Just let anyone scrape it all for any reason. It’s science. Let it be free.

I find it weird that the article is written as if this is a bad thing. The ai is doing what it’s supposed to, what he asked, and he even admitted it was helpful to him. Why is this “dystopian”? The AI didn’t break up with him, cause him to be broken up with, say anything falsely, or do anything but present him a summary of what his real girlfriend actually wrote to him. What is wrong with that? I literally can’t see anything wrong with this. Is the mere fact that AI summarization exists dystopian? How so?

I have fond memories of it too. Granted, those memories involved being utterly confused as to how to proceed, but also being utterly astonished by the graphics. I distinctly remember it being basically photorealistic to my 9 year old self— going back to play it with an emulator was a bit of a shock (and letdown) compared to my memories of it.

I did beat it as an adult. As a kid I may lot have been able to get anywhere, but it was magical all the same.

Feels like they took the best ideas from Mario Maker, polished it up to a glowing shine, mixed in some great movement, threw in a metric fuckton of whimsy and joy, and overall made a great game.

I feel like I heard about this being in development from a quack book back in the later 90s (sound waves being used to destroy tumors, that is)… amazing to hear that it’s real, and works!

Let’s say they were organizing using telephones instead. Would you want the telephone providers to proactively listen in on their conversations and cut them off based on content? No. You get the police or FBI to investigate and hunt down the people, possibly with warrants obtaining information from the telephone companies, and target the people doing the crimes.

I feel it should be exactly the same with ISPs. The ISP shouldn’t be doing the policing, the police should be doing the policing. The ISP’s job should be passing bits from MAC address A to MAC address B, nothing more.

I mean, the author of this piece pretty concretely defined the term as he was using it. More to the point, it’s a pretty accurate article in showing things that ChatGPT can’t do, and it matches my use experience with a couple of tasks I wanted it to help me with.

Specifically, I wanted its help for making a conlang to my specifications. And I found that ChatGPT, even the paid version, could help me generate all kinds of grammatical rules and phonology and whatnot, but once we got all these rules together, it was utterly incapable of following said rules to generate text, or even example words, in the conlang we were developing. It was pretty infuriating to work with and I eventually gave up, although I could have(and probably should have) just taken the rules and run it through other purpose built programs for conlanging. But I was really hoping ChatGPT could have done it all with me.

It can’t. It can write rules, but it can’t follow rules. It really doesn’t know how.

Another thing it struggles with? Ask it to write a poem with specific form requirements. For the simplest example, try to get it to write blank verse— it will repeatedly insist on rhyming every last word, even though blank verse is defined as being unrhymed poetry. ChatGPT simply doesn’t know how to stop rhyming when writing poetry of any form.

Found it! It was 3D Ultra Pinball, by Sierra. Here’s a YouTube video of someone playing it… https://youtu.be/6DX08v5orsY

Anyone remember a pinball game for windows that had three tables and I think the ball could swap between them during play, and the theme was building a space colony on mars or some other planet? Sorry my description is vague, but I was like 8 years old when I played it. I definitely remember that the tables were wider than they were tall, unusual for a pinball game, as it was designed for the computer screen not an arcade.