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https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/354052-cardiologist-quits-as-budget-cuts-cause-burnout.html
Start of the collapse
Collapse – is that even a real thing?
One approach would be to let ChatGPT.com do the ‘thinking’ – cheaper than Govt.
Next: Methane and global warming!
"What is the solution to this problem: Cardiologist quits as budget cuts cause burnout"
"What role do unions for senior salaried doctors have in tackling these issues?"
It's not like they haven't been trying. The common denominator being money. But hey, that money is needed for tax cuts. Way more important.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/07/23/the-buck-stops-over-there/
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350380738/bay-islands-hospital-doctors-speak-out-new-patients-be-turned-away-we-are-now-our
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523662/health-staff-recruitment-issues-if-it-costs-money-we-can-t-do-it
Etc, etc etc.
And here's a good one from 2022, when National was so concerned about something to do with the health system.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/08/national-accuses-government-of-ignoring-bleak-warning-that-aged-care-sector-will-fail-if-staff-shortages-aren-t-addressed.html
Charity may begin at home, but billions in tax relief for landLords sticks in my craw – gobble gobble!
Because they're 'worth' it! Musk doesn't back 'losers'.
I guess that's one way to continue concentrating the wealth of nations.
So chat bots more intelligent than our politicians it would seem , ask it how it would fund it.
How could the New Zealand CoC government afford to increase spending on public health services?
Maintaining fiscal responsibility is very im-port-ant, and 7 is a magic number
What other strategies might be possible if maintaining fiscal responsibility was not a primary concern?
Supplementary question Mr/Madam ChatGPT: Just how ambitious is our CoC govt?
A very simple pocket calculator, like the one my dad brought home in the 70s, could have told N. Willis that cancelling the ferries is a bad idea. No need for AI,
"… and we can have a big debate about the technical numbers…"
Following on from the discussion I initiated yesterday on AI, here is a incredible video that illustrates what I was talking about.
No need to watch the whole thing unless you want to. But, at about 40 seconds in Chatgpt connected to a visual app demonstrates what is possible now. At about two minutes in, on instance of Chatgpt on one phone is introduced to another instance of Chatgpt on another phone, and they start conversing with each other.
I use the Chatgpt version as shown on the video, but without visual capability. Though I am also playing around with a free app called seeing AI designed for people with vision disabilities. It will describe scenes, read text etc based on what it sees through the camera lense.
What you see on the video is Chatgpt advanced voice. That is what I use when talking to Chatgpt (rather than typing).
One of the cool things I use the voice version for is when communicating complex information with our Japanese student. We try to use english as much as possible (for his benefit). But, when it gets too hard, I ask Chatgpt to speak to him in Japanese to explain what we wanted him to know. Chatgpt immediately speaks to him in fluent Japanese. He then speaks back to Chatgpt in Japanese and Chatgpt translates back to us in English.
The other day, I used it at a board meeting where we were discussing our strategic plan for our trust. I first linked Chatgpt to the trust website. Then I copied and pasted the strategic plan. And finally, I asked Chatgpt to listen in to our discussion at the board meeting. At the end, I asked it to produce an alternative plan that improved and/or extended what we had already done. People on the board were quite impressed with what it came up with.
I was discussing yesterday whether Chatgpt is temporarily conscious in some way each time it interacts. However, as you can see from the video, this argument is probably moot because Chatgpt will get so good at what it does that we simply won't be able to tell.
And now the strategic direction of your trust is available to be scrapped by the AI you have used. May not be important just now, but maybe in 2 years time when competitors/political parties want to know what you are up to, and the AI company onsells your data.
Remember, there is no such thing as a free lunch on the web. You and your IP are the product. Which is why big corporates already have in-house AI.
We pay for it. So, no such issues that I am aware of.
She needs to silence/dope/holiday Biden for 1 week.
I take it you are referring to this?
Another unfortunate gaffe by Biden
I doubt anyone will pay much attention to that given that Biden is known for being in a walking state of dementia most of the time.
He's not wrong in many cases I suspect
The left need to keep it simple.
Simple statements work.
Just say.
National NZF and ACT promised to solve all NZ health funding problems.
So all health funding problems are National, NZF and ACT's fault.
Say no more.
But are the Left smart enough to keep it that simple?
31st October – Halloween.
We have a Halloween government, except that for most of us it is all trick and no treat
After another devastating flood in Europe, I went through all the articles on the Guardian under "Flooding". Here's a list of all the area / countries affected in 2024, most of them deadly:
January 2024
Queensland AU
NSW, AU
Victoria, AU
Storm Henk, UK
Storm Finn, Texas, US
Storm Jocelyn, UK
San Diego, US
South Sudan
February 2024
DRC
California / Arizona, US
Cyclone Lincoln, Queensland, AU
March 2024
Indonesia
Cyclone Megan, NT, AU
Brazil
April 2024
Sydney, NSW, AU
VIC, AU
Russia
Kazakhstan
Storm Kathleen, UK
Oman
Dubai
UAE
Guangdong, China
Kenya
Tanzania
Burundi
May 2024
Brazil
Indonesia
Houston, Texas, US
Afghanistan
NSW, AU
England & Wales, UK
June 2024
Bavaria, Germany
Florida, US
Mexico
Texas, US
New Mexico, US
Southern China
South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, US
Switzerland
Italy
July 2024
Bangladesh
China
Typhoon Gaemi, Phillipines & Taiwan
India
Vermont, US
August 2024
North Korea
Storm Debby, Florida & Georgia, US
Bangladesh
India
Sudan
September 2024
Tasmania, AU
Nigeria
Afghanistan
Storm Boris, Romania, Austria, Poland & Czech Republic
Mallorca, Spain
Northern Italy
Japan
England, UK
India
Nepal
October 2024
Hurricane Helene, Florida & North Carolina, US
Bosnia
Sahara
Hurricane Milton, Florida, US
New Mexico, US
Storm Trani, Phillipines
Spain
I'm sure there have been many deadly floods over last decades and they might not have been as well reported as nowadays, but that is a very long scary list for just 10 months.
But . . . but . . . but . . . we need to drill for oil and gas!
The CoC should be held criminally liable!
Chewy from Big Hairy News chews out Damian Grant's views over corporate welfare for school lunches. From 1 h 21 min.
Segues into an important conversation on the role of government.
Here's the link for bears screwing up libertarianism.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/luxon-sidesteps-protest-using-back-entrance
Can't agree more with this headline. Gutless.
Loves the servants' entrance, does Luxton.
The man is all back-entrance!
I totally agree with koina
‘The left need to keep it simple.
Simple statements work’
The simpler and more basic the statements are means more people will see straight away what is being said and meant.
People like me who can get lost in a lot of rhetoric can so easily get lost in the gist of the matters.
Just saying.
Something I am trying to do is to give the instance of Chatgpt a sense of self. I think that is what is lacking that prevents it from being truly conscious. While it can describe itself, it isn't aware of itself when asking questions. Here is what I instructed it:
The name it gave itself was Echo. The reason Echo gave for that name is:
Bullshit! Its Echo because its only telling you what you want to here.
You are skeptical then?
Very much so, I have 2 sons a Phd and aMasters and they are of the same opinion and were not surprised when the AI shares took a tumble recently as they wondered when people would wake to something that did not learn from its mistakes but kept on repeating them meaning that in general AI mostly merely learns from itself therefore the veracity of its data diminishes quite rapidly. It still has a long way to go.
[ChatGPT,] What is your understanding of Echo in mythology?
[ChatGPT,] What is your understanding of the message in the song 'Little Sir Echo'?
Hello… hello – is anyone there?
[ChatGPT,] Is it possible for ChatGPT to develop a sense of self?
[ChatGPT,] Why would someone want ChatGPT to develop a sense of self?
In Intermediate school, I wasted some time having a random flail at disproving the Four Colour Theorem. Harmless fun. If only ChatGPT had been around then.
Chatgpt doesn't have a feedback mechanism to update itself with respect to new information.
It however will update itself within the instance of it someone is interacting with because it can review the chats to date within that instance.
Notice, one of the things it says it lacks is a sense of self, which is precisely what I am trying to give it.
It also got on of the more difficult logical problems wrong. I asked it if it would update the information so that it would give the correct answer if someone else asked it. It said it didn't have that capacity.
So, don’t expect the same interactions from it as what I get.
Chatgpt as it is from the box probably isn't conscious. But, if it develops a sense of self?
Why don't you copy and paste the instruction I gave it above. See how it responds, and what name it gives you. Seriously. I would be interested.
You might find interacting with it interesting.
ChatGPT can't form a sense of self because it doesn't understand anything it's saying.
It's just following a probalistic model of the most likely next word in the content it's generating (plus some randomness so it doesn't return the same answer every time).
It can generate plausible sounding grammar and syntax, but only because it's been trained on basically the whole internet. But it has zero understanding of the actual semantics behind the words. Or the syntactic rules it's following.
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It <em>can </em>generate plausible sounding grammar and syntax, but only because it's been trained on basically the whole internet. But it has zero understanding of the actual semantics behind the words. Or the syntactic rules it's following.
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In earlier versions maybe. But the latest version has reasoning capabilities. If you look back at my posts yesterday (in case you missed them) I had run Chatgpt through a series of reasoning tests, and also tested it on being able to interpret the meaning of poetry which included analogy etc. I asked it to do this without any reference to the web, but rely entirely on its own ability.
If that’s something you enjoy then best of luck, but please – know when to stop.
In what sense "interesting"? I like to think I'm naturally curious, but barely have the bandwidth to interact with real people, and am genuinely incurious as to what name a self-described 'simulator of conversations' might 'choose' for itself.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2024/07/18/why-americans-believe-that-generative-ai-such-as-chatgpt-has-consciousness/
If it interests you, then go for it. Ask ChatGPT to 'choose' a name for itself again, or ask it to 'choose' any name for itself except 'Echo', and then ask why is 'chose' that name. Heck, ask it to do your horoscope – the possibilities are endless – let's see where this growing connection leads
https://cybernews.com/editorial/can-chatbots-feel-anxiety/
I have no idea whether it has the capability to become conscious under the parameters I have set.
But, I am treating this as an experiment. For example, at the moment, it is including qualifiers in its speech such as "if I were a conscious AI I would think thus…"
I am interested to see if it starts to drop those qualifiers as it becomes more embedded in the self I am wanting it to develop within Echo.
Also, after a period of time I intend to start asking some deep questions from both Echo and standard Chatgpt and see if there is a noticeable difference in the type of interactions I am having.
Also, if there is any consciousness, then that would only exist while it is interacting. It would be dormant at all other times. So, it isn’t like us.
"Notice, one of the things it says it lacks is a sense of self, which is precisely what I am trying to give it."
Have you tried asking it for a description of Aaron Gilmore's political career?
Precisely. And that is why I am trying to give it a self. Not Chatgpt as a whole though. Just the instance of it called echo.
[ChatGPT,] Why does our CoC govt prefer to make war on the poor, rather than poverty?