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> Whether I’m trying to get unstuck, show up better for the people I care about or just get through a weirdly unmotivated weekday, #ChatGPT has proven to be a helpful #assistant for thinking more clearly and acting more deliberately.

tomsguide.com/ai/i-use-chatgpt

Tom's Guide · I use ChatGPT every day — here are 9 new prompts I can’t live withoutFrom creative ruts to self-doubt spirals, these help me break through
#ai#llm#genai
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#2030 to #2040: #AI #Assistant

Presistent, context aware helpers. They can handle sceduling, multi task steps, integrate with other tech. Have a theory about how their actions will affect the user and navigate around that.

2032 Original Turing Test passed at 3 Trillion Parameters.

2036 Strengthened Turing Test passed at 15 Trillion Parameters.

A commission for Bellied Bird to draw their friendly emotional support Goodra robot assistant in SS13.
Their ref featured a for-scale sprite comparison that seemed similar so I correctly guessed that guy is from/for playing with SS13 and drew the kitchen from one of the servers I could google.

Shortly before I even tried drawing and loong before I started doing commissions I did some SS13 character sprites editing to add furries to the mix of a private RedditfursSteam server.

Started doing it for fun but peeps liked it enough I tried to support as many species as I could. It was surprisingly hard to stick to the same template to make sure items and ears, snout etc didn't look too out of place or stick out too much in weird ways.

I don't know if I could still find the sprites if I tried (maybe?). After working on this commission me and noxid decided to check out SS14 and I'm happy to see nowadays there's a lot more furry species on SS14.

Had to ask friends for help on this one and suggest better color balance because it initially was wayy too dark and made the character accidentally look evil.

#SS14#SS13#Goodra

#Google #Gemini #Assistant
"Some just miss the 'old' Google Assistant (which arguably still runs rings around Siri for many requests).

Thankfully, it's easier than you might think to swap back — here's how to do just that and bring Google Assistant back to your Pixel device."

How to turn off Google Gemini on your Pixel phone, and return to Google Assistant

"The old guy was better"
techradar.com/computing/artifi

TechRadar · How to turn off Google Gemini on your Pixel phone, and return to Google Assistant"The old guy was better"

I’m HelPInG!!11

I am not an active user of so-called “AI-Assistants”, neither for coding nor writing nor research. I constantly test and evaluate those systems (for my private analyses as well as for my day job) but they don’t really integrate well with my workflow and thinking.

There are many reasons for avoiding those systems: Skill decay especially in abilities like “critical thinking” or “problem solving” comes to mind. The ecological impact of those systems is another aspect that can’t be overlooked if one cares about the world. The way those systems harness and accumulate all data and information they can get without respect or compensation for the creators while charging for their systems. All very true, important and enough to stay away from them.

But today I stumbled over an article on Heise (for the non German-speakers here: Heise is one of the biggest and most reputable tech news sites in Germany) where they evaluated Microsoft’s Copilot and the image they generated for their illustration basically says it better than I ever could:

I live with a kid and 2 cats so I am well aware of how it feels when someone randomly starts typing on your keyboard while you are trying to do something. It’s not exactly helping to say the least.

This image illustrates how I feel those systems interact with my cognitive processes: I am neither a great writer nor a great programmer nor a great analyst or thinker. I am okay at all of those things, I can get some work done. But it’s always a struggle: Programming stuff is hard and annoying. Reading stuff is hard and annoying. Writing stuff is hard and really fucking annoying. But the “hard and annoying” part is necessary for me to fell like i have a grasp on what I am doing.

A lot of stuff I write might be dumb or wrong or badly argued. But I can own all that because I put in some work thinking, reading, talking-to-myselfing and all that to reach some form of conclusion. Sometimes it’s wrong and I get to learn from people giving me input and feedback and comments. But at the point of writing I can stand behind it. I have a certain level of confidence.

“AI” assistants undermine that feeling: They are a random hand that types stuff while I write, some of it horrible, some might even be good but I never know. I never know which statistical effects brought forward a certain turn of phrase or a line of argument. They create distance between me and my thinking and my writing, they alienate the visible output of my work from my work. They alienate me from my writing.

Writing isn’t exactly thinking. Writing is writing. (And coding is a form of writing to me just with more rules.) But writing is a useful tool to help one’s thinking. Thinking towards writing something down can help me create structure in my thoughts. Can help me focus. It also forces me to actually get to some form of conclusion or result – as temporary as that result might be. And assistants disturb that process. And unlike cats or kids they’re not even cute or loveable.

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yes i am still using the unsafe-at-any-speed #rabbit #r1. the trick is to only tell it things and ask questions you're fine having submitted into evidence at your future trial.

regardless they have a cosmetics systems now where you get carrots for doing stuff and then you get to operate a machine and get a hat or something and today i got my first *rare* one, which is an #appleVisionPro headset apparently because it's called "Spacial Computer" and it's strapped on.
#ai #assistant

Still looking for a functional FOSS speech-driven #assistant that's not Alexa etc.

Seems there's much in development, but I'm not a developer. Tried Leon, but that needs additional code adding to it that I've no clue about.

I just want to verbally look up things and have them read back to me, and maybe integrate some home #automation if possible.

#Mycroft running on a R-Pi 4 was promising, but that seems to have folded...

Not doing very well so far. Anyone else?