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Monday, May 19, 2025

Tag: AI

AI Writes Poor Prose – Use It To Fix Procrastination
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AI Writes Poor Prose – Use It To Fix Procrastination

ward 16/04/2025

And how to make an AI assistant I use AI to cure my colossal procrastination but don’t use it for any writing – you can probably tell. I was a … Read More

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Scheduled Tasks On ChatGPT Is Actually Pretty Cool
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Scheduled Tasks On ChatGPT Is Actually Pretty Cool

ward 26/03/2025

Scheduled Tasks is a new function on ChatGPT, which I have been playing around with recently. It is still in Beta, but it works really well. It looks at first … Read More

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From Zork to AI Dungeon: How AI is Revolutionizing Interactive Text Adventures
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From Zork to AI Dungeon: How AI is Revolutionizing Interactive Text Adventures

ward 10/12/2024

AI is so damned useful that I am overwhelmed and am still thinking of ways to use it. You can probably tell that I don’t use for writing by looking … Read More

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AI will take all our jobs, even creative ones. Possibly.

ward 17/03/2020

I am not trying to be controversial or complacent about AI here as I am talking purely from a personal perspective. I have written before about the race for AI … Read More

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Humans Need Not Apply

ward 16/01/2018

Humans Need Not Apply basically states and explains that most jobs will be replaced by technology. It is pretty much inevitable and there is nothing us meat-sack humans can do about it.

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Get back at internet scammers with Re:scam AI bot

ward 12/12/2017

Replying to scammers is obviously time-consuming and tedious, so the good news is that there is now an AI chatbox thing that will do that for you.

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The great AI race is now on

ward 14/09/2017

These days the news is full of stories about the rise of AI. Well, Trump, North Korea, Brexit and AIs. Everything is basically alarming and it is hard to know what to be most shit scared about next.

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