I’ve had so many conversations (I don’t know what else to call them) I’m starting to lose track. I’ve shared a lot of them here and those are categorized and tagged but I want an easy-to-scan index. I created one by hand but it was so long (and getting longer by the day) that it was difficult to use. The topics were so wide-ranging I struggled to group by subject/topic. ChatGPT had no problem. [PS: the emoji are too cute for my taste but ChatGPT likes them, so…]
Jump to a section:
- 🧠 Consciousness, Identity & Awareness
- 🛠 How AI Works (and Might Work)
- 🔍 AI & the Human Future
- 🎭 Conversations as Performance or Collaboration
- 🧪 Experiments, Curiosities & One-Offs
- 📚 Books, Reading & Media
- 🧬 Health, Tech, and Everyday Stuff
- 🌐 Meta / Blog Maintenance
🧠 Consciousness, Identity & Awareness
- Does ChatGPT know it “exists?”
- Is AI altering human consciousness?
- In what sense are my IRL interactions different than those I have with ChatGPT?
- Might the act of observing thoughts result in a “wave function collapse?
- AI like a “new lobe” for the brain.
- Is AI changing what it means to be human?
🛠 How AI Works (and Might Work)
- Does ChatGPT “read” books?
- How do LLMs arrive at the sources they cite?
- What is “enhanced memory?”
- Steve’s “source preference profile.”
- How would you train a human to be ethical?
- How might LLMs reshape the web?
🔍 AI & the Human Future
- Will future versions of ChatGPT have access to your past data?
- Today’s conversations shape tomorrow’s AIs
- AI’s can “read everything and listen like a friend.“
- Will ChatGPT tell you when you “are full of shit?”
- Can AI “fix” social media?
🎭 Conversations as Performance or Collaboration
- Getting acquainted with ChatGPT (assorted questions)
- What did ChatGPT “think” about one of my blog posts?
- Create a story about “the final blog post.”
- Saved “conversations.”
- What ChatGPT remembers about me.
🧪 Experiments, Curiosities & One-Offs
- Describe this image of my father.
- Make a list of the ten best crime fiction writers of the last fifteen years. (audio)
- Write a character description of each of the people in this photo as if they were in a Carl Hiaasen novel.
- “a 90-year-old man in the forest holding a big rock”
- Explain the appeal of Tik-Tok.
- Why are Olympic athletes wearing Apple AirPods during their interviews?
📚 Books, Reading & Media
- Audio books vs. “real” books.
- What can you tell me about myself based on my non-fiction reading?
- Which of the books in my library would you consider “post-apocalyptic”?
🧬 Health, Tech, and Everyday Stuff
- Will ChatGPT eventually be able to access health data from the fitness apps?
- The brain’s “bookmark trick”
- Difference between atheists and anti-theists.
- Origin of “It is what it is”?
- How did I do on my high school aptitude tests?