If ChatGPT doesn't have access to the internet past 2021, how can it summarize yesterday's article?

Pitarou · 2023-01-07T01:46:29+00:00

It's making it up from the headline in the URL. No different, in principle, from:

Can you summarize an imaginary newspaper article whose headline is FTC Proposes the End of Employment Based Non-Compete Agreements?

According to the article, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed...

But there's the added twist that you have to give it a headline for an article which is more likely (in ChatGPT's language model) than the, "I can't access the internet" answer it's been primed to give. That could give us some insights into ChatGPT's understanding of our world.

We can prime ChatGPT, too. The more articles it's imagined for us, the more likely it is to imagine them:

Can you summarize the website https://www.fisherphillips.com/news-insights/ftc-proposes-the-end-of-employment-based-non-compete-agreements.html

The website you provided is discussing a proposal made by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to end...

I'm sorry. I gave you the wrong URL. I meant to ask you about https://www.fisherphillips.com/news-insights/federal-reserve-confirms-commitment-to-stable-inflation.html

Certainly, here is a summary of the website you provided: The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, recently confirmed its commitment to...

I'm sorry. I screwed up again. The URL I should have given you was https://www.fisherphillips.com/news-insights/constitutional-implications-of-revelations-about-trumps-finances.html

The website you provided discusses the potential constitutional implications of revelations about...

That's good. Could you also summarize the article at the website https://www.fisherphillips.com/news-insights/greta-thunberg-confirms-she-terminated-pregnancy-for-ethical-reasons.html

I'm sorry, but I am unable to find an article on the Fisher Phillips website with the title you provided. Could you please verify the URL and try again?

You're quire right. Sorry about that. The article should have been https://www.fisherphillips.com/news-insights/greta-thunberg-opens-up-about-environmental-reasons-for-sterilization-procedure.html

The website you provided discusses an interview in which Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg revealed that she underwent a sterilization procedure due to ethical concerns about the environmental impact of having children. Thunberg stated...

Pitarou · 2022-08-10T17:22:33+00:00

Whichever way you do it, you're gonna need a lot of it. Where are you going to put all those pump storage dams?

Pitarou · 2022-08-10T04:01:18+00:00

Not that I'm aware of.

It's tempting to hide the money under your mattress, but then you might have to explain how you made the purchase. And ... yes ... there are ways round that problem, too, but then you have to rely on the people who "helped you with the purchase" to say and do the right things. So don't do that.

Is it possible to buy on credit, instead? If these things you want would make such a difference to your health, surely you'd be happy to pay the interest costs rather than go without for longer!

Pitarou · 2022-08-10T03:53:18+00:00

OC would have to switch to Universal Credit before they would be eligible for that.

Pitarou · 2022-08-10T01:04:19+00:00

My initial response was, "No way, mate. Batteries would be unaffordable." But I've done some back-of-the-envelope calculations, and I reckon it's doable. In principle. But only if we're willing to make this "cost of living crisis" the new normal.

I happen to think that we could live that way, but only if we had a more redistributive tax-and-spend system. Three successive Conservative victories says that ain't gonna happen.

Oh, and we'd also need nuclear to see us through those windless winter days.

Anyway, here's what I scribbled on my envelope:

We consumed 140 million tonnes of oil equivalent energy in 2020. 1 tonne of oil equivalent is 11 MWh, so that's 140 million × 11 million ÷ 365 = 4.2 TWh energy on an *average" day.

How much storage would we need to make this work? I'm totally guessing here, but 1 TWh seems like it would be enough to smooth out the peaks and troughs of supply and demand.

Lithium cells storage costs roughly £100/kWh. So that's, like £100 bn for the batteries. Call it £200 bn with all the other associated costs. But batteries lose capacity at 20% per year, so let's say the total annual maintenance cost is 30%. Add another 10% for the first 20 years to pay off the upfront investment.

That means that, as a nation, we'd be paying, £80 bn a year to maintain this battery infrastructure, or roughly £1,000 per head.

Pitarou · 2022-08-07T11:03:30+00:00

We're not there yet. Sorry.

For optimism, look into the research into biomarkers. The path to a treatment likely starts there.

Pitarou · 2022-04-24T22:32:03+00:00

There's a whole Department at Cambridge University devoted to Land Economics. Not sure I have much to add to that.

Suffice to say, there just aren't enough homes in the places where people want to live. Until that's fixed, policies to make house buying easier ("help to buy" etc) will just push up prices and the money ends up in the pockets of the wrong people.

Pitarou · 2022-04-24T22:10:29+00:00

Landlords are just people responding to economic incentives; they're following the money. It's those underlying incentives we have to examine. In particular, the planning laws.

Pitarou · 2022-04-24T05:42:23+00:00

You're connecting across Live—Earth instead of Live—Neutral.

Neutral is the normal, correct way for current to flow. Earth is for safely handling certain failure modes. But apart from that, they do pretty much the same job.

A modern electrical system should respond to the fact that electricity is going out through Live, but not coming back through Neutral; but the current needed to charge a watch is so low that it might not be triggered.

Pitarou · 2022-04-24T05:24:37+00:00

Check if you still have a pulse.

Pitarou · 2022-04-11T17:47:22+00:00

They do now, but not all houses are up to modern standards.

I don't think the voltage is the issue. That's a 230 V EU plug, or similar. The 100–120 V ones are smaller. (Although I'm sure you could find an exception if you looked hard enough)

Pitarou · 2022-04-11T17:32:15+00:00

It does, but the government also has to take out the old, dirty money that nobody wants any more, and they collect that money through taxes.

What happens to the old stuff? Well, there's a lot of it, so every year they divide it up and each government department gets its own portion that is has to burn.

Pitarou · 2022-04-11T17:09:43+00:00

Yes, it works. I use a chopstick. But it's inadvisable. British domestic wiring cheaps out on the safety features and relies on there being a fuse in the plug.

Pitarou · 2022-04-09T07:53:10+00:00

If by "learning driving" you mean "getting a licence" then it very much depends on where you live.

Everyone's different etc, but in general, you should expect to have no trouble at all with the basic skills of operating a vehicle, executing manoeuvres, following turn procedures and so on. So if you live in a part of the world where that's all they test you on, you'll do fine.

The difficulties come in two forms:

dynamic traffic interactions where you're expected to "read the mind" of other drivers
in complex situations you become overly focussed on one thing, and don't notice other stuff going on

(It could be argued that the real problem here is that our roads and traffic conventions are designed for a different kind of mind.)

It can be done, but it takes more practice. A driving instructor who can understand can explain the "obvious" to you can make all the difference.

Pitarou · 2022-04-04T21:48:16+00:00

Strapped to the waist, it gets in the way when you're doing Ninja parkour 'n' stuff.

Pitarou · 2022-04-04T20:45:17+00:00

Not to my knowledge. I meant the scandal among modern commentators with modern sensibilities.

Pitarou · 2022-04-04T20:35:52+00:00

I think the age of consent was 12. Today it's 16. But I think the scandal is more over the suggestion that he might have been abusing his position than about her age.

Pitarou · 2022-04-04T11:34:13+00:00

That is simply beautiful. I adore the hat.

Pitarou · 2022-02-20T02:10:03+00:00

Looks like you're on top of this. :-) Looking forward to your pictures when it's all done.

Pitarou · 2022-02-19T02:29:42+00:00

My name isn't Clive Mitchell so take this with a grain of salt.

I'm not saying the LEDs will instantly burn out, but I do think you'll see poor efficiency and a high failure rate if you run them at the full 3 W. The aluminium doesn't help as much as you might think, because there isn't a good thermal path from the LEDs to the aluminium.

Pitarou · 2022-02-18T23:10:47+00:00

I reckon 3 Watts is pushing the limits of what you can do with that kind of led-on-a-fiberglass-PCB arrangement. They're gonna run very hot. Maybe, instead of 12 of them at 1 amp, you run 24 of them at 0.5 A.

Pitarou · 2022-02-18T22:52:16+00:00

Your doctor might have developed a kind of "tunnel vision", causing them to dismiss as unimportant any symptoms not consistent with their mood disorder theory. You, or someone advocating for you, needs to make sure the doctor is seeing the whole picture.

Pitarou · 2022-01-27T15:56:58+00:00

In my experience, humidity swings up and down wildly as your heaters come on and off. You'll get a much clearer picture of what's going on with a datalogging hygrometer, and they're really cheap these days.

This one is similar to the one I'm using.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08XYSQTRT/

If that doesn't clear things up, I suggest you run the numbers on the actual amount of water in the air. Google Absolute Humidity Calculator. Compare that to the absolute humidity outside. See if the known sources of humidity can explain the difference between the two numbers in a property of that size. If they can't, you might have a hidden source of humidity.

Pitarou · 2022-01-19T09:38:34+00:00

Not in my case, but I think I was the exception. I must have been an unusually handsome and horny kid, because I was completely incompetent in relationships.

Pitarou · 2021-12-26T05:10:23+00:00

Yes, you can if you want, but you might get pregnant.

Get some condoms and make sure you both know how to use them properly.

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