Re: [FRIAM] GhostGPT

2025-01-25 Thread steve smith
DaveW - OK, assume me to be a sociopath, but please tell me where and how to access ghostGPT. I don't assume *you* to be a sociopath.  I assume that you have a significant resistance to your own inner sociopath since you (by your own anecdote) have played much closer to what to me would be th

Re: [FRIAM] GhostGPT

2025-01-25 Thread Prof David West
OK, assume me to be a sociopath, but please tell me where and how to access ghostGPT. I can find hundreds of pages talking about the tool, but cannot find the tool itself. I promise, no bombs, no drugs (I have my 1960s original copy of T*he Anarchist's Cookbook *for that), but I do have thousan

Re: [FRIAM] "I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was generated by an LLM"

2025-01-25 Thread Frank Wimberly
I wrote a memoir about my life in New Mexico including the first few years and every summer until I went to university. People who read it who know me say they can hear my voice when they read it. LLMs were not available when I wrote it. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe

Re: [FRIAM] "I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was generated by an LLM"

2025-01-25 Thread Prof David West
Pieter, I applaud your use of AI to improve your writing. It is my belief that the* "proper"* use of AI, along with computers and computing tools in general, is to _augment_ human abilities ala Vannevar Bush's "how we may think," Douglas Englebart's institute, Alan Kay's dynabook, (the fiction

Re: [FRIAM] "I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was generated by an LLM"

2025-01-25 Thread Nicholas Thompson
I dunno, David. I have got some pretty eloquent stuff out of george. It's odd, the more I treat him like a human, the more human he becomes. (And the more he denies it.) I hear you all crying out forth the ineffability of the human soul, but I don't really see it. I think I am eminently eff-ab

Re: [FRIAM] "I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was generated by an LLM"

2025-01-25 Thread Pieter Steenekamp
DaveW, Thank you for your reply. I really appreciate what you said. For me, the key thing is to keep our human qualities. I like using AI to help make us better, like when it helps with writing. You mentioned that AI can't make writing more eloquent. I agree with this for people who are already