Chatgpt can expand knowledge. I asked how big a cube is needed to contain a million barrels of oil. Answer is 54m³. Daily world usage 100 million barrels (250m³). All oil burned since industrial revolution…6.2 (km)³. That is about the same size as Helvellyn.
ChatGP clearly needs to put down the crack pipe and step away from the keyboard.
A standard barrel of oil is 159 litres, so a million of them would have a volume of 159,000 cubic metres.
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I think @lebeuil1 was talking of a cube 54m x 54m x 54m rather than 54 m3. That makes 157,464 m3 which is close to your figure.
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Yes, silly error. All the ³ figures are supposed to be x x x . I was showing off the ability to get a ³ from an android keyboard.
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I learned many years ago a barrel was a medieval measure of 35 gallons called a tierce. The American oil industry standardised the barrel to this size in the late 1800s and it is still the measurement used today. Conversion to metric is 159 litres.
The largest oil tankers can transport the equivalent of more than 3 million ‘barrels’.
Pub quiz tonight
I’ve been using chatGPT quite a bit recently mostly for home projects - it gave me a really good recipe for achar using lacto fermented green mango.
I’m a bit of a watch geek and it has been really, really good at identifying fake watches on ebay using screen shots. I have another bigger project in mind which it has been useful for in the design phase, but that won’t come to fruition till July probably - a refrigerated cold smoking chamber for use in hot climates that will also double up as a curing chamber for hams and saucisson.
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Is Chatgpt similar to Google?
It is AI and if you give it suitable prompts it will produce a fairly comprehensive answer written out the way you want it. It is variably reliable, probably very good for factual things like a method for doing a specific task; less so for eg literary stuff. My pupils have used it to churn out essays which fail in crucial ways (they aren’t usually up to level expected in terms of real content, subtlety and nuance and they are obviously not their own unaided work.)
Artificial intelligence. So ChatGPT is unlike Google, am I right? Google has humans who do the work. Mind you, I disagree with this artificial intelligence. I mean somebody or a number of people, set this AI up.
Google has, for a decade or more, been rushing to automate everything possible to remove the humans who do the work. This has dramatically increased since tech companies started pouring ridiculous amounts of money into this AI bubble. They’re all getting humans to create and train up the AI then replacing them with it, all the big companies have had significant layoffs in the past year to a large degree due to them replacing people with tech. But on a more practical note, whenever I use the search function of Google these days the top section is filled with a load of annoying AI dross that I have to scroll under to get to the actual results. They’re trying to embed it in all their programs. The reality is that they’ve all put so much money into it they have to try make it a success or it will end up making the early 2000s dot com boom and bust look like a minor inconvenience.
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AI is problematic in lots of ways, it often reads weirdly to me and also is set up to agree with you and to justify things even if that means inventing justifications or say oh yes jump off that bridge. It has a tendency to encourage people in their delusions.
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Thank you for the useful information. Before it was machines replacing people. Now it is technology taking away jobs from people. Then society will say that people are lazy because they do not work. No jobs available! I just worry about the future generations.
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Heavens that is quite frightening. I wonder what the inventers have to gain by going along with peoples’ wishes?
Exactly, it shifts the burden to the state to pay for unemployment rather than companies paying for staff and that taking away profits from the ultra rich who are just greedy for more. Enormous taxation of assets (hidden or otherwise) over a billion. That would slow the development of unnecessary un- employment. Even TV adds are now showing or trying to, how Ai will simplify your day,
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Without something like Universal Basic Income, which is still seen as a kooky nonsense by most of the world, it makes you wonder exactly how these ‘brilliant minds’ think people are going to be able to afford to buy things from them in future. It’s the massive gap in logic that I’ve never seen an answer to; replacing people with machines / tech is all well and good, but t he entire premise of a capitalist society is that people earn money by working which they then spend on goods and services, if they’re not earning money because whole industries are being automated, they’re not going to be buying things.
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I totally agree with you. Tax the billionaires and the oligarchs. It would certainly balance out the deficit in many areas of services.
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I don’t want to sound all doomsday but if the jobs being lost to AI aren’t replaced by decent jobs or people can’t work at all and have no money, that could be quite explosive.
My other concern is that humans lose control of the machines. Some AI people have hinted at that.
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There was a sci-fi film years ago where people turned on the machines and smashed them to get back to some standards
Interesting, do you remember the title, Corona?