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How safe are passwords on your Mac from this app add in. I don’t know if Apple ringfences them or if programs potentially have access.
 
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We can ignore the AI, but we cannot stop it. It can be broken like as any other tool, but it's really good if used as intended.

If I had been presented with the question of AI and ChatGPT and the ethics that can go wrong 10 years ago, it would’ve worried me a lot.
But given the fact that how many real people on this planet there is that don’t understand ethics, not have any interest of it and never will, ChatGPT is not worrying me that much today.
Most certainly in how it will be used, and who are in charge of its learning and use, is of great magnitude.

As I am no fan at all of Siri, never have been, and are not using it due to the total lack of intelligence, ChatGPT seems like a major upgrade that I will follow with interest.
 
Jony Ive has asked the new AI-powered Bing to write a press release announcing, "Jony Ive's return to Apple as the new CEO and successor to Tim Cook":

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Not really, it makes mistakes that people wouldn't make. For instance, I asked it to name the chapters of a Classical Japanese book. A person who was asked that question would list the chapter names they know, then the ones they are unsure of with a comment that they are unsure, then admit they don't know the rest. ChatGPT very confidently listed the chapter names, some of which were correct, and others totally made up. People just don't do that kind of thing.

Of course the people who wrongly compare machines to people, which is a very cold and inhumane belief, could be said to be making machine-like errors in their beliefs.

But I jest, they just don’t understand human psychology or LLMs. That’s just science and compsci illiteracy. Sam Altman himself, the master of self hype and self delusion, thinks AI is taking over jobs. Anyone who believes that is either trying to hype an IPO or completely ignorant of what billions of people do for a living.

There are people on the Web who are absolutely certain that LLMs have a ’soul‘ somewhere down in the bellows. These are just science fiction fans who really want to see AI cyberpunk dystopia happen because they think they will finally be allowed to wear goofy cyberpunk leather clothing and VR glasses in public and have a waifu girlfriend.

Neither is going to happen. We will still be wearing sweatshirt and jeans in the year 2300 🤣 and a lot of the current tech and tech ambitions will probably fail and unwind because the masses will finally rebel after enough disasters happen and enough tech fraudsters go to jail.
 
What do you mean by "sadly"?

Sadly, Spotify isn't integrated into macOS.
Sadly, Amazon isn't integrated into macOS.
Sadly, the Chinese horoscope isn't integrated into macOS.

Not all software needs to be integrated into the operating system just because it's fun to use for a while.

Remember when FB and Twitter were integrated into macOS and then Apple realized….oh **** that was a bad idea we better remove these software STDs because these companies are run by sickos.
 
I run a software company and it has been a profound game changer for us.
I'm really curious about it.

It seems to me that the much idolized AI is in most cases deferred human intelligence, that is, the limits and options available to the sw are bound, among many aspects, even to the humans who write that code.

I don't just mean ChatGPT but also autonomous driving, for example.

Then the choice becomes: I select the information, based on my limits and my knowledge, and I pay the consequences of hiring, or do I let it be an artificial intelligence based on deferred human intelligence or based on other artificial intelligence originally based on deferred human intelligence to make the decisions for me, of which I will physically pay the consequences?

It is not neo-Luddism, I deeply use Siri since 4S (2010), for various everyday aspects, in various environments, for personal and shared parameters, but it remains a limited tool. The same can be said for Alexa, which I use much less, more for fun for family members, but honestly every time to have a really accurate and certified data I have to do a double check myself, so I lose any interest if not a geek enthusiasm for its own sake.
 
I have downloaded the MacGPT app, but is showing an empty dialog, and asks for a sign in link, which I do not have.

Am I missing something?

I do have a account for Chatgpt
Any ideas
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so you can have another app in fullscreen mode and still be able to access ChatGPT, ensuring the rich information resource remains just a click away

ChatGPT is NOT a “rich information resource”. If anything, it could be said to be a rich MISinformation resource, given its propensity for mixing truth with complete fiction.

It’s an interesting novelty and may be useful for generating articulate and grammatically correct summaries of information. But that is only effective when the user is feeding it the raw information and the user has sufficient expertise in the subject matter to review, identify, and edit out any garbage from the generated text.
 
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I'm really curious about it.

It seems to me that the much idolized AI is in most cases deferred human intelligence, that is, the limits and options available to the sw are bound, among many aspects, even to the humans who write that code.

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Hardware and energy bound too. Scaling such systems comes at massive cost to companies, the environment and society. That’s before we even consider how different governments and spy agencies around the world can use them for repression. Not one person in these conversation ever brings up how democracies can fail and what replaces them can use such technologies to completely silence and dox opponents.

This stuff really helps authoritarianism more than anything else. That’s why nobody has really asked for this stuff and the major investors are not sane people.
 
Lots of negativity in here. I find ChatGPT to be pretty cool and unlike the internet-based AI attempts last decade it seems people haven’t managed to immediately turn it into a racist fascist.

It’s a hell of a lot better at answering complicated questions than Siri is.

Agree. Apple has been caught with their pants down regarding AI which is why some on here don't like it
 
Hardware and energy bound too. Scaling such systems comes at massive cost to companies, the environment and society. That’s before we even consider how different governments and spy agencies around the world can use them for repression. Not one person in these conversation ever brings up how democracies can fail and what replaces them can use such technologies to completely silence and dox opponents.

This stuff really helps authoritarianism more than anything else. That’s why nobody has really asked for this stuff and the major investors are not sane people.
It seems to me that the greatest interest in these systems is simply linked to a cost cut and, commercially, from tying very close users to a service they cannot do without.
I'll take autonomous driving for example:disabled subjects for decades have used cars configured to be useful to them, but no one has ever requested a tram. Who cares if the car is a tram? To the seller maybe, to the insurance probably, to the legislator for sure. Yet it is full of enthusiasts, someone dead, who seem to need the tram disguised as a car, but there is not already the tram (or the rental with driver, or a thousand other services) to cover that need? So who needs AI and for what reason?
 
Bizarrely negative responses in here from a supposedly tech orientated crowd - looks more like a middle aged Dad convention.

Most people confusing what it is, most people referencing Bings implementation which is very different.

I think it's fantastic - I wish Apple would scrap Siri and start again based on AI like this as it'd actually 1. understand what you're asking and 2. give you some useful information back.

So far this week i've used it to, translate to other languages far better than Google translate does (and the even better DeepL) - you don't even need to write out exactly what you want to say. Just tell it generally what you want it to tell someone in the language and it'll write with full concise references.

I've had it sort data from a PDF for me - it was formatted so I couldn't copy the numbers I needed in a list, so I just copied the raw messy unformatted data and told them to pick them out for me, it did.

I've had it re-write customer facing messages for me when i'm too tired to work them well in the first place.

I've had it write scripts and codes for me - i've had it translate code from one language to another.

I've had it write jazz chords for me with an emphasis on what style I want.

I've had it come up with an analogy for someone to explain the difference between a Mosfet and a Relay switch

I've had it answer riddles instantly

I've had it work out complex maths issues for me by just explaining them in english

For those who've said "I can't think of a single reason to use it" maybe it's you that's the problem rather than ChatGPT?

For now though it's best to ask it for facts unless you know the answers are in it's database, or for news - as it's not up to date. It is prone to just making **** up, so don't ask it for information on someone to take into an argument. That's definitely not it's strong point right now.
Thanks for this. Until seeing you reply, I thought i've descended into some techno nursing home nightmare.
 
So far, it's been great at some Excel formulas.
It seems like people complaining about GPT are from the same camp that drive off cliffs following Waze directions without applying even 0.01% of their natural intellect. No amount of AI can save that.
 
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I think it's an incredible demonstration. That said, I'm not sure I'd give it control of my home automation system just yet...

I mean it's not control - it's actually understanding what i'm asking for in a myriad of ways and enacting that instruction. Where as Siri I feel like i've got to say an exact word in an exact way as a trigger phrase and any deviation it has no idea what i'm asking. I might as well be writing specific phrases I HAVE to say exactly to it.
 
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