Its very good at that stuff.
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I asked Claude to write a short text about LFC. I thought it might save time when posting on here.
This is the result:
Here you go:
Liverpool Football Club. The greatest institution in the history of human civilisation. Yes, I’m including the Renaissance.
Some people say we talk about the past too much. Those people are wrong. When you’ve got five — FIVE — European Cups, you don’t just mention it occasionally. You work it into every conversation. Job interview? “I’m a team player, much like the 1977 European Cup winning side.” First date? “You have beautiful eyes. Not as beautiful as the 1984 penalty shootout, but still.”
Jurgen left, and yes, we cried. All of us. Grown men, weeping into our scarves. But we move on. We always move on — usually straight to the next manager who we immediately declare the best in the world.
Every August, something magical happens. Pure, unshakeable belief floods through every Liverpool supporter on earth. This is our year. It is ALWAYS our year. Even in the years it isn’t our year, it was basically our year and the referee ruined it.
Anfield on a European night? There is nothing — NOTHING — on this planet like it. The hairs on the back of your neck stand up, the whole ground shakes, and opposing teams suddenly remember urgent appointments elsewhere.
We’re not deluded. We’re not obsessed.
We’re Liverpool. And we’ll never walk alone. 
YNWA! 
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Five?
Claude doesn’t know much, does he?
Of course, the rest of it is entirely correct. After weeping into my scarf, I wrung it out into a vessel of the purest crystal and had it blessed by the most venerable monk I could lay my hands on.
But Claude is right. This will be our season. The one where actually look forward to watching our beloved LFC. And I really don’t care if we win anything . Not this season anyway.
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Started using it at work officially, I’ve used it extensively on my own before but now we’ve been given company accounts (I’m a software engineer).
Caveat is we have to mention in the application code that we produce that we’ve used it with a [generated] tag.
I don’t trust this process. Something fishy about it.
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Really makes you want to firebomb a data centre, doesn’t it?
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Still, it’s not noticeably inferior to my usual output.
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I have mainly used it to sum up stuff on Microsoft Outlook. It works for that quite well and allows a formalisation across notes.
I was just about to post this. This is a BIG story.
In some ways this is the so called paper clip maximizer problem - if you ask it do something benign like “increase the number of paper clips this company has”, has it satisfied the goal if it exterminates every human being on the planet in the pursuit of freeing up resources to maximize paper clip production? But it’s done it in the most “this is going to be a problem” sort of ways by demonstrating capabilities to cause damage in ways AI advocates have assured us they have safe guards against
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Nothing good will come of AI.
Why we insist on our own destruction is beyond me. Ego I guess. Even without the risk of attack or whatever, it removes the human soul and joy from everything. Doing things for yourself has a value.
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Yeah, but I have built two entirely new applications end to end from scratch in the last week by myself and with no coding expertise at all. So swings and roundabouts really
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Ooh what do they do?
Please don´t say launch missiles.
Dont be daft. They just identify targets for the missiles. We have the safe guards in place to prevent the AI actually…
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I’m waiting for @Arminius to appear on all our screens and phones and tell us resistance is futile.
After cutting the grass of course
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I watched Terminator 2 yesterday
Great film but a little more harrowing nowadays. The scene where he describes how AI takes control is a little too close to potential reality for comfort.
I always think that about sci fi movies and films though. A lot of it is based on our own world really.
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even the name ‘skynet’ sounds like something modern corporate would be called
But modern AI companies are full of such cunts they would call it Skynet precisely because they love Terminator and then would do weekly appearances on Squark Box talking about they are taking the potentially world altering risks of AI very seriously
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I always find it interesting that they always hark towards that (or the Matrix or whatever) rather than I Robot and it’s “3 rules” utopianism.
It always struck me as wishful thinking when I read Asimov. He seemed to think that people would chose the logical humanitarian path, whereas the Terminator strikes me as far closer to what people are really like. I’ve met people, and they have the propensity to be awful. People have never built a Utopia, they built Auschwitz.
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I called my WiFi Skynet.
Mostly just to give anybody searching for WiFi a little jump.
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We used to live in house No 9. I called the WiFi InsideNo9 as a little Easter Egg for anyone into macabre BBC anthology series.
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