Record Cold Northern India; Northeast China To -31.1C (-24F); Russia’s First -50C (-58F); November Snow Blankets Tunisia And Algeria; Pielke On COP30 Lies; + Google’s Science
Record Cold Northern India; Northeast China To -31.1C (-24F); Russia’s First -50C (-58F); November Snow Blankets Tunisia And Algeria; Pielke On COP30 Lies; + Google’s Science
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15 Thoughts to “Record Cold Northern India; Northeast China To -31.1C (-24F); Russia’s First -50C (-58F); November Snow Blankets Tunisia And Algeria; Pielke On COP30 Lies; + Google’s Science”
My wife uses ChatGTP for analysing her data collections for her aid work. She monitors its output rigorously as she has found that if it can’t give an answer that it thinks you will like it just makes stuff up. It can also fail on simple arithmatic; apologising profusely when caught out.
A useful tool, but as with all computers since Babbage; garbage in-garbage out.
GIGO is not strictly true. As you pointed out, it makes stuff up and also it will give you different answers at different times, even regarding its own capabilities. And yes, always apologizing profusely for forgotten items, inconsistencies, etc. if I were the paranoid sort, I would say it’s trying to trip me up and slow me down.
It will be interesting to see if the robots “accidentally” trip people and spill hot coffee in their laps, leave scorch marks on their best blouses, and what have you..
Did you miss an important meeting because your AI assistant forgot to remind you? “I’m so sorry, it will never happen again!” In a pig’s eye.
I’ll put my time in as a guinea pig while AI is reasonably innocuous, but I doubt I will be letting anything into my home that could crush my windpipe with one hand, even if it can cook like a French chef.
Different zones affect the average temperature of the Earth differently.
Try asking AI the following:
“The Arctic (60N-90N) and Antarctic (60S-90S) zones each cover only about 8.3 percent of the global surface area but sometimes excerpt a much greater influence on the global average because of very large temperature anomalies compared to other zones.”
Is it possible to compare the Earth’s average temperature with and without the Arctic and Antarctic zones to see the difference these zones create?
Yesterday’s issue mentioned Prof Pielke, Jr. at Uni. of Colorado Boulder, which reminded me of a social gathering in the Boulder area in June of 2007 where one of the members was being congratulated for being a “Nobel Laureate” as a named member of the group that had drafted the winning IPCC report. He did not seem happy and I later asked why. His group’s area of expertise was ‘solar cycles and I specifically asked about the “Milenkovich, Maunder and Dalton Cycles. He stated that his group’s writing that covered that area of science and was specifically not included as the UN”s IPCC report was totally political and aimed at negatively impacting the developed western world and more specifically the US. Also he was “asked” to leave the Univ. of Col. and he had obtained a position as a professor at a New Zealand Univ. and would be leaving the US.
The climate cabal no doubt put honest professors and researchers in a difficult position.
Likely having career aspirations and perhaps family and other responsibilities, the honest person may have to do what they must at the time and then find a more equitable position, like the professor you mentioned.
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My wife uses ChatGTP for analysing her data collections for her aid work. She monitors its output rigorously as she has found that if it can’t give an answer that it thinks you will like it just makes stuff up. It can also fail on simple arithmatic; apologising profusely when caught out.
A useful tool, but as with all computers since Babbage; garbage in-garbage out.
GIGO is not strictly true. As you pointed out, it makes stuff up and also it will give you different answers at different times, even regarding its own capabilities. And yes, always apologizing profusely for forgotten items, inconsistencies, etc. if I were the paranoid sort, I would say it’s trying to trip me up and slow me down.
It will be interesting to see if the robots “accidentally” trip people and spill hot coffee in their laps, leave scorch marks on their best blouses, and what have you..
Did you miss an important meeting because your AI assistant forgot to remind you? “I’m so sorry, it will never happen again!” In a pig’s eye.
I’ll put my time in as a guinea pig while AI is reasonably innocuous, but I doubt I will be letting anything into my home that could crush my windpipe with one hand, even if it can cook like a French chef.
Not even Millennium Man?
Amendment:
… that could crush Millennium Man’s windpipe with one hand, etc…
Different zones affect the average temperature of the Earth differently.
Try asking AI the following:
“The Arctic (60N-90N) and Antarctic (60S-90S) zones each cover only about 8.3 percent of the global surface area but sometimes excerpt a much greater influence on the global average because of very large temperature anomalies compared to other zones.”
Is it possible to compare the Earth’s average temperature with and without the Arctic and Antarctic zones to see the difference these zones create?
“…as she has found that if it can’t give an answer that it thinks you will like it just makes stuff up.”
Whoop! This is amazing; this ChatGPT is well qualified to be a politician.
Lol! It will all be worth it if we end up with politicians pushing grocery carts on the street.
” I want an AI that challenges power, not parrots it.”
You’ll probably have to build it yourself.
I thought it may be a Deb quote.
No, here’s a Deb quote, “Want in one hand and sh*t in the other and see which fills up the fastest”.
We LOVE you Deb!
Glad someone does.
Yesterday’s issue mentioned Prof Pielke, Jr. at Uni. of Colorado Boulder, which reminded me of a social gathering in the Boulder area in June of 2007 where one of the members was being congratulated for being a “Nobel Laureate” as a named member of the group that had drafted the winning IPCC report. He did not seem happy and I later asked why. His group’s area of expertise was ‘solar cycles and I specifically asked about the “Milenkovich, Maunder and Dalton Cycles. He stated that his group’s writing that covered that area of science and was specifically not included as the UN”s IPCC report was totally political and aimed at negatively impacting the developed western world and more specifically the US. Also he was “asked” to leave the Univ. of Col. and he had obtained a position as a professor at a New Zealand Univ. and would be leaving the US.
The climate cabal no doubt put honest professors and researchers in a difficult position.
Likely having career aspirations and perhaps family and other responsibilities, the honest person may have to do what they must at the time and then find a more equitable position, like the professor you mentioned.
Kilauea is erupting big time right now. Spewing lots of lava, with fountains 400 feet high.