Pointed it at a WIP troll and said I don’t like the current color scheme (too dark) and didn’t want cartoony but did want green skin. It suggested a particular scheme, down to literal paint names, and happily followed up with a visual painting reference.
@patio11
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Parasitism versus Decomposition in Human Systems
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(Well, sometimes parasitism is a bit… murky. In human systems, as opposed to ecology, *sometimes* people describe as parasitic behavior which is more akin to decomposition. The ecosystem needs decomposition to function; circle of life etc etc.)
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Phone Camera Integration with LLM Becomes Daily Essential Tool
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Cell phone camera to LLM has become a much more important part of my life than I would have expected in the ancient history of 12 months ago.
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AI Fraud Estimates: Under $40B Assessment Compared to Credit Card Fraud
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Would take the under on $40B. That number is implausibly larger than e.g. worldwide credit card fraud.
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AI Systems Reproducing User Content: Ethical Concerns
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Even worse when it pulls up one's own writing!
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Model Behavior: Quantification vs Uncertainty Expression
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For example, this should be basis points rather than 20%, but suggesting the model put a number on everything causes it to float to the bottom of the list, versus it impressionistically suggesting "I don't know, could be a firmware issue" in the middle of the first paragraph.
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AI Model Probability Estimates: Rigor and Custom Instructions
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(I don't find any of the models to be particularly rigorous in what is a 90% versus a 98% or an 85%, but they don't often say 90% when they mean 30%, and so I keep the part of my custom instructions which tells them to provide estimates.)
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AI diagnosis principle: thinking horses not zebras
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There are at least three things that can cause that symptom but here the AI is doing the very useful exercise "If you hear hoofbeats think horses not zebras."
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AI as Rubber Duck Debugging Tool Quacks Back
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It might be just "rubber ducking" here but it is a useful form of rubber ducking. The duck now quacks back, and some of its suggestions are things that strike me as plausible, but that wouldn't have occurred to me before several additional debugging steps (at ~a day per).