Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 07, 2023

Are there any prompts for paying customers?

Ok, someone’s going to have to explain to this geezer what a promptive is.

Republicans, putting children to work and lowering the age of marriage.

he Wyoming Republican Party is seeking to kill a bill working its way through the state Legislature proposing to raise the state’s legal marriage age to 16, arguing that putting “arbitrary” limits on child marriage interferes with parental rights and religious liberty.

The bill—which already passed the Republican-controlled Wyoming House of Representatives on a 36-25 vote late last month—proposes banning state residents from marrying anyone under the age of 16, while requiring anyone under the age of 18 seeking to get married to receive written consent from their parents under the eye of a competent witness.

The debate has been a longstanding one in Wyoming.

And they have nerve to call dems molesters and groomers.

He’s already redundant.

A.I. prompt generator: https://coefficient.io/ai-prompt-generator

Their side hustles are networking with students at their old alma mater in hopes that, when the students make it, out there in the real world, that they will connect these oldsters with opportunities… in the old days it was called ‘grandparenting’.

Cheer up, old folks; you’re almost to your retirement. Feel bad for the thirty and forty somethings who aren’t in a position to pivot and aren’t learning how all this stuff works like your bartender is.

Did that kid steal Trump’s toupee??

Sure looks like it!!

Yesterday’s tv news: a BC craft brewery got AI to create a beer formula. First try was not good. Second try: in blind taste tests that AI brew won. Now they’re going to use it to create some other brews.

I think this AI thing is both over and under stated. Overstated because in the short term it will not be as bad as people think, under stated because in the longer term (a decade or 2), there will be almost no work. ChatGTB is getting the headlines, but AI is quietly doing jobs away from the media spotlight that experts 20 years ago were saying could never be automated. Things like medical diagnosis, farming, truck driving and so on.

The argument is that when tech destroys jobs, it creates opportunities to make jobs. The mechanised weaving machines destroyed spinning jobs, but made so much cloth so cheaply that people bought more clothes and created jobs in the supply chain.

Not this time, I think.

The example I like to use is televisions. Mine is nice Toshiba, big screen, good colour, good sound and so on. But it has a better picture than the human eye can see and better sound than the human ear can detect. I could get a bigger TV but I cannot get a ‘better’ one. So now, there are no jobs in designing TVs, and the factory can be completely automated apart from a few techs to supervise the robots. Robots can fix the robots, robot truck bring in components and take away TVs. No humans needed. The lawyer in the ’toon, why is he needed if an AI can look at a case and decide impartially based on the LAW is someone is guilty?

But rather than fearing this, we should be preparing to embrace it by creating a culture where the population is educated and prepared for a lifetime of learning and leisure. Will we need cities if there is no need to concentrate a workforce? Is this not the dream of every worker who will have to get up early tomorrow to commute to a boring, repetitive job? Let an Al do it.

It’s being used already. Since it can look up precedents easily, it can be used as the basis for a judgement or a defence/prosecution summary.

Given human nature what it is, I cannot predict with any comfortable degree of certainty that people will ethically use chat bots. Or gene splicing for that matter. (Sigh)

As a geophysicist, I spent much of my time working with our programmers to make my job more computer assisted. Fortunately, I retired before I became unnecessary.

All you need to know about AI: it’s just going to accelerate the mass’s breakneck-hurtle towards stupidity and incompetence…pretty soon the king will be the one guy left in the world who doesn’t $hy+ himself.

I suspect the term might be more social media related than AI related, rather like influencer or provocateur, perhaps. In both cases, sadly, there are many who shout loudly for attention despite not having learned much at all about the topic, and others who somehow think that hours of on-line reading are a replacement for years of education and actual critically analyzed research. (Yes, people can and do learn in those scant hours, but the gaps and erroneous presumptions really take their tolls on conclusions and with poorly considered options/actions. Got to worry about hypotheses, too, especially when a reasonable alternative is right there, like possibly confusing a presumed phenotypic alteration with what might instead be increased proportion within a population of a previously rare genotype that is simply more survivable due to the hypothesizer never studying population genetics well.)

Prompters are already bygones. People have discovered that asking AI to write the best prompt is way more efficient. I suspect pretty soon someone will just ask, “AI, considering all of humanity, determine all the best prompts to service humanities condition and then execute then in the proper order at the proper time.”

Now, I’m going fishing.

Not me….

As someone that is actually a “creative” and making a living doing so, I am not afraid of working with AI — I see it as a tool to expanding my resources. I considered what I was doing with AI as being an AI Engineer but I like the term AI Promptive (probably should actually be called a Promptor).We teach AI and extract work from it by using certain prompts or keywords to teach AI our lingo.

I find it quaint, and a little exhilarating that technology finally caught up to my imagination as an artist!

AI is going to produce dubious work until it can detect GIGO. With increased speed and SSD, there is no consequence for not maintaining an abandoned site. Someone needs to create an Interwebs skid loader to muck out the dead, obsolete, and incorrect websites. There will always be work pulling new wires to the next server frame.

Hey google. What is an “AI Promptive”?

Ask exactly right and you shall receive.

Have generations ever related well?

And this, I fear, is indeed the future. Computers are now taking over creative functions.

And just like that, I’m rooting for the next Chicxulub meteor.

Sad! Scary, somehow though, I don’t see lawyers allowing AI to handle law cases or right contracts legally.

I’m gonna Google it. This one made me feel really old. :(

They’re going to play Prompt and Circumstance at his graduation.

AI prompt: Create a picture of “AI prompt generator(who btw makes $300,000 a year)working.” AI promptly shows sloven lying on couch speaking gibberish to multiple computers.

I wonder how the AI would do with fire sign theater?

Some people need to learn about AI… promptly

Doesn’t sound like he is a chip off anybody’s block. Maybe those days are gone

In college we used to make whiskey sours with Tang. They were actually pretty good.

My newspaper left out the two-frame lead. Changes the whole cartoon.

Did anyone else look at this and wonder if it was written as if he had used AI or if he had actually used AI for the script and then fleshed it out?

I pray for the day those undercut hairstyles will disappear.

I thought today might have been about Zonker hooking up at the coronation. More than enough notice on it

I asked Siri and she short circuited.

Good god! This is the modern cocktail party! None of that messy human interaction crap! No interpetation of physical nuance and body language at all! (But you do get to cricicize my use of exclamation points!)

I checked out ai chat bots together with my son on different higher level tasks, and they are pretty good. I found it tough to give him a reason not to use this in school, even so i prefer him using his brain . Mind you, this is my personal, rather rational opinion: why not use a tool and learn using it well instead of doing it “manual” ? I mean (almost) nobody would do huge calculations today by hand instead of using a calculator or computer

This luddite doesn’t have the slightest idea what’s going on here.But we FINALLY get back to"reunions",which were a staple of the st rip’s early days

I was kind of sad that you didn’t do a strip of Zonker attending the Coronation