24: AI

On giving AI eyes and ears AI can listen and see, with bigger implications than we might realize. .

Power and Weirdness: How to Use Bing AI Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks ...... Bing adds something special - it is connected to the internet. ......... Bing is at its most powerful, and most different from ChatGPT, when it is looking up data and connecting diverse sets of information together. It is often a startling good data analyst, marketer, and general business companion. ........ I would also warn teachers that Bing is much more capable than ChatGPT, as it is capable of drawing interesting connections between unusual topics (I think I asked for the first essay ever comparing themes in Avatar and Hamlet, and it did a good job!). If ChatGPT got a B- in many classes, Bing is likely to get an A-. ..........

Bing is immensely more powerful than ChatGPT, but also a lot weirder to use

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It is starting to get strange. Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot ........ Code Interpreter is GPT-4 with three new capabilities: the AI can read files you upload (up to 100MB), it can let you download files, and it lets the AI run its own Python code. This may not seem like a huge advance, but, in practice, it is pretty stunning. And it works incredibly well without any technical knowledge or ability

(I cannot code in Python, but I don’t need to).

........... Code Interpreter has turned GPT into a first-rate data analyst. ....... It is capable of independently looking at a dataset, figuring out what is interesting, developing an analytical strategy, cleaning data, testing its strategy, adjusting to errors, and offering advice based on its results. .......... I think we are going to see massive changes coming to academic publishing soon, as journals struggle under the weight of these sorts of real, but automatically generated, papers. .

How to... use ChatGPT to boost your writing The key to using generative AI successfully is prompt-crafting ......... isn’t a human that you are giving instructions to. It is a machine you are programming with words. ........ I do this myself, saying “please” and “thank you” in my requests, even though the AI doesn’t care. ........... they need to spend time doing “prompt engineering:” editing and playing with prompts to come up with the results they want. These prompts can get very elaborate, and can often seem abstract, or almost poetic. .......... More elaborate and specific prompts work better. .......... write an essay with the following points. use an academic tone. use at least one clear example. make it concise. write for a well-informed audience. use a style like the New Yorker. make it at least 7 paragraphs. vary the language in each one. end with an ominous note. -Humans are prone to error -Most errors are not that important -In complex systems, some errors are catastrophic -Catastrophes cannot be avoided ........... Often, the best option is to give ChatGPT amnesia: start a new chat and try again. ........ You will get different results from asking for an academic essay versus a persuasive article versus a blog post versus a corporate memo. ......... You can have the AI play characters by prompting it to think of itself as a chef, or a novelist, or Plato. This can lead to delightful results. ....... ChatGPT it is far from the all-knowing AI that the movies taught us to expect. But as a tool to jumpstart your own writing, multiply your productivity, and to help overcome the inertia associated with staring at a blank page, it is amazing. ....... .

Russia says Wagner Group’s leader will move to Belarus after his rebellious march challenged Putin Switching into Russian in his daily video address, Zelenskyy said “the man from the Kremlin” was “very afraid.” He repeated his calls for the West to supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets and ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles........ In announcing the rebellion, Prigozhin accused Russian forces of attacking the Wagner camps in Ukraine with rockets, helicopter gunships and artillery. He alleged that Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff, ordered the attacks following a meeting with Shoigu in which they decided to destroy the military contractor. ....... “Russian troops in Ukraine may well now be operating in a vacuum, without clear military instructions, and doubts about whom to obey and follow,″ Lutsevych said. “This creates a unique and unprecedented military opportunity for the Ukrainian army.” ..... Latvia and Estonia, two NATO countries that border Russia, said they were increasing security at their borders.



Russian mercenary boss Prigozhin to move to Belarus under Wagner deal, Kremlin says

Wagner chief Prigozhin says he's accepted truce brokered by Belarus Prigozhin said on his official Telegram channel that he had agreed to turn his mercenary forces back, "realizing all the responsibility for the fact that Russian blood will be shed." He said his forces had marched to within 120 miles of Moscow without shedding a "single drop of the blood of our fighters." ....... Wagner troops had "seized another city halfway to Moscow."

Rebel Russian mercenaries turn back short of Moscow 'to avoid bloodshed' Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former Putin ally and founder of the Wagner army, said his men reached within 125 miles (200 km) of the capital. Earlier, Moscow deployed soldiers in preparation for their arrival and told residents to avoid going out. ....... The Wagner fighters captured the city of Rostov hundreds of miles to the south before racing in convoy through the country, transporting tanks and armoured trucks and smashing through barricades set up to stop them ......... "Understanding ... that Russian blood will be spilled on one side, we are turning our columns around and going back to field camps as planned." ........ Lukashenko had offered to mediate because he had known the mercenary leader personally for around 20 years. ........ Wagner's lightning insurrection appeared to develop with little pushback from Russia's regular armed forces, raising questions about Putin's hold on power in the nuclear-armed nation even after the abrupt halt to Wagner's advance. Earlier, Prigozhin said that what he called a "march for justice" was intended to remove corrupt and incompetent Russian commanders he blames for botching the war in Ukraine. ...... In a televised address from the Kremlin, Putin earlier said the Wagner rebellion put Russia's very existence under threat. .......

Mafia is as mafia does. Whatever deal was reached today, blood has been spilled and Putin's illusion of invincibility is gone. He and his cronies tasted real fear. Moscow was threatened. https://t.co/3QoDY17uba

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