Andy, the continuity cohost, is joined this week by Michael M. The cohosts get things started with all things ChatGPT, which has been all over the news in the past few days. The concept of generating text that could then be fed into an image generator, which in turn may be used to create a virtual world experience in a project workflow. This could easily create a tailored, randomized and customized experience for the user, especially those that are expert in seeding the prompt for ChatGPT, and then in turn, the image generating software. In these early days, expertise in writing the proper prompt is highly valuable, much as is the expertise that Andy has developed in being expert in wielding search engines. Critical thinking and analysis of what is presented to validate the “truthiness” of generated text, images, worlds will be more and more important in the future. Michael and Andy muse on how there may be in the not too distant future bots / AI that can do such expert analysis.
The pair talk about a recent news story about an AI vision invisibility cloak. Going back to the archives, there was a Games At Work discussion about an invisibility cloak designed Duke University researchers — see the show notes for a link.
In a reversal of a previous board decision to allow the San Francisco police department to allow remote controlled robots to use deadly force, the city’s board of supervisors have voted against such use. Related to the San Francisco article is Daniel Suarez’s fictional novel Kill Decision, which has been discussed in several prior episodes — see the notes below for two of them. Incidentally, the notion of making yourself “invisible” to AI is also a subject in the novel.
Waze is in the news for a couple of reasons. Andy and Michael talk about Waze getting an in-car app in Renault vehicles and the further integration with the Google Maps team. They also remember the early days of the app when users competed to map new (to Waze) roads by “road munching”.
Winding up this episode, the cohosts touch on Dungeons of Daggorath and cyber security challenges in Vanuatu.
What would you have ChatGPT write/assemble for you? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz and let us know!
Selected Article Links
1) #GPTchat, dream me a city ✨
— Guy Parsons (@GuyP) December 5, 2022
2) #midjourney, take me there 🤩
This #AI stuff is the real multiverse. pic.twitter.com/o9MneR9EZe
TechCrunch article: UPDATED: It’s way too easy to trick Lensa AI into making NSFW images
Mashable article: People will ask ChatGPT anything
DoNotPay is building a chrome extension where you can specify something like “negotiate my Comcast bill down,” and it will use the Comcast online chat to lower your bill with GPT-3.
— Joshua Browder (@jbrowder1) December 6, 2022
Over time, Comcast will also use LLMs. So robots will just be negotiating with each other!
Wikipedia article: OpenAI
Ian Hughes’ novels Reconfigure and Cont3xt
Wikipedia article: Generative adversarial network
Games at Work e163 — Chat Me Maybe?
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM)
The Verge article: AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow
The Register article: Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as ‘substantially harmful’ for coding issues
Vice World News article: Chinese Students Invent Coat That Makes People Invisible to AI Security Cameras
DukeStories article: From Invisibility Cloaks to Satellite Communications
The Verge article: San Francisco reverses plans to allow police robots to kill suspects
Games at Work e250 — See Clearly Now
Games at Work e150 — Cyber Dementors
We had a lot of second life virtual campfires (often thanks to @timelessp gadgets with a chat interface to spawn them) in 2006. Looking forward to AI powered #metaverse just asking for what we need as per midjourney “a meeting around a campfire for 10 at sunset” but in 3d space.
The Verge article: Waze gets built-in car app for the first time
Gizmodo article: Google Is Combining Its Maps and Waze Teams Amid Cost-Cutting Pressure
Some time back I adapted the fantastic PC port of the classic #Tandy #CoCo game Dungeons of Daggorath to run online via #WebAssembly. To play it, point your browser (desktop or mobile) at:
NPR article: The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has been knocked offline for more than a month
Tuvalu, The First Digital Nation
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Such a fun episode, Michael & Andy! Loved your discussion on Life by You.