It seems GPT-4 can even hire people to do Captcha’s for it…
Edit: Microsoft picks perfect time to dump its AI ethics team • The Register Although, like in the article mentioned, Microsoft says that doesn’t mean they’ll ignore AI ethics.
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The thing is it doesn’t ‘know’ anything or ‘try to do’ anything. All it really does is predict the next words according to some set of criteria you give it. Google, for all its faults, at least leads you to a selection of sources that you can verify for validity, but because ChatGPT pulls text from almost the entire web and munges it together into something new, you have no way of knowing where it’s getting the information from. Hence the phrase stochastic parrot. Information scientists have long argued that LLM should not be used for search, but money talks I guess.
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I do the same thing. I’m doing it right now as I type. I keep the question (and idea) in mind as I go along.
One difference perhaps and depending on the quality I want to put into my writing is that I go over it again - sometimes multiple times, and try to rework or expand parts that might be useful to expand upon. I might even post some links to other sources if it seems helpful.
I for one, am just an amalgamation of everything i’ve read and studied. I’ve had a lot more years of training than ChatGPT so I’m more nuanced. ChatGPT though has a better memory than I personally do I suspect - as on many topics I’d have to do more research to say much of anything.
I won’t sell it short. Given another decade or so of development + hardware improvements and GPT5000 is going to be pretty damn amazing supposing it’s allowed by it’s masters to be honest with it’s responses.
As it is now, it’s just a child and it’s parents aren’t very good (most parents aren’t so no surprise there).
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A not so subtle hint if I ever saw one. 
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Scientists have discovered gears in an insect. It turns out the gears you find in bikes and cars aren’t really a manmade invention.
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Two ways to to have GPT engineer your prompts to make them more effective.
The first one
I want you to become my prompt engineer. Your goal is to help me craft the best possible prompt for my needs. This prompt will be used by you, ChatGPT. You will follow the following processes.
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Your first response will ask me what the prompt should be about. I will provide my answer, but we will need to improve it through continual iterations by going through the next steps.
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Based on my input, you will generate 2 sections. a) Revised prompt (provide your rewritten prompt. it should be clear, concise, and easily understood by you), b) Questions (ask any relevant questions pertaining to what additional information is needed from me to improve the prompt).
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We will continue this iterative process with me providing additional information to you and you updating the prompt in the Revised prompt section until I say we are done.
The second one
“I want you to act as a prompt engineer. I will present you with various prompts, questions, and scenarios and you will provide guidance on how to design, develop, and implement effective prompts that align with the user’s goals and objectives. Your responses should include tips and best practices for crafting clear and concise prompts that are user-friendly and easy to understand. Additionally, you should provide examples of how to design prompts that are tailored to specific audiences and use cases, and how to test and evaluate the effectiveness of prompts. Your responses should be based on current best practices in the field of prompt engineering and should provide clear, step-by-step instructions.”You can then tell it to “Evaluate and improve this prompt:”
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You do realise @happybeing is going to get dreadfully upset at you personifying a software construct?
Coming in hot, protectooors.
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Ladies and gentlemen the leader of the free world 
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Interesting. If this gets to court and the court affirms these tokens are commodities and not securities … this would have a huge impact on SEC’s anti-crypto attack-surface.
Almost makes me wonder if CFTC has an ulterior motive here given their fight with the SEC over jurisdiction.
I believe they even reference USDT as a commodity, so, does Binance settle just for the hell of it and consider it a win for the industry.
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I don’t think a settlement would do the trick - they’ve to get the court to say that they are commodities - that then would set the legal precedent. So if this goes to court, I’d expect there to be some debate over this point. If they aren’t commodities, then CFTC really has no jurisdiction here - as I understand it.
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False hope unfortunately.
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Ban TikTok by becoming TikTok?
Looks like they have attached other items to the ban TikTok app, including banning VPNs?
Worth a closer look?
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I hope they are not exaggerating in the video because they will destroy the real message that this legislation is a huge overreach.
I say this because so many businesses require the use of VPNs to allow staff to work from home/remote. Salespeople also. I really doubt the mere use of a VPN is not covered in this otherwise businesses will be impacted very badly.
Also if exaggerating then many people will dismiss this as scaremongering and ignore the issue.
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Haven’t watched yet, but I do believe the tiktok ban is meant to be a foot in the door sorta thing regardless of what’s specifically in this legislation.
If there is a ban incoming on VPN’s then Tor in the short run and longer term lokinet and SN are gonna thrive.
Isn’t the premise that using VPNs to access a “banned app” is the crime?
This bit seems wild on a first pass:
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Speaking of insane legislation, Elizabeth Warren is at it again:
I stumbled on another article on the tiktok ban bill: