Randomness – SMLP:

Bing… “How much crap can I fit in my shed?“

I’ve been digesting the announcement from Microsoft on the launch of its AI-powered Bing search. Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI, the creators of the ground braking ChatGPT AI chatbot is now paying off in ways so big that I don’t think anybody truly understands how impactful this is yet.

Bing’s new AI search is so good, it hurts my head and yes it will take some time for people to get used to it, but when they do…. Internet search will be changed forever.

Anyone that has tried ChatGPT will have had that moment of amazement. The way that it will not only answer your questions in detail ,but will also let you step it up to “write me an example essay about it” and down to “can you explain it to me like I’m five”.

These amazing responses have been done while still running a old version of the AI and with no recent information or access to the internet.

Well now OpenAI and Microsoft have opened the Flood gates and given it access to the whole internet. They have also customised how it works to be focused on supporting internet searches.

You could ask how many cans of beer will fit in the boot of your Vauxhall. It will search the internet for the owners manual, find the dimensions of your boot, then calculate the answer using the average size of a can of beer.

It will give you the right answer, but it won’t JUST give you the right answer; it will give you detailed context on why it’s given you that answer. It will let you know that the capacity of the boot and shape of it will not allow you to perfectly fill it as not all the sides are straight, instead it will give you its best guess… and it will give you the links to all the places it searched to get that answer.

You could search for a new dress and once you have found one you can ask it to see if it can find you a bag that would match that dress. It will search fashion sites to find out what colours work best together, check that against your dress then search for bag’s that match.

It’s hard to fully get your head around how unreal this new AI search is.

Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips did a live demo on “The WAN Show” recently where he put it through it’s paces and at some points he was totally gob-smacked and speechless on how good it performed.

Watch the clip HERE

If you have the time I would recommend you check out the full demo on the show they did (from around 43mins in)

Linus Tech Tips: WAN Show February 10th

To use the service you need to join a waiting list or you can “jump the queue” by going all in on Microsoft Edge Browser, Default search to Bing and downloading the Bing search App.

Google have some work to do to play catch up and for Microsoft they have nothing to loose. Microsoft are the underdog of search when (not if) this works out for them they are going to sky rocket, search was worth $257 Billion in 2021. Something tells me google are not going to be leader for much longer.

Anyone else wish they had stock in Microsoft right now.

Phil GB

Microsoft announcing the new AI powered Bing: https://blogs.microsoft.com/

Google’s new AI: $120bn wiped off Google after Bard AI chatbot gives wrong answer

Villain Welsh Rapper made to look like a villain in front of his tiny fanbase

Dight – “The Welsh rapper, who has 23 monthly listeners on Spotify”

Could “A Welsh Rapper” be the the new “A Florida Man”?

When I spotted this one I thought it was a news story from The Onion when in fact it’s from the BBC.

Basically this guy invited his “fan base” to turn up at a field with their dirt bikes (presumable because he’s only has an Electric push bike) for a music video he was going to make for his 341 Facebook followers.

The field was then trashed and now local volunteers have set up a £3,500 fundraiser for Betterment Park in Cwm, to try and fix the damage.

Hard boy Welsh Rapper Dight says… It’s nothing to do with me mate.

i have no clue if he was involved or not but I can however, officially confirm that he looks like a dick.

Full Article: bbc.co.uk

Mastodon: Its a big Ocean but I will sink this ship if you keep Fu%$ing about!

Mastodon has grown into a beautiful community of 7,519,214 users across 18,458 instances. Every one of them instances is a floating boat in a worldwide ocean that’s interconnecting people in the best way.

It’s a breeding ground for great ideas, conversations, learning, information and Dogs on skateboards. The best thing, it is not controlled by one individual or company with views and opinions of how everyone should behave. Every boat has a captain, and that captain can set down the law for the people on their boat… not rules, but more guidance and a moral code, what they consider right or wrong and what they consider cool. The captain can also invite like-minded people to get on board and share a viewpoint around a common goal.

Love Dogs on skateboards? Captain Daryl is your man. Passionate about Badgers? Not as much as Captain Angie, get on her boat! Like living in a cold place… Captain Pingu, we are on the way.

All these boats can listen to, and broadcast to, every boat in this wonderful Ocean.

But What about Captain Dennis… His boat smells a bit funny and he likes to pull the wings off flys!

Well here is the genius of Mastodon. Captain Barbara’s bug boat doesn’t want to hear about that kind of messing about so her boat can just cut ties, so nobody on her boat has to put up with Dennis’s horrible behaviour. Daryl however likes Dennis’s jokes so no drama as long as his boat doesn’t start to smell even worse.

Caption Bruno’s Boat? We don’t talk about Bruno’s boat, no no no, he doesn’t broadcast to us and we don’t listen. I think that’s best for everybody.

Some of these boats only have a Captain and some are big superliners with multiple Captain’s and Catering staff, they have swimming pools, tennis courts, helicopter pads and a shit load of passengers, the biggest, Mastodon.social 929,480 Passengers.

The boat I am on Mastodonapp.uk currently has 69,738 people. Actual not all are people some are random computerised weather Station that blast out interesting information from a place I have never been but I still look at the info every time I see it – check it out: newquayweather

Our boat’s common connection is simply the little island we all live on and I think that’s kind of cool because I’m awake when they are awake.

So, Ocean, Boats, Captains, Passengers and Bruno. Beautiful, Beautiful Ocean

What do you do when the Passengers are dicks? Kick them off the Boat, simple. What if you get rats on your boat? What if your passengers start kicking off with the Captain? If it was somebody else’s boat you could just stop listening but this is happening in the dining room, around the pool and the Captain is starting to get pissed off with it. Have you ever seen one of those videos of a retail worker finally deciding they have put up with enough of Karen’s shit!!

In the Twitter Ocean, there was only one big boat, and they spent a long time kicking the rats off the boat, after a while, you get too many rats and you just don’t have the time to get them off the ship… you end up with rat shit… everywhere. The Captain’s paid good money for his boat and is too busy trying to charge people entry into the pool to spend any more time dealing with the rats. When the whole place starts to smell like that toilet from Trainspotting the passengers just swim off to the next Ocean.

Now in the Ocean of Mastodon, the Ships and Boats are free, yes you have to pay to keep the lights on and the shifts are long but the Captain’s focus is on that cool connection to their like-minded passengers, that common connection. That makes it all worth the effort, right?

Well… one of the biggist ships mastodon.lol with 76,281 passengers just got rats and as far as I’m aware this is the first big ship in our Ocean to get rats, some have been kicked overboard by the Captain, passengers are starting to rebel and now there is shit… everywhere! The passengers have been blaming the Captain, but they don’t want to leave the ship; they have asked to speak to the MANAGER! but we only have Captains here.

I’m my opinion the Captain has done the only thing a Captain can do, and should do, in this situation.

Sink the fucking boat and teach them horrible rats a valuable lesson. Don’t shit where you eat!

I feel bad for the passengers that were just chilling by the pool sharing the love with other like-minded passengers, I really do, I would be more than happy for you to hang out with me on my boat. But I also hope that the rats realise that in this new world, people won’t put up with your shit and are more than happy to let the air out of your dinghy of yours if you don’t play nice.

Just play nice people.

Phil GB

(Source of Mastodon Stats: https://observablehq.com/@simonw/mastodon-users-and-statuses-over-time