Check it Out

When ChatGPT was first released I downloaded the app and checked it out. Nice party trick, I thought.

Since then I have heard all kinds of things about AI. It’s awesome. It’s biased. It has hallucinations. It will replace your job. It will be the end of civilization. What is the truth, what’s the alternative truth?

My quest is to assess what I hear by exploring and discovering the results and checking it out, to find how it affects my life.

First of all, AI is readily available, and most of it is free. Turn on, tune in, drop out! Nice party trick? Let’s move on from there.

Having grown up on the Microsoft stack, beginning with DOS 1.1 before hard drives, I succumbed to entreaties from Edge to try out Copilot. I liked the links that came in responses, but the API like other MS stuff was byzantine. By contrast OpenAI says: give me $5 and you’ll get a million tokens. Done!

Since then, OpenAI has been my go-to tool, and the app is free.

My plan is to post reports from my quest here. As I go, I’ll avoid repeating what the robots say, when I find something interesting, I’ll provide a button to copy the prompt to your clipboard so that you can paste it to the chatbot of your choice and see the results. Deal? Here is a starter.

And try the rap at the top too. The phrase Multipolar Legal Order (nice rhythm) was returned in a chat exploring the origins of legal systems around the world. Check it out, I don’t know what you’ll get. Do you see any signs of bias or hallucination? It is as awesome as CSS.