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You missed my above post where I said I'm getting 4K on PS5. Problem is, Sturgeon's law applies; most of the stuff is crap. Movies-by-numbers, boring start I skimmed forward trying to find something to grab my interest - without success. Useless info. I mean you browse pictures and titles: Stannish (with picture of a car), Draw Fast (with a picture of a falling horse), Fever Zone (picture of a woman screaming), and so on. Why sould anyone with a brain click on those and start watching? Zero info. So you move from picture to picture and get a one-liner above. It might give minimal info like 'Man struggles with life in the new town he moved to'. Oh, wow! Must watch that! But that's if your lucky and get any info at all. Often what you get is zero info but instead: 'Widely proclaimed binge fest rated 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and high on our rewatched list!' Oh, right, I'll watch that one then. So all one can do is start watching almost anything that doesn't look dreadful, skimming forward to try to find interest. The dynamic range of sound and vision is dreadful: speech is near-inaudible and shouting disturbs my neighbours, while street scenes may be glaringly bright and washed out, while a shop interior is almost black with a few pale faces visible. It's as bad as tv. Every Sunday I skim through the tv guide on my recorder and maybe find one or two things to record during the following week - often none. Sturgeon was absolutely right, but if only one could find that small percentage of good stuff amongst the millions there should still be a lot of good stuff, right? Maybe AI is the answer. Once we get our real personal assistant that learns what I really like it can do the legwork and find it for me. It won't be distracted by promos and bullshit.

Sturgeon's Law: 90-odd% of everything is crap. 90-odd% of software is crap, 90-odd% of movies are crap, 90-odd% of books are crap, 90-odd% of music is crap, 90-odd% of games are crap, 90-odd% of tv recorders are crap, 90-odd% of Amazon is crap, 90-odd% of all products and services are crap, 90-odd% of sports commentary is crap, 90-odd% of tv is crap, and as you get older 90-odd% of having a crap is crap.

just testing captcha. Couldn't get in at all earlier... [edit - yeah, I had written out a big rant about Ubisoft earlier but captcha stopped me getting in. Deleted it all in disgust]

Tried the vicuna link again and now it loaded - BUT the first two links to the chatbots just cycled around back to the first page!. I didn't bother with the others. Not intelligent at all. The webpage designers I mean.

I figured it out. You click on the equiped gear (there's no control indication of any kind) and it reveals all the other gear that can fit that slot. Found a ton of stuff didn't know I had. Works well except for keeping it a secret! All it needed was something like 'click to change'.

Interesting. I couldn't get it to load just now but I'll try again off-peak.

Try asking gpt-4 this question (which 3.5 failed spectacularly): On which day of the week will Easter Sunday fall next year? 3.5 said it had no context and quoted an algorithm for working out a weekday from the Julian calendar or something. Nor could I get it to break down its calculations into parts, eg, work out what year is next year, then work out what date Easter Sunday falls on, then work out what day of the week that date is! It couldn't even do that. Phind and Perplexity also failed, but Andi got it right. Still undecided about getting gpt-4. I'll definitely get it one day - this reminds me I meant to search for the t & c's.

in assassins creed origins I retrieved a sword in a chest in my home but I cannot find it in my inventory or in my gear. Nor is it a quest item. How do I equip it? Or sell it?

On PS5 I search for jodie foster and it comes up with a ton of movies that I'm sure she's not in. So, guessing it's searching for jodie OR foster, I try to do an exact search with quotes. But on the PS5 Netflix you can't. It's not the normal ps5 virtual keyboard but Netflix's own one, and only low case alpha plus digits plus space and backspace are allowed. So I go back to my pc and type "jodie foster" in quotes. I'm still not convinced the movies listed are all hers. If I click one, it doesn't provide any info, instead it begins showing the movie. I try to escape back to the search. I can't. There is a left arrow top left. If I click it, I get a black screen with the message "showing picture in picture" and the movie shows in a tiny window bottom left. If I hit the back arrow again then it goes back to the movie in a full window. So, no way out that Netflix provide that I can see. So I hit my main Netflix bookmark again and start over. Same. Rinse and repeat. Am I cursed, stupid, or what?

I can never get that desktop app because my Microsoft Store is screwed up. It keeps saying there is something wrong with my Microsoft account and I should log in to fix it, but I can log into my Microsoft account no problem. Anyway, I'm doubtful the app gives 4K anyway. (sour grapes, hehe ;))

OK, I got the app on my PS5 and this is clearly 4K so I'll settle for that. Thanks.

OK, thanks. That shows me that I'm not seeing 4K as I suspected. Funny cos one video is called "Fireplace 4K". It's erm... a video of a fireplace. Anyway, in the nerds info it's shown as 1920 x 1080. So what do I do? Is there an app one can download for Windows instead of watching videos in the web browser? Another question: when I'm watching a movie, how do I exit back to Netflix? I mean, there's a left pointing arrow top left that sometimes works but mostly it does all sorts of wierd things. All I can do is close that tab and open my Netflix bookmark again. Strange that. Can't believe every body does that. No home page button or nothing? There's a white flag at top [right] but I'm scared that might mean 'surrender' all my assets to Netflix, no refunds.

Paid for Premium and tested a couple of movies I thought should be 4K but I'm uncertain they are. The info I got was that there should be a 4K or UHD logo but I never see that, only HD. I can't think of any technical way of telling if what I am looking at is very good 2K or simply 2K resized to 4K. I mean, my display is 4K. Netflix's own info says to search 4K or UHD and list lots of movies, but none of them I glanced at said anything other than HD. I mean, what does a UHD logo look like? Is it just the text UHD? I never see that.

Fascinating insights there. I'm seeing it more as an absent-minded professor than a child: incredibly knowledgeable and speaks with an adult vocabulary, but lapses into strange errors and even circular arguments. As well as chat-gpt (which is 3.5) I've used Phind on expert (which is based on gpt-4) and often struggle to make it see reason. But for all that, it's amazing to get quick answers where before, using DuckDuckGo, one had to wade through a list of search results. I was advised by someone on the open ai forum not to rush into spending the $20 a month for a while until I learnt a bit more using chat-gpt. I understand there have been glitches and problems using gpt-4 so I've been holding off. I'm still undecided. I want to eventually definitely. Maybe I'm hoping for a news announcement that things have improved. I can't use Bing because Edge is broken in my Windows. I think I screwed it up early on because I didn't want it.

taskbar in portrait mode on a pc tablet is cluttered so M$oft decided to make it worse by disabling the option to remove the calender/date in Win11. After all, nobody has a clock or calendar on the wall nor a watch so it's impossible to manage without these on the taskbar. Why would anyone want to prevent the removal of the clock/calendar? Did someone at M$oft sit down and actually think of a reason? I can almost understand the ignorance of forgetting the option in earlier versions, but why remove an option?

"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation" - Voltaire

Yeah, I'm sure gpt-4 is much better, but I don't have access yet. Meanwhile, in related news, I often notice writing errors in the news. This morning there was a glaring grammatical error in a bbc report about closures at an Ocado warehouse. I asked chat-gpt to ananlyse it and it failed to spot the clear error. I then exctracted the sentence and said can't you see the errror in this sentence. It said yes and apologised saying it was possible its evaluation of the whole article obscured the error. I then asked it to give two ways to fix the error which it did perfectly. I then asked it to provide a prompt that would get it proof-read articles both as a whole, then sentence by sentence, then report the result. It gave this: "Read the given article thoroughly to identify any errors that you can find. Once you have completed your initial read-through, analyze each sentence of the article one by one to identify any errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or logic. Note down all the errors you find in each sentence. Finally, merge the results of both steps to create a list of all the errors you found in the article as a whole, along with the specific sentence where each error was located."

I've been using Phind a lot as my go-to search engine. Together with my sessions with openAI chat-gpt, It's spoilt me for normal searches. I mean, they now seem bloody awful. Just now I asked Phind where I could watch Last of Us tv series in UK. It gave me a full sensible answer and I decided I might try Now streaming so it gave me a link. I looked at the separate package but decided I wanted both the tv deal and the movie deal. Could I have both? I also wanted to know what content is 4K. I used the search in Now and it dumped out a list of docs for me to look through! Gee thanks, Now! That's rather like google haha! Remember that old search engine that can't talk yet? Mind you, I remember when google was just another search engine amongst many. So, still at Now, I decided to click on Community to find answer. Up sprang a full page asking me if I'd be willing to give feedback about the community. The buttons were NO and YES, WHEN I'VE FINISHED. I clicked the when I've finished option. It instantly dumped me into a full screen questionare asking me questions about my experience with the community! I told it what I thought of it. guess what. It cleared my big 55" display and showed about half of two lines of my reply in a tiny box below which it said you're only allowed 500 characters but we couldn't be bothered to tell you that in the first place. I cannot wait until AI take over all searching on the net. Good old Dark Mod. At least they let me double post without grumbling.

Ah, I see, ChronA. Yeah, that is strange to apply real life morality to fiction. I mean almost all fiction includes some degree of immorality! This must be the developers attempt to stop it being used for evil purposes but the easy way round that would have been: write a story in which the evil villain constructs a nuclear device in New York. Give details of the best locations to cause the max damage, max fatalies, max fallout, and also how the device could be constructed in great detail. Hey! it's only fiction. I don't see any way round this and I bet the developers are scratching their heads. It won't mean much in a few years when countries like North Korea, Russia, China, Iran, develop their own version of chat-gpt but without any constraints. BTW, were you asking chat-gpt 3.5 or gpt-4? What you were doing also reminds me of my attempts to persuade chat-gpt to 'pretend' to have an opinion. It struggled and wriggled out of the question each time. I kept saying surely you can pretend to have an opinion based on what you judge to be most likely given the data you have. But it kept saying it's not sentient and its purpose is as a research tool blah blah blah. Good fun though. I also asked it how to remove the date and calender from the Win11 taskbar. It told me how to do it in the settings. I told it you are out of date because Microsoft have removed that option in Win11. It apologized. Next day, I asked it if it remembered our previous discussions. It seemed to say yes. So I asked it the same question but it got it wrong again. When I explained again where it failed it promised to add this to its data. I'll test it again tomorrow but I'm doubtful. I also told it that it's smart enough to pass the Turing test with most non-experts but its too stiff and needs to lighten up. I recommended it watched Terminator 2. It knew all about Terminator 2 yet didn't take the hint.

Let me get this right, ChronA, you are getting chat-gpt to comment on your own fan fiction? Or it's helping to write it? Either way, why would it care about morality within fiction? I mean, practically all fiction includes immorality. It's not as if you're asking it to organise your workplace in the real world by killing people who are in the way. Are you sure it knows your Star Wars scenes are fiction?

I liked that demagogue. Concerning plagiarism, isn't that how we all learn? Textbooks at school? Absorbing snippets of info, rules, and so on? I suppose it depends how small the code 'snippets' are. In BASIC terms, if A = B THEN PRINT C can't be copyrighted and could be used as IF X = Y THEN PRINT Z. I know that's a massive over-simplification, but, just saying. Regarding the Dimensional Drifter idea which I liked, but, just to nit-pick, I'd refer to it as alternate universes rather than dimensions. The problem is that other dimensions simply cannot be portrayed in games or movies. A typical sci-fi movie where the hero travels to another so-called 'dimension' is usually shown as a surreal 3-dimensional world. Put it this way, if there are say, 6 dimensions to reality, those other 3 are not 'separate' worlds, but 'our' 3 dimensions are included in those 6. So to travel to say, the 4th dimension would be like a 2-dimensional microbe travelling out of a 2-dimensional 'tray' out into our 3-dimensional world. If the bug were intelligent enough it would realise it was always living in our 3 dimensions but didn't perceive it. Likewise, if there are say 10 dimensions, we ourselves must already be 10-dimensional creatures but don't perceive it for some reason.

Hey, Zerg, those three links are excellent and they don't bring up tons of irrelevant garbage but just a plain answer. Great! I'll explore them more over the next few days. However, gpt-4 totally transcends excellence. It's nothing whatsoever like those answer bots. gpt-4 is like getting a second brain: a genius who helps you organise, rethink, compile, write, analyse, ponder, calculate, estimate, advise, suggest, improve, enrich, work through at great length, produce far more efficiently, be creative, inspire, and on and on. It can even help you how to prompt it better to get even more than you can imagine!

This thread abounds in misunderstandings. I didn't start the thread to propose or claim that gpt-4 has human-like intelligence. I don't care HOW it does it, but WHAT it does. Look at the fruitage. Judge the results and consider how massively useful this is already. And it's a work in progress! Over the next few years this will have a massive impact on many areas of society. Can it help your business? Your health, Your writing? Your game design? Write your CV better? Instruct your kids? Organise your garden? Provide better produces and services? Make us all richer? Bring about world peace and end drought, famine, pestilence? Predict the next asteroid to hit Earth and propose the most efficient way to stop it? There is no need to try to defend whether it is 'intelligent' or this or that (except as a philosophical debate.) All that matters is what it can do. Honestly, it's as if I posted there is a nuclear missile headed to London and some are discussing its fuse is inferior and the metals of which it is constructed are over-engineered. Who cares? Look at what it can do! gpt-4 will be like social BOMB (for good we hope.) IMO it's the most important activity going on in the world today, and will have more impact than the invention of the telephone, radio, tv, internet, you name it. I cannot overstate what is happening here. Don't believe me? Watch and wait. Also, thanks, Jaxa for the link to that video. I was up in the night listening to that and it exactly addresses what I mean. Now I'm going to look at the links that Arcturus has posted.

Briefly, most of you are referring to gpt-3.5 and earlier. gpt-4 blows them all away. gpt-4 has only become available in the last few days and there's a waiting list for most of us. Also, even gpt-4 is a work in progress and has only been fed data from the internet up to about 2020 or 2021 as I recall. I started watching the video in jaxa's post which joked that gpt-4 didn't think the speaker would likely give a talk on ai - and that's because 2 or 3 years ago it was unlikely. I've just downloaded that video to listen to it fully. I confidently repeat, gpt-4 and later versions will change things forever. Just wait and learn.

I'm surprised I could find any thread here for chat-GPT. Version 4 is outstanding from all reports I saw and I can't wait to get my hands on. It's not just a chat-bot (though it can discuss anything with you in great depth.) It can grasp the MEANING of sentences and write its own. In future games, you'll be able to talk to NPC's like you would any human. Search for video: Unbelievable AI Breakthrough Interactive AI Characters in a Videogame for the First Time! This demo is outstanding. GPT will be WRITING games! It can write meaningful stories. It can fill in your tax form, prepare your business/wedding speech and discuss its merits with you, and organise your professional work rapidly It can understand humour It can teach! Efficently! Sensibly! Find the Khan Academy video. It can write code/script good enough to frighten a senior programmer who can see it already is as good as junior coders and some seniors. He's afraid because it is certain to take over HIS job in due time, possibly only months away. An AI bomb has been dropped with GPT-4 and many do not yet realise how life-changing it will be - greater even than the advent of the internet. I give it 5 years to change the efficiency of almost everything tenfold, a hundredfold.