Virginia’s Rocky Road to Green: Navigating the Haze of Marijuana Legalization
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26 responses to “Virginia’s Rocky Road to Green: Navigating the Haze of Marijuana Legalization”
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I’m impressed. Now I wonder if a similar thing could be done with posts written by Hans or Kerry, etc or could those not be so easily duplicated? 😉
To be clear, could you task ChatGPT with the arguments used by Hans to see if you could get a Hans-type blog post?
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Well done!
Now, can you teach ChatGPT the phrase “Imperial Clown Show in Richmond” and the shortened version, “Imperial Clown Show”?
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ChatGPT has a program where you can create specialized versions of the ChatGPT product. You basically feed specific information into the base ChatGPT and enquiries against that specialized ChatGPT instance provide much more specific output about the subject in question.
I have thought about feeding all the Virginia laws, Bacons Rebellion posts, Virginia Mercury articles, etc in and making a CommonwealthGPT.
That would mandate “The Imperial Clown Show in Richmond™” label being extensively used.
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I would think that might make a nice one-a-week or once-a-month “feature”.
Take a post from JAB, preferably a culture-war thingy or perhaps a UVA rant and see how close you can get with a CHAT GPT version.
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And once it takes off, and you’re getting paid $0.25 per use, you’d have a nice additional income stream. 😉
By the way, I owe you 50 cents for my previous comment. Don’t let me forget that if we ever meet in person…
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Far out, Dude.
Thhhffffffffftt!
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Based on the success of San Francisco, Austin, Portland, Seattle, and Denver, decriminalizing Pot is a great way to increase the homeless population of a city.
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But, it has a traffic calming effect.
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so we should do away with all that “less govt”, “more freedom” stuff?
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Oklahoma legalized recreational pot some time ago.
It’s coming, Bob.
Even to Texas.
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well, not when it is a super-easy way to get some people into jail.
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The first thing that caught my attention was that Mr. DJ was writing this. I noticed posted by at the top. As I read, I could not hear the writer’s voice. No tone. No texture to the diction. It read like a plagiarized high school essay. And then I reach the bottom and say Ahah! Afterschool detention for you Mr. DJ. On the surface AI seems impressive. But to a discerning eye it is unimaginative and does not hold my attention.
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I didn’t have the time to feed the model a few of my old blog posts to see if it could replicate my (somewhat bizarre) writing style.
Maybe next time.
Bill Gates Says AI Is the Most Revolutionary Technology in Decades. ‘Entire industries will reorient around it,’ the Microsoft co-founder says.
Bill is right, Mr Whitehead.
There’s no putting the toothpaste back in the tube from here.
As for the detention … as long as I have my Mac, WiFi and access to various large language models – not much of a punishment.
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Bill Gates!? The man who said society should start eating bugs. He is not your 1980s Bill Gates anymore. I hope you like chalk!
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I don’t consider your “style” to be bizarre at all. Not to say, that some others here are not!
Dead-on correct about the tooth-paste despite a number of folks who say it needs to be “outlawed” or “regulated”, etc.
It’s here. It’s not going away. We need to deal with it.
And I love the idea of a ChatGPT that ascertains facts and truth!
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And I love the idea of a ChatGPT that ascertains facts and truth!
I suspect you’d change your mind about that if it actually happened, but ChatGPT (or any AI system) can only “ascertain facts and truth” from what is programmed into it. If you “teach” it lies, or even just your version of “the truth”, then that is what it will base its responses on.
The old “garbage in, garbage out” adage applies to AI, just as it does with any computer programming.
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Do you understand how CharGPT actually works?
The data itself is not programmed into it.
It is programmed to search available electronic records from which it attempts to determine what are facts and what are not and right now, they are not yet at the point where they can do that infallibly and so they can and do actually spread misinformation at times.
If they cannot get better, they will not be reliable tools.
Think in terms, for instance, of AI/ChatGPT being used by a doctor for diagnosis or a ship navigating a storm, or any situation where real-time events are in play.
Finding out/knowing/being able to assess what is real or not or potentially so is central to whether it will be a reliable tool or not.
Chatbots can and are being programmed to be tighter and tighter on what information to accept as real and true or not. They’re going to get better and better at that.
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Very interesting, and while a little underwhelming, it is a lot better result than many of the AI efforts that have been in the news recently.
“The journey of marijuana decriminalization and legalization in Virginia is a saga marked by halting progress, legislative inertia, and moments of enlightened reform,”
From the lede it seems the chatbot is describing the GA as getting stoned and missing it interspersed with occasional exclamations of “Cosmic!” and frenetic activity. AI with a sense of irony and humor?
The graphic is pretty good and reflects how Virginia has looked for a long time. Except, no bud on the Eastern Shore or in Tidewater? Seems unlikely. 🙂
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In my prompt, I specifically asked for a response that highlighted the General Assembly’s incompetence.
I should have asked for a response that would have been created by a stoned person!
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Do it! I’ll stay tuned 🙂 We ought to have some fun with AI before it figures out we’re all high maintenance surplus and things get ugly.
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I predict an app hitting the market within the decade that will combine the knowledge repository of the internet with psychology and AI. You will access your smartphone camera, point it at a speaker and it will fact-check their statements, perform a polygraph based on facial muscle ticks, eye movements, etc., and let you know in realtime whether you are being informed, misinformed, or flat out lied to. I also predict nuclear annihilation within a month of its release.
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for blogs too? 🙂
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Absolutely. You open the blog in the app, and the page lights up in red, yellow, and green text.
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I watched every episode of “House”. It improved my rapport with my doctor. I stopped lying about the embarrassing parts.
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As I started reading the piece, my reaction was, “Oh, my, Rippert is slipping. He’s usually much better than this.” I was relieved to find out that the marijuana editorial was AI-generated.
AI is not well suited to punditry, at least not yet. Our (non-paying) jobs are safe for now.
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