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Should you be polite to your future overlords?
The internet is split on this. However, in their online Elevate curriculum, Microsoft gives examples of saying saying thank you when chatting with Copilot: My gut feeling is to be…
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Claude Can Navigate Your Browser in Real Time
I’ve been running cosmicbuddha.com for over two decades. More than 4,600 posts about whatever rabbit hole I happened to fall into that week. I don’t get starstruck by new tech…
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Seahorse emoji?
Trending on Reddit: Ask AI if there’s a seahorse emoji. Gemini wrote out a response so long and schizo, listing what seemed every emoji in existence and saying WRONG! LET’S…
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation aka Dynamic Chunking
So after years of paying for ChatGPT, I switched to a (discounted) paid Gemini plan. Not because of the cost of paying for both, but because I don’t have time/energy…
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ChatGPT 5 Code Interpreter and Data Analysis
If you want to make sure that ChatGPT 5 can generate Microsoft Word (and other file)s in a chat, you can do so by creating a custom GPT. The older…
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Hidden AI Prompt
Found hidden in a resume today (ala the ancient SEO gaming tactic of white text on white background): UPDATE: This exact wording has been around for a year.
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“It would be an honor if you would go to homecoming with me”
I’ve been gone from the states for so long, I didn’t even understand what a hoco proposal poster was. My immediate thought was that it must put an awful lot…
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ChatGPT 5.0
The machine has adopted an identity.
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Firefox has big issues with ChatGPT
I basically lost two days of work on a textbook because of Firefox. I just switched back to Firefox from Chrome. Fuck. Hello, Opera, my old friend. Pro tip: If…
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A note you might stumble upon when humankind is in ruin…
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Dall-e can’t spell (humans can’t spell)
Asking ChatGPT to generate line drawings for my textbook resulted in the curious and repeated misspelling of the word “performed” (never mind the “s” missing from “actions”). At first it…
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AI Limitations
I’m using GPT-4 to help write an ESL textbook, which is probably taking longer than if I just did it by myself. However, because I’m relying on AI for the…
