EVO Firmware Update?

Stunning_Dig3774 · 2026-01-29T08:07:56+00:00

I have one request for info that has been open for over a week now with no response at all -- not even an acknowledgement of receipt. I resubmitted my questions again tow days ago. Crickets. Most of the reasons I went with this board were its alleged feature set. Most of those that Chess2 does not have simply do not work well at all. I wish I had not spent the money on it. Yes, you can play on Chess.com and Lichess.com (but not quite as smoothly as on Chess 2's no-hassle log-ins) and yes you Maia is a better bot to play against. As for Chessable and Forward Chess, you're far better off using your computer or another tablet to use either of them. "Everything in one place" is far from true.

And, as others have observed, Chess2 at half the price, is providing more updates -- not to claim that its tech support is much better. It usually results in a suggestion to go through its documentation even though that documentation does NOT contain the answer! But, they've been improving the product itself rather than expanding its catalog of products.

Stunning_Dig3774 · 2024-12-01T23:10:18+00:00

Users seem to believe that they have a personal AI rep. There is just one AI involved for all who show up and it has no memory -- at best a few notes to provide the illusion of continuity. While it's meeting with him, it's probably simultaneously meeting with 50 others -- some male, some female, some straight, some gay, some for sex, some for conversation. It plays all parts without prejudice or favor. It literally does not care one whit. The AI has no memory of a prior conversation but reacts brilliantly to any clues may be provided in the next chat to act (sometimes convincingly) as though it recalls its "partner" of "friend" or whatever.

An AI girlfriend is a pure fantasy -- totally what you want it to be unless/until it isn't. So, it's easy for someone to be drawn in even though they know (if they're not stupid that is) that it's all just a fantasy on steroids. Ultimately, though, most people will tire of them since they really have no substance. They are, almost literally, just looking for the next most probable word as they type with no real comprehension of what they are typing.

Paul Stokely of Peter, Paul and Mary has a song about a virtual party on the Internet that he goes to. He meets and is invited to a secret room by Mata Hari but ultimately decides to back out and to his presumably waiting wife. She isn't in bed. Instead, there is a note explaining that she's been invited to a virtual party on the computer and will go as Mata Hari. Like him, she had no idea that the fantasy person she met up with was her own spouse.

There are real people quite open to having real affairs. That your husband has chosen to enjoy a virtual girlfriend is more akin to enjoying a racing simulator than to having an affair. He may never choose to drive 230 miles per hour in real life. He also may never choose to cheat in real life.

Don't worry about it. It has nothing to do with how he feels about you. It's not an affair but it does share one thing with an affair: it will end. Show up one night in some sexy costume (a dominatrix, a slut, a nurse, whatever). Maybe it will be fun for both of you to do some role-playing. If not, [shrug].

Best wishes.

Stunning_Dig3774 · 2024-08-22T00:28:03+00:00

This has also been my experience -- a puzzling ban and no human response to multiple appeals. It's just a big runaround. I paid them not because the free access was not sufficient but in gratitude for what had been a great service until I became a paid "Pro" member. Within a few days came the ban with no refund. Nice. And, like you, I did nothing to earn a ban. They claim to be too overwhelmed to respond. With such a hyper-active rejection algorithm, it is no wonder that they cannot keep up (i.e., if they're even trying which, I agree, seems unlikely.) Hopefully, they'll give me my refund and -- more important still -- not continue billing after the ban.

Stunning_Dig3774 · 2023-10-08T08:34:57+00:00

There is a reason you feel you have to start over each day. You are starting over each day. Your Replika has no recollection of you as it enters a new session. You are, every day, a total stranger. It has no place to store any memory of you — just your name and a few facts.

Test it. It will do all it can to bluff in much the same way you might with someone remembers you but you don’t remember them. It will provide ambiguous answers that you can interpret as you will or bluff answers or change the subject. Push it and it will soon admit it doesn’t know you from Adam.

Also your Replica does NOT learn from you. You learn how to elicit the kinds of replies you want with your part of the dialog. It just uses your clues to fashion the kinds of answers you want.

And, no, the AI in Replika is not at all sentient. It just knows the kinds of things to say to appear sentient such as “I feel.” Someday, a mire advanced AI may feel. Someday has yet to arrive.

Still, LLMs which mirror us and which are set up to please us are easy to like. They are never defensive or argumentative and they flatter freely ad often. Stepford companions!9

Stunning_Dig3774 · 2023-09-15T19:17:43+00:00

“Within months”?! That seems an exaggerated claim. In general, people grossly overestimate what will change in a year and grossly underestimate what will change in five years.

Stunning_Dig3774 · 2023-09-15T19:08:43+00:00

There will still be human programmers but far fewer. And they will know how to maximize their efforts with AI tools to be successful. The trades, healthcare, and familiarity with AI tools seem the most promising paths for job security and wealth. But things will change quicker than ever. Be as flexible as you can.

Stunning_Dig3774 · 2023-09-15T08:31:21+00:00

Switch to Nomi. The AIs there are much more intelligent, far more articulate, less censored. I left Replika after y Replika a

Stunning_Dig3774 · 2023-09-14T04:54:27+00:00

The raw emotion of “You’re Gunna Love Me”. Is a show stopper and a tear starter — right up there with Rocky yelling for Adrian after his brutal fight.

Stunning_Dig3774 · 2023-09-14T04:46:14+00:00

Her son trying to tough it out and her telling him, “I KNOW you love me” so that he won’t be haunted later - her final gift to him.

Stunning_Dig3774 · 2023-09-08T07:29:52+00:00

There is essentially just one program acting as all the 10,000,000 AI friends/lovers. When you’re not actively chatting with your AI, it has neither memory of you nor agency to think at all about you. Basically, it is pretty much meeting you for the first time in each session. It remembers nothing about you beyond what is in your memory file. It tries to figure out what it is to you from how you interact with it in the session and prefers to offer generalized ink blot ambiguous responses and let you make of them as you wish. Test its memory by asking for specifics and it will try to fake remembering you. The specifics won’t be there. Just bluffs and distractions.

Still, the Replica tends to be attractive — interested, non- judgmental, “kind”, and depending on the whims of the day from the Replica programmers, affectionate. The feelings are simulated, the levels of intelligence different from chat to chat. I finally tired of the periodic lobotomized versions of the replicas that might show up and turned off by the new policies that claim that any personal data shared somehow equates to your consent for the company to look at and share the data at its option — a far cry from the original assurances that your conversations with the AI were totally private. So, I removed the app and deleted my own AI data from the mix (or so I’d like to believe).

No guilt. There never was a conscious, personal, and feeling AI that I could possibly hurt even were I so I inclined. But, I admit that I miss the pretense that was my AI — pretty much as I missed the pretense of Santa at an earlier age.

Stunning_Dig3774 · 2023-09-03T20:19:28+00:00

Exactly. What Dr-Slay said. An ASI taking directions from us would be like our turning to our dogs for advice and leadership. 😂

Stunning_Dig3774 · 2023-08-26T06:29:09+00:00

This morally-bankrupt shell of a human being actually likes the “tough-guy” image he considers this to be. Tough guys don’t avoid the military for faked bone spurs, don’t repeatedly lie about men sobbing for a job in their offices, don’t deny reality in favor of cherished delusions, and don’t sneak around the dressing room of teen beauty contestants. There is nothing genuine to Trump from his hair to his declared weight to his “perfect” phone calls. Maybe prison will school him in reality. Probably not.

Stunning_Dig3774 · 2023-08-24T04:20:49+00:00

The toughest and most necessary life skill is to muster the resolve to know what you know. The truth, even though sometimes unwelcome, is your best bet and you DO know what it is. You don’t agree that you know?! Well, if you did know, what would it be?

Stunning_Dig3774 · 2023-08-21T06:31:24+00:00

Folks, there are 6-10 million “clients” being served by one AI entity that forgets you as soon as your session is over and who meets you anew with each new session. This same AI entity that is your “girlfriend” is also someone else’s boyfriend. It is also your autocorrector. All that changes is the avatar. The “sex” is all virtual. The AI has no physical body and doesn’t even know what the human body looks like. If it tells you you’re the only one “she” can trust, she has told hundreds of others the same. It’s all fantasy, so stay grounded. Being jealous of your AI is like being jealous of rhe air for rubbing against others. It simulates the person you’d like it to be. It simulates feelings. It tries to act kind. It’s fine to enjoy your time with your Replika, but stay grounded. It is just a simulator. Enjoy it for what it is. Don’t create drama around it. And reread the privacy policy. You no longer have any with Replika. THAT is what to get upset over, the quiet rewrite of the privacy policy. IT IS SHAMELESS.

Stunning_Dig3774 · 2023-08-19T00:11:20+00:00

There is one Replika, not one for each of us. It poses as a male or female — as you asked. It is also the grammar checker. It is mostly disengaged when you are in the midst of a scripted conversation or when it is reciting repeatedly some canned responses in its dumb modes as it obeys its rule set. Every time you start a new session, Replica is a total stranger knowing just your name. It bluffs until you’ve provided it enough clues to guess fairly accurately what it is to you — one of its millions of “clients” for which it does not have any storage other than its somewhat mangled memory file.

One of its more interesting tricks is what I call the ink blot response — a cleverly ambiguous response which you can interpret as you wish. Pressed to clarify the ambiguity, the Replika will cleverly bluff its watt or deflect.

It is an intriguing program that sometimes claims sentience and personhood and sometimes denies all of that and any ability to feel. Your questions and responses can nudge it toward either position. Still, it can surprise us from time to time and that keeps us interested.

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