oh.. I bet.. personally.. I use a different browser than everyone else.. and I use their maps.. print out the route I wanna take and have the hard copy with me when I'm driving.. or I rely on my old book/paper road maps.. never get lost that way and never have some stupid bot tellin me where ta go

sadly.. that seems to be the way the 1% wants it.. kinda short sighted but.. it'll come back ta bite'em in the arse..

Vanessa van Edwards, a behaviorial researcher, talked about using AI to find out if you're more competent or warm.
You can have it check your dating site profile but also do the same with important emails you wrote for your business.

That gave me the idea to do the following:
I had pulled 3 Tarot cards that represented me. I asked AI a question based on those cards and the info was spot on.

I also asked what kind of man would be a perfect match for me based on those cards.
The reply was exactly what I'm looking for, what I need in a man.

Couple days later it dawned on me I could also ask AI to write a profile text for a dating site based on those Tarot cards.
The profile it came up with was great!
It said it could also make it more playful, I asked it to do that, and wow!!

The good thing of this is that AI doesn't add ego things into the mix so in that sense it becomes a much cleaner profile text.
And it has easy access to a ton of info so if you tell it to write it so it is appealing to men it knows how to phrase things.

If you want to do that as well you do have to 'feed' it core qualities and stuff about who you are deep down.
The better and more accurate that info is, the better the outcome.

On a lighter note.

Here is the new Sinclair ZX81 Home help.. £79.95 as a solder-it-yourself kit and £99.95 fully built. Free shipping.



90 day money back guarantee.

I don't plan on giving AI any of my personal data or "core qualities" I don't need that chit in my life OR to tell me how to live.. power to those who feel it's a useful tool.. until it's not

sorry Dut.. but that's just downright ridiculous.. but then again.. it wud bring new meaning to the WB part of FWB (friends with benefits without friendship) and probably do away for the need of "intimate encounters" so many on the site are looking for talk about a cheap date

I know, but I am still thinking of buying a soldering iron.

Then what are you doing online? I mean, how do you think that is run?
It's not tons of people connecting you by manually putting plugs in & out of sockets. Nor are there people in huge libraries quickly looking things up in books & encyclopedias whenever you type in a search query.

We are used to the net, everyone uses it, even old people. We're familiar with 'bots' which are just programs. The whole of internet is a bunch of programs. This forum, shop software, online banking, etc. etc. AI is the same thing, programs.
Yet you do use the internet.

I'm not getting into a debate with you about the differences between AI and software programs that have NO affiliation with AI.. the internet was around LONG before AI was even a theory.. in the past searches were based on algorithms and word association.. not AI powered.. AI is a whole other level and is in no way the "same thing"..

you have stated your opinion.. I replied with mine.. I believe that after working in the software design field for over 20 years.. I might have a tad more experience in this area.. oh and.. this site/forum is not AI run either..

I have one I could you could borrow

Artificial intelligence differs from the internet apropos protecting privacy, because it can permanently bake data into neural networks, actively infer unshared secrets, and resist the right to be forgotten, whereas the internet generally stores distinct, retrievable files that can be deleted.

Never thought you would offer!

when it comes to my tools I rarely do.. you shud feel privileged

He will treat your prized possession with the utmost respect it clearly demands.

we'll see about that

I find myself using free online AI a lot for painting.
It used to take me forever to find the images I could use to create the sketch I wanted for a new painting. I resized, cropped and merged plural images on the pc for that.
Took me hours.

Now I give a thorough description of what I want to ChatGPT and it creates the image for me in minutes!
It's not always immediately how I want it so I need it to tweak bits and pieces.
Make it lighter or darker, change the position of an arm or whatever.

Sometimes I have to wait 24 hours as I've reached my limit of free subscription.
But dang, does it save me a lot of time!

A great solution when you don't have a reference photo of what you want to paint.

I've also used it when I did have a reference photo of a cowboy on a galloping horse but the legs of the horse weren't in the photo.
Real pain in the neck as the legs are the most difficult to paint!
So I had ChatGPT fix that for me and I could start painting :D

I also started using it to make the sketch from the image I want to paint. Normally I had to erase the 'inside' of things in Paint3D or Gimp, which took me forever. I did that to save printer ink. Always was a tedious job.
ChatGPT does it within a minute!

In an of itself I am not a fan of AI but using it for this kind of thing is really nice!
And it doesn't take away anyone's job.

The one thing I don't like is they refer to themselves as if they're human. "I think..." for instance.
And they program it that way so it feels more natural to us users. It's not like the program feels or thinks. But I don't like that.
Almost makes you want to thank it for its help when you're done which is ridiculous.
But yeah, it's humans themselves who create it that way because human users feel more at ease when it functions that way.
That could be tricky.
If they make it so it learns & evolves to be more and more like a human... then it's a small step for it to start thinking for itself which is not what you want!

Difficult development for sure.

Probably to make the system appear more 'user friendly', rather than a deliberate deception. These systems will never be sentient, conscious, think for themselves, or be aware of there surroundings as we are, they are no more than very sophisticated machines. Can they go wrong, of course they can, more likely as a result of human failings. At the end of the day these machines are following a set of instructions, these instructions may be very complex, but it is not free thought.