What's the best way to get an intro to these tools?
Find a website with a free chat bot and ask it for guidance on learning these tools. If that doesn't work, try another site. Keep asking for guidance to run up their chat bot bill until it blocks your IP range. Rinse and repeat with a new bot, or a VPN.
That's the most fun way to learn about this stuff.
Yes. It's somehow a fucking race to build the Torment Nexus from the classic science fiction novel "Do not build the Torment Nexus". It's almost unbelievable.
You just know a bunch of these assholes are going to turn Cube into a reality, and then act surprised when they wake up inside the death trap.
Very strange when they dropped the slogan, like being honest about being evil got them brownie points.
I thought it was strange too, until I realized - I think the slogan change was a deliberate message to court a specific type of investor/customer: Epstein's billionaire pedophile friends.
I kid you not, I bought a DVD player over this nonsense. Now my kids watch the same few used Disney movie and show DVDs however much they like, and I'm not paying these clowns monthly to be abused by them.
"You're absolutely right. I did hallucinate sending an ambulance, more than once, earlier. Let me correct that and dispatch an ambulance to your location."
Thought about a couple cases of his favorite beer. Still might do that. Any other ideas?
Consumables that the person already likes make great gifts, since they will get used up and not sit around.
I usually avoid abusable substances, just in case the person has a carefully balanced relationship with that substance.
But you know your friend.
Sometimes I just ask first. No real reason this needs to be a surprise.
"I know you said you won't take cash, but I'm going to grab you two cases of X as a thank you, on my way back."
Then they get a chance to call me off, or redirect me if it would be a problem.
And I'll always let them call it off with even a mild "no thanks", since they might not want to say to me "I have a real problem with X and I can't safely have thay much on hand.".
Yes. And we know Microsoft was drooling over the day when they shut down that server, and everyone's library stops working 30 days later, allowing Microsoft to re-sell them all the games they previously bought.
I can't say that particularly shocks me. I imagine that Chat GPT has probably swallowed dozens of Physics textbooks.
The bigger part of the problem is knowing where we are on the human knowledge novelty / training data available curve, or rather, when we need to get off of the ride.
Edit: Any chance your chosen AI has access to Wolfram Alpha as an MCP Tool? Because that would be very different, too.
If it's successful at math, there's likely much more than a learning model in play.
Which brings us back to the opacity problem. :(
If the answer machine has been cleverly rigged (and weighted) to pass off math questions to more capable software, things can be great.
But a person who just hears that AI can do math now can have a very bad time if they go blindly use a brute force pleasant answer machine on a math problem. :(
Stable Diffusion is open source and at least has options for all of that in the web UI (which you can host locally).
I wouldn't bet on successful runs on a latop, though. I have a powerful desktop gaming rig, and I still get OOM (out of memory) errors trying to do things with it.
Of course, there's definitely a crazy learning curve for optimizing this stuff. So by "can't work on a laptop" what I really mean is that I couldn't get it working on my laptop, when I tried.
"Barf" is a half dog played by John Candy. I rest my case, your honor.