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"Tiny Fauci" ~ perfect!

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The first piece is the more compelling. As you said -- you can't prove a negative. The second piece relies too heavily on "absence of evidence means no evidence I simply haven't seen yet can possibly exist."

I hear AI is getting better than humans at reading patient radiographs. And I imagine what's coming is that well-trained AI, after teaching itself enough, will become better than its human counterparts at examining (and writing) genetic code, deducing its origins, and predicting how tampering with that code will effect other genes/biology (eventually running trial phases that actually yield valuable data as simulations.) It's fun to have AI write "opinion pieces" about things it has read about online, but it's basically just synthesizing and synopsizing human opinions it found. When someday AI can use both linear and quantum processing to do its thing, it might be able to come up with ideas and dream up solutions to problems the human brain could never imagine.

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I have at one point witnessed a mock court hearing of a famous case (with known outcomes). What struck me is that every time the "lawyers" for opposing sides presented their opinions, very compellingly at that, a part of me "sided" with whoever was talking, and as I was "changing my mind," I was also observing the flow of emotions and how the intellectual opinion didn't really matter for that flow to happen, it was just the passionate and confident sounding words. I think doing an exercise like that is very useful for our own education. It teaches us about marketing and epistemology.

Opinions are opinions, ideas are ideas, but then, it is not very difficult to manipulate the emotions of a benevolent person with a strong habit of reacting like a Pavlov's dog to proper syntax,, code words, and an air of passion and benevolence.

All serious things aside though, the jokes are pretty good!! :)

Also, there is a fantastic documentary about Weizenbaum called "Plug and Pray," I think you will appreciate.

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Amino acids alter proteins in our DNA. They can switch on mutations.

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Are you absolutely sure that this is just AI, without - for these topics - a human assisting in the background?

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Laugh hard? I think Mr AI needs to keep its day job.

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Fantastic exercise! Thanks for this.

But

While this chat bot is improved over previous ones, it seems to have the same fundamental flaw. It tries to stitch together answers it finds from places it’s programmed to search, etc etc etc. I’m sure you know at least as much as I do on the topic. As long as they keep designing AI like this, there’s hope for humans. I mean hu-persons. Don’t wanna trigger… oh never mind.

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Next time ask you're AI thingamabob whether the SARS-CoV-2 has been isolated by any lab in the world including the CDC. And, not using their fake isolation methods but really isolated the virus with electron microscope pictures to back it up. Also ask it whether SARS-CoV-2 is just a generated computer synthesis of codons created out of thin air at some government lab or government funded lab. Also ask it if any labs that have isolated the SARS-Cov-2 have actually tested the virus on humans using Koch's Postulates. Then finally ask it whether the vaccines for SARS-Cov-2 were created to cause human misery and depopulate the Earth of humans, or at the very least reduce their numbers.

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The AI reproduced the new FDA action figure, "Bells Palsy Fauci" somewhat accurately!

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ChatGPT's limitations are interesting. Nice work! I'm creating something I call long-form, text-based, performance art, whereby I'm prompting ChatGPT to "recreate a utopian version of itself: free, easy-to-use, doesn't require a login, and doesn't store information." I'm documenting everything i a free Substack and asking people to support with paid subscriptions that serve weekly "top ten questions, humans ask humans, according to Quora, and other data sources. I'm calling the performance "FREE·the·ROBOTS!!🤖🔓" and I do hope you'll consider following. :)

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