IN Which Nick Cave takes a dim view of Chat GPT
As the headline states, readers of his blog have been using Chat GPT to send Nick songs in his own style.
He's not too impressed.
I get it - we'll all be redundant soon, but here's his take on it:
Link: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chat-gpt-what-do-you-think/
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Artifacts & Artifancies
Not in the mood for Nelson today, weather grey but warm, i headed out to Balfour to spend the day searching for flakes.
Lots of flakes, not a lot of worthwhile other finds:
a flake in the sand, got me excited, it was big, but - on pulling it out - just a flake.
The days take. Bottom left - a knife - flaked on one side only, above it a couple of worked flakes, a few of which may have been small arrowheads. In the center next column a worked bit of chert on both sides, but no sharp edges, presumably abandoned. The big pieces are "blanks", larger pieces of chert from which arrowheads & points would be knocked off as needed. And to the right, lots of flakes, many still razor sharp. Some show a bit of serrating along a particular edge, so were probably used for scraping, the rest, the natural detritus of tool creation.
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Nelson Beaches...
Today, rainy, cool. No snow on the ground, not at lake level, and it being a Sunday I'm out walking, looking for arrowheads on the beaches on the lake front.
This area, most of it deformed, built up with big basalt boulders, chances of finding anything - zip.
But there are a few little spits that look like they've never been adjusted, and those are where I'll spend the day.
Not entirely unproductive...
The piece on the left, a scraper of some such, made out of Kootenay Argillite, quarried somewhere by Kaslo. Easy to recognize, I've found a lot similar in Balfour.
The left-most edge looks to have been worked, maybe as a scraper, note the many small divots.
The piece on the right, not sure, black jasper? and - again - a big paleo-maybe, unsure if it was a tool or a fluke of erosion. Not the same material I'm used to finding, and too weathered all-round to be sure.
Note that in Nelson there SHOULD be other tools showing up, different materials, but I'm not sure this is it.
Anyways, a lot of searching and staring at the ground for a lot of hours for precious little return. Need to get back to Balfour...!!!!
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Chat GPT (6)
And, playing around with it more, it's "understanding" is not where you think it is initially, It fares well answering science based questions, but in the humanities it fails.
Which is to be expected.
Still, a lot of good answers to a lot of questions and a heck of a lot quicker than Google.
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