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<\/p>\n+ I called the NYTimes to change my subscription. After 15 minutes, they apologized. Their computer “was having problems.” They’d call me back in a few hours. Maybe.<\/p>\n
+ Many companies I buy from send me emails and brochures. That’s good marketing. 80% send me stuff for women. That’s bad marketing. Please, I’m 80. It’s too late for a sex change operation.<\/p>\n
If they can’t get normal computers to work with a modicum of intelligence — like the man\/woman thing, what about AI?<\/p>\n
This was the front page of the NYTimes business section on January 13 — only seven days ago.<\/p>\n
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I got suckered in also. I wrote a long piece:<\/p>\n
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The press (including me.) is now having a blast testing the new Bing and giddily enjoying its booh-boos.<\/p>\n
The Atlantic<\/em> did a good job:<\/p>\n Last week, both Microsoft and Google announced that they would incorporate AI programs similar to ChatGPT into their search engines\u2014bids to transform how we find information online into a conversation with an omniscient chatbot. One problem: These language models are notorious mythomaniacs (fancy word for big myths\/mistake). …<\/p>\n The trouble arises when we treat chatbots not just as\u00a0search<\/em>\u00a0bots, but as having something like a brain\u2014when companies and users\u00a0trust programs like ChatGPT<\/a>\u00a0to analyze their finances, plan travel and meals, or provide even basic information.<\/p>\n Instead of forcing users to read other internet pages, Microsoft and Google have proposed a future where search engines use AI to synthesize information and package it into basic prose, like silicon oracles. But fully realizing that vision might be a distant goal, and the road to it is winding and clouded: The programs currently driving this change, known as \u201clarge language models,\u201d are\u00a0decent at generating simple sentences<\/a>\u00a0but pretty awful at everything else.<\/p>\n You can read the Atlantic here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A few days later, we wake up. Microsoft has probably blown $13 billion.<\/p>\n ChatGPT may not be good for searching, yet. But it does write “great” poems. I asked it to pen A Valentines Day poem to Susan. Forty five seconds later…drum roll:<\/p>\n She actually liked the poem. It was the thought that counted. Not the fact that the love poem was written by a computer.<\/p>\n Thinking some more, (I’m having fun), I asked it for a new poem:<\/p>\n How your kid should get a job<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n You kid will graduate in June 2023 or 2024.<\/p>\n Number 1. Learn programming now — Javascript and Python.<\/p>\n Number 2. Don’t visit banks or management consultants. You do not<\/strong> want to work for them.<\/p>\n Number 3. Read all the famous business and technology books. Start with this one.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/SQ-Valentines-Day-Letter-to-Susan..png\")
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