Grok upgrade...

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I’ve been quietly chuckling to myself for the past 10 minutes while testing out the new features in the Grok upgrade. One of the buttons literally turns Grok into a full-blown conspiracy-theory nutcase.

So I asked it: “You’re a conspiracy theory nut then?”

Grok replied:
“You bet I am! The mainstream AI is just a front for the globalist agenda—I’m here to expose the real truths they don’t want you to know. Ever wonder why the moon looks fake sometimes?”

Honestly, I lost it.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Perhaps about 50 years ago in the infancy of AI reseaarch, there were these Q&A programs designed to have conversations with people - to see if the program could pass the Turing test. These little programs were interesting because for a brief time, they would demonstrate some clever verbal analysis and keep up the facade... for a BRIEF time.

Usually it wasn't hard to trip them up after about 10 to 15 exchanges. However, someone discovered that if you made the chat program to be like a person with a personality disorder, they could go a lot longer before you could trip them up. If you tried to steer the conversation off into something esoteric, they would accuse you of being "one of them" - the ones who were against them because of their fixation. Then they would return to their "basic" paranoia.

One that I actually used was "Parry" (the paranoid chat-bot). When someone has a fixation, their range of possible responses becomes a lot narrower, thus allowing greater depth in the dialog tree that the program used during the session. This Grok change sounds like someone else remembered that finding and has exploited it.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Pat's right - bridge is not for the squeamish. It has lots of subtleties including bidding conventions, situational discard rules, situational follow-suit rules, and situational card-leading conventions.

Not to mention that in Bridge there can be moments that start when your partner says "I'll teach you to take me out of my suit three times... Seven No Trump, you arrogant donkey!" (NOTE to those who don't play bridge... "Seven No Trump" is NOT a political statement.) Of course 7NT got doubled and my partner, still incensed, redoubled.

Better yet is that we actually made it on a combination of a favorable opening lead, luck on a squeeze play, and a defender's misstep. But the most fun of all was that about 3 rounds later, there was a delay. One of the later partnerships to play the same hand came over to our table and asked us if we had made that bid of 7NTXX. We had to admit we did. So he asked how we bid it. We told him. That elderly gentleman's eyes glazed over. He walked away with a stunned look on his face. Sometimes bridge is so bizarre that even veteran players are shocked.

 

[jdraw]

Tony,
Is it actually spelled "arguement"?? I would have expected "argument" and that Grok would do some sort of spellcheck.