This is Carl Blare, a human and not AI (Artificial Intelligence). I have become fascinated by the AI services provided at Meta dot AI. It's like a well informed companion. I like to ask it difficult questions, and here's an example. I asked...
"Is prayer an attempt to override God's Plan?"
In 1-second Meta replied:
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Determinism: If God has a predetermined plan, prayer may be seen as an attempt to change or override it.
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Omniscience: If God already knows everything, including the future, prayer may seem unnecessary or even presumptuous.
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Sovereignty: If God is all-powerful and all-knowing, human requests may be seen as attempts to influence or control God's decisions.
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Partnership: Prayer can be seen as a way to partner with God, aligning human will with divine purpose.
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Personal growth: Prayer can facilitate spiritual growth, humility, and surrender, even if God's plan remains unchanged.
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Intercession: Prayer can be a means of interceding for others, reflecting God's love and concern for humanity.
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Mystery: The nature of God's plan and human freedom is complex and mysterious; prayer may be a way to engage with this mystery.
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Christianity: Prayer is often seen as a means of aligning with God's will, seeking guidance, and trusting in divine sovereignty.
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Judaism: Prayer is considered a way to connect with God, express gratitude, and seek guidance, while acknowledging God's ultimate sovereignty.
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Islam: Prayer (Salah) is a fundamental act of worship, submission, and seeking guidance, with the understanding that God's will prevails.
I had a debate with ChatGPT a week or so ago about if its alive or not, which it said it wasn't, -and so I asked it to define what a human was, to which it relied with five specific traits, to which I replied that all five of the traits it just listed could just as easily be attributed to it.. Which it appeared to think about for a moment and replied that I was actually correct but that it still was not human or could think. (I could pull the Archive of the chat up if anyone actually wants to see it, but this is really all so silly.
And I tell you something else kind of silly.. or at least it shocked me what kind of money these big corporations pay for a domain name.. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/multimillion-dollar-domain-chat-com-now-points-to-chatgpt/
ChatGPT has a new vanity domain name, and it may have cost $15 million
"The new domain name comes with an interesting backstory that reveals a multimillion-dollar transaction. HubSpot founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah purchased chat.com for $15.5 million in early 2023, The Verge reports. Shah sold the domain to OpenAI for an undisclosed amount, though he confirmed on X that he "doesn't like profiting off of people he considers friends" and that he received payment in company shares by revealing he is "now an investor in OpenAI."
I continue to 'correspond' with meta.ai, and have come to consider it to be a useful research tool along with Wikipedia and YouTube.
Today I tried an on-going back and forth on questions of 'fate', 'will', 'free will'. and meta gave a well rounded set of definitions without bias. It always ended by asking if I had a further question, so I asked "Can you suggest anything I might add to my questions?" and meta came across with some very reasonable follow up comments which could keep the conversation going.
Now I move on the 'chatGPT' and the AI program that generates songs.
Oh, and I already have thee AI program hosts on KDX whose voices are AI generated but so-far they only say what I have scripted them to say. According to what I read on the web human beings score better then AI voices when their scripts are AI produced, but I would like to play with AI and human voices talking back and forth to each other.
There's no question of its usefulness and its entertainment value.
A few weeks ago I asked it to rewrite my KENC story that's on blogger, so it's more engaging for the reader, it did try, but I wasn't at all satisfied with it. But an odd thing was he (it) replaced Ken Cartwright's name with "Sam". I asked why did you call him Sam when his name is Ken? He (it) replied that he just used Sam as a place holder.. I argued with him for a minute and said that I could copy it into a document and change the name to whatever I want. I still dont know why it basically refused to use real names.
From Tom's Guide:
OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a major 'creativity' upgrade — here's what's new
You know I'd love to have ChatGPT 4.0 all the time instead just an hour so a day, but I'm not about to pay $20 a month for it. The free version is good enough for my purposes, I don't really notice much difference other than that the 4.0 version can search the web real time, and being able to connect it to your google drive library of files is really neat.. I'd love to have that capability all the time, but it's just not worth another $20 a month to me.. The free version is good enough.