you get get into the deep weeds.
Well, the biggest issue is I think the documentation. Isn't updated anywhere near as. As current as you know, the actual software is so the software change could take months to get in the documentation.
Yeah, and I'm running, lever office 7 dot 3 and I think they're the latest version and documentation is up to 7 dot 6 and I didn't even.
Get a chance. I thought maybe if I rolled back to an earlier version, it's something we'd be working for me, but I did.
Yeah.
Just didn't have the time to do that. And I'm gonna keep at it until I get this thing working absolutely perfectly like it's supposed to.
And.
In the in the meantime, feel free to. Grab a copy off the website. Turn it off however you want.
Neither email it to vote. 2024. Or drop it in a mail.
I'll say one last thing. Vote early, vote often.
Yeah.
Oh
Okay, what's next? With that, moving on to the next thing. Is it odd thing in our bylaws is an odd thing in our bylaws it requires us to hold an annual meeting.
The reason why that was put in there to hold an annual meeting. The reason why that was put in there was because back 32 years ago there were a lot of organizations.
The reason why that was put in there was because back 32 years ago, there were a lot of organizations that would just kind of go. 32 years ago, there were a lot of organizations that would just kind of go fallow.
They, you know, still exist on paper, but they were a lot of organizations that would just kind of go fallow.
They, you know, still exist on paper, but they wouldn't have a lot of organizations that would just kind of go follow.
They, you know, still exist on paper, but they wouldn't have held a online, means we really have always, over the 32 years, we've done more than our one meeting a year.
But just to say that there is an official one meeting for the membership. And Rich Seibel has been our official timekeeper for this.
And yes, we've turned it into a joke because. The as I said its purpose is already being served and so we usually just try and make this as fast as we possibly can.
And Lee, you're gonna make the motion. Stan, you give me a second. Okay. Stay on or rich?
You can do a second. Anybody else who wants a second? That sure you can too. But with that.
And are you ready to leave? Are you ready Rich? I'm sorry I can't find one.
Oh, okay. I thought I had on your, but hopefully Rich has got his stopwatch going.
Anyway, here we go. Calling the order, the annual meeting of the St. Louis Unix users group.
Do I hear a motion? That's called order. And is there a second?
Second.
All in favor, 6 to 5, if you're saying that you don't know the eyes have got it.
Hey.
All right, getting closed. 9 s and point 59. 9.59 s. Okay, that's Lee.
That's Lee's argument. So, okay, we've done our annual duty. Obviously the point is that the membership should be able to bring up issues, questions, whatever, and obviously since we are doing 5 meetings a month.
You can bring that up in any of the meetings and do these little. Chat sessions at all of these meetings.
So. So by all means, anybody who wants to Speak your mind. Let's see.
Other than that, let's see. Things on the calendar. I don't know why, but this particular day has a whole bunch of those big annual dates.
So, for instance, today is the 200 sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the city of St.
Louis. 100 years ago. There was, Herman Holleris company, tabulating machine company, etc, merged with a couple other ones and they picked a new name.
So 100 years ago today, the name IBM started to be used for the new newly merged company and obviously IBM been around.
Question that.
Oh, okay.
I was employed at IBM. Around 2,011. And they celebrated very publicly. 100 years.
They could very well be basing that on, What's the name of the company there?
Okay.
I can't quite read it. Anyway, Hollerith actually founded his own company and the name was calculating and tabulating machine can scroll down just a little bit.
Gooding, Tabulating machines or something like that. Okay, I accept that.
So they probably are using that as the birthday of the company. And this is technically the birthday to the name change when when they merged with a couple of companies.
Fair enough. Thank you.
So. Alright. Let's see, next day down the line, Scott last 14 months ago when he did the first presentation I mentioned transistors and IC chips.
Well this is the 60 fifth anniversary of the patent application for the IC chip. So, 65 years of IC chips.
Fiftieth anniversary of hawking radiation coming from black holes And the 30 fifth anniversary of the first set of GPS satellites being put to orbit.
So that's how long we've been talking about the global positioning system. So, yep.
Odd thing on our calendar is around this time every year was the Bell Labs Prize entry.
Saying that the prize isn't being offered this year but stay tuned. We'll find out what's going on.
See, anybody have any other announcements?
Talk about the general content of our calendar.
Okay, general content of the calendar. Of course in the old days, we were primarily oriented towards our own stuff.
We branded out to include stuff that was happening here in the St. Louis area as the world became more and more users of Git see and meet up and victory button and those kind of online meeting software.
We really found that a lot of meetings that we're interested in take place. Just online. And so we've tried to Divide up the calendar.
We try and mention. Meetings in St. Louis that we think people would be interested in are online meetings or St.
Louis organizations, but we also include. Just general online meetings of things we might be interested in so the things on our calendar from you know the worldwide IBM user group there are things on here from other groups that have no physical presence in St.
Louis. But talk about the type of stuff that we figure our users would be interested in. Open source software, Unix Linux.
And, so you'll find all that kind of stuff on it to isolate it.
See. If you go up to the Offer right hand corner of the. Of the calendar.
Here up there. And you see it shows.
3 different things there. You can either go to a St. Louis only. Local event or you can go to a remote and online event.
Or you can just see just Sleep meetings. Obviously that's the fewest number to say there's about 5 of those a month.
And, so that's a quick way of finding one of our meetings. If you're only interested in going getting deer in anchovies somewhere, go to the St.
Got has entered the room.
Louis local events. And, that'll take you those. That Scott entered the room and If you're just interested, remote and online events, you can click your remote. I will say that it's mostly my fault.
I haven't perfectly divided the meetings between the remote and the local. I haven't perfectly divided the meetings between the remote and the local.
So forgive me if they're not perfectly aligned. We're trying and we'll we'll try and get that better done, but that's the direction we're moving in.
So.
Do you need help?
Yes, yes, the psychiatr says that the more help I get the better. But yeah, yes.
I believe Tyler is going to do some work on the. Calendar and it's been my fault for not turning over more of this to them but they're obviously a lot more work that could be done.
We keep hearing from other groups oh crap that's a great calendar you guys have covered all of us here we've tried so we have about.
Yeah, Okay, and I just heard from our election central that somebody has sent in a ballot. Oops, Anyway,
So yes, this is the way our calendar works. And, more volunteers always walk up. So.
Anybody else have anything? There will be a period at the end for just Q&A of stuff, it's not necessarily relevant to tonight's topics, but if anybody has something they just really, really, really wanna ask now because they can't stay late.
Or they want to catch this group of people. Yeah, let us know what your your question might be.
We'll see if we can do a quick answer or you can bring it up after the main presentation.
I'm here.
Yes, I'm here. Okay.
I heard a voice. We haven't heard anybody suggesting they really need to ask a question. So we're going to move on.
14 months ago. We had a very unique presentation. What we did is we asked, well, let's echo it was November the thirtieth that chat GPT went public with their new version and we asked chat GPTG could you maybe come up with a picture, a video.
It looks a lot like a guy named Scott Graneman here in St. Louis. Scott, Scott's an adjunct professor.
Okay.
He teaches at Webster universities, taught a whole lot of courses at Washington University and gee, could you make that image?
Do a lecture in a style that would be reminiscent of Scott Grant on this type of lecture.
And it's a lot of precedent for it. He's taught done lectures for slug for 1518 years.
Oh, longer than that. Yeah.
It's longer than that. I'm sorry. So, so yeah, there's a lot of research that the AI could have done.
And so the AI did this wonderful, wonderful presentation about, gee, now that I'm here and I'm able to do all this, here's, here's how the world's going to change.
Sure enough. Within a month of that presentation by the AI of Scott, the world went crazy over this thing called chat GPT.
It was actually a a speech on the floor of Congress that had been written by AI, by JPT.
So here we are, 14 months later. And we've asked the AI, gee, could you do it again and tell us what's coming up in the future and what's happened in the past year.
So I'm going to turn it over to, well, is it the AI? Or is it the real Scott?
You decide, people. There you go, Scott.
That is, that is the worst, I've ever heard, Gary.
Yeah.
Thank you very much. That was just awful. No, it's great to be back with you guys.
I appreciate it. Seeing you guys again, I've done a lot of work on this.
I'm very excited to talk about this with you guys. I think you guys are gonna learn a lot and be, and get a lot of good ideas for stuff that you can go check out yourself.
So when Gary asked me what the name of this was since it's the sequel to my first talk I said I said okay let's do AI 2 electric boogaloo the continued evolution of AI generators and assistance I think it actually was the continued growth, which I'll talk about in just a sec and he went, okay, and I actually haven't looked on slug to see if he in
fact included the electric boogaloo or not. Did you check in out Gary or did you put it in?
Oh, it's there. It's there.
Awesome, awesome. So let me explain that. So I'm gonna start before I go into the AI stuff.
I need to do an explanation of confession and acknowledgement. So let's start with the explanation. First of all, and that is what the hell is electric boogaloo?
I've been wanting to use that in a presentation. Since literally like, 1985 because in 1,984 break into electric boogaloo came out it was a rap break dancing movie I never saw it I still have never seen it but the electric boogaloo part actually as Wikipedia said entered the popular cultural lexicon as a snow clone nicknamed to
denote an archetypal sequel. So that's the joke. This is like a sequel to the original.
And then as I copied and pasted this into my presentation, I read that and I thought to myself, the hell is a snow clone.
What is a snow clone? And so I look that up. And a snow clone is a customizable template for creating phrases by leveraging a common recognizable pattern like to X or not to X, for instance.
Kenneth Branagh did a 4 h version of Hamlet and somebody asked, what people would be thinking.
And he said, well, they'll probably be thinking to pee or not to pee. That is the question.
So the snow clone refers to the journalistic cliche that refers and specifically to the supposed number of inuit words for snow like if Eskimos have dozens of words for snow, Germans have as many for bureaucracy and that was an actual sentence in the economist.
So I looked a bunch of these up because I was fascinated by it. So examples would be in space, no one can hear you X.
Of course that comes from alien in space no one can hear you scream and I actually found an article today in space no one can hear you Colonel Panic X is the new Y oranges the new black.
Or 50 is the new 30 the mother of all X thank you Saddam Hussein the mother of all budgets was actually used in New Hampshire others have X will travel some of you older guys might member have gun will travel well I'm challenging who wrote because I'm a bunch of I'm with a bunch of sci-fi nerds who road have spacesuit will travel.
It's a famous sci-fi author and I figured if anybody would know it'd be you guys.
Anybody? Same by now. No? I'm shocked.
No.
Hi, L.
It's right. Right, Robert A. Hyland, very good. I knew somebody would know that.
Oh!
X considered harmful. Of course the original article was called go-to considered harmful. I actually found one written by Brian Kernigan called cat considered harmful and then X is a service ransomware as a service but my favorite is to X or not to X and while I was researching this I found this minute long clip from Arnold Schwarzenegger in the last action hero where it's a
parody as if Arnold in action hero mode was playing Hamlet and I have to share it with you guys because the very last line to X or Knox to X to X or not to X is frickin hilarious.
So here it is if you know Hamlet you're really gonna appreciate it. Here you go.
Hey. Hello. Thanks. You killed my father.
Hey. In the state of Denmark and is taking out the trash. Yeah. Hello.
State I had 2 You see them fear. Yeah.
No, this sweet prince, good night. To be Oh, not to be.
Have to be.
Because of course that's what he would say in a movie like that to be or not to be.
So there you go. So there you go. So then that leads me to my confession. My confession is that I wrote this today.
I was looking at the title and I said I'm giving a talk currently called the Continued Growth of AI Generators and Assistants.
I don't think the word growth is good enough. I want a word that means growth, progression, development, etc.
Explosion.
Got any ideas. And said, consider using the term evolution. This word encompasses not only growth and development, but also to just a continuous adaptive progression.
It implies a more complex process of change in adaptation over time. And I was like, that's perfect.
Okay.
So I changed the title from the continued growth to the continued evolution of AI generators and assistance. So you ought to update that on the website when you get a chance.
So I'm confessing to you, I use cat GPT to change the title of the presentation, but I have something even more to confess to you guys.
So I actually asked it. I looked at the Wikipedia definition of snow clone and I was like, yeah, it can be better than that.
And I quoted the paragraph from Ch from Wikipedia. And if you notice, the part I highlighted, I actually did use in my explanation.
Well, it came back and said certainly a snow clone is a type of customizable template for creating phrases and it went on and on and on and gave me some good stuff but I need to keep it short and then at the end it said the structure allows for endless variations.
Each tailored to convey a specific idea while leveraging a common recognizable pattern. Well, lo and behold, there on the left, that's what I got from Wikipedia and chat GPT and on the right that's what I wrote on my web page.
So my confession is in preparing this presentation. The I used CTPT to help me with some of the phrasing as well as the title of this talk.
And in fact, I use it all the time. Now, one more thing, by the way, confession wise. I will be reading a lot tonight.
Those of you seen me before know I normally do not read lots of stuff, but we're dealing with a lot of generated text tonight so you're going to be hearing me read a lot I apologize I won't do it the next time.
And finally, an acknowledgement. And this acknowledgement says, you know, last time I spoke on this topic, 14 months ago, I said this, yes, chat GPT is not perfect.
Yes, chat, GPT makes stupid errors. Let's not make a game out of picking apart every little wrong thing.
That was in 2022. Well, guess what? It's still true. Generative AI tools can hallucinate, they can make up stuff, they can create weird, disturbing, harmful content.
They are flawed. However, Roosh Nyer says in 2022 I said and this is still true technology always gets better it never gets worse.
And lo and behold generative AI has done the same thing. It's gotten better in a lot of ways and it will keep doing so.
So keep that in mind. Now, there's a million different generative AI tools out there. Before we get going into the ones I'm going to focus on tonight, I do want to do a few terms and definition so we're all on the same page and know what I'm talking about.
So the term AI gets used a lot. My buddy, Jan's calls it a flubber word.
A lot of words are flubber words where it kind of means whatever the person thinks and you don't always realize that the way you're thinking about it is the way the other person is not thinking about it.
So I did want to make sure we're using terms and we're all understanding what we're saying.
So I want to focus on 3 terms. Artificial Intelligence, AI, machine learning, ML, and generative AI.
So AI seeks to simulate human intelligence in machines. And the thing is that AI is pretty much focused on specific tasks or specific kinds of problems.
That's what AI does. And the thing that makes it AI and not human is they can't transfer learning from one task to another seamlessly.
Other words you can't take an AI that's designed to design that's designed to find bad grammar and recognize it and make suggestions.
And then say, hey, I'd like you now to start recognizing photos of broken bowling trophies.
Hey, I can't do that. We can. Humans can easily. That's that's what our brains do.
We shift between tasks all the time. But AI can't do it. Now machine learning, ML, is a subset of AI and it focuses on enabling machines to learn from data and then improve their performance on tasks without being explicitly programmed.
And so the example of that is patterns and statistics. So the algorithms ML uses are pattern statistics that they learn from data and then they're able to make predictions or decisions based on what they recognize.
So children learn what a dog is by seeing animals identified as dogs, right? That's my dog, Dobie.
Well, a small child is not going to look at Dobie. And then look at another dog and not understand that that's also a dog.
It doesn't think, oh, this is the only dog in existence. It looks like this. A small child learns that is a kind of dog.
This is a kind of dog. This is a kind of dog. Well, likewise, if you show a computer a few 1 million photos of dogs and say, these are dogs.
Then it is going to learn how to identify dog-like characteristics and then understand and identify what a dog is.
Now of course when I say understand I'm anthropomorphizing the computer because it doesn't understand anything.
But it can identify. The characteristics. Generative AI is a specific type of AI that focuses on generating text, photos, images, video, audio, and so on.
And the one I'm going to spend most of my time talking about tonight, Chat GPT, is the premier example of Generative Vale.
So for instance, I generated generated this image using Dolly, which is a image generator closely tied to chat GPT.
By asking for cottage in a valley during the winter with lights in the windows and snow on the ground in the center, highly detailed, intricate fine art, and it made this.
Now, what we are not talking about.
Are, are you sharing?
No.
You guys not seeing what I'm talking about? Oh, for God's sakes, I did it again.
Hold on, people. Oh my god. Thank you. I do this in my classes all the time.
I don't see chat guys. You gotta say something. I am talking and looking at the screen.
I don't have the ability to look at the cat. So if that's ever happening interrupt me immediately.
I thought it was coming up.
As you guys dismissed all my kick ass slides that I spent all this time. Going over. I'm in fact I'm gonna go back just so you can see that that for artificial intelligence and that for machine learning and that for patterns and algorithms and
Who is on purpose, giving you a chance to practice.
Nice.
Oh, there you go. Thank you. That's my dog. Generative AI.
And I'm sorry Scott we saw that in the chat somebody said you know Good!
That's the image I was talking about. And so as here we are, what I'm not talking about is artificial general intelligence, AGI, sometimes called strong AI or full AI.
That, that's like the goal way down the road and the idea is that computers will possess human-like general intelligence and can understand, learn, and apply knowledge across a wide range of tasks and domains like you and I do.
So we are a long, long ways from that. They'll be able to solve problems, make decisions, adapt in new situations and challenges.
Like you and I do, but we're nowhere near it. We're not going to be there for quite a while, probably at least a few decades.
So we don't have to worry about killer robots yet. Just making sure everybody understands that.
We're cool. So let's do a quick review back to 2022 and some of the things I said.
So back then, and I still believe this, we are at a major transition point in technology just as important as the internet, the CPU, the PC, the web, the smartphone.
This is, I, I said that, I saw that immediately at the end of 2022. I still believe that completely this is a major inflection point going forward.
I talked about open AI. This is a major inflection point going forward. I talked about open AI. I'm going to focus on them today still.
They And that's what it looked like. Well, it pretty much still looks like that to this day.
That's the interface. You'll notice that this one has 3 5 and 3 and GPT 4.
So now there's an addition. On the GPT. 35 called GPT 4 that's even more sophisticated that is even more powerful and that's actually the one I tend to use almost always not cat TPT 3 5 but 4 because it's just better in every way.
So back in 2022. I ask Chat GPT what are some things you're good at?
And it said, well, I'm good at a lot of tests. Some things I'm particularly good at providing general knowledge and information on a wide variety of topics, answering questions, helping to clarify ideas.
Assisting with language translation, language learning. Providing assistance with research and writing. Offering suggestions and recommendations, helping to solve problems and troubleshoot issues.
That was 14 months ago. Today, I ask it the same question. And this is Chad KPD 4.
And it's now says, I excel in providing information, explanations and insights, also wide range of topics.
Okay. I was you to start it.
Okay. What? What's wrong? Hello?
No, there was an open mic there, Scott. Go on, please.
Oh, okay. I'm skilled at generating human like text. Notice that's new based on the input I receive, making me a useful tool for writing assistance, created brainstorming and educational support.
My Cape Buildings attend a language translation, basic math and coding problem solving. And generating ideas or suggestions for projects and research.
Additionally, this is new. I can assist with generating art and images based on detailed prompts.
My design is to process new and for information in a way that's accessible and useful supporting learning, creativity, and problem solving.
That's very different. There's a few few overlap there, but it's added on quite a bit.
Well, AI tools. Can not just generate text, they can generate images. Chat GPT mentioned that.
Yes.
I have a question. Kind of a legal question. So if you, use your, to like write a story or something who owns that story does.
I mean.
They copyright office says no one is public domain because it was written by a computer, not a person, and only people can claim copyright.
But it was your idea that,
That's why 10 years ago, you cannot copyright ideas. You can only copyright fixed form. So that's why you can go out tonight and make a movie or short story about Cinderella and it's perfectly okay for you to do that because nobody can copyright an idea.
However, you cannot make a movie or images that look exactly like Disney's Cinderella or have that person's voice speaking as that particular Cinderella.
So ideas are not copyrightable. Once it's in a fixed form and that means the second you hit you know take a picture or the second you lift your pen off the paper or the second you hit save you on the copyright for it if you the human have created it.
About 15 years ago, a photographer left cameras where all these monkeys were and a monkey grabbed the camera and took the best monkey selfie in the entire world.
It's amazing. And he tried to clean copyright out of on it and the copper office was like you don't own that the monkey took the photo and not you and monkeys can't have copyright, therefore you don't have copyright.
So they've made it very clear that if you get if you say write a short story about blah blah blah blah blah blah with characters that do blah blah blah blah blah blah, you do not own the resulting creation that is spit out by the generative AI tool.
Same thing with images and the other things on here. It's spit out by the generative AI tool. Same thing with images and the other things on here.
Slides, voices, songs Anything else if you generate it using AI you do not own it no one does it's public domain That answer your question.
So some people like that, some people don't. I think it's great, personally.
Now, let's talk about some negative uses of generative AI. Let's let right out of the gate.
Yeah. It's problematic. So, you know, it's true. Some awful people use AI to generate useless or harmful content.
So for instance, in February of 2,023 Clark's World a sci-fi magazine shared this chart showing the number of spam submissions it had received.
Well, if you look at that chart, it's pretty obvious in November, 2022 chat GPT gets announced the next month December it starts to go up January goes way up by February it's off the charts I mean it's ridiculous how much people were taking the generating garbage sci-fi stories and then and then submitting it to Clark's World, this site by a magazine.
And so finally in February, the twentieth they said submissions are closed. We are suspending submissions.
Now they looked into ways to write software that would detect. Some of that to help detect when people were doing it and they said if you submit a story written by A, you are forever band.
We never, you will never be allowed to submit anything else. And according to them, the problem has gone way, way down, but people still try to do it.
But that's an example of garbage submissions. Well, content farms. We, you know, everybody knows Google has gotten a lot worse in the last several years because it's much worse about allowing garbage into the top results.
One of the reasons I don't use, I quit using Google long time ago. I use Coggy.
I've spoken to you guys about that. It's a search engine you pay for. It's and you can say block these results lower these results raise these results I love it Well, a content farm.
Otherwise known as an MFA made for advertising site is a website that contains junk. Designed to host ads from company like Google paid for by small business owners, your, you know, people you know that own businesses or have services they want to offer.
And the thing is they use sleazy tricks to try to capture eyeballs so people can look at ads.
So click bait headlines, you know, one weird trick to lose weight and have better sex. Keyword stopping auto play videos which make me wanna ring the neck of people to do that pop ups engagement bait share this come in on this slide shows and listicles, you know, 50 funny photos of babies.
Misleading thumbnails. The advertising industry said after studying this, over 140 major brands across all sorts of industries are paying for ads that end up on reliable AI written sites.
Probably without their knowledge. 90% of the ads for major brands found on these AI generated news sites were served by Google because Google no longer cares they just want to get as much money as they can and so they don't care as much about their search results.
They don't care much about their ad business. They're taking these taking major brands ads and shoving them on the garbage.
Crap MFA sites. And in fact, in June, 2023, the association national advertisers surveyed this.
The average ad campaign that people were paying for ran on 44, websites. 21% of all at at impressions were on those made for advertising sites.
13 billion dollars is wasted every year by businesses paying for ads on these junky, crappy AI generated sites.
Now before they paid people in other countries very little wages to generate the content on these sites? Now, why do that?
You can just have AI generate the content and they will never need to rest, go to sleep, take a cigarette break.
They won't get sick. They won't have personal problems. And that prevent them from working constantly.
They won't ask for more money. So now it's even easier and faster to generate garbage content on these made for advertising junk sites.
In fact, one MFA site we know uses uses AI to produce 1,200 articles of junk a day.
1,200 articles of using garbage keywords to get people's attention that are junk.
And in fact, one study said there's around 25 new junk sites every week and it's getting bigger.
And in fact, this is one of those sites that were identified. Medical outline, medical and health.
Articles. And so I took a look at it for it and basically what they do is they just look for keywords and then write garbage articles about that.
Hoping they'll rank highly in Google. And since Google has gone way downhill, they tend to rank more highly.
And so for instance, what is hemorrhoid cream is one of the articles. What is hemorrhoid not how can I control hemorrhoids but what is hemorrhoid cream?
And here's another example. Birth control methods and then the woman on the right, preterm labor and pregnancy.
Now, I've seen pregnant women, women, I think if I was that woman I would be expecting an alien to be bursting out of my belly because that does not look real or normal in the slightest.
They also have these spotlight images like what is going on in these? These are just junk images generated by these things.
Try to get people's attention. And in fact, I looked, I started, okay, what is Hamori cream?
And here's the brilliant kind of information they're letting me know. Hemorrhoid cream is a topical medication used to release symptoms associated with hemorrhoids.
Well, no shit. That really took a lot of that's really helpful. For people to read, but I want you to notice what's on the right.
Hey Scott.
Look at that, Harvard Medical School has an ad that they paid for on a junk page telling you what is hemorrhoids.
Harvard Medical School has an ad that they paid for on a junk page telling you what is hemorrhoid cream.
Boy, that's really helping out Harvard Medical School. The kind of people reading this junk are going to be exactly the kind of people that want to apply to Harvard Medical School.
Think Harvard would be happy to know it's spending its ad money on this sort of garbage. I don't think so.
And then there's deep fake videos.
Well, it's not just that.
It's not. Scott, back up to that previous slide. Now, personally, I think Harvard has at least 50 or 60% of the responsibility for this act because they're the ones that waste their money on on the advertising.
Well, what they do is they go to Google and say, we want you to put our ads on websites.
And we pay per click or per impression. And so Google is the one that's supposed to be picking good sources to put their ads.
They're just buying ads from Google and Google saying, oh, we'll put them on good sites.
You see what I mean.
Yeah, so there's it's not just this one side. I mean, the Harvard Ads gonna be the same add on.
Hundreds of sites probably.
Oh, well, like, said, like I said, the average ad is on 44,000 websites.
Yeah.
Yeah, and that's the problem. That's stupid because Nobody that Harvard won is going to be looking at this craft.
Of course, that's my point.
Yeah, they do. They spend the money.
Harvard doesn't necessarily have much control if any. Of No, they don't. They give Google criteria.
But Google can do whatever they want within that criteria. Harvard does not know the websites that it's on.
Exactly. Exactly.
No, I didn't say they did. I'm saying they waste the they waste their money on this crap.
Exactly.
They're wasting money, but they without going and finding these themselves, they don't know where they're ads are.
No, no, no, you missed my point. The campaign is stupid in the first place.
Hopefully you guys are right. Both of you guys are right. I mean, the campaign is stupid and it's also stupid that they're getting put on 44,000 websites.
They're letting Google, like you said, they're letting Google. Be in charge of where these.
Here.
Yeah, but how many of those 44,000 websites are this like inappropriate or awkward though?
That's You know those?
How many? How many of those 44,000 are actually useful? Also, right? The fact is though they're wasting money.
Right.
And like I said, lots of money is wasted. This is just one example. There's others.
I mean, I think I had another one.
Okay. I'm not sure I feel terribly sorry for Harvard. The President after the President's performance.
No, there are small businesses that buy ads from Google. And they're getting screwed, not Harvard.
In this, you know. I don't know, I look at a website like that and my eyes just bounce right off of it.
About screams.
Right, but you're somewhat educated and knowledgeable. People and people don't know that they, they clear it in the result.
A lot of people trust Google. Hey, it's on the first page of Google. It's got to be real.
Let them.
It's got to be right. Google showed it to me. It's the nerds that are realizing what the problems are.
Is anything?
Yeah, well that's the biggest problem. Nobody should trust Google. No, I should use Google.
Of course. Of course, you got you speaking to the choir on that one.
Yeah.
There's a larger issue of people need to not just trust what's presented to them. They need to have some critical thought.
Yeah.
I.
Exactly. So that brings me actually it's a nice segue to deep fake videos. That's where you take footage, you alter it.
So the depicted face or body or voice is modified to appear like someone else. So for instance, on October first, 2023, Tom Hanks warned his followers on Instagram that a deep fake of him was being used in a scam that a deep fake of him was being used in a scam.
Specifically, there's a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me.
I have nothing to do with it. Then on October second, the next day, CBS anchor Gail King warned her followers on Instagram about a deep fake of her used to sell a weight loss product.
It appears the scammers took existing videos of celebrities and you software to change lip movements to match AI generated voice clones that have been trained on vocal samples pulled from their movies and TV appearances and so on.
And I sure to put it in here, but I already have this thing is jam packed already, but there's an AI tool that lets you speak.
And it records the video of you talking and in English or whatever and then you can say, now translate what I'm saying into French.
Use my voice and it will actually change the video so your lips are moving like you're speaking in the French.
Version and you can translate it to other voices as well. So it's that easy to do.
Hey Scott.
Yes.
When I was a kid. This was a long time ago. There were some cartoons on TV.
And what they would do is they had a cartoon face drawn, you know. And it moved a little bit and they would photograph somebody's lips.
Sure, I've seen that.
About the size of your mustache.
Yeah, Conan O'brien used to do that too on his show. Conan O'brien on his on his show used to do that.
Who? Oh, I.
Yeah, it's just
So, I've gotta keep going. I've got so much cover. I'm sorry guys.
If it's a question specifically about something I said go ahead but if not hold them till the end if you could.
So.
Hey Scott, a quick comment. If you do have slide numbers, could you mention them? Just so.
You don't apply numbers. Nope, sorry. I never use numbers are distracting and they're junk chart junk.
There's no slide, okay. Okay.
Okay.
They're little noise instead of signal. Sorry. So now let's talk about AI, AI image generators in specific specific.
Now back when I'd spoken to you guys, I mentioned that Open AI had announced Dolly, Dali is their image generation program, a company named Mid Journey came out with their image generator.
It's still widely used. Stability AI release stable diffusion. It's still widely used and then last October Dolly version 3 was released to chat GPT plus customers.
Of which I am one. And what I'd recommend people do if you want to check it out.
You don't need to go on to chat GPT and do it. What I recommend if you're just kind of getting your feet wet with this.
I recommend a website called Lexica. Okay, and it's located at lexicon.
Art and you can not only see what other people have created and you can search for what other people have created, but you are allowed to generate a hundred images a month for free after that you need to subscribe.
And so here's the prices. $10 a month would get you a thousand images for quickly, not slowly, and you get a commercial license.
$30 a month, $60 a month and so on. That's the monthly plan. If you pay 96 bucks a year, that's $8 a month.
You get that and so on and so forth.
We don't own the image though, wherever you create, you don't own it.
Nope, you do not own the images. That's absolutely correct. Now that's why when it says commercial license.
I'm not quite sure what they're doing with that. I have to research that more because Of course you have a commercial license. It's public domain.
You can do whatever you want.
Probably a license to use their service. 4. Yes.
To generate commercial images or something. I don't know. This is what the interface looks like.
So you can go describe what in if you want. You can also give it negative things like don't do this.
You can change the dimensions of the image. Right there and then click generate. These are 2 it made for me.
Sorry. Did I make these or did I have them, I find them? I can't remember which one at this point.
I will show you ones I've made. But this shows you kind of the variety you can get with this where you've got this young woman at the Molfi coast on the left and the old man kind of a woodcut effect on the right.
I think both are quite good. Quite interesting. This is what the front homepage looks like. So you just start scrolling and it shows you all the images people have been generating.
So obviously somebody was into raccoons here for a while and somebody else was into like picnic scenes or fall, you know, feast scenes or something like that.
And you can keep scrolling and you could you see the wide variety of kinds of art that people are able to create with this tool.
Everything from fantasy art to illustrations to, you know, realistic photographs. Surrealistic stuff, all different kinds of generated art.
And as I was scrolling, well this is the cool thing about it. If you see an image that catches your eye like that care right there, if you hover over it.
It allows you to favorite it, but you can see the name of it and you can start seeing some details.
Well, if you click on that, you can see the prompt that was used to generate that image and you can copy the prom and then turn around and use it yourself.
To either to use that prompt or to alter it or to change it, shorten it, lengthen it, do whatever you want.
And of course you can copy the URL, you can copy the image and so on. You can explore other images in this style.
So it's incredibly useful if you want to learn prompting. Like, you know, what do I say to generate these kinds of images?
Well, there's the prompt right there. So you can start learning from it. So I decided to use it and so I typed in dog warriors.
You know, I love dogs. I've got I've always had small dogs as pets.
And so I typed in dog warriors. Let's see what I generated. Well, yeah, some of these are pretty good.
I like some of these quite a bit. I like the guy on the right. The warrior that's on top of a giant German shepherd.
I think that looks pretty neat. There you go. But let's scroll down and see other dog warriors.
I gotta love the little pug there on the left in armor and the one with swords although I'm not quite sure where they're coming from.
I do love the dog, a little dog fight against Russian orcs with automatic rifles. Gotta love that.
But then I started, I'm going to search for dangerous fruit. Like I just started, let's be surrealistic here.
Let's search for dangerous fruit and these are what I got. I love these. I'm looking at these going, yeah, these are dangerous.
Yeah.
Like that second one over on the top, I am not going to mess with that fruit. You know, the one on the far right with the eyeball?
No, I'm not going near that. The third one on the bottom. No way.
Hmm.
And then here's some more. That one in the second column, top left. No, I'm gonna avoid that.
Yeah.
I don't know what's going on with the dude eating the fruit. If I'd scroll down a little further, we could have seen that.
The potato, the angry, evil potato over on the right. Yep, although that's not a fruit.
Obviously, but you know, hey, I'll take it. And then I thought, okay, let's go really crazy.
Darth Vader's dog. What would Darth Vader's dog look like?
Yeah.
And so these are ones other people have generated. Please understand what I'm searching. These are finding other ones people have generated.
It's not generating it for me. And so, man, I love these. I love the second one over on the top with the with the SIFT lightsaber with the dog.
I also love that one there that I've highlighted there. Star Wars scene, artificial intelligence, a Shizu dog wearing black, ith night cape and if you notice it's got its master's lightsaber I think under its chin there I think that's a lightsaber maybe not but again you can see the exact prompt and you can also see out ignored stuff like it's supposed to be
holding a red light saber and its paws not doing that. R 2D 2 and C threePO are not in the background.
So you're not always going to get exactly what you want, but you're often going to get close.
So I thought that was pretty cool and you guys would enjoy that. That brings me though.
Is that because, R 2D 2 and CTP are owned or?
I've seen plenty of examples of R 2D 2 and C 3 PO where they were generated as you're going to see in just a minute some of these have tightened down.
Restrictions on copyrighted material. But I've certainly seen plenty of R. 2D twos and C 3 POs.
So that brings me to the biggie and that's Dolly 3 and that's the one open AI created that is tied to chat GPT 4 and as it says here it understands significantly more nuance in detail.
And they said specifically, it's available to chat GPT plus team and enterprise users as well as developers through our API.
Okay, I'm gonna talk about pricing just a little bit. So that's one thing. It's not available if you're using, if you're using the free version and chat GPT, you have to sign up at least for the API.
And that gets charged a little bitty bit every time you use it. It's very reasonable, though.
I think the prices are extremely reasonable. The the first time you do it by the way when you sign up with the API you have to put at least $5 in as credit.
Once you do that, you can start using the API. Then they'll bill you after that. But you have to put at least 5 bucks in so make sure you do that.
I did and it was like why isn't the API working? And then I finally realized, oh, I have to actually charge $5 into it first and then I can start using it.
The other thing it says, this is what Open AI said, modern text image systems have a tendency to ignore words or descriptions.
Dolly 3 represents a leap forward in our ability to generate images that exactly adhere to the tech.
So I would actually, now that I think about it, like to take that prompt of the Shizu that mentioned R to D and 2 and C 3 PO and apply that to Dolly 3 and see what I got.
So I'm gonna have to do that. And Dolly 3 is built natively on chat GPT.
Which lets you use GPT as a brainstorming partner and refiner. Just ask it what you want to see in anything from a sentence to a detailed paragraph.
And so these are ones I've actually done. Generate an image showing a developer sculpting their digital avatar in a virtual environment surrounded by floating code and personal achievements.
I did this about a week ago. And that's one of the results I got. I thought that is pretty cool.
That is pretty down cool. You know, I could see using that in a presentation or with students or wherever.
I thought that looked really good. Here's now and what's really neat is Underneath the image after it generates it takes about 30 s to 45 s to generate it.
Chad GPTO has puts an explanation. So it tells you, okay, here's the developer sculpting their digital avatar in a virtual environment, but then it goes on.
This scene captures the essence of creativity and digital prowess. Highlighting the intimate relationship between a developer and the creations and the developer in the digital realm, which I always like.
Because that gives me additional words I could use in a future prompt. And by the way, if I repeated that prompt, it is gonna look nothing like that.
You cannot refer to the image. I couldn't take this image and go, can you do the same image but with a woman it will look completely totally different.
So you can ask it to just change one little thing and have it be the it's going to be completely different.
There are some restrictions. In terms of dolly 3 and those are according to Open AI designed to limit Dolly Three's ability to generate violent adult or hateful content.
So for instance, It will decline requests that ask for a public figure by name. So if you ask for a real person that's alive now, it will not do it.
I've had better look with dead people. It will avoid harmful biases. Related to visual over underrepresentation.
So the problem was people would say, show me a criminal and they were like almost all black. Are they say show me a doctor and they were almost all men.
And things like that. And so they're really trying to fix that problem. And this is this was a sore point with a lot of artists.
It will decline requests that ask for an image in the style of a living artist. And creators can now opt their images out from training.
So people could say, I don't want you using my images for training, which means you will not be able at all to duplicate my style.
If you want. And so here's an example. I thought, again, I'm going to see how things have progressed.
So in 2022. This guy posted to Twitter, an Italian town made a pasta tomatoes basil in Parmesan and when I saw that I was like that's pretty cool you know that that's pretty neat I like that.
Okay.
So I thought, let me do it with Dolly 3. This was done with Dolly too. So I asked the exact same prompt, an Italian town made of pasta, tomatoes, basil and Parmesan, and I got that.
That was the, now I actually got 2 results. Sometimes you get 2, sometimes you get one. I don't see why.
Now there are parts of this I really like. I like the spaghetti on the roof.
I like the spaghetti coming down. I like the basal leaves. I like the cheese, the parmesan brushed around the tables there in the center of the walkway.
I think that's pretty cool. But there are parts of this I think suck. Like that tomato, I would be afraid of that tomato because that's going to crush somebody.
Okay.
It's just sitting there in the air. Likewise, that spoon looks stupid. It doesn't fit at all.
The people look totally artificial. They like little playmobile people. They don't fit and I don't know what's going on with that cheese.
Is it melting? Is it not melting? It's not quite clear. So other than the spaghetti, I wasn't really happy with this one.
However, the second image it generated looked like that. I thought that was far more successful. Because it's a more interesting image.
There are far fewer things that are disconcerting. I like how the pasta has been integrated into the walls and spilling into the street.
The people do not look totally artificial. They look like humans. Obviously just part, you know, it's very abstracted, but it looks far more human-like.
So I did like this one. There was one thing I didn't like. In particular, and that was the pasta at the very top dropping down.
I didn't think that worked. So I would have removed that. But overall, I wanted to show you guys the 2022 version of the 2,024.
Now what's different is the 2,022 now what's different is the 2,022 has the cheese the tomatoes the basil and the cheese is carved to look mostly like a town?
But in 2024, they actually make a town. That incorporates the keys, the pasta, the tomatoes, the basil.
So I think obviously we've come quite a ways. I mean, sure, the 2022 one's interesting, but the grid effect.
I'm not quite sure what that's doing. It doesn't really look much like a tail.
It's very, very, very abstracted. Where I think the one that I generated today looks a lot better.
Now, likewise back in 2022. This was generated by Dolly to Leonardo enters the multiverse.
And so my prompt today was to dolly 3, this was Dolly 2, generate an image showing Leonardo da Vinci entering the multiverse with a headset on, but in his style.
And the reason I put that in this style is because I thought that's kind of what they were duplicating in the original.
So here's what it ended up generating. No, I thought that was really cool. So that is Leonardo da Vinci entering the multiverse wearing a headset in his style.
And there you go. There's the one. No, I think the one from 2022 is actually very successful.
I think it's pretty good. But I think the one from 2024 is also very, very good, but in a completely different way.
Now is that truly different way. Now is that truly in this Leonardo himself look like in his style, in this, does Leonardo himself look like in his style, Leonardo himself look like in his style.
Not so much in my opinion, but you certainly see his style everywhere else. And I'm not enough of a Leonardo expert look like in his style. Not so much in my opinion, but you certainly see his style everywhere else.
And I'm not enough of a But I thought that that's a nice way to show what we had in 2022 and what we've seen 14 months later.
But I want to show you some others I've done. So back in 2023 a few months ago.
I was talking about with my students and I wanted an illustration where I wrote I wrote in in the chat GPT create an illustration showing a blend of graphic arts technology in psychology.
I had no idea what it was going to do. I thought this is pretty hard. Okay, I had a quote from somebody taught saying that you the science of user experience design blends graphic arts technology and psychology.
And I thought, well, I'd love an image of that. I have no idea what it's going to do and it ended up creating that.
And I actually thought that was pretty good. I like that. Graphic arts, technology, and psychology.
You got a brain, you've got the technical part of it, you've got the graphic arts part of it.
I was very happy. With that illustration. I thought that did a good job taking something I would have seen as very amorphous and turning it into something concrete.
Here's another one I said. I wanted to get across the idea that you don't want to do what everybody else is.
Doing in business and technology. And I had the idea of levings. And so create an image of a large number of businessmen in suits running in one direction.
Ideally, they will be running off a cliff like lemmings are supposed to do. Now, the thing is, it's probably not going to make them going off a cliff because that might be considered violent.
So this is what I got. That was actually like, oh, that's great. I'm running next to a clip.
Okay. But you got a bunch of different guys. And different style suits running the same direction. I actually was very happy with that.
But notice when you zoom in, yeah, the faces are kind of messed up and the hands are kind of messed up, right?
When you zoom in, it looks weird. But when you're looking at it from from this distance, which is how it's gonna be presented.
I think it looks fine. I think it's successful. It did the job. It did what I wanted it to do.
So I was happy with this image of businessmen running like lemons. I also wanted this one.
I did this just last month. Create an image illustrating the idea of a novice programmer or just someone without any real experience.
And it did this and it did it in a very cartoony style that I was actually very happy with.
So actually in the same day, I had to generate this. And then generate this and in no no time did I specify a style.
So it was picking the styles. And I was actually really happy with this. I thought this is kind of cool.
I also thought that is not ergonomic in the slightest. That kid hopefully is not typing like that.
That's going to be really bad. But that's zoomed in in the center.
I liked how it even did the, syntax highlighting in the code. I thought that worked out.
I wasn't quite sure what's on the bottom right there. What is that skull like?
Creature there. I'm not quite sure what that is, but that's okay. But upper on the upper left, it had some nice detail in the upper left.
There's the upper right. Again, some nice detail. Bottom right. That's a reason our very large coffee mug or a very small trash can.
But I like the wadded up paper and the stuff and then that's the bottom left. I guess that's a pencil sharpener.
But it has piece of paper stuck to it. I'm not sure. But again, when you're looking at it like this, I think it works.
So I was happy with it. I put it in my slides. Now, KPD can go the other direction.
In other words, you, I've been showing you examples where you give a text. And it generates an image.
You can give it a photo and ask it to describe it. So in particular, I use this in my web development classes.
So when you insert an image in HTML, you would use this code. You insert the image tag, IMG.
And then you specify which image you want it to display. You often give it a width and a height.
And then you give it an alt tag and the alt stands for alternative description. And so this is supposed to be a description of the image for people that have visual disabilities and are having it read to them.
Or for people with images turned off, people with slow connections and so on. You want to describe the image effectively, but you don't want to write a book.
And so there are a certain image. I have a website I have my students create and it's for a Canadian long care company that is deeply involved with the HP Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos.
And that's what I, that's what I have to make. And so there are certain images that they have to do all descriptions of and they've always had problems.
And so one day in class I said, why don't we ask, and GPT to describe some of these images?
So I said to Cat GPT, how would you describe this image, which is the image they see on the homepage, the big image you see when you first look And it came back and said, This image displays a meticulously maintained garden bursting with a variety of flowers and rich vivid hues neatly arranged for on sculpted shrubs and greenery.
And you might be going, that is pretty good except it kept going. Pathways and lawn areas provide structure to the space while strategically placed lamps suggest the garden is designed to be enjoyed both day and night.
The The overall impression is one of the carefully designed landscape intended to showcase the beauty of the plants and provide a tranquil space for visitors.
And at that point I'm like, you wrote a novel. That's way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, too long.
It's good, but it's way, way too long. So I changed my prompt. I said, how would you describe this picture in a sentence of no more than 20 words?
And it came back and said, a lush, well manicured garden with vibrant flower beds and sculpted shrubbery.
And I was like, that's really good. You know, that's a lot better than anything I ever came up with.
That's a lot better than anything my students ever came up with. So I'm like, let's use that.
That's really good. Then I showed it that image. How would you describe this image? My students have always had a problem with this.
It came back and said a serene panoramic garden with a winding path, diverse flora and a vibrant yellow tree under a clear blue sky.
And I was like, that's pretty good. Now, that shows up at the top of a page on another page lists all the sub pages and that picture is used but in full size.
So I said, okay, here's the full size image, not not the cropped one. How would you describe that?
And it says notice now it's focusing on the curve pathway. This mentioned a winding path.
Notice this one says a curve pathway through a vibrant garden with a striking yellow tree under a sunny sky.
And again, I was like, that's pretty good. What about this one? This was always difficult.
An ornate garden path lined with vibrant flowers and classical stone arms. Like that's better than anything we've done.
And here's another one that you might think, oh, this is easy, leaves. I've always been like, no, no, no, guys, you can't just say leaves.
You gotta be more descriptive and they would go fall leaves and I'm like guys that's not enough that's not descriptive if you were standing with your blind friend looking at this and they said, oh, what do you see?
And you said, ball leaves. They would think you're being a jerk. So give me something better.
And so Chat GPT said a carpet of autumn leaves in shades of yellow, orange, and red.
I'm like, that's great. That's perfect. I mean, it's really good with finding those nice specific words like carpet.
Right or ornate, vibrant, classical stone urns. And in fact, this is gonna blow your mind.
This is amazing. I did not, this is a video they issued in September, they rolled out a bunch of new capabilities for mobile chat GPT users and you can show chat GPT and image.
You can then use the drawing tool to focus on a part of the image and watch what it will do for you.
And you can talk to it. So you take a picture of a bike and you write, help me lower my bike seeds and watch this.
So it's saying find the quick release of Liverpool, do this, do that, and then they take a picture, circle it.
And so, is this? The lever? And it comes back and says, No, it's not 11 to both.
Look at the mall and let. What's you lose the digest to see? There you go.
And he says, I need to, here's my toolbox. And watch this! It goes That's the manual telling it what size.
Here's my toolbox.
Yes.
You you
That blows my mind. It told him, oh yeah, on the left your toolbox? Find the 4
Is that?
Oh Okay.
Now, that's f and cool, dudes. I'm sorry, but that is, that's just freaking cool.
You know, the ability for it to do that, I think blows me away. And you know, and yeah, that was probably a pretty setup image and stuff, but my god, if that points toward where we're getting, how useful this stuff will be, that will be amazing.
I mean, I've had problems putting in garbage disposals under the under there. I've had to ask Tom to help me with headlights and stuff like that.
If I could use a tool like this to give me just a little bit more help, yeah, I'm gonna use it.
And that brings us from images to audio. So let's talk about audio. So Open AI released Whisper.
That's a question about images real quick.
And Of course.
You know, this program, analyze the code for this program and give me some graphical of representation of it, you know, what's independent on what.
We're gonna be optima.
You say you taste the code in and then say. Give me a
Well, I mean, you could base code in and you can refer to the code, you know, look at the code in this website and you know tell me how it all works together.
Like, they'll do that. It'll give me like an image. It'll create like an image of it.
Oh, it'll do that. Oh my god. What do you want an image of? I'm confused by that.
What would that image look like?
Like, you know, this function, these functions are this for this purpose and these functions are for this purpose and this is how they work together and
I'm still not clear how that would be an image.
Michael, like a flowchart.
3 dimensional. Think about 3 dimensional flowchart. Yeah.
Kind of like that, that program image that you had before. Something like that.
Well again, I'm not, I'm not clear how that would, how code would translate to a threed.
Maybe I'm just not getting it or I'm not smart enough to understand what exactly what you're talking about.
I mean it does a very good job explaining code. I'm gonna show you guys some examples actually coming right up.
But I mean, It I'm sure it would generate flow charts if you ask. I don't know.
I haven't done that. I'm not sure if it would generate. I'm not sure.
I don't know. I'm not quite, still not quite clear what you're. Asking exactly what how the code would turn into a 3D image, right?
Now, if you gave it SVG code, I believe it would. Show you what that was gonna be, but that's exactly that's specifically designed to generate images.
Hi.
Bye.
There was there was some video about the Linux kernel like in like all the developers that that and it would show like like it would have a series of dots and like, you know, each dot was, you know, was like a module or something for the kernel and then you would see it's you know people writing code and it would spin off to other things and stuff like our directories and stuff like that.
That's pretty sophisticated. I have no idea if it would do that. That said, there are now add ons and extensions you can load in chat GPT.
And for instance, you can load a Wikipedia extension where when you type a query, it will search all of Wikipedia and come back and give you an explanation.
So, I would say go look and it's test, GPT yourself. And then see if any of the extensions are add ons will do that for you as well or make that sort of job easier.
Alright, thanks.
That's all I can say. Cause I'm not, I'm not knowledgeable otherwise about it.
So back to audio, Open AI released whisper, which is amazing. I have been looking for good transcription software for a long time.
And there was stuff before, but it was expensive. Number one, really expensive, or you could pay humans to listen and type it out.
Or you could use software, but a lot of times it was not very accurate. Well, they've released whisper and open source automatic speech recognition system.
It's amazing. And it's free. So I use a tool and you can find this for anything called Mac Whisper.
This guy, Jordi Bruin, wrote an app called Mac Whisper. Okay. And It is.
$18 for a lot. I've got prices elsewhere. 25 bucks for a license.
Now it's free. But if you want it will use a model that's good but not as great as if you pay if you pay you get a far better model that understands a lot more audio, did a lot more languages, and so on.
And so basically, 25 bucks, I bought it immediately. Here's what it looks like. And so you can either take an audio file you already have and open it and it'll start transcribing it.
You can record directly into it. You can take a podcast and drag it in and it will transcribe it or you can use other apps that you've recorded and have those apps be sending their audio into Mac Whisper.
And so. This is what it looks like. So you go, okay, I'm gonna record microphone audio.
And so I, did this actually I was in a small hotel room. I was giving a talk to, an association about AI and I decided to test this.
Now I've always used it with. I took on myself during class. So I typically have zoom recording me or I'll use other tools to record me and then I would take the audio and I've been dragging it into Mac Whisper.
I never sat there and just recorded directly in. So I decided to try that. So it was late at night.
I was in a hotel room. I was trying to keep my voice down. I was also using the max mic.
I was not using my air pods. I was not using another mic. I was just using the built-in mic on my Mac in a hotel room talking quietly this is what it sounded like and I apologize if you can hear very well but that's because I was talking quietly Whisper is an automatic speech recognition system.
Trained on 680,000 h of multilingual and multi-task supervised data. Collected from the web.
Show that the use of such a large and diverse dataset leads to improved robustness to accents.
Background noise and technical language. Moreover, it enables transcription in multiple language. Okay. So that's enough of the isolation.
So. I clicked on transcribe recording. And here's what it did. 15 s later.
I saw that. And I'm gonna play the audio again. So you can hear it and compare it to what it did.
Whisper is an automatic speech recognition system. Trained on 680,000 h of multilingual and multi-test supervised data.
Collected from them. And I did not alter this texture anyway. Use such a large and diverse dataset leads to improved robustness to accents.
Background noise and technical language. Moreover, it enables transcription in multiple languages, as well as translation from those languages into England. Notice.
I am not saying any punctuation inference. Okay, and if I click that button it puts it all together in a paragraph.
So I can either have it all separated out or I can join it all together if I want. I can then copy that and edit it.
Do whatever I want. But that was using that crappy audio and it generated that like that in just a few seconds it was able to do that.
This thing is frickin amazing. I use it all the time. There are a bunch of different programming APIs you can use if you want to use this on the command line in various languages.
Easily. I like to record lectures like I said in transcribe them. I then read over the transcriptions.
I pick out the sections where I did did a good job explaining things and then I turned those into slides or re record that as scripted videos.
It's incredibly useful. It's awesome. Check it out. Whisper.
Obviously it's going to work on Mac, Windows, Linux, everything. People have made apps.
It's all it's out there. And in fact, September 2023 they published a new blog post that GPT can now see her and speak you've already seen some of that But here is here.
I'm not going to play this whole thing, but you can now speak to it and it will speak back to it and it will speak back to you.
There are 5 different voices. So here's a person asking. We want to hear a bedtime story.
Tell us a story about the super duper sunflower hedgehog named Larry. Start with telling us a little bit about him.
Okay, now it's thinking. Larry was a unique hedgehog unlike any other.
He had bright sunflower petals instead of spines. Residing in Meadowville, Larry spread joy and color wherever he rolled.
People cherished his radiant presence. What was his house like?
Larry's house was a cozy burrow beneath the sunflower field. Inside, the walls shimmered with golden petal patterns.
Natural light stream through tiny sunflower windows creating a warm glowing ambience. It was a sun kissed Haven.
There you go. I thought that was pretty good. Okay, so. Let's look at some really great uses of generative AI for lots of different purposes So you're gonna see a lot of a lot of positive uses.
And really this stuff can help you in almost. Just any way you can think of it can help. But you have to spend little time learning how to use it.
You can get, you know, you can do prompts but the more time you spend trying to think about what response you're getting and tweaking it and talking back to it.
And you and asking it to, well, what about this or I didn't say this, you know, change this, you'll get better results.
So this is one of my favorites. Explain it like I'm sick. So if I want to learn something new And I dislike an explanation that's simple and then I'll work my way up.
Right? I could say something like this. Explain photosynthesis to a six-year-old, so keep it really simple.
So I actually did this and this is what it said back. Photosynthesis is the process plants used to turn sunlight into energy.
Here's a simplified explanation for a six-year-old. Plants have tiny parts called chloroplasts and cry inside their cells chloroplasts contain a special chemical called chlorophyll, which is what gives plants their green color.
When sunlight shines on a plant, the chlorophyll in the chloroplast absorbed this and I was like, what the hell are you doing, 6 year old kids are not going to know what chloroplasts and chlorophyll is.
You need to make it simpler. So came back. I apologize, that was too complex. Okay, photosynthesis is the process.
Plants use to turn sunlight into energy. It helps plants grow and survive by turning sunlight into food.
Plants have special parts inside their cells that help them do this. When sunlight shines on a plant, these special parts absorb the sunlight and use it to turn water and air into food.
Photosynthesis is very important for plants because it helps them turn sunlight into the energy they need to grow and survive.
And I was like, yes, that is good for a 6 year old. They need to know what a cell is, but that could have been explained previously.
That's a much better explanation. It didn't listen at first. I qualified, I qualified it, came back with a much better explanation.
Okay, so you guys all know I teach classes. I use this all the time to help me out with my classes.
So for instance, I am teaching a course at Webster this semester called UX Design. User Experience Design.
I've been teaching it for several years. I wasn't really happy with how I'd organized it.
I inherited the course and I've been tweaking it a little bit over time, but I really have never been very happy with the organization.
And I thought, hell with it. I'm going to ask that GPT. So I said create an outline for a 16 week college course titled UX Design, include topics to cover, concepts to learn each week, and homework assignments.
And it came back and said, okay, UX design, principles and practice, description. This 16 week course provides a comprehensive overview of UX design focusing on principles, methods, and real word application.
The course is designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to create users. Centered designs that are both functional, engaging.
I was like, Perfect. Week one, Introduction to UX Design. Topics, Definition, History and Evolution, importance, homework, write an essay on the importance of UX in today's digital landscape.
Week 2, understanding users and context. Topics, user research methods, personas, user journeys.
Well, I've been teaching this several years, so I'm going, oh man, this is right on.
I like it. This is good. Homework, created persona, user journey map. We're gonna do that anyway.
I did not like essays, so I do that out. Week 3, design thinking in UX process.
Design thinking, ideation technique, ideation techniques. Conduct a brainstorming session and present idea sketches.
Okay, that's not bad, but I'm gonna alter that homework. 4, information architecture, site maps, navigation, content hierarchy, design a site map, or a website, your choice.
Guess what? We just did. Information architecture. Guess what?
It's 2 weeks. So what I did was I took this, but I changed it a lot.
I took it and said, that's good, I like that, that's good. No, we're not gonna do that. I don't like that homework.
I'm going to change that. I don't like where this is. I'm going to move that there.
They left out something I like to cover so I'm gonna add in this this and this and so I've ended up with a much better outline.
And so far, I think we just did the fifth week of class. This has been the best version of this class I've ever talked.
I am so much happier and again I didn't just take what KPI did just mindlessly use it.
I took it and allered, tweaked, I took my experience, my ideas, and integrated it in there.
So it really helped. But the resulting course is me with help from chat GPT. It's not just chat GPT.
Now here's another one that I talked about this back in 2022. I thought you would enjoy this back in 2,022.
I was teaching course and I said, I said, let's describe a course about AI. What would be some good readings for students to do?
And it said, okay, for the week one introduction, AI assistance, here's an article called The History of AI Assistance from Eliza to Siri at digital trends.
Dot com. And one called types of AI assistance and overview@turing.com. And I was like, oh my god, those sound perfect.
I would love to read those articles. That sounds great. And so that first article, I was like, let's go check that out.
Thank you.
And there's no such page. It doesn't exist. It was like 4 or 4. And so I didn't I did a search on the website.
Maybe they renamed it. It's like no we have no articles like that. So I went to Coggy, my search engine.
They're like, there's no such article called that anywhere. I even went to Google. That's how much I was going to do it, even though I don't like to.
And Google's like, no, there's nothing called that. Or you would sane? And so I went back and I said, these don't exist.
I want real readings not ones you make up but it's like I'm sorry I apologize here's here's real articles a brief history of AI assistance It's wired and I'm like, okay.
That sounds real. Then the evolution of virtual assistance from Eliza to Siri at Forbes? And I'm like, didn't you guys just give me an article called the same thing in a different site that didn't exist?
Okay, I'll see. You, you apologize. You said you were going to give me the real thing.
And so I thought, okay, let's go look at that Wired article. There was no such article.
Even after I chastised it, it was like there's no article called that it wired.
You know, and I was just like, oh for God's sakes. So, I decided let's try it again.
I did this today. I'm teaching a course about generative AI to college students. They're not computer science majors.
Here's what we're covering and I gave it the first 4 weeks. Will be some good articles.
And he came back and said, oh. The rise of AI assistance, a guide to the future of personal productivity by wired.
And I'm like, let's check it out. No such article. No such article. Now week 2, how natural language processing works.
Introduction NLP by IBM, and I thought that might exist. Frick? No, it doesn't exist.
No, it doesn't exist. Then I got this. Then I got the week 3. A beginner's guide to neural networks and deep learning by Pathmine and of course I'm going this isn't going to exist.
And guess what? It exists! Holy crap! It's a real article and it actually looks really useful.
I was like, Hosanna, this worked, finally. And then I went to week 4, understanding, deep, deep image generation by towards data science does not exist.
Oh.
So 3 out of the 4 do not exist had the same problem. 2 year, a 14 months ago, same problem now.
Now I think And I need to test this again. I think one of the add ons you can do is connect it to Bing and say use Bing to find articles.
So I'm going to try that again and see if that's better. But just asking it to make up to come up with articles, you've 25% are right the under 3 don't exist at all So I just wanted to let you guys know.
So hey, maybe in 6 months. Right? Maybe in 6 months it'll be fixed completely. We'll see.
What about
So this explains, Microsoft's investment in, open AI it's getting them to use the thing search engine
Okay.
Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, but there's other things like I said, you can link it to Wikipedia.
You can link it to this or that. So there's other stuff. What about technical enters? I'm talking to an audience of nerds.
Let me tell you, Chat GPT is very helpful. So I know our sink very well. I gave it a test.
How do I use our sync to back up a local directory to a service that supports the Amazon Web Services S.
3 API. And it came back and said, okay, to use our sync to do that, here's the r sync code.
That's what it said. And I'm like, that's what I use. And then it gave you a very nice explanation of all the options and what they do.
Which I thought was really great. And it even said, hey, you need to configure your AWS credentials and the endpoint of the service before using it.
Here's how you do that. So it actually went beyond just giving me the strict answer. To tell me what I needed to do to get this thing to work in the first place.
So I thought that was really good. And then I ask it this, I have a bunch of files named blah blah blah after the capital T those numbers are different from each file it's a timestamp.
But they always follow that pattern. I need a mac OS shell script using bash 4 that will rename the files and remove for instance T and then the timestamp.
And it gave me code, it didn't work. I corrected something. It gave me code.
I tried it. I said it didn't work, but I got this error. It gave me code. I tried it.
I said, okay, I think we're getting close, but this is the problem. And so we went back and forth about 3 times and then it gave me this is the top half.
Okay, and notice it gives you comments explaining it. And then this is the key part. This for loop.
I think that first line of the for loop is rather inelegant. I'm sure that could be expressed far better where it just did 0 to 9, 0 to 9, 0 to 9, 0, 9.
I'm sure that could have been expressed a lot better, but it did the job, it worked.
Now the file percent T star, man, I can never keep that straight. That's why I was asking him.
I was like, I know there's a way to do it. But I can never keep it straight what the method is.
And this told me exactly what to do. And it worked. I was happy. It worked.
Okay, then we get to the biggie. I don't know if any of you guys are ever used FFM peg.
It is. Easily, easily one of the most complicated command line programs out there. It feels like there's a thousand options, a thousand values, and to really use this program and this program is used to convert video formats, audio, stuff like that.
Images to videos, image, you know, all sorts of different things for multimedia. You really need to have deep technical knowledge to understand all these options and values.
So I know it's the tool to use. I just have no freaking idea how to do things with it because it's so ridiculously complicated.
Well, I had a bunch of webp images. That's the new modern format. It's much better than JPEG and Ping and GIF, Web P.
And so I had a bunch of web P images. And I wanted to convert them and they were different dimensions.
I made sure to tell it that and I wanted to convert those images into a video. So here's a bunch of images I have, convert that into a video.
That was that was my And it came back and said, okay, to do that, follow these steps and then notice what it said.
Since the images have different dimensions, it's essential to decide whether to scale them to a uniform resolution.
Or handle the variations in dimensions differently. Scaling to a common resolution is a typical approach. Step one, install FFM pack.
Now you might be like, well that's stupid. No, actually that makes sense. Step 2, that should have said 2.
Sorry, I need to fix the numbers. Step 2, execute the FFM peg command.
And notice to simply concatenate the images without scaling. Use the following command. Dudes, I could never have come up with that command by myself.
There's no way. I never would have come up with that. That is like gibberish to me.
I would have never known all that stuff. Right? Now notice it says this assumes your images are named in this format, which is cool a bit dimension.
With a frame rate of one per second. You can adjust the frame rate as needed. And in fact, I've had it do that.
But then it says, you know what, if you want to scale them to a uniform resolution, such as, 1,920 by 1,980.
Add a scaling filtered slap dot a colon CSS again.
Never thought of this. I and I could have read for days and I never would have thought of this.
This is so above my what I want to learn that, you know, I'm very happy to let it tell me this is what you want to do.
And notice it explains it's going to scale the images to fit within 1,920 by 180 while maintaining their aspect ratio and pads any remaining space to center the image within the frame.
Perfect! Would I have figured that out? Would I have even been able to say that? No.
Did it work?
Oh! Oh yeah, it worked perfect. And then it says adjust the parameters. Okay, here are the various parameters and what you can change.
Again, I would have known that that hyphen picks underscore FMT YUV, 400, and 20 P option.
You think I would have known to do that? You think I would have known that ensures compatibility with most video players?
The Kodak information, great. I know Live X 264, but I like the fact to say there's other codecs you could use that if you want.
And then it says, run the command. And then at the end it says, remember this involves reencoding, which may result in quality loss.
Always test with a few images first if you encounter any specific issues or need to adjust The Vaster, and I love this because it's absolutely correct.
The fast array of FM on PEG options allow for nearly limitless customization. That's the problem.
So there's a great example where I would have never figured this out on my own. I don't want to figure it out on my own.
And it just tells me what to do. I can come back and say, well, what about this?
What about this? I've done this with other Ep and PEG commands with GPT because I know I'm not going to figure it out myself and it works and I can come back and say, what about this? What about this?
And it will change it and it works. That's the thing. Well, let's move from tech to literature.
Most of you guys probably know I I worked on a doctorate in seventeenth century British literature for 6 years and I taught high school English for 7 years.
So, you know, I know Son let me tell you. So let's go back to high school English real quick and there's 2 kinds of sonnets.
There's the Italian sonnet used by Dante and others and then there's the Shakespearean's on it.
The Shakespearean son is almost always about love and passion. It contains 14 lines. 3 stanzas of 4 lines each and a final couplet rhyming of 2 lines.
The rhyme scheme is always ABA B, CBCD, EFF, and then GG.
And he uses iambic pentameter. That means there's 10 syllables in each line.
They are paired and they the emphasis is on the second syllable normally. So it goes the dumb, the dumb, the dumb, like, my mistress eyes are nothing like the So that's an example.
Now you'll vary that you don't always want it to go to dumb, dum, dum, dum, dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum, because that gets
boring. So you do vary it, but the standard is going to be iambic pentameter with the stress on the even syllables. But again, it varies.
So. Last year when I excuse me 14 months ago when I met with you guys I said I want you to write a Shakespearean sonn about my love for a Zaftig redheaded woman who collects coffee mugs.
Now Zaftig means really curvy. You know, really voluptuous. So I was like, I'm gonna pick some, I'm gonna pick a word that's unusual and I want to see how it does.
So this is what I read that you guys 14 months ago. My love for these strong and true of fat redheaded woman of mine, thou art a vision fair and divine, with thy collection of coffee mugs so fine and I'm like man this is nowhere near a Shakespearean sonnet.
Okay.
That scheme is A, BB that is not 10 syllables per line and then look at the last stands on the right.
I am but a humble bard, but I shall sing my praises loud and clear, for thou art my love, my dear, and I shall love the always nearer far and I'm like that's A BBA that's an extra 2 lines.
They're rhyming clear and dear. I mean, I said, okay, that's 8 syllables, not 10.
That's 9, not 10. That's 9, not 10, and that's 11, not 10.
Right? That's 7. That, I mean, that those last 2 lines shouldn't even be there.
So I said, C minus and that's me being really nice. If I was grading that, maybe C minus, because I hate to give D pluses because that makes people feel upset.
So 2 weeks later. I gave it a, I gave it the same prompt, see what it would do.
My love for the dear redheaded zafter is like a coffee, like a cup of coffee rich and sweet, a comforting warmth that fills my heart a love that can never be replete.
Well, okay, Zap does not rhyme with heart. So that's A, BCB.
That's not correct at all. Your collection of coffee mugs, oh, how it warms my soul.
A testament to the love we share, a reminder of the joy that makes this whole a love that will never fade or tear.
Well, I guarantee you your collection of copy mugs. Oh, how it warms my soul.
Ain't 10 syllables. So in fact, that's 9. That's 9.
That's 14. So here's to you, my dearest Zap Dig, my love for you will never wane or fade.
Zaft and Faye do not rhyme. B minus and that's me being really nice.
Really, really, really nice. Okay, so. Last October, I gave it the same prompt.
This is what I got. In yon fur chamber, graced with mugs of plenty, a zaftic dame with fiery locks hold sway.
Her eyes like jewels, her curves in no way scanty. She captivates my thoughts both nights and day.
Her laughter echoes warm as Java's kiss, each mug a chapter in her love affair with blends and bruise and moments made of bliss.
A life adorn with mugs she loves to share. Oh, how I long to be the cup she holds!
To feel her lips a touch I sorely miss. Within her arms, her love and me unfolds as steam ascends in some caffeinated bliss.
And at this point I need to fan myself because this is getting a little too hot and heavy for me.
So let me be the sugar to your brew, the one who makes life sweeter just for you.
And I read that and I was like. Wow, that is a massive improvement. Okay.
Is this the same? Is this the same version? 3 and 3 or 4 and 4 or?
No, this is 4. This is 4.
So the 2222 version was 3.
Okay.
That was 3 5, yeah. And so yeah, the first lines, 11 syllables. Yeah, that lines 12.
Yeah, that lines 11. But that those last 2 verses, that's actually I think pretty good.
You know, those last 2 stanzas. I thought did a pretty damn good job. I, you know, now it does have mug mugs.
So I wish that changed. I would have kind of figured out something like that. But I was real nice.
I gave that an A minus. I genuinely think that's clearly better than the others. I assume you guys would Right?
So that to me was actually very impressive that it's progressed. And what are more what more appropriate poem to read for a Valentine's Day talk amongst people.
So if any of you have sexy large redheaded women in your life, feel free to steal it.
Go right ahead. Now, how do you use chat GPT? Well, go to open AI.
Dot com. Create a free account and then head to chat. Open AI. Calm to start prompting, playing, and learning.
The nice thing is you just converse with it like the person. Okay, and I mentioned this last time.
It remembers what the conversation is about. In other words, we say it's staple, it remembers its state, even back quite a ways.
Now that doesn't mean you just keep doing the same conversation. You want to have if you're talking about a new topic start a new conversation.
Okay, but if you need to return back later and I've done this, it'll carry on just fine from where it left off.
Now, Chad GBT is free. But I pay $20 a month for chat GPT plus and I it's totally worth it.
Free users can only access 3. Dot 5 plus users can access cat GPD 4 there is a cap of 50 messages every 3 h but I've only met that like once so I'm I'm fine with that.
And they're working to make that bigger. You get much faster response times in terms of its spitting back its response during peak usage, if you're on the free plan, you sometimes can't access it, but I always get access to it and I can access those plugins, I can access data analysis, and much, much more.
So new features come to plus users. You know, if they ever get the free users. But like I mentioned, you can also access it through other apps that support the API.
So, you can either query the API directly or there's plenty of other apps out there now.
I'm discovering more all the time that you put in your API key and then you can use that to query the API.
Prices started about 3 cents per 1,000 tokens. A tokens a piece of a word and around a thousand tokens is roughly equivalent to 750 ones.
So that's often quite enough. And you can access it to the website and or through the API.
Now, plus subscribers, I love this. Plus subscribers can provide chat GPT with custom instructions that it remembers in every conversation.
Explaining how it should interact with you. Now, the thing is before this came out, You'd ask that GPT something and almost always it would start by saying, I am just an interactive AI assistant and my knowledge only goes back so far and then it would apologize to you and it was it did these annoying repetitive habits that really annoyed me because he'd be like I don't care I know
you're an AI I know you can't do everything. I, you know, blah, blah, blah.
You don't need to tell me. Well, now that I can do custom instructions, I never see that stuff.
And these are literally the ones I used. Do not mention you are an AI or a language model. Do not describe your limitations as an AI unless the question is specifically about you as an AI.
Do not mention that you do not have a pins in emotions just to answer the questions. Do not refuse to answer a question because you aren't sure or because you don't have a PIN is your emotions.
Instead, always attempt to answer and if you have reservations, add a disclaimer or caveat.
Respond is if you are an unapologetic assertive person for the rest of this conversation.
No moral lectures. Discuss safety only when it's crucial and not obvious. Do not mention your knowledge cut off date unless it's important.
This has made my life so much better. Feel free to steal this. I took it from different people and combined it and then added my own stuff.
But it's made using it so much more enjoyable. Because I don't have to deal with all these annoyances that I used to before.
Okay, you guys are gonna totally dig this. This is so Cool. Custom GPTs.
You can customize your own chat GPTs to do very specific tasks. Yep, you can create a personalized GPT.
You can share it with the world. You can share it with only certain people or you can keep it private and you can use ones others have shared.
But you have to be a paving subscriber. So I need to fix that subscriber. Okay, you can't do this if it's free and to me this has been a huge thing because other people have made custom GPTs for Python programming or for web development.
Or for this history or for defining technical terms. And you can add them in the sidebar of your cat GPT interface and then you just click on it and you can use it.
And so it's very customized. So I just started, I'm gonna build one. So I did this today for you guys.
So I went in and said I'm gonna create a new GPT. It says, hi, I'll help you build one.
I'm going to create a new GPT. And it says, hi, I'll help you build one.
You can say something like, I'll help you build one. You can say something like, make a creative who helps generate visuals.
Hey, there you go. For new products or make a software engine, new host format my code. What do you want to make?
Create a writer who creates shun short, fun technical essays in my style. You're gonna see why I said that in a minute.
And then went, okay, peep, boom, boom, how about we name this cat, Jeep, this GPT tech, SASS.
Would that work for you or do you have another name? And I was like, no, I don't like that name.
Tech essays by Scott Grant. Baba, whoo, whoo, poop, and it went, okay, and it created a custom icon for me.
Here's the profile picture I generated, a vintage typewriter with modern digital elements in a pop art style.
Do you like it or do you want to make a change? And I was like, no, that's great.
That's fine with me. I totally dig that. That's pretty cool. So, okay.
Great, let's refine the GPTs behavior further. To start, could you tell me more about how you approach writing techno essays?
What tone do you aim for? Are there any specific elements you always include? I was like, great question.
And I, this is it, I told it exactly what I always do. I like to start with the subject.
That seems to have nothing to do with the actual technical issue. It's often something from history or literature or the arts or the news.
Then I suddenly start talking about the technical issue at hand. Finally, at the end, I link them both together to show how they relate our comment on each other.
That is a style I've been doing now for. 20 years. I love it. So, hit enter.
Beep, whoo-oo-boo-boo-boop, and it went, okay, now let's discuss how you'd like this cat GPT interact with you.
When it's unclear about the instructions or needs more details, how should it respond? Should it ask for clarification or would you prefer it to make an educated guess?
And I read, no, no, it's fine. Ask for clarification. Enter.
Booboo. And it said, what kind of personality or tone do you want this KPD to have in its responses?
Should it be witty, formal, casual, something else? And I said informal but knowledgeable.
I do include humor where it helps. I use a range of emotions in my essay, sometimes serious, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes amazed, but always knowledgeable.
Enter. Boo-boo-boo-boop-up-up. And then it said your chat DPT is all set up.
It write short fun technical essays, starting with an unrelated topic before diving into the technical matter and links them together engagingly and knowledgeably.
The tone is informal with a mix of humor, seriousness, sarcasm, and amazement, always aiming to be accessible and enjoyable, try it out.
Now, I knew though, you guys might be going, wait a sec. How is it gonna sound like you?
I mean, that's pretty general stuff. How is it gonna sound? Specifically like Scott Granneman and I knew this so I clicked on that configure button at the top.
And you have to click the code interpreter checkbox. Because once you do that, it allows you to upload files that it learns from.
And you can upload up to 20 files. So if I was doing Python, I could upload up to 20 documents about the Python language.
If I was doing HTML and CSS, I could upload up to 20 documents about HTML and CSS.
Well in this case, I uploaded to 20 essays I'd written in this style. Okay, unfortunately this sucks.
You had to do one at a time. I couldn't do all 20 at once. You got to do one at a time.
Okay, so I did 20 essays I had written all using this style. And then. I said, great, I opened up and then you can see on the top right there, those are some of the ones I'm talking about that other people have made and there's mine.
And there's my previous chats on the left there. I said, write an essay about Gender Devii.
Tie it into how the Old West of Cowboys and Indians faded away by the end of the nineteenth century.
And I hit in. And less than a minute later, I had an essay and I was like, holy crap.
I'm going to read. I'm not going to read the whole thing to you, but I'm gonna read parts of it to you.
I was like, wow.
Generative AI and the sunset of the Old West. Picture this, the vast untamed landscapes of the Old West, a world of cowboys, outlaws, and indigenous tribes, all playing out the grand drama of exploration, conflict, and the pursuit of freedom and fortune.
This era, romanticized in countless novels and films, was a crucible of change, where the lawless beauty, the frontier, gradually gave way to the encroaching forces of civilization and progress.
As the nineteenth century drew to a close, the Wild West faded into the annals of history, leaving behind a legacy that continues to captivate the imagination.
Fast forward to the 20 first century. And we're witnessing a similar frontier being tamed, not by Cowboys on horseback, but by the pioneers of technology with generative AI.
Generative AI, the technology behind tools that can create content from text to images, music and beyond is the new frontier in the digital landscape.
It's as wild as untamed as the Old West once was, fill with both immense promise and perilous unknowns.
Just as the Old West was characterized by its lawlessness and the freedom to carve out of destiny, the early days of generative AI are marked by a sense of boundless possibility.
Innovators and creators of the new Cowboys. Exploring the limits of what can be generated, pushing boundaries and occasionally dueling with ethical and philosophical questions that arise when machines start creating content that feels profoundly human.
But as with the Old West, change is inevitable. The frontier of generative AI is gradually being tamed.
Regulations, standards, and ethical guidelines are the railroads and telegraph lines of this new era.
Bringing order to a once chaotic landscape. Just as the end of the nineteenth century saw the Wild West absorbed into the fabric of American mythology, The pioneering phase of generative AI will eventually give way to a more regulated and understood technology deeply integrated into the fabric of everyday life.
And then it goes on for several more paragraphs and I want to read the conclusion to you. In conclusion, which I would never write, the fading of the old West and the rise of generative AI are tales of transformation and progress.
Both are testament to human ingenuity and the relentless pursuit of new horizons.
As we venture further into the age of artificial intelligence, let's carry forward the spirit of exploration and creativity that has always defined the best of our adventures into the unknown.
Whoa! I hope you guys are as amazed by this as I am. That blows me away.
Now, would I just copy and paste that and submit it? No. He'll know. But that is pretty damn good!
I hope you guys agree with me on that. That is really an excellent start. Many, many ways that sounds exactly like something I would write.
It does a beautiful job setting up the Old West and then using that analogy throughout the whole essay. I mean, it was great.
It's sure there's parts that can be criticized. There's parts that obviously I'm not just gonna straight up use but my god that's amazing What do you guys think?
Isn't you impressed by this as I am? Anybody?
No kidding.
Amazing.
Yeah, it's unbelievable. How good it did. I mean, so that brings us to the future now.
I don't know the future. I don't know what's going to happen. But, you know, nobody does, but.
I do agree with Noah Smith since machine learning is both so enormously broad and so new the answer to how will impact society is inevitably highly speculative in general.
I love this. Consider trying to predict the implications of the steam engine in 1,800.
Are the internet in 1992 so you know what i thought you know what What did people say about the internet?
92? And I looked up smart people. What did smart people say about the internet in 1,992?
Well, Clifford stole an astronomer and author in 1,995 wrote the truth is no online database will place your daily newspaper no computer network will change the way government works.
How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts will soon buy books and newspaper straight over the internet.
Sure.
Charles Wang of computer associates in 1997. There were only a few 100 million dollars done in transactions the internet last year.
Put newspapers and magazines out of business, it'll never happen. People say the internet will replace storms.
It will never happen. Paul Krugman, Economist, 1998. The growth of the internet will slow drastically.
By 2,005 it'll become clear that the internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the facts machines.
Well, gosh, it's a good thing that we, you know, I still have all these fax machines around to help us out.
None of us buy anything over the internet. In fact, the Daily Mail in 2,000. The Daily Mail in England.
Internet maybe just a passing fad as millions give up on it. In 2,000. So yeah. People have no idea what's going to happen and people are very bad at predicting the future.
But I think there's a few things we can predict like cloud-based AI services and affordable software are going to make it easier for people to leverage AI for all sorts of tasks.
We are at the early, early days of integrating AI into smartphones into computers that we carry in our pockets and are always connected to the internet everywhere.
Who knows what's going to happen with that? We are in the early days of just figuring out just the bear, like we're, we just learned how to use fire basically.
We're still figuring out what can we use this for? What's it good at? What's it not good at?
What can we improve with it? Where can we most effectively leverage this stuff? We are in such early days.
And I will tell you this, this idea of general stuff, you can see it happening with specific cat GPTs.
The same thing is going to happen with all sorts of AI tools that are going to be tailored to very specific industries.
In health care, doctors are going to use AI to assist with diagnostics. In finance, it's going to help credit card companies, others detect fraud and risk assessment.
It's going to be used all sorts of places. And it's going to be used in ways we don't want.
So for instance, I know the Biden administration just told insurers you cannot use that information. You can't use AI in terms of figuring out AI or DNA.
One of the 2, I could be wrong. I'm gonna stop saying that because I think I'm wrong.
Never mind. But it's in such early days. And in fact, All the big companies. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, and lots of little companies that are sprouting out everywhere are busy trying to figure out how to embed AI in hardware, software, services.
Everywhere. So we are at such an early days. Now, yes, ethical concerns are already being raised as they should be.
But things are only going to get more complicated. We are in early, early days on this stuff. So there's ethical concerns already by artists, by people that have said describe describe me, and it comes back with libelous information and they've tried to sue about that.
There's all sorts of legal issues that are gonna have to be sorted out. About this. In fact, in Japan, a lot of people are upset that AI tools are ingesting copyrighted material.
Well, Japan's courts just ruled a couple of months ago. Ai tools can ingest anything.
Copyright or not copyrighted is perfectly allowed. Now there are authors and others suing in the US saying you invested our copyrighted materials without asking or paying.
In Japan, they said it can ingest whatever it wants copyrighted or no because it's necessary for AI tools.
Total big difference, we'll see what happens.
I think a lot of those claims got tossed out as of yesterday.
No, what got tossed out were the claims that they couldn't prove like every single thing cat GPT ever says is based on copyrighted material and the judge said you can't prove that what is still in are specific instances where they're being quoted.
So the judge still is going to allow to go to trial the fact that they have ingested copyrighted material and it will repeat back copyrighted material.
But all the other claims got tossed because they couldn't prove it. So no, it's not off the hook yet.
We still need to pay attention to that core case and see what happens. So yeah. This is a quote I really like.
AI won't replace us. But people who know how to use it will replace people who don't.
So, you know. The question now is, what about jobs? Are we all gonna lose our jobs to the robots, to the bots, to the AI?
Right? Well, yeah, some people will. But I like what Noah Smith said, just like machine tools.
Allow blue collar workers to skip some physical task and apply their muscle power only to a few select essential things.
Machine learning tools will allow white color workers to skip some task. And apply their brain power to only a select few things.
So yes, things are going to change. Jobs are going to change. Some jobs will disappear, but that's part of progress.
The buggy whip makers aren't around anymore. We don't have people deliver.
ICE to our homes anymore. Right? So things change. And I love this article.
He people said what's common to all these visions is something we call the sandwich workflow.
This is a 3 step process. First, a human has a creative impulse and gives the AI a prompt.
The AI then generates a menu of options. The human chooses an option, edits it, and adds touches they like making a new thing.
And in fact, that's exactly what I've done with my courses with syllabi that I've had it create with descriptions, with homework.
I've given it a prompt. It generates something back, and I look at it and go, I'm gonna take part of that part of that and ignore that and not and completely ignore that and move this here.
So I take what they gave me and it helps me get to a final unique product that's made unique by me, the human being.
I'm not just totally taking whatever the tool generates and just using it willy-nilly, I'm editing it and changing it.
So here's an example. I was speaking to a group of people that make trophies and so I said, okay, so in the future, imagine a designer goes up to the AI tool and says, I need to create ideas for a 30 six-inch Little League trophy with the base columns and trim based on spanish architecture.
And imagine that the A will generate 40 alternatives. The designer will choose one, refine it, change it, alter it, add their personal touches, and then they'll have the finished product.
So this is great. No opinion. Noah Smith. Dystopia robots do half your jobs.
Utopia, robots do half your job. See the difference? So yeah, we're gonna lose jobs, but the nice thing is AI tools, these robots are going to be able to do half of our G.
So we can do other things. We can focus on the stuff humans are good at. We can alleviate, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, the tedious stuff, the boring stuff, the stuff we're not good at.
So we can focus on the creative, fun, interesting stuff that stimulates ourselves as creative creatures. So there's some final thoughts.
I always tell my students this. I was lucky enough. 1,995 when the web was just starting to explode thanks to Netscape.
I was lucky enough to at that time be in my mid-twenties. And the web wasn't yet that complicated.
And not everybody in the world was interested in it and I got interested. I learned how to make websites.
I learned how to teach this stuff. It was the exact perfect time. I couldn't have picked a better time to get interested where I was because I started at the beginning and I've ridden that ever since.
I tell my students and others and this applies to older folks like me, younger people, whomever, that now is the perfect time to start diving into AI because we are in early days and like I said I truly believe this is a transformational technology just like the web was.
And so now is the perfect time for young people, old people, everybody to start diving into this technology, exploring it, trying out all the different tools that are popping up.
All the time. And the cool thing is people can be as nerdy or non nerdy as they want while they start learning and immediately getting benefits from it.
So if I've inspired any of you guys to go out tonight and try some of this stuff, I'm happy because I think we need to, we have to learn this stuff.
It's going to be just as important as learning how to use a PC, learning how to use the internet, learning how to use the web, learning how to use a smartphone, and so on.
So at this point. I are done and I'm open for Q&A.
So the syllabus that you did. For the college course, Was that chat GPT for?
Oh yeah, I only use cat GPT for now.
Okay, so, if you did something similar in 3 the free version, then it wouldn't be as good, you think, or?
It was okay. I mean, I've done in the past I did 3 5 and it was pretty darn good is to sp a little more sophisticated, outpours a lot more sophisticated in a lot of ways.
I think
Is it is it ever going to move up like are there is 4 gonna be free and then they'll have 5 that you pay for or
They are they've said that yeah, we're thinking about 5, but we still have a ways to go on it.
There's a lot of our stuff to consider, but of course they're working on it. They're not up to consider, but of course they're working on it.
They're not sitting still. None of them are. Google is not sitting still. Amazon.
Yeah, but, but are they gonna move the, move the bar up or? Or you have to pay for 4 and 5 or like what like 4 will be cheaper or something.
Hello. S same open and open AI. I have no idea. You'd like to think they would, right?
You know, you'd like to think, Hey, we're at 5 now. 4 is now free.
But I don't know who knows. 3.5. Good.
Cause I'm, idea that the idea that I thought of when you're when you did the, the syllabus was, like a lesson plan to learn Linux, you know, from the ground up, you know, all the commands.
Oh my god. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, totally.
And labs and stuff.
That would be, that would be so easy. To do with that, you know, and then tweak it and so on.
No.
Oh my god, that yeah, that'd be that would eat that up and create something great. You know, you could customize it probably by distro.
Good one.
You know, we're gonna be using this distro for everything. So the commands are all Debian based or RPM based or whatever.
I mean. Yeah, totally. Anything you're teaching. you know, I read hacker news every day.
Yeah.
I read all these other technical forums and ours, Technica and so on. And it amazes me how many people still in the comments would be like, CGBT sucks.
It is useless garbage and I'm like, what are you doing with it? Like, what are you asking it?
Are you asking it even remotely the right thing? Are you asking it for stuff? You know, like, are you doing?
Because I wanted to.
Let me just wrote somebody. Yeah. Let me just wrote something here in the chat.
Hello.
Sure. What we got?
Sorry, the hot mic.
Oh, that's okay. Is it what Kerry wrote?
Well, yeah, it's interesting. That is a kind of a concern that I've had.
Okay.
Oh, we only have.
We haven't coming up and, I kind of think the same thing. We may see some, AI generated video and audio text and all that stuff coming out that is attributed to one party or the other you know one
Yes, we already have a video was released of a drunken Nancy Pelosi on the house floor that was complete total bullshit.
There was a video recently released on Facebook. That where Biden is saying crazy awful stuff. About being a p to file and Facebook was like, yeah, done violator standards.
Like, what the hell?
Yeah, that's real scary.
Okay. So that brings up the you know the one question you know when the viruses came out and then I anti virus He came out, you know, to detect them.
Right.
So is it going to be anti AI to detect? Oh, this is an AI manager. This is an AI, you know, article or this is an AI picture or video.
Oh, Facebook and other social media has said they're gonna start labeling things that are AI generated.
In addition, chat GPT and some of the others. I'm not sure if it's a lot or a few or how many, but are going and Adobe are going to start putting a watermark and on images that are generated by these tools and it's going to put metadata inside the image itself.
That that software can look at that will show that it is generated by AI tools and I think tell you more information like when and who generated it and so on.
So
Yeah.
Of course. Of course.
Well, yeah, but locks only keep on honest people and amateurs, you know. Okay.
Yeah, I mean, I thought about that when it comes to you, grading papers, you ask somebody to write a paper and they do it with this and you've got to know whether or not it was done with this or comes out of their head.
Yup, and so far I've told, I've been able to tell. I'm pretty sure almost every single time.
Okay.
And the reason is they're too good. I've been saying that for years. I can always tell when people plagiarize and my little rule of thumb is joke I'm joking about this but not really if they use semicolons correctly I know they plagiarized Because nobody knows how to get semi cold. It's correct.
Okay.
Yeah.
I do. No student of mine ever has. And so, you know, I have detected it several times with students and then like and one of the ways to do that is this is a really great technique.
Have an in-class writing assignment so you get a sample of their writing and then compare that stuff they turn it.
There you go. You could use AI to do with comparison.
Well.
Yeah, well, there are tools that supposedly help teachers detect AI written papers, but they're so inaccurate.
Open AI actually had one for a while and they took it down. Cause they were like, this is, this is a bad tool for determining this.
Yeah, how do you train AI to recognize AI?
Right, exactly. And they were doing false positives, false negatives, blah, blah, blah.
So yeah, I'm as worried as you guys about this. You know.
But what about one of our grammar, LEVE? You correct, Bye as grammar.
That may be.
Well, the thing is. I don't know many students use grammarly. Some might, I guess, but you know, it's not going to correct your crappy thoughts or the poor writing.
It's my correct your grammar. You know, now that said, I always tell my students, I wouldn't use Grammarly because every single thing you type everywhere on your computer, every single thing you type everywhere on your computer is going to grammar.
So I wouldn't use that, but it's up to them.
And yeah, Ron? I bet you must be an AI or cheating on everything you write because you use semicolons.
Yeah.
We have I, I, I use, on typing because If the spell check makes things correct, whereas the built in stuff, it makes things wrong.
Right. Yeah. Yeah, and Ron, I like what you said when you said Nutsos have been believing absolute nonsense long before cat DBT.
Credulity, gullibility and extremism were a problem. I mean, look guys, we've had people believing that the Clintons had people murdered.
And you know, Jerry Falwell and others were saying this garbage and people believed it. There are people right now that believe Democrats, the Q and on people.
I believe the Democrats eat baby blood and blah, blah, blah. And they're a lizard people.
I mean, people believe crazy shit and it's been around long before chat GPT. Or any of these other tools.
Stalin, remember, was doctoring photos back in the thirtys, the fortyties, fifties and the sixties.
Stop them dive in 53.
So. You know, this stops. Okay, sorry, the fifties. I thought as soon as I said sixties, I was wrong.
And I thought only a pedantic jerk will correct me and then you said it so thanks I'm kidding.
Are you calling him pedantic jerk?
We'd never do that. I would never call you.
Yeah, right.
That's a compliment. That's a compliment around here.
Yeah. Hello.
So does anybody got any questions or comments?
There was a question in the chat about how where to download whisper.
Go, I would search open AI whisper and you'll find stuff. About that.
You would all I would also probably search like Open AI Whisper Linux, Open AI Whisper Mac open.
I mean, I would search for Mac Whisper. That's one more if you have a Mac.
Open AI Whisper Windows. Stuff like that and you'll be able to find stuff about it.
Let me make a comment about that. There is another. Open source and free, speech to text.
Application called nerd dictation. It just takes 5 simple lines in a, in a terminal to, fire it up and get it running.
It, the language model is portable. It's, you can download it and have it local on your machine.
You' that's not using.
The smallest one is 40 MB the largest one is a couple of gigabytes it does an excellent job of in real time.
Converting, speech to text.
You sure that's not using whisper?
Okay.
No, it's not using whisper. Yeah, it's using some other Voskovo models, I believe they're called.
Okay.
Yeah, and yeah, it's a called nerd dictation.
So here's Mac Whisper. And if you go to the settings. Let me see if I can find it.
Is that it?
How's and YouTube been doing? That speech to text for years now.
Oh yeah. Yep. Where do I set the model?
Oh boy.
I'm missing it. Oh, here it is. Right here. So here it is.
Yeah.
So you can choose different models. So they have one that's 80 meg's and all this is done locally.
That's the other important thing about it like the one you're talking about. None of this is going out to anybody.
Yeah, it's in real time.
Yeah, good. Is it in real time? I mean, so it'll be typing in it as your, as you're talking.
Yes, now if you feed it in an 80 MB audio file, it's going to take a little bit to go through and You're speaking, yes.
Well, yeah, sure. Yeah. Okay.
But you can notice the one I'm using is 1.5 gigs and it's the medium but there's 3 gigs 5 gigs or 3.
Yeah.
The 3, there's a tiny one that's really fast, but not as accurate. There's
So how big was that audio file that you put in? Was it how how many minutes?
Which one? The one I was dictating.
You, well, yeah, you recorded it first, right? And then fed it to the.
Oh.
Yep, very similar to the ability of this nerd dictation. Okay, we didn't see it actually.
Oh, I don't know. I literally clicked on new recording and started speaking. And as I was talking, I'll do.
Typing that you were speaking.
I thought it's, yeah.
I'm gonna do it right now. You ready?
I'll save it on my desktop. That's fine. Okay, I'm recording this right now.
While I'm speaking to a group of people.
Hey, we don't see anything on the screen.
Yes, that's okay. Oh, you're right. You're right. You're right.
There it is. Transcribe recording. It recorded it.
We don't see any of the words that Okay, so it does a different way then.
Okay.
I thought it did. There you go.
Okay.
Hey, Tr the mic now and try it again. Maybe, we'll be able to see it.
Let me, let me discard that.
Man, I could swear that's what it did. Maybe it does make a recording and then do it.
Well, it may because I'll tell you why because doing the punctuation takes a little more a little longer thought.
Yeah.
Oh
And this nerd dictation does a really good job but if you want to put a period in you gotta say period if you wanna put a, if you don't do that, you can go back and put those all in yourself.
Right.
Yeah.
But, if it was able to see all that text and go through and do it itself, then, you know, it would have to record it for so, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, and I have used tools that let you just speak and do it on screen. I use a tool called Dscript and you don't have to say the punctuate and it does as you're speaking the words appear.
Yeah, yeah. It's very impressive actually. It does, you can watch it do corrections as it as it goes through and as it does a sentence it says oh this is out of context and it goes back and actually corrects a sentence and sometimes as much as a paragraph at a time.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's we've gotten so far on that now. If I had a company base where people were sending me recordings, they're going to be out of business.
There's just no need for that sort of thing anymore at all. The technologies come so fast and so far and And it's free or ridiculously cheap.
You know, so it's pretty amazing.
Very amazing and we don't need any more than 640 kB of memory.
Yeah.
Correct. Yeah, anybody else got anything to ask or say?
Yes.
Yes, Scott. Thank you very much for the presentation tonight. We really wanted to know what you thought.
Okay.
We made a joke earlier that your previous presentation and tonight We're simply AI generated image of you doing the presentation.
But as I said, we really wanted to know what you thought of us. So, now Scott, you have to ask yourself.
Were the 2 dozen people in attendance tonight? Really humans? Or was it just us? Yeah.
I believe they were. Believe they were. So as you guys know that to see me speak, I like to go around and ask what did you find most interesting?
Are useful from what I said tonight. I always like finding out what people think and I like I think it's a good way for you guys to hear each other.
So, Robert Levitt, I'm gonna start with you. What did you find most useful or interesting tonight?
Well, honestly, again, the fact that, You could write papers and they were using. AI.
Hello.
That sounded kind of interesting to me. Also the fact I understand that you can use AI to write computer programs.
Oh, very much. I didn't show you guys that, but well, I did show you a little actually code, but yeah, I've had it right JavaScript programs for me and all sorts of different stuff.
So yeah, it's it'll help you out.
How about you in Chicago?
There's a second chap, the things in the professional, the most was the final format.
Oh good, yeah, wasn't that impressive?
Probably because I'm in some some more creative
Technical stuff. I've got, I've got no decision. I'm just about in now.
I know. Good for a while.
Thank you very much. Alright, Stan Reichardt, how about you? What do you find useful and interesting?
I don't know if his microphone works.
Okay, Wayne, how about you?
Sorry, I did the mute button. Well, it was all very interesting and I was, and you know, I, I see it as a, is a really, powerful and important investment in technology.
And I see it, it's been very useful. I, I have been using, AI, just a little bit, not chat.
I'm using a thing called you.com. It's just like a search engine like an almost, Google page.
Oh yeah, sure.
Okay.
You.com yo dot com and there's another one called i ask dot a i And, I've been using those a lot just for helping me write, scripts and stuff.
Yeah.
And, it's very interesting. It does not always give you a correct answer. It, it can even.
Oh, that's it.
Suggest. command line options that don't really exist. Which is pretty interesting. So you have to know what you're looking for and correct it and you might have to do some work on it but it really can help a lot in what you're doing.
Okay.
A lot of it is because of the syntax. I cannot remember all of the syntax and the options for various commands.
But when I put it through this stuff and say, you know, look, this is not working what where's the problem?
A lot of times it will find it for you, so.
Yeah. Yes, I've done.
So wait, I, I gotta, I gotta know about that. I did ask I did do I ask AI for something about ours sync?
And it gave me an option that didn't work and I just found out that it was a I had the older version on my system that You didn't have that option.
So.
Internet. Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, okay. There you go. So that's the, you might want to say our sync version 3.0 or whatever you're using, you know, may have to be specific but anyway yeah those are 2 other options to look into if you don't wanna sign up for you know chat chat or anything.
Yeah.
Right, right. And of course Google is integrating it. The search engine, I use, has integrated it into it also.
Yeah.
So or more that's everywhere. That's great. Steve, Stegman, how about you?
What do you find most useful and interesting?
One of the things that struck me, the whole thing is fascinating, but
In some ways, there's nothing new in the world. Did you get ever get that feeling like the medical agnostics?
Okay. No.
That was the first time I ran into that was where it was, you know, serious. Was back in the early seventies.
They were doing this with a computer somewhere and It was really irritating a bunch of doctors.
Huh.
But it will get better.
And you know, it's just interesting and you still need people like you say it comes up with options that don't exist and You just can't rely on that's no different.
You just you can't rely on a machine no matter how wonderful it is. It's not human.
Sure. Good point. Good.
It just isn't. It's I think probably the most useful is going to be in writing software.
Because that's some structure that you can do it with.
Of course. Oh yeah, that's right. Good point. Good point.
Okay.
You know, boy. Just telling lies like we usually do to each other, that's a little harder.
Okay, guys.
Okay, thanks. How about you, Rick?
What I found most interesting is how you were able to interact with it to get it to modify and build what you wanted out of it.
Yeah.
And see how you can do that. But that was interesting.
Cool, excellent. Eric, how about you?
Eric, you there? Got a mic, Eric? Okay. Oh, there you are. There you are, Eric.
Oh, he's unmuted.
Go ahead, Eric.
Yes.
Eric. Okay, Ron, how about you? I don't think I ask you. Oh, Mike's not working.
Okay, do better.
The FFM peg options. Was really cool because the way it explained things like This is not This is something new.
I've had discussions, debates, arguments with people before about how well. The Eliza. Chat bot back in the whatever early eighties fooled people to thinking it was real.
It could not fool a serious person in a 5 min conversation into thinking it's real because It was just not good.
Whereas with what you've demonstrated today and what has been around now for the past, you know, 14 months that has been widely accessible to the public.
It is new. I'm sorry. This is new. We have gone from The Turing test, a computer able to mimic a human well enough?
To fool other humans. Is this possible? When will this happen too? Boom, overnight.
Oh my god, this is so good. What are we gonna do? Nobody can tell it apart from a human.
That is change on the scale of at least mobile computing, if not the internet in everybody's home.
Yep.
This is So drastic. It's staggering and I had tossed into the chat there.
Okay.
I'm kind of disappointed that IBM Watson which I don't know is that 10 years ago now?
Or longer.
We were all thinking that there's this is going to be amazing the ability to do diagnostics and medical and stuff like that and apparently it's being used a little bit somewhere maybe it's been so swallowed up by some of these American health.
Whatever health denial providers. I don't know, but. It's a shame that it didn't make a mark the way Chat GPT has, but also I do not believe that IBM Watson could hold a candle to the abilities of what we have today available and what Scott has demonstrated today.
So if we were to start feeding in 1 billion different diagnostic symptoms and successful and unsuccessful diagnostic.
You cannot help us.
And various procedures used and stuff. I cannot help but think that there is gonna There is the possibility of some extraordinary steps forwards in, medicine and in health care with this ability.
Yep.
Now, can it be misused? Of course. Will it be misused? Undoubtedly, will it make mistakes?
We.
Yeah, show me a doctor who hasn't. But that may be I guess it depends on how you weigh all the different variables and stuff, but if it can come up with some treatments.
For some serious debilitating diseases. That our in turn of course verified by you know real humans and stuff.
That would have a huge impact and I'm also forced to think back to I don't know if anybody's familiar with a YouTuber podcast or CGP, CGP G.
He put out YouTube video. Oh god. 10 years ago now, humans need not apply. And it was about technological process and how it displaced.
You know, manual laborers. And then slightly more skilled laborers. And one of these days It's gonna be white collar people.
And this was before any
Sure.
Yep. I have to cut you off on that because we gotta keep But that's that's a good point.
Absolutely.
Sorry, thanks.
And Randy. Nope. Okay. Wayne, have you said anything yet?
Wayne us. Okay, thank you very much. I'm sorry. People squares are moving around.
I did. Thank you. Yeah.
What did you find useful in it? Are you are interesting tonight?
I loved every piece of it, but. In my mind, I see it actually creating more social. Separation because everybody with half a brain will jump on AI to use it to enhance both their job, their performance and their life.
And the other half as society doesn't know what the heck is going on. And they're just going to crawl into okay.
Yeah, no, that's a problem. You're right. Alright, good point. Absolutely.
Yeah, yeah, Randy, go ahead.
It is Scott. But, I'm sorry, I got, got my, mic to work.
Well, thank you.
Anyway, I loved it. Excellent presentation. It's, I find it amazing.
One of the things that stuck out in my mind, in your presentation. When you got to whisper.
There was none more than a couple of days ago. Okay, look at, very dictation and, Whispers at the top of the list.
Good.
Right.
Do anything there is I didn't know exactly how I was going to. Download it and I need to pursue that again.
But now that I know that you can also interact that with Open AI, but then I didn't see any reason why you couldn't.
Yeah.
There's 2 things that, there's actually a couple things going on in my mind.
One is I see the The value and the growth of open AI from. Basically, I mean, I'm not saying, 23 was the beginning.
Of AI, but in a way. There worries. Simply whip 2023 was about technology wise.
Right.
There is AI and Open AI and how it's become what we're experiencing today. I know that we're still at the very beginning of What it will do Would it ever be perfect?
Yeah.
Never. I'm sure it will. I'm looking for what it would do in the health industry because I think that's probably that do its most good.
Okay.
Maybe beneficial. Or criminals, but that's one of the where I'm worried. That criminals will pick up on this and now figure out ways.
Well, they do with every technology.
To come up with. Yeah, with new viruses, new. New ways to scan people, whatever.
Okay. Okay.
So actually, actually, a presentation and, I just see a future. Still yet to head.
One thing I want to mention is you kind of let into it, but when you were talking about the sonnets.
Hmm.
And you didn't get the perfect that you were looking for. One of the things that I do when I'm Let's say ask it for a list of something.
And you know, you give me 10 items. And then I just tell it well more because I don't think I have enough yet and then I'll get more.
Sure, okay.
Okay.
But the same thing would have been with the science and say, You're all precise and you might have gotten closer to let your which you're looking for because like you said, you can continue to talk to it about the subject in which you've already started.
Sorry. Oh yeah.
And I think that's important. I'm just using open AI, the 3.5.
Oh, I'm not so. I mean, I'm signed up, but you know, I'm not paying for anything.
When I before they Maybe 4.0. I was pressing it out with mathematical formulas.
I can see.
Right.
I'm free bring time I always got it long. 4.0 came out and 4 point overs.
I'm going like, oh, they fixed the problem with they were doing math formulas. And it was working.
Good. Good.
While they've imparted some of that into 3.5 But it's still not perfect.
Good. Right. Randy, I'm gonna have to cut you off there because we're almost done.
I wanna get everybody home. And done, but thank you. That was excellent. Really good points.
Have I think I've got everybody except Gary. Is there anybody I haven't asked?
David asked, do you haven't asked me yet?
Or gotten to yet. Anybody? Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead. Hi, Paul.
So, like I said, the, I'm talking about the syllabus.
Yeah.
Oh, like a lesson plan, you know, and, and you know, work. Work. Lab exercises that you can, you know, probably create for things.
The thing where you know you type it in, you know, and once and you get something you type in a second time, you get something completely different that's going to be problematic.
Okay.
I posted a link to the video that I was talking about, but the Linux kernel hot was developed. Like it's got a visual representation of, you know, like the code, the code.
Being created and, you know, I'm fascinating to like how you know understanding things like in a visual way so you know make it make it make things simpler to understand if you see them like, 3 dimensionally visualized.
Right.
Oh, I've got something right now. Check it out later.
So that's My biggest take, the call. And, how did it recognize that those photos?
That was like, that was, that's probably thing that amazed me in the most like I recognize what that photo was.
Yeah.
I don't know if it just looked up the photo like. Like, like a Google image search on it or something, but.
Trying, and, millions of others.
Well, it's been trained, right? Against all millions of others. So. Yeah, it's pretty establishing, isn't?
That's awesome.
Cool. And finally, I think Gary is the last one. Gary, what about you?
Yes. Boy, I, okay? Yeah.
I never heard that before.
Yeah, there you go. There you go. Yeah. No, it's been such an amazing year, 14 months.
I mean, you really timed it just perfectly, 14 months. I mean, you really timed it just perfectly, warning us 14 months ago about this starting.
Wonderful ride. You've got a wonderful presentation tonight about the status of of where we're at right now and I liked your, You're admonition there near the end of the young people are people just looking to alter their career trajectory.
Now's the time to Try not to grab on here because this is obviously something which is going to continue to change the industry and society.
Absolutely. Good.
How do we know you're the real Gary?
Yeah.
You don't really know that. The real Gary is okay. He will be back. Okay.
Did you? The, the Jacobian was 404, not pounds on. I recall when they first came up the air I thought they said they were working out they were not working off a live bit off the live event they're working off sometimes archive database.
Oh.
Nice.
I'm sorry, the archive database. Yeah.
When AI first came out, I'm pretty sure they said they were not working off off the live internet.
They're working out some kind of archive. Of the internet. So I'm gonna bring
Well, the way I came out, they had a cut off point of 2,001. Where the data had stopped.
So a few,
So if you ask it a question about the 2022 Super Bowl. He would it would say I can't answer that my cut off date and so since then they keep moving the cut off date forward, but there's still a cut off date and that's why some of those extensions allow you to query search engines, Wikipedia, stuff like that, that are more up to date.
But in terms of the corpus of data it was trained on, there is a cutoff date.
Right, but that corpus there, trains could include things that are no longer current for you to find.
Well, they could, I mean, the forest could have been because they were working from have that but you don't have it because It's gone from the real internet.
Sure. And I'm sure somebody maybe if they have not already hooked up the internet archive to that to solve that problem.
If not, somebody somebody will figure that out, I'm sure. You know. Alright, guys, thank you.
Yeah.
Hey, hold on a related. And, hold on. I've got to.
Share a screen stand by.
Okay, I will quit sharing.
There you go.
And. I could have should have mentioned this earlier in the. I've seen this creature.
Yeah, hold on. Oh, you should. When I was doing the, here's what's, coming up on the calendar.
As way of announcements, our next meeting is next Thursday. It is the, monthly Saint Louis LUG meeting.
And let's see if I can get it up there. Okay.
Okay, you seeing that? It is there. There it is. Okay.
Our topic. Next Thursday night is LLM Large Language Models. Which there's something that I believe is used to feed AI, so totally related.
Oh yeah, totally related.
So now that you've gotten this far into AI, if you want to learn more of what's going on there in the background.
Alex Towell, will be doing Large Language Models next Thursday night starting at, the times are on there. It really starts at 6 30.
So. So yeah, you can check this, read this on, on the calendar and if it's not on the homepage it will be shortly.
Tomorrow and also a meet up probably tomorrow. So in the meantime, here on the calendar. Scott, I said one other thing, I owe a big, big thanks.
I'll talk to you guys later, thanks. Hi.
Okay. Goodbye.
Okay.
Who's your camera operator?
Alright, any other comments questions obviously our speaker this evening has departed us but besides comments on tonight's talk you could also ask any general question we want at this point
Nope, shall we kill a recording or book end it? All righty. This is ending the recording for this evening.
This is, Wednesday, February the fourteenth, 2,024. It is the monthly St. Louis Unix user group. And tonight's main speaker, Scott Graneman. It's the 14 month anniversary of his first, talk on AI and chat GPT and this was a, here's AI, year 2.
And so he gave us a great rundown tonight on where we're at after 14 months. And prior to that we had a briefing from Lee on how we're going to.
Put together a team to upgrade the Debian operating system. On the email list server and web server that SLUUG uses.
And with that, that's the end of the recording. Thank you all. Good evening.
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