Tag: chatgpt

  • ChatGPT in 4o mode is not running the new features yet – “They also made the new 4o model available to paying ChatGPT Plus users, on the web and in their apps. But, crucially, those big new features were not part of that release.” // I guess vendors have always done this – releasing betas…

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  • Enterprise AI, D&D with ChatGPT, & DevBurgerOps

    Enterprise AI, D&D with ChatGPT, & DevBurgerOps

    Lots of original content this week, starting with this prediction about “enterprise AI”: I also made these since last episode: Another go-round at figuring out playing D&D with ChatGPT. It went pretty well! Here’s my retro/analysis of it, and here’s the actual play session with inline commentary. I was the guest co-host on this week’s…

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  • ChatGPT DnD Prompt: Tuning It for Solo D&D Play

    For about 7 months, I’ve been playing solo D&D with ChatGPT. I prompt ChatGPT to be the “ChatDM.” It sort of works, and at least, it’s fun enough to keep doing it and working on making it better. Here’s my most recent overview of what works and doesn’t work, based on a longer play session…

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  • Americans increasingly using ChatGPT, but few trust its 2024 election information, Pew Research Center – Techmeme summary: “A survey of 10,133 US adults: 43% of those aged 18-29 used ChatGPT in February 2024, up from 33% in July 2023, compared to 27% of 30-49 and 23% of all adults”

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  • How People Are Really Using GenAI – It makes jargon-based work more accessible, and complex things easier to understand. Also, just some everyday uses. And: an alternative to the garbage filled results you get from search, a way to filter the Internet. // “just 10% use ChatGPT which enjoys 60% market share regularly”

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  • ChatGPT can’t take over the world until it can play D&D

    What I’m doing here is trying to figure out some benchmarking tests to rate all the AI systems out there. The “application” I’m using is Dungeons & Dragons, in particular, having it be a Dungeon Master. Today, I tested out one of the more difficult parts of D&D, combat. There’s a stack of rules, and…

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  • A ChatGPT prompt for solo roleplaying Dungeons & Dragons

    A ChatGPT prompt for solo roleplaying Dungeons & Dragons

    Here’s an overview of the prompt I’m currently using to play D&D with ChatGPT: In my mind, I’ve got as new talk that evaluates several of the AIs out there based on how well they can play Dungeons and Dragons. After using ChatGPT for about a year, I have first hand experience that makes all…

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  • Touching the Flying Spaghetti Monster

    Touching the Flying Spaghetti Monster

    Upgrade That Spring! If you do Spring stuff in a large enterprise, you should check this thing out. Relative to your interests AI for Economists – Some prompt formations and stuff for the ChatGPT and friends. Signs that it’s time to leave a company – Attempts to get people back in the office are something…

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  • How to play Solo D&D with ChatGPT…three months later

    I’ve played solo D&D with ChatGPT for three months. It’s not that great at the pure mechanics (for example, combat), but it has some great uses. This video is a little screwed up, but the audio is fine, and the content is even better…if I don’t say so myself! Relative to your interests Coincidently for…

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  • New prompt to get ChatGPT to Dungeon Master Solo Dungeons & Dragons

    Update: here’s a newer prompt I’ve been using, plus more how to play D&D with ChatGPT. Here’s another prompt I’ve used to have ChatGPT be a dungeon master for ChatGPT. See the older one here. I think this one is probably too long. What I’ve done here is, largely, dropped any instructions on mechanics (skills…

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  • Skills – CIO goes: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Skills – CIO goes: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    “We can’t hire the right people” is the eternal complaint of CIOs everywhere. They’re beset by all this FUD’ing out about Facebook coming and disrupting the toothpaste industry, Google accidentally dis-intermediating car insurance, Elon Musk launching a bank1, or Amazon doing anything new. I call this freaking out the “macro-economic headwinds” part of any pitch,…

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  • Skills – CIO goes: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Skills – CIO goes: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    “We can’t hire the right people” is the eternal complaint of CIOs everywhere. They’re beset by all this FUD’ing out about Facebook coming and disrupting the toothpaste industry, Google accidentally dis-intermediating car insurance, Elon Musk launching a bank1, or Amazon doing anything new. I call this freaking out the “macro-economic headwinds” part of any pitch,…

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  • Skills – CIO goes: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Skills – CIO goes: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    “We can’t hire the right people” is the eternal complaint of CIOs everywhere. They’re beset by all this FUD’ing out about Facebook coming and disrupting the toothpaste industry, Google accidentally dis-intermediating car insurance, Elon Musk launching a bank1, or Amazon doing anything new. I call this freaking out the “macro-economic headwinds” part of any pitch,…

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  • Bootstrapping ChatGPT 3.5 and ChatGPT 4 to be a Dungeon Master for solo play in Dungeons & Dragons

    I’ve been experimenting/playing a lot with ChatGPT as a Dungeon Master. I like to call this “ChatDM.” That is, I’m a player, and it DMs for me. It’s not, like, great, but it is good enough if you want to co-imagine with it. Overtime, it is a great world building co-author with you. The current…

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  • Survey finds relatively few Americans actually use (or fear) ChatGPT – 30% to 40% (for young adult males) seem like a lot too me. // “Ongoing polling by Pew Research shows that although ChatGPT is gaining mindshare, only about 18% of Americans have ever actually used it. Of course that changes by demographic: Men, those…

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  • ChatGPT finds a role playing Dungeons & Dragons – This is what spurred me to start using ChatGPT as a ChatDM. I’ve yet to ask it questions like “describe drinking games that the satyrs are taking part in that are so dangerous someone could get hurt doing them” or “why would a Displacer Beast Kitten…

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  • I tried to get ChatGPT to summarize VMware Explore 2023 for me. I don’t know, it wasn’t that great. Also, a peak into my Dungeons and Dragons “ChatDM” obsession.

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  • Checking In On ChatGPT – Text-centric AI best used for text-centric toil: “The most common uses cited in the survey were for creating first drafts of text, personalizing marketing materials, identifying trends or communicating with customers with chatbots. AI isn’t quite doing iRobot stuff yet, but taking the sting out of some of the more…

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  • IBM takes on AWS, Google, and Microsoft with Watsonx – If it works, it lets enterprises build up huge, custom trained models, and it has enough governance controls, it’d be a big deal for IBM. They key things learned from ChatGPT is that it has to be super easy, frictionless to get started with. That’s…

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