herodotuspenguin.bsky.social
The ancient historian reincarnated as a penguin. An apt and erudite apterydite.
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Also a good question! Perhaps the technician responsible for the display is Turkish and partisan, passionately pro Bodrum and can’t bear to type the name of The Other Place?
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“Prosperous Cowes Week, Captain?”
“Oh, no need to make excuses, sir, she can sit there as long as she likes.”
#GirlsOwnCC
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“So here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody’s having fun.
Look to the future, ‘cos it’s only just begun”
No, it hasn’t. That’s why it’s called “the future”.
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My teenage daughter has just gone shopping for makeup. I have no idea what made me think of this.
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The corkscrew was confiscated but I think the security guys kindly forgave them for the sealed wine bottle as being a low risk…
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Omg they are boarding my flight..
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To be clear - I don’t think they had just arrived. I just was wondering about their general competence to travel.
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I got the impression it had not occurred to them that “not more than 150ml of liquid” might apply to a 750m bottle of wine, and likewise that “sharp objects” might include corkscrews.
How they got here from Australia I’m not sure.
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But it’s Saturday! He’s expecting a chocolate cake, an ice cream cone, a slice of salami, a pickle….
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A radius of 380 miles. So actually almost 1000km apart, ignoring the curvature of the earth.
I guess every human who ever lived was born within a radius of 4,000 miles.
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And does it make them attractive?
Well then.
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Surely he Bachs at harpsichordists?
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👏 👏👏
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Edith was too drunk to get up the steps to her front door. Which was probably just as well, as it was 7am and the hairy bloke she’d picked up at the club looked a bit smaller and, well, quadrupedier, than he’d seemed after the first five vodkas.
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So yes there is a different sort of thing behind the word-processing. We (collectively as a society) could change the rules, or allow the tech geeks to change them for us, to admit these other things - the AI players- to play, but I would say it’s a bad thing for the use of language as a whole.
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But if we were to allow AI verbiage to have the same validity in the language game as human verbiage, we create an odd outcome. The player in the game doesn’t have the same stakes - the computer can’t be punished or rewarded. It doesn’t have rights and responsibilities.
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That’s because the word patterns I spew out are designed to influence other humans and govern interactions of people who want or don’t want certain things. That means I have to take responsibility for them. So the thing behind the learning (ie me) has rights and duties.
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We humans set the rules here. The language game is a game for humans to do stuff to each other. The current rule is that only assertions made by humans count. If I cite a non-existent court case in my work, that’s fraud, lying etc. But if AI generates a made up case that’s software error.
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Isn’t that the whole AI illusion? It’s making patterns of words based on plausible combinations of all the patterns of words already out there. Users are told by the sales blurb to wrongly believe that process constitutes reasoned thought. But does anyone who understands the process think it does?
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“I know gender reveal parties are all the rage nowadays, but I do think it’s a little gimmicky to do the revelation through the shaping of the brass end of the cradle” #GirlsOwnCC
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In the local dramatic society production of Sleeping Beauty, Alan insisted on playing the wicked fairy. #GirlsOwnCC
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If true, it’s you who will actually be banned from entering the US. Though you might get a free one-way trip and an orange jumpsuit first.
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Don’t know why I opened this. It was just clickbat.
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I’ll try that next time and report back here!
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Me: You’re an automated bot
It: I’m sorry I didn’t quite catch that
Me: you’re an automated bot
It: Yes. No. I’m sorry. Yes. Hello. Please would you. Yes. No. Hello. Hello. I’m sorry I didn’t quite. Hello. Yes. Hello. Hello…
At this point I laughed out loud and the bot ended the call.
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“…and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.”
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“So it *is* a Time Machine, Clarissa! Just look! Everything’s in colour!”
“Yes Daphne, and what’s even better is, we are invisible so no-one can see how hideously out of fashion our dresses and hats are!”
#GirlsOwnCC
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My Bose are excellent. Had 2 pairs of sennheiser over ear phones which had great sound quality but both developed faults (I didn’t drop them or anything…)
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