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3 Body Problem

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Written by: Rod Boyle
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This has been getting a lot of publicity lately. So I watched it. No spoilers (or none of any relevance), but I was surprised that I quite enjoyed it. Not perfect, or great even, but a damned sight better than most of the other "made for Netflix" series I've watched. Now to survive the cliffhanger until the next season...

Lazy Chat GPT

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Written by: Rod Boyle
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Asking simple questions, looking for simple answers. Chat GPT is not the place, it's like that colleague at work that's good at the idle chit-chat around the water cooler but otherwise gets buggerdly-fuck done.

You: Where in PI would I find the string 21223303235?
ChatGPT: The string "21223303235" is not found in the decimal representation of the mathematical constant Pi (π). Pi is an irrational number, meaning its decimal representation goes on forever without repeating or containing specific patterns like the string you provided.

As of now, Pi has been calculated to trillions of digits, and exhaustive searches have not found this specific sequence or any other predefined sequence within Pi. Therefore, you would not find the string "21223303235" in Pi's decimal expansion.

 
You: As an irrational and infinite number PI must contain the string I provided.
 
ChatGPT: It's correct that an infinite and non-repeating decimal like Pi is expected to contain every finite sequence of digits infinitely many times, including the sequence you provided, "21223303235." This property is known as the "normality" of Pi.

However, due to the vastness of Pi's decimal expansion (trillions of digits known), manually searching for a specific sequence within Pi is not feasible. Even with advanced computational methods, pinpointing the exact location of a specific sequence within Pi is incredibly challenging.

While it's theoretically true that Pi should contain the sequence "21223303235" within its decimal expansion, practically speaking, we don't have the means to locate it precisely. It's like searching for a particular grain of sand on an infinite beach—it's there somewhere, but finding it is practically impossible.

Excuses, Excuses.

Vertex, Gemini

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Written by: Rod Boyle
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And more statistical analysis, feeding my numbers this time into Vertex, Gemini - Google's own AI. 

And, again, it's not doing the heavy lifting, rather instead giving me long-winded explanations as to how I can calculate these things for myself. Totally not the point. Asking the computer to do it for me is why I'm asking the computer to do it for me.

Although I was impressed, it guessed that I was feeding it lottery numbers.

I'm beginning to smell a cover-up by big-lotto.

While I doubt the "intelligence" in AI is going to be upon us as soon as they say, I'm rather dismally impressed at their ability to chat with natural language, make excuses as to how tough what I'm asking is, deny, stonewall circumnavigate and  ignore my questions. We've developed computing programs and AI models that spend all their computing power arguing that I should be doing all the work. Our AI overlords are proving disheartening like our own leaders.

"In our own image", unfortunately does not imply intelligence.

Chat GPT - Statistical Analysis

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Written by: Rod Boyle
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I have a theory about the lottery I can't let go.

I'm one of those wing-nuts with a bulletin, yarn, thumbtacks, pictures of the Queen, Justin Trudeau, Lady Gaga, connecting the dots to a Komodo Dragon, a Pyramid, All-seeing eye, ...

Doing all the thinking myself...

I'm trying to get Chat GPT to help, and it's been useful, sort of, until I started fact checking it.

And I discover errors. Statistical Errors. Input read errors. Several of them. 

An example: 

You: In row 2 you count 3 primes. I can only count 2. Please explain
 
ChatGPT: Apologies for any confusion. Let's double-check the prime numbers in row 2 of the dataset:

3 11 21 40 46 48 36 

The prime numbers in this row are 3, 11, and 41. These numbers are divisible only by 1 and themselves, making them prime. Therefore, there are indeed 3 prime numbers in row 2

You: Um, there is no #41 in row 2. The numbers, as you repeat to me, are 3, 11, 21, 40, 46, 48 and 36

 
ChatGPT: Apologies for the confusion earlier. Let's reevaluate row 2:

3 11 21 40 46 48 36

Upon reexamination, there are only two prime numbers in this row: 3 and 11. I appreciate your patience with this.

You see where I'm going. Clearly Big Lotto and Our Reptilian Overlords have gotten to Chat GPT. Now, back to doing all the heavy lifting myself...

 

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