OpenAI is reportedly planning to launch its own AI-powered browser in the coming weeks. How, I wondered, would it differ from traditional browsers? As I so often do these days, I went to ChatGPT for an answer. You can read the full thread here but let me see if I can hit a few of the high points.
You’ll be able to chat directly with the browser, much like using ChatGPT. Ask a question or give a command and it interacts on your behalf—summarizing information, fetching answers, and even completing tasks—all within the chat interface. Filling forms, booking flights or making reservations, for example. Continue reading →
I can’t remember ever having seen a scene in a TV or a movie where one of the characters is drinking from a coffee cup that it isn’t completely obvious that that cup is empty wondering why the producers directors the people making this series or movie wouldn’t wanna have something in the cup Once again, ChatGPT has the answer.
ChatGPT: That’s one of those little things that, once you notice it, you can’t unsee it — the infamous empty coffee cup acting. There are a few reasons it happens, even though it definitely breaks the illusion: Continue reading →
Steve: I rarely see anyone under the age of 30 without a tattoo. Could be any number of reasons for this: location; my age; etc. Wasn’t that long ago that you didn’t see that many people with tattoos. Bikers, Navy vets, the occasional free spirit. But sometime in the last 15 years (?) I started seeing them everywhere. I’m wondering if there has been some reputable academic research on the cultural causes/significance of this trend.
ChatGPT: The explosion of tattoo culture in the past 15–20 years is a striking cultural shift. It went from fringe to mainstream with remarkable speed. What was once associated with bikers, sailors, punks, and rebels has become almost a rite of passage for a lot of younger people, and yes, there’s been a fair amount of serious academic and sociological attention paid to the phenomenon. Here’s a summary (PDF) of what that research tends to say, along with a few respected sources.
Editors Note: Following description by ChatGPT. Screencast below is a brief look at my BookBuddy collection.
BookBuddy Pro is a mobile app for cataloging personal book collections, designed primarily for iPhone and iPad users. Developed by Kimico Ltd., it offers a clean, intuitive interface and a powerful feature set tailored to readers who want to organize their libraries without the noise of social features or community input.Continue reading →
Editor’s Note: In the two years I’ve been playing with AI I’ve shared what I thought were some of the more interesting “conversations”, always being careful to distinguish something I wrote from AI output. ChatGPT frequently offers to compose a blog post and the drafts are as well written (better?) than mine. But they’re not mine. ChatGPT wrote (or plagiarized ) the following.
MovieLens is a free, non-commercial movie recommendation website developed by the GroupLens research lab at the University of Minnesota. It’s designed to help users discover movies they’re likely to enjoy based on their individual tastes. The site uses collaborative filtering algorithms to generate personalized recommendations, improving as more ratings are added.
Getting started is simple: users rate movies they’ve already seen using a five-star scale. The more films you rate, the better the system becomes at understanding your preferences. MovieLens then offers tailored suggestions that can be filtered by genre, release decade, popularity, and more.
One of the key strengths of MovieLens is its clean, ad-free interface and its emphasis on transparency. It doesn’t promote content for profit, and it doesn’t track users for advertising purposes. The recommendations are driven purely by user data and academic research.
Users can view their own rating history, create custom movie lists, and explore trends or themes in their viewing habits. While it lacks the social features of some commercial services, its core focus is accuracy and simplicity in recommendation.
MovieLens is especially useful for cinephiles who want to keep a record of what they’ve seen and find new films aligned with their personal taste, without the influence of box office hype or crowd-sourced noise. It’s also a valuable tool for researchers and students studying recommendation systems, as its algorithm and structure have been used in numerous academic projects and publications.
I can’t remember ever having seen a scene in a TV or a movie where one of the characters is drinking from a coffee cup that it isn’t completely obvious that that cup is empty wondering why the producers directors the people making this series or movie wouldn’t wanna have something in the cup Once again, ChatGPT has the answer.