#Microblog Monday 437: Arguments
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I have not explored AI beyond reading transcripts of conversations with Bing, but I am amused by Opinionate, where you pose a question and allow two bots to argue on your behalf. Without signing up, you get one free debate per day; if you sign up, it goes up to three arguments per day.
I asked it something real, and it gave me a surface-y but detailed answer. It pulled real data to argue the point but used one tiny fact to form the whole argument, ignoring everything else. Still, it was pretty impressive. For a bot.
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I haven’t used them either. Opinionate sounds fun though. And my BIL posted a bot a question for me the other night after a boozy discussion. I’m going to have to try it out too I guess.
Haven’t tried it yet. Last weekend’s Globe & Mail included an article from Ron Graham, a well-known Canadian journalist, who had AI write his biography, with his corrections in parentheses. It was both alarming (how much it got wrong) and hilarious. I think it’s behind a paywall, but you can try the link:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-i-used-gpt-4-to-write-my-biography-heres-what-it-got-wrong/
I kind of don’t want to try it, because the explosion in AI is frankly scary to me. I do not like that there are so many instances where AI is taking over actual creative jobs, like somehow a bot can write a piece that is more advantageous than a real live human writing. I kind of feel like, HAS NO ONE SEEN TERMINATOR? Skynet is here.
(Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but with actual terror underneath, haha.)