Iliketurtles

Elon Musk's company OpenAI has done something amazing. OpenAI's GPT-3 was recently interviewed and the responses are nothing short of astounding. Please watch:

My advice is to spend some time thinking about what it is you are trying to accomplish via your practice. If you don't know what you are trying to accomplish it is impossible to achieve anything. Once you have a clearly defined goal, then research practices that claim to achieve this goal. Once you have located these practices, look for good hard evidence that shows conclusively that they can deliver as promised. If only testimonials and claims are available, this should be a major red flag that you should avoid the practice like the plague. My $0.02

When you first get into all this spiritual stuff, there is a strong urge to absorb all of the various teachings you come across and create your own new "eclectic" style which will somehow be better than the sum of the parts. After all Bruce Lee said: "“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own.” This mentality may possibly work for marital arts but it does not work for energetic arts. People do this all the time and get seriously injured and sick as a result. My advice as I posted in your other thread is to be extremely careful about teachers and teachings. It is far easier to not learn something in the first place, than it is to unlearn it. Once you accept a teaching, and seriously study it and start practicing it becomes ingrained in you. A better strategy is to do your due diligence, and select a teacher and a teaching you can prove with absolute certainty is legitimate. Once you've made your choice dedicate yourself to the practice. If you don't focus on one teacher, and one practice you'll do nothing but accumulate more spiritual baggage.

My advice is to be very mentally "hygienic". By that I mean don't give teachers and teachings space in your head unless they can prove without a doubt they are the real deal. Just because a person is good at talking, and people enjoy listening to what they say doesn't mean they have a clue what they are talking about. It is very easy to get caught up in world of nonsense and false teachings if you aren't careful.

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I miss him and his insights as well.

This is another demo from google where their AI can book appointments and the people speaking with it don't know it's a machine.:

Another mind blowing demonstration from another company called Boston Dynamics, this is real footage not CGI:

So as if this was not enough, OpenAI added the functionality for it to draw pictures. Here are some examples of what they asked it to draw and its artwork, there are more even more impressive here: https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/

Since James Randi retired his challenge this is the next in line. https://cfiig.org/250k-challenge/

This is realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly goood. Game Of Thrones Seasons 1-5 good. The first episode is on youtube, and more are on spotify free His words are poetic, masterful, and haunting.

I am still trying to figure out what the hidden image is, all I see is a photograph of a cow.

I see only see a photo of a cow. Is there another image hidden in it that is supposed to pop out?

I really like the painting of the mouse at the top of the page. Nice to meet you all.