Comment by Stratoscope

15 hours ago

From the blog post (twice):

> creative ideation

At first I had no idea what this meant! So I asked my friend Miss Chatty [1] and we had an interesting conversation about it:

https://chatgpt.com/share/697bf761-990c-8012-9dd1-6ca1d5cc34...

[1] You may know her as ChatGPT, but I figure all the other AIs have fun human-sounding names, so she deserves one too.

3 comments

Stratoscope

esposito 13 hours ago

I do find it interesting to see how people interact with AI as I think it is quite a personal preference. Is this how you use AI all the time? Do you appreciate the sycophancy, does it bother you, do you not notice it? From your question it seems you would prefer a blog post in plainer language, avoiding "marketing speak", but if a person spoke to me like Miss Chatty spoke to you I would be convinced I'm talking to a salesperson or marketing agent.

Stratoscope 9 hours ago

That is a great question!

You are absolutely right to ask about it!

(How did I do with channeling Miss Chatty's natural sycophancy?)

Anyway, I do use AI for other things, such as...

  • Coding (where I mostly use Claude)
  • General research
  • Looking up the California Vehicle Code about recording video while driving
  • Gift ideas for a young friend who is into astronomy (Team Pluto!)
  • Why "Realtor" is pronounced one way in the radio ads, another way by the general public
  • Tools and techniques for I18n and L10n
  • Identifying AI-generated text and photos (takes one to know one!)
  • Why spaghetti softens and is bendable when you first put it into the boiling water
  • Burma-Shave sign examples
  • Analytics plugins for Rails
  • Maritime right-of-way rules
  • The Uniform Code of Military Justice and the duty to disobey illegal orders
  • Why, in a practical sense, the Earth really once *was* flat
  • How de-alcoholized wine gets that way
  • California law on recording phone conversations
  • Why the toilet runs water every 20 minutes or so (when it shouldn't)
  • How guy wires got that name
  • Where the "he took too much LDS" scene from Star Trek IV was filmed
  • When did Tim Berners-Lee demo the World Wide Web at SLAC
  • What "ogr" means in "ogr2ogr"
  • Why my Kia EV6 ultrasonic sensors freaked out when I stopped behind a Lucid Air
  • The smartest dog breeds (in different ways of "smart")
  • The Sputnik 1 sighting in *October Sky*
  • Could I possibly be related to John White Geary?

And that's just from the last few weeks.

In other words, pretty much anything someone might interact with an AI - or a fellow human - about.

About the last one (John White Geary), that discussion started with my question about actresses in the "Pick a little, talk a little" song from The Music Man movie, and then went on to how John White Geary bridged the transition from Mexican to US rule, as did others like José Antonio Carrillo:

https://chatgpt.com/share/697c5f28-7c18-8012-96fc-219b7c6961...

If I could sum it all up, this is the kind of freewheeling conversation with ChatGPT and other AIs that I value.

qingcharles 13 hours ago

It's really an interesting insight into people's personalities. Far more than their Google search history. Which is why everyone wants their GPT chats burned to the ground after they die.