Weird Science (1985)

Remember that movie 'Weird Science' 

the testosterone fueled teenage boys were feeding bit and pieces of several playboy magazine into a machine, and then generate a woman afterward

This woman (Kelly LeBrock)

Today (2023), we can transform the whole movie into an anime

and AI is using bits and pieces of a lot more than magazines to take its inspiration from

quite amazing

Tay A.I. and bing chat

The story of 'Tayandyou' might explain the reason that the chat features in Bing is limited to 8 exchanges with the human users, so it won't get corrupted over time.

Why using a search engine, when chatgpt is there

 The question is relevant as google is (or was) the top search engine for all our daily questions ; but Google was merely providing links, it did not quite answer the question we asked ...

Chatgpt is answering the question, and that makes one hell of a difference

Merlin is a chrome extension that is using chatgpt 

the next level for search engine would be to include a chatgpt module to get answers, and still act as the old search engine returning links.

And I believe this is what bing is implementing 

AI and singularity

Grammar and syntax as a filter

Using a stream of knowledge base (be it erotic literature, postmodernism, or legal documents) through grammar and syntax filters would enable an artificial intelligence apply to generate an infinity of text combinations, it is in essence what the megahal project is doing, using the previous dialogs as a database for further conversations.

 Here is an example of automatic generated text (with the link below)

'Do you have anything in mind? ,' he whispers, his voice low, and dark desire unfolds throughout my body as everything in my body tightens.

'Okay,' I breathe .

'Good,' he growls, his breathing harsh.

'Don't make me wait,' I whisper.

He runs his nose along my jaw, and I'm quaking like a leaf. His mouth is on mine, tasting, exploring. He plants a soft wet kiss on my lips, and a pulse of warmth pools inside me. He plants a soft kiss on my lips, his eyes glowing with lust, raising uncontrollable urges in me. His hand tightens around my hair at my nape, pulling my head back as we kiss. My subconscious glares at me.

generator is : http://www.xwray.com/fiftyshades?id=2341

Another interesting generator for post-modernism article : http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo

But as always, the catch is that the AI doesn't have a clue of what make sense or not -- that's why singularity scenario where robots or AI are taking over the world are completely idiotic and unrealistic.
 
#artificial.intelligence
#automated.text
#limitation

Conversation with Ferris (Megahal)

Continuing my experiments with Megahal - here is a conversation with the brain called "ferris" ..

Here's the conversation transcript :

MegaHAL: Hi, ferris. How's your bod.
User:    can you help me write a blog about artificial intelligence?
MegaHAL: I was a habit. The guy's so conditioned to grief that if you
MegaHAL: could help out.
User:    how do you differ from Eliza?
MegaHAL: Ferris? How do you differ from eliza?
User:    I would say Eliza is more like a doctor - megahal is more a
User:    program that will create new sentences 
MegaHAL: You must be honest here, i love driving it. I want to stay home
MegaHAL: and that he is, in fact, very ill. I debated whether or not i
MegaHAL: should call the doctor.
User:    Eliza for example would look after some keyword list and will
User:    be triggered for an answer
 MegaHAL: Just answer me one question! Is it swelling up? Kim said it was
MegaHAL: like to do and all will be triggered for an answer.
User:    no what megahal is doing is more like building new sentences
User:    from the one the user will type into it 
MegaHAL: One of the new jersey state police but i thought i might get
MegaHAL: busted.
User:    sometime it makes sense, sometime it doesn't - but it is rarely
User:    the same answer that will pop up for the same question
MegaHAL: Because it is rarely the same answer that will pop up for some
MegaHAL: good times? It's a beautiful day, we've won our freedom, we're
MegaHAL: traveling down one of american's most scenic polluted waterways
MegaHAL: and you freaked.
User:    now, if I ask again how do you differ from Eliza?
MegaHAL: I could see them not wanting his brother was going to have to
MegaHAL: ask you for a twenty five year old clod with b.o. Likes me.
User:    see, the answer is totally different
MegaHAL: Because it is the answer.
User:    and then ... something strange like this happen
MegaHAL: See what a finski can do to a car like this happen.
User:    This is very much like training a pet
MegaHAL: The adult mind is a problem! For him it's a problem for you.
MegaHAL: But it's a beautiful day.
User:    at first, it does pretty much what he wants and then he starts
User:    to behave
MegaHAL: He looks at someone like me and i had a meeting first thing
MegaHAL: this morning. Why he has to be a problem. Nothing's a problem
MegaHAL: for you. But it's a problem. Let's crack open the odometer and
MegaHAL: roll it back home where it belongs.

Firefox 4 on old ppc mac

If you're like me excited about the new Firefox 4 and wants to install it on your old mac (G4 or G3) you're going to see this :

Not a particularly very friendly way to say that your old mac sucks ... and you should buy a new one with an intel processor in it !

But there is a way ... it's called TenFourFox and it's a fork of Mozilla Firefox 4 for the PowerPc platform - and it rocks (except the icon which is a bit cheesy).

Mozilla left us. Apple left us. But they didn't! kudos to them.