How the world has changed. On Sunday mornings I used to have a Washington Post paper route. The papers I was delivering weighed more than I did. Then we all went to church, and when we got back everybody went for the paper. My father got the news, my brother usually beat me to the sports section, and I got the travel section. My mother made Sunday dinner.
Great experiment using ChatGPT. Go ‘Canes tomorrow night. I’ve known too many good guys who went there.
Boy did I love this one! The way I was brought back to walking down the alley to my childhood corner store who was owned by a lady named Jeanette to pick up a loaf of bread and a dusty can of corn so my mother could finish dinner was incredible. If I was lucky, I was given a nickel so I could peruse the candy case. I always got the same thing. I chose a sleeve of malted milk balls and I always ate them as I sauntered back home. Jeanette and her mother lived in a studio apartment above the tiny store and all too often when Jeanette was ringing me up, (all the while making forced small talk with a seven-year-old me), a small wooden slider would open with a dark mesh screen and Jeanette‘s mother would ask her a question about something. I could never see her face and I was so confused as to where this lady was and who she was. Funny because even at that age, I remember feeling like Jeanette never really liked me and somehow I was being judged. What you said about not necessarily remembering the physical detail details about something but remembering how people made you feel is all too real because even at 58 years old, I still remember that feeling. Years later, when I returned to St. Paul Minnesota to do a nostalgic tour of where I lived and went to school, I was shocked to see Jeanette‘s store long gone. She had been there over 30 years. I wondered what happened to her and her mother. Everything looked so different and yet it felt so familiar at the same time. Somehow, I could still taste the malted milk balls. Thank you Roy for yet again making us all think and ponder, but most of all feel.
Good stuff. I have mixed feelings about AI. On Facebook recently, an AI-produced piece wrote about Mickey Mantle. Like many others growing up in the sixties, I was a big Mantle fan and knew a ton about his background. The Al piece had wrong facts about The Mick and I responded accordingly. I got a reply back that I was correct. Was not impressed at all
Interesting topic. I just had a meeting discussing the benefits, value, concerns, use and “Trust but Verify” approach with AI and especially generative AI.
I call AI in its current form “Fools Gold”. It’s an amazingly powerful tool, but like with general search results, garbage in is garbage out. AI is only as valuable as the information it has access too. AI will give you the answer you want, but not necessarily the answer you seek or need to hear. Generative AI tries to think for you. You need to understand how to use AI. You need to ask it multiple times with different questions. You need to use multiple AI tools and compare them. You need to review the work. You need to understand why if you ask different AI tools the same question you get different answers. You need to understand that every AI has a bias. AI makes mistakes too. Letters and resumes created with AI are often too obvious.
Interestingly enough, as easy as it is to get information and answers today, as we have access to more information than any time in our history, people still won’t fact check anything on social media or anything in a newspaper or the media or anything somebody says. They just believe it. That’s what’s really sad and unfortunate. People like Walter Cronkite are long gone.
True story: I was a delegate at the first ever i7/G7 in Torino, Italy in 2017. We were formulating policy for G7 countries on the future of work, AI, and Big Data. Not sure any of them listened to us but I digress. The three groups worked on a policy statement and then coordinated to come up with one integrated policy statement on the topics. Unbeknownst to us, the organizers of the conference ran all the data they could through what are now primitive AI engines. They read both statements to us at the end. They were basically the same.
Please ask Chat who sang Indiana Wants Me. I forget. Im pretty sure I never had dinner with the artist. In any event if I were to invest the $4000 to get a seat at the Hard Rock tomorrow night I would not bet on the Caines to recover my investment in the ticket. And for what its worth you still do a better column than Chat.
interesting perspective on the potential of AI, but lacks the feeling of your writings,
can AI help my golf game???
No but your wife sure could!
How the world has changed. On Sunday mornings I used to have a Washington Post paper route. The papers I was delivering weighed more than I did. Then we all went to church, and when we got back everybody went for the paper. My father got the news, my brother usually beat me to the sports section, and I got the travel section. My mother made Sunday dinner.
Great experiment using ChatGPT. Go ‘Canes tomorrow night. I’ve known too many good guys who went there.
Thanks Geo. So many great memories of the way things were.
Boy did I love this one! The way I was brought back to walking down the alley to my childhood corner store who was owned by a lady named Jeanette to pick up a loaf of bread and a dusty can of corn so my mother could finish dinner was incredible. If I was lucky, I was given a nickel so I could peruse the candy case. I always got the same thing. I chose a sleeve of malted milk balls and I always ate them as I sauntered back home. Jeanette and her mother lived in a studio apartment above the tiny store and all too often when Jeanette was ringing me up, (all the while making forced small talk with a seven-year-old me), a small wooden slider would open with a dark mesh screen and Jeanette‘s mother would ask her a question about something. I could never see her face and I was so confused as to where this lady was and who she was. Funny because even at that age, I remember feeling like Jeanette never really liked me and somehow I was being judged. What you said about not necessarily remembering the physical detail details about something but remembering how people made you feel is all too real because even at 58 years old, I still remember that feeling. Years later, when I returned to St. Paul Minnesota to do a nostalgic tour of where I lived and went to school, I was shocked to see Jeanette‘s store long gone. She had been there over 30 years. I wondered what happened to her and her mother. Everything looked so different and yet it felt so familiar at the same time. Somehow, I could still taste the malted milk balls. Thank you Roy for yet again making us all think and ponder, but most of all feel.
Fantastic!
Good stuff. I have mixed feelings about AI. On Facebook recently, an AI-produced piece wrote about Mickey Mantle. Like many others growing up in the sixties, I was a big Mantle fan and knew a ton about his background. The Al piece had wrong facts about The Mick and I responded accordingly. I got a reply back that I was correct. Was not impressed at all
Interesting topic. I just had a meeting discussing the benefits, value, concerns, use and “Trust but Verify” approach with AI and especially generative AI.
I call AI in its current form “Fools Gold”. It’s an amazingly powerful tool, but like with general search results, garbage in is garbage out. AI is only as valuable as the information it has access too. AI will give you the answer you want, but not necessarily the answer you seek or need to hear. Generative AI tries to think for you. You need to understand how to use AI. You need to ask it multiple times with different questions. You need to use multiple AI tools and compare them. You need to review the work. You need to understand why if you ask different AI tools the same question you get different answers. You need to understand that every AI has a bias. AI makes mistakes too. Letters and resumes created with AI are often too obvious.
Interestingly enough, as easy as it is to get information and answers today, as we have access to more information than any time in our history, people still won’t fact check anything on social media or anything in a newspaper or the media or anything somebody says. They just believe it. That’s what’s really sad and unfortunate. People like Walter Cronkite are long gone.
Go U. Make lots of money.
I don’t use AI. I think I have the A part. Not the I.
You write better than AI.
Miami has as much of a chance of beating Indiana as the NY Giants beating Buffalo in Super Bowl XXV.
Wait a second - they did!
Good luck.
True story: I was a delegate at the first ever i7/G7 in Torino, Italy in 2017. We were formulating policy for G7 countries on the future of work, AI, and Big Data. Not sure any of them listened to us but I digress. The three groups worked on a policy statement and then coordinated to come up with one integrated policy statement on the topics. Unbeknownst to us, the organizers of the conference ran all the data they could through what are now primitive AI engines. They read both statements to us at the end. They were basically the same.
As always enjoyed the column. I think the Canes have their hands full, but we will all find out soon enough.
Nearly made yourself redundant… but thankfully failed🤣🤣
Thanks Roy. I really enjoyed this week’s Morning Coffee. I live in the old days as much as possible. Good luck in wishes for Miami.
Please ask Chat who sang Indiana Wants Me. I forget. Im pretty sure I never had dinner with the artist. In any event if I were to invest the $4000 to get a seat at the Hard Rock tomorrow night I would not bet on the Caines to recover my investment in the ticket. And for what its worth you still do a better column than Chat.
Mike- I’m told the memory starts to fail upon aging. I am so for that. It was R. Dean Taylor and what a low blow!! Go Canes
Roy and Miami,
Good luck on Monday night. Who knew Indiana had a football team?
Beautifully said!