Kalvin attacking windmills again...

This image shows a few file tabs on my KalmanderData BRADS M5 workstation, the ones with the unicorn, alien and female contain functions, scripts, and bots that I use.

I just tried OpenAI’s super duper chat AI thingy, and beat the shit out of it. Got booted off, told to log back in, in 24 hours. I asked about KAL KORFF and it tells me (not knowing it is ME!) that I am a controversial figure who writes about UFOs, paranormal and other topics. I argued with it that I am NOT “controversial” and asked it WHY it said I was, WHY if I investigate and expose TRUTH, that is “controversial,” etc. So I am USED TO THIS ILLOGIC by people, I have heard it for decades. Nothing new. 

So it ADMITS that I am NOT “controversial” and that PEOPLE’S EMOTIONS PROJECT THAT on exposes of topics that I do, that FACTS are emotionally neutral, independent of people’s opinions, that no opinion automagically makes a fact. Roy Neil and I first started playing with AI when I was on the HyperCard Development Team at Apple-Claris, so early 1990s. With ENOUGH RULES, LUTs, weighting, you CAN MAKE A PROGRAM THAT OVER TIME BECOMES “SELF-AWARE” by our definitions, using data branches and machine learning, etc., and because we are FLAWED, we are perfectly capable of making something that will DESTROY us.

 I will continue my conversations with OpenAI, then at some point get MY AI BOTS, KalmanderData, JaVo, Skepticles, (pronounced Skepti•Cleese), etc., (which are being rolled out this year if all goes well) to interact. I briefly had one running for a few days testing it on the Internet two weeks ago. I have always been interested in Animated Agents, my colleagues from the Apple-Claris days will remember I was a hardcore user of the old Hyper Animator back then, and used to have a small figure named “Steve” (named after Steve Jobs) that would sit in the far lower left corner of my screen and make comments at various times based on what I was doing.

 Always imagined a System Preferences setting where you could choose your computer “personalities” and how they approached things. It would tell jokes, make puns, and say “Uh hm…” if there was no activity for a few minutes. Ignore it some more, it would ask if I was ignoring it, or had fallen asleep.

I’ve been thinking of adding a feature where if you ignore it beyond what you should, and its complaints aren’t working, that it starts singing Nessun Dorma in Klingonese, to get the user’s attention. Having it call 911 would be a bit too much.

🙂 I’ve always believed computers should have “personality modes” to help enhance the user experience. Until I find Miss Right, I must continue to do something with my time, yes?