What do you use AI for? (a discussion, not a question)

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#43

I’ve been discussing the 48 Laws of Power with it. Asking which laws a specific character in some movie or show demonstrates. It either knows its poop or it’s a great bullshitter.

The annoying part though is its bias. I’m not sure “woke” is the right word. Not sure what is, though.
After each response, it gives me this spiel along the lines of “Remember that any application of these laws should be done for good, not bad. Only work for the light. blah blah”.

like Yeah I get it. Don’t waste my bandwidth on that haha.

I did poke it though, asked “what if my personal values and principles don’t necessary focus on positive or negative contributions, but are more aligned with indifference in that regard and focused on my own happiness and achievement?”

Its response

If your personal values and principles are centered around your own happiness and achievement, and you hold an indifferent stance towards positive or negative contributions, it is important to acknowledge that your perspective may differ from conventional notions of ethics and morality.

While it is valid to prioritize your own happiness and achievement, it’s worth considering the potential impact your actions may have on others. Indifference towards positive or negative contributions might lead to a lack of empathy or consideration for the well-being of others. It is important to strike a balance between personal fulfillment and being mindful of the consequences of your actions on those around you.

Furthermore, it’s essential to recognize that relationships and interactions with others can significantly influence personal success and happiness. Building positive relationships, demonstrating integrity, and treating others with respect can contribute to long-term satisfaction and personal growth.

Ultimately, it’s up to you to define your own values and principles. However, considering the broader impact of your actions and developing a sense of empathy towards others can help foster healthier relationships and a more fulfilling life overall.

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#44

So not supportive of siths, gotcha. :wink:

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#45

I have the first Galactic Empire to run

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#46

I’ve noticed I’ve got some serious FOMO going on, relating to AI… I’ve kept up more than most people I (personally) know, but I still feel as though it’s moving past me like a thundering freight train as I shuffle along slowly. I use ChatGPT and the GPT-4 API through a system integration for a variety of applications daily, but I haven’t touched AutoGPT or any of the other LLMs at all. I dabble with Midjourney, and I’m aware of Stable Diffusion, but A1111 and Control Net? :man_shrugging: They look amazing, but I’m lost as to what to do with them.

I feel like I’ve got access to a cutting-edge gaming setup with unlimited games but all I use it for is checking my email… And that’s a terrible analogy because even just using it for games would be a waste too. gaaahh!

Does anyone else feel like this?

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#48

You don’t have to master all the stuff.
Just get really good at a few.

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#49

It’s not so much a fear that I’m missing some cool new tool to learn, more so that I might be missing something that will fundamentally change some aspect of my work/life/plans/whatever and I’m not accounting for it.

If I were a content writer, I would be losing my $h!t over this stuff based on what’s already available, and the tech is only getting better. This is impacting so much and so quickly, that my concern is what is the equivalent that I’m missing for my life…

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#50

18k words so far. I’ll drop a workflow post tomorrow as I’m about to fall asleep here now, but I’ve gotten into a decent rhythm… just over a month since I started and the first draft of the book is almost 20% done (as per my word count goal).

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#51

I use AI to analyse crypto coins. The first results are quite helpful, as AI is able to determine all available data about a coin in a very short time.

It can also provide general information and justification for the prediction. However, caution is required as the AI can sometimes fantasise. :upside_down_face:

You will notice this relatively quickly if the data provided is completely different from reality. Otherwise, it seems to be a good addition to research and forecasting.

Only time will tell if you can make money with this approach in the long run.

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#52

Yes, especially depending on the model. Once I saw the huge difference between GPT-3.5 and 4, I hardly even touch 3.5 anymore except for basic inquiries… I’m still learning langchain and a few other things which look really interesting for things other than text generation, but for now I’ve mostly stuck with pretty basic stuff.

I like the use case for crypto; are you using the new web access for it?

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#53

I am using GPT 4 via bing. This is working very good and didnt cost me anything.

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#54

I’ll probably come back and add more details later on, but now here’s my basic workflow.

I don’t use AI as a creative writer. I’m sure with better prompting, I could get better results, but with what I’ve been doing using it for creative writing hasn’t produced the results I want. Plus, this is MY story, not ChatGPT’s. :wink:

I’ll describe a general aspect of the plot, focusing on a specific scene… my chapters are ~3500 words each, so I break them down into chunks of 700 words to create several scenes. A short scene would be a single chunk, whereas my longest single scene is 3 chunks, if there’s a lot to cover.

I describe and discuss what happens in the scene in exhaustive detail - I might write 1500+ words to get 500 back - and what the AI returns is a basic structured outline of the scene. I have this up on one of my screens, and the Google doc on the other, and I write the next draft there… sometimes I write it to follow the outline, other times I go off in a completely different direction… when that’s done, if I don’t feel it flows as well as it could, or if it needs polishing in terms of grammar, ensuring tenses etc all match, I’ll feed it back into ChatGPT and ask it to tidy it up. There aren’t substantial changes at this point, it’s a gloss edit… I’ll do one more pass on this next iteration, and when I’m happy with it, that passage replaces the first draft in the google doc.

Occasionally I’ll do a deep dive into one aspect of the story just to ensure the details are at the level I want them at… there’s a mention in one scene of a book the main character is reading, and I wanted it to be highly symbolic of the story so I dove into themes of classic literature to find one where the struggles of the hero in that story paralleled the struggles my hero is facing, and ended up with a Russian book from a century ago that I’d never heard of before, but was a perfect choice. It’s a single quick mention in a 100,000-word book, but for someone who recognizes its significance, it will add depth to the plot.
Same thing for details of timekeeping; I spent nearly an hour discussing temporal perception for various spans of time as a computer would perceive them, to arrive at nothing more than a status display that the reader will see… overkill? absolutely. But when I do something, I consider the details. I don’t want to write something that someone with more knowledge than me will see and immediately scoff at how ridiculous or implausible it is.

Even so, I feel I’m making some good progress on this; I’m averaging about a chapter a week (with the time I’m able to devote to it… about an hour a day, after my daughter goes to sleep). The time is spent about half on actually building the scenes, and the other half refining plot elements and ensuring the different story arcs mesh together and leave as few plot holes as possible.

It’s a fun process, and at this rate, I fully expect to have a finished novel by the end of this year.

Even if I never try to publish, at the very least I can have a (via KDP) physical copy of a book on my shelf, and be able to say I created that. That’s MY story.

Definite bucket list project. :slight_smile:

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#55

Yes!

Outlining, Structuring, and Research. All utterly streamlined. You’re free to devote more effort to the creative process.

I love this.

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#56

20k+ now… I was on a roll last night.

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#57

I find I can get pretty profound results with Chat GPT if I already know some things about the topics I’m using it to work on.

I’m finding it useful for:

Integrating, Applying, Organizing, and Extending What You Know.

For example, I’ve often felt that there were interesting overlaps between Jung’s Introverted Feeling concept, Dr. Katherine Benziger’s Basal Right brain preference concept, and Eugene Gendlin’s concept of the ‘Felt Sense’ from his innovative Focusing approach.

Chat GPT helped me to integrate and compare these concepts in a couple of minutes.

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#58

So theoretically, we could feed the description of all (hundred) Q modules and ask chatGPT to recommend one custom based on our goals.
Just need a list of all modules and their description…

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#59

Maybe subclub could integrate chatgpt into the q website which takes the requirement of customers (in paragraph form) as input and then recommends modules.

Compairing and selecting modules in q website isn’t too UX friendly.

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The OpenAI API costs of that would add up very quickly.

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#61

There are actually closer to 364 modules in the Q store at this time.

The memory limitations of chatGPT make the above idea not very feasible.

Future iterations however may be able to handle it.

The 'P" in GPT stands for ‘Pre-trained’. The language model is trained on a vast amount of information, and it does best when it’s dealing with inquiries related to that information. Newly exposed information is only held termporarily. In my experience, you can enter the descriptions for about 50 modules before GPT begins to ‘forget’ or let go of the data you entered at the very beginning.

Interestingly, chat GPT 4 was pre-trained on data lasting up to September 2021, and Sub Club did exist on the internet at that time, so it does have some stored information on some of the programs that we use here. But that will not include most of the modules in the Q store.

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#62

On the other hand, it’s very practical for helping to evaluate the modules in a proposed custom that you have already designed.

Or you could get its help to remove an unnecessary module: say if you have 25 modules and you’re trying to choose which five to remove.

I actually prefer to do that myself.

I also find it helpful to look through all of the modules myself and make my own choices.

I don’t want an AI to pre-digest my food for me. I prefer to use it more as an assistant and a smart collaboration partner or sounding board.

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#63

Yeah you are write, I was just musing the idea of :upside_down_face:

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