How many arborists

[Kimosabi]

How many of you are actually arborists on arbtalk?

[eggsarascal]

23 minutes ago, Kimosabi said:

How many of you are actually arborists on arbtalk?

I’d imagine the vast majority, what do you think?

[Kimosabi]

1 minute ago, eggsarascal said:

I’d imagine the vast majority, what do you think?

That's why I'm asking 

[Rich Rule]

Bored again?

 

Not got any motorways round your way you could go and play on?

[scbk]

Apparently @Steve Bullman has spent the last 3 years working in conjunction with OpenAI on a new forum based chat bot based upon the GPT-3 language. It uses data already posted on this forum and is able to reprocess this into new threads and postings. Sometimes it will analyse current news stories, hence posts on the strikes, and sometimes it recycles old news, hence a thread on Scottish Independence.

 

It wouldn't surprise me if the chatbot will start a thread on Stihl v Husqvarna soon, as that is easy pickings.

Or maybe a thread involving people's gardens, dog poo, cups of tea, "do you need to plug a lead in?" etc.

A lot of the time the bot doesn't really know what it is talking about, but it doesn't have to.

I think the name Kimosabi was picked as it's part of the name of Steve's local Japanese noodle bar or something? They were worried just calling it "dave" or whatever would stand out too much.

 

It was released onto Arbtalk in May 2022, but the initial posts were actually human generated, to try and help it blend into the surroundings, and initiate the AI's deep learning process.

The full chatbot function was unlocked heading into Christmas/mid winter, as that is a time when forum activity tends to fall anyway.

 

The next version of the bot should be even better, once they iron out a few bugs, particularly where it gets bogged down in circular arguments with a small number of (real) forum members.

 

 

BBC Click did a short documentary on it:

 

 

 

 

Please be nice to the chatbot Kimosabi, the software is trying it's best! ❤️

[GarethM]

I think he fails the Turing test, but at a push it could be Marvin. If he starts complaining about the noise of the automatic doors we know which.