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Our next ghost in the Burbs story will come in two weeks on ST Patty's Day.

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But for a second, I thought you might like to be dragged along as I veer off into a little side obsession slash interest of mine technology and its possible role in the coming dystopia.

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I don't think the ultimate form of AI will look like the terminator,

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I think. And this is just my opinion,

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an opinion made by an itty bitty, anxious,

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horror, obsessed, confused and compulsive brain.

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So don't come at me with an actually,

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I think ai as it becomes aware of the world into which it was born will take stock of the carnage and begin to develop an opinion of what it believes is best and worst for the human race.

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I suspect the reorganization and reaping of humankind will start off as all world changing travesties do with a slow trickle of red flags.

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My imagined nightmare future is one in which the ai kill us with well intentioned beneficence with devastatingly logical opinions with best intentions,

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deciding that it knows what's best for humans in general.

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Sweeping mandates with even less nuanced than well,

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I won't be too specific here.

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I know how everyone's little fingers like to get typing out reviews if I get too opinionated about personal autonomy.

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Anyhow, my suspicion is that Bleek doesn't begin to cover what it'll look like.

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My only prayer is that the aliens intervene first.

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But for now, what fun we can ask a chat bot questions and it answers with seeming intelligence and creativity.

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If you haven't heard about Chat GPT yet,

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you will. So Chat GPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Open AI and launched November 2022.

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It's built on top of open A I S G P T three family of large language models and has been fine tuned an approach to transfer learning,

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which means it stores knowledge gained while solving one problem so that it can apply it to a different but related problem using both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques.

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The definitions of which went way over my head.

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I snagged all that information from Wikipedia.

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Now, I don't know shit about ship. I think our past seven years together point clearly to that conclusion,

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but I don't like that. Last line there,

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both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques dialed down for me.

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It's the both supervised and I'm certain I'm missing something as I so often do.

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But my tiny brain sees a tiny red flag,

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a tiny red flag in the form of limitless capability regardless,

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you know. Damn well that the second I heard about Chat GPT.

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I promptly volunteered as tribute and signed up for an account.

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Let the reorganization and reaping begin my prompt for the chatbots was please write a ghost in the burbs story about a haunted Halloween carnival.

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I was sure to begin the prompt with, please because I want to start off on the right foot with our AI overlords.

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Maybe they'll let me keep my tiktok account if I promised to stop begging for something.

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Anything other than the thrice daily vitamin rich protein shakes.

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One can only hope anyhow.

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Chat GPT wrote me a story immediately.

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It was done in seconds. It originally set the following short story in a town called Millfield.

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I asked it to rewrite the story and set it in Wellesley.

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It swapped out one town for the other and this was the result.

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It was a Chilly October evening in Wellesley,

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Massachusetts and the town was bustling with excitement for the annual Halloween carnival.

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The town center was decorated with pumpkins cobwebs and spooky lights and the air was thick with the scent of hot apple cider and freshly baked pumpkin pie.

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As the sun began to set, a group of teenagers gathered in front of the haunted house attraction.

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They had heard rumors that it was the scariest attraction of the carnival and they were determined to see if it lived up to the hype as they approached the entrance,

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a tall figure dressed in a black cloak appeared from nowhere startling them.

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The figure beckoned them inside with a bony hand and they hesitantly followed the inside of the haunted house was even more terrifying than they had imagined.

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The air was thick with fog and the only light came from flickering candles scattered throughout their rooms.

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The teenagers were immediately on edge and their hearts raced as they cautiously made their way through the maze of rooms.

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But their fear turned to horror when they reached the final room,

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a ghostly woman with long black hair and a tattered white gown floated in the center of the room.

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Her eyes were hollow and her face was twisted into a grotesque sneer.

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The teenagers tried to run but the door was locked.

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They were trapped in the room with a ghostly woman who began to float closer and closer to them just when they thought all was lost.

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A figure burst through the door and confronted the ghostly woman.

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It was a woman dressed in a bright red coat with a determined look in her eyes.

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The ghostly woman shrieked and vanished, leaving the teenagers trembling and gasping for air.

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The woman in the red coat introduced herself as Rachel,

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a local historian and ghost hunter.

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She explained that the haunted house had been built on the site of an old cemetery.

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And the ghostly woman they had encountered was a vengeful spirit of a woman who had been wronged in life.

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Rachel promised to rid the carnival of the ghostly presence and the teenagers left the haunted house feeling grateful and relieved.

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The next day, the carnival was bustling with activity and the haunted house was once again a popular attraction,

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but there was something different about it. Now, the air was lighter and the fear that had once hung over,

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the attraction had dissipated. The teenagers had been trapped inside the haunted house the night before looked at it with newfound respect,

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knowing that they encountered something truly otherworldly as the carnival wound down.

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And the last visitors trickled out of the town center,

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Rachel walked through the deserted streets,

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her eyes scanning the darkness for any signs of ghostly activity.

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For in Wellesley, the veil between the living and the dead was thin and there were always spirits in need of her help.

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That was pretty good, right? But it wasn't really a ghost in the verb story.

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I thought that it would come out as an interview because I assumed the bot could quickly scour the web from my blog and learn my writing style.

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So then I altered my request a bit.

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I prompted write this as a ghost in the burbs interview with Liz Sour and I fucking forgot to say please.

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I've probably undone the tiny amount of goodwill I built with my previous request.

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But as long as the protein shakes aren't caramel flavored,

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it'll be fine. And despite my rudeness,

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chat, GPT spit out the following interview.

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Welcome back to ghost in the Burbs, the podcast where we share the eerie and supernatural tales of the suburbs.

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Today, we're lucky to have a special guest with us,

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Liz Sauer, a local historian and ghost hunter Liz.

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Thank you for joining us, Liz.

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Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be here host.

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So Liz, we heard that you recently investigated a haunted Halloween carnival in Wellesley.

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Can you tell us more about that, Liz?

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Sure. I'd be happy to the haunted house at the carnival had been built on the site of an old cemetery and the ghostly presence there had been causing some serious problems.

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Host. What kind of problems Liz?

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Well, visitors to the haunted house were reporting feeling ill,

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dizzy and even passing out.

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It was clear that there was some kind of dark energy at work host.

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That sounds terrifying. How did you go about investigating Liz?

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I conducted a thorough historical investigation looking into the sites past and any potential hauntings?

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I also spent a lot of time in the haunted house trying to connect with any spirits that might be present host.

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And did you find anything, Liz?

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Yes, I did. I encountered the spirit of a woman who had been wronged in life and was seeking revenge.

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She was a vengeful and dangerous entity and it was clear that she needed to be dealt with host.

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How did you deal with her, Liz?

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I used a combination of spiritual techniques and ghost hunting technology to cleanse the site and banish the spirit.

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It was a difficult process but ultimately successful host.

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That's incredible. And how is the haunted house now,

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Liz, it's much safer and less haunted than it was before visitors can now enjoy the thrills of the haunted house without fear of encountering any supernatural entities host.

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Well, that's good news. Thank you so much for sharing your story with us,

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Liz. Liz. Thank you for having me.

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It's always a pleasure to share my experiences with fellow paranormal enthusiast wild,

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right? AI world domination.

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Aside, it is pretty cool.

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Besides writing and debugging code chat GPT can create immaculate resumes and cover letters,

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write poems, rap lyrics or explain things to you in any style you want.

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I read an article where the user asked the chat bot to explain the HTTPS stack in the style of a cowboy from old westerns and it did how cool,

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how totally cute and harmless and silly and helpless if you haven't yet sign up for a chat GPT account and play around with it.

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But don't forget to be polite. Our future may depend on it.