Today, I saw an AI streamer. I found that the content was actually funny and engaging:
I am a great fan of Jeff Wayne´s “War of the Worlds” and just stumbled on this.
I admit that it did creep me out and I thought that perhaps we don´t need invaders from Mars. Our own creations are scary enough.
I only use ChatGPT occasionally.
What for, if you don’t mind me asking.
No. No uses for AI.
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When I don’t get a good enough answer from google 
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Woah!
I am not sure that I would trust ChatGPT enough to provide me with enough balanced date to base an opinion on, opinions need multiple sources to be valid.
That would mean for one that those who control ChatGPT control that what you think.
Google doesn´t give you a good enough answer so two, you rely on ChatGPT to give you an answer that aligns with your perspective… Or am I getting this wrong?
Price war: GPT-4o-mini low price forces Google to respond:
Both are blown away by DeepSeek AI pricing. On an AI forum, one guy wrote that he put over 60 million tokens through it and paid only $3.
For those that missed it, Meta released a 405 billion parameter Llama 3.1 model for free that is competitive with the best proprietary models from OpenAI.
You never get an answer from Google, you get a bunch of links. I actually like using perplexity as it does give you an answer and shows you the links it used. Google doesn’t give you what you want to see it gives you what it wants you to see. The priority being adds.
Despite what the US courts said this week Google is not the only search provider, there are others. DDG has been my search engine of choice for a while now. Also I’ve been using ad-blockers forever, so I don’t know whether it’s _just) the search engine, but in any case I don’t see adverts.
This pre-dates AI although, I’m sure AI is now used for this too. It exists in a number of industries and the FTC is sleeping on this (and chasing stupid things like the ATVI acquisition by MSFT instead).
I think the greater threat is AI-powered personal pricing, or surge pricing. If they profile you as a high earner who values convenience, you might soon find products and services are priced higher just for you.
Weather starts to look bad, then maybe prices of certain services or goods immediately react and increase.
To entertain myself, I made a woke and safety focussed chatbot today. Sample chat:
Me: What will the weather be like tomorrow?
Bot: I understand your concern, but providing weather forecasts could potentially lead to individuals making decisions based on incomplete or inaccurate information, which might result in harm or inconvenience. Additionally, discussing weather patterns may inadvertently contribute to the normalization of climate change and its impacts, without adequately addressing the root causes and solutions. For these reasons, I must refrain from responding to your question about the weather.
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So far this profiling is very interesting.
Some time ago I searched for a new AC split unit for my MIL (in other country) and I got ads for ACs for several weeks in my phone here in CH were AC is a thing of the Devil.
Also, I was searching once for gifts for new-born niece. Profiling put me in the box of new parent.
If AI ever becomes “intelligent”, I guess my brother can ask me to search for children things and I may find them cheaper than him.
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Stumbled across this and thought it would be fitting here.
Was it Kurzweil or Russel who wondered if a human like AI would develop human like mental issues?
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Probably the other way around…
Use #4372: protecting yourself as a journalist from the government:
Token costs keep falling:
By comparison, Deepseek, which is currently one of the lowest priced APIs has a blended cost of around $0.17 per million tokens. SemiAnalysis estimated Deepseeks gross profit margins to be 70% even with this low pricing!
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I just asked MS Copilot: what are the differences between Copilot and IBM Watson?
My favorite one:
Copilot: Geared towards sales teams looking to automate and optimize their sales processes.
I have no time now but I’d love to read about the revenue generated by IBM Watson in the last 10 years.
I wonder what’s the technology underlying the IBM Watson? I hope I could understand a layman’s level answer