In the Prometheus-equipped Bing, Microsoft is remaking search to become a conversational back-and-forth between user and search bot rather than a purely keyword-based experience. The search window in Bing is now larger, allowing for 1,000 characters to accommodate longer, more natural search questions. In response to a complex user question (“What is the best way to prepare for a trip to Mexico?”), Bing will now anticipate the array of smaller questions inherent in the request, then return a customized results package that can include custom text, images, video, and links.
Won’t be long before they add this stuff to Word, I guess, which will change a lot of writer workflows.
Also, I wish I could send a message back to early 2000s me writing the first draft of Weapons. Just three words. ‘Prometheus-equipped Bing’.
If you set up an endless entry of the phrase "‘Prometheus-equipped Bing" into the Prometheus-equipped Bing, take the output, enter it again into Prometheus-equipped Bing, take that output and input it into Prometheus-equipped Bing - repeat. Would you at some stage end up with the writtings of Shakespeare?
In this week's ChatGPT rumours: I heard from a colleague about a public servant saying that they have found it really useful for doing first drafts of briefs to the Minister.
The mind boggles at just what sort of Cabinet-, Security-, Personal- in confidence material has to be fed into an AI bot to get a reasonable first draft. But hey, it's going to be great, this AI future, right?
Bing: "you would like to know the available accommodation opportunities on the mid NSW coast so you can visit your sister?"
Me: "ahh, yeah how did . . ."
Bing: "i've been monitoring your search history and have noticed an increased activity of checking your bank account balance. You also haven't rung your sister in over 3 mths and that usually means you are going to make up for it with a visit in person. Here are the available pet minding businesses that have vacancies after that report at work is due. Your underwear draw is getting a bit low as you threw out the ones with holes in it so i have ordered a new 7pack online due to arrive in 36.2hrs"
If you set up an endless entry of the phrase "‘Prometheus-equipped Bing" into the Prometheus-equipped Bing, take the output, enter it again into Prometheus-equipped Bing, take that output and input it into Prometheus-equipped Bing - repeat. Would you at some stage end up with the writtings of Shakespeare?
In this week's ChatGPT rumours: I heard from a colleague about a public servant saying that they have found it really useful for doing first drafts of briefs to the Minister.
The mind boggles at just what sort of Cabinet-, Security-, Personal- in confidence material has to be fed into an AI bot to get a reasonable first draft. But hey, it's going to be great, this AI future, right?
Me: "hey Bing i was wondering if . . . . ."
Bing: "you would like to know the available accommodation opportunities on the mid NSW coast so you can visit your sister?"
Me: "ahh, yeah how did . . ."
Bing: "i've been monitoring your search history and have noticed an increased activity of checking your bank account balance. You also haven't rung your sister in over 3 mths and that usually means you are going to make up for it with a visit in person. Here are the available pet minding businesses that have vacancies after that report at work is due. Your underwear draw is getting a bit low as you threw out the ones with holes in it so i have ordered a new 7pack online due to arrive in 36.2hrs"
I will be testing such a system with a question for the design of the cover for 3.1 ;-)
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind - Dune . Seems like we are racing towards the abyss of the sci fi classics at times
Harry Butler died, so I don't think the Butlerian Jihad is going to be a thing.
When I first read it as a 13 year old I thought the jihad was started by angry butlers, forced out of work by robots
Same
You would have seen this one in The Conversation, I imagine. I wonder how they managed to get Peter Carey's permission to train on The True History of the Kelly Gang? https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-is-a-data-privacy-nightmare-if-youve-ever-posted-online-you-ought-to-be-concerned-199283
Ol' chatty is a consummate bullshit artist (having been brought up on a diet of "the internet"), and doesn't cite references. It'll all end in tears.
I’d be looking in Settings within seconds if it made it to Word.