------------------------------- Wed Mar 19 06:30:45 PM EDT 2025 ------------------------------- Transcript of Chat box from BLU meeting, Wed, Mar 19. 2025 Meeting held online via Jitsi Meet In attendance (11 total): Speaker(s): * Brian DeLacey * Kurt Keville BLU officers: * John Abreau * Jerry Feldman * Bill Ricker Attendees (named): * Brandon Vogel * Brendan Kidwell * Bryan Smith * Jason Crome * Michael O'Donnell * Randy Cole * Robert Luoma Attendees (anonymous): * Chuba * Lan * R (Rhode Island Linux) * Ron BC * TT ------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Keville says:Hey, Bryan... welcome to the Hub! 18:38 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Bryan Smith says:Hey Kurt, just finished work and saw you email so here I am! ; 😃 18:38 ------------------------------------------------------------------- R says: rilinux.org 18:54 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says: rilinux.org is parked free, courtesy of GoDaddy.com . 18:54 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says: https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?itc=dlp_domain_whois&domain=rilinux.org 18:55 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael O'Donnell says:Audio good. 19:01 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael O'Donnell says:...and please allow me to mention that my screen isn't large so please make presentations readable to suit... not necessarily lowest-common-denominator but please also don't assume 5k widescreen 19:03 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron BC says:Rather have my data go to China than USA. I can more easily avoid China... Also... Canadian. 19:03 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Keville says:Should we be seeing slides? 19:04 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael O'Donnell says:share screen 19:05 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says:nay 19:05 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says:👎 19:06 ------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:nay. I'll probably try it at some point, but haven't tried it out yet. 19:06 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael O'Donnell says:I've used ChatGPT a fair amount in the past month or 2, haven't used anything else like Claude. Have seen a couple of ChatGPT's notorious problems but, in general, it's scary in its ability to simulate a 1:1 conversation and summarize its findings. 19:08 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron BC says:One must be impressed by how ChatGPT v3.? **smashed** the Turing Test in late 2022(?). We went from "Is it possible to mimic human behaviour?" to "OMG, we can't tell humans from computers AT ALL - what will we do now?!?" 19:09 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael O'Donnell says:Are AIs like Deep Seek working at a level of abstraction above the language problem? or do they function better when queried in Chinese v.s. English? (sorry if that's a dumb question) 19:14 Does DeepSeek suffer simple errors like ChatGPT's inability to simply count the characters in a particular word? or to name the day that's 6 months from today? 19:35 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael O'Donnell says:👍 19:36 I lost maybe the last minute's worth of audio 19:41 ...OK, more like 20 seconds, but it seemed like a minute. 19:42 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian says:Separately interesting to figure out what the "business model" options are 20:19 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael O'Donnell says:Is he sharing a screen? 20:21 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian says:One way to avoid the "character counting" and even "number comparing" problems - you can ask (in some places) "give me the answer in code" or "do the comparison in code" and it can actually analyze and then code the response accurately (e.g. in python) 20:22 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael O'Donnell says:I'm only seeing a white screen... 😦 20:23 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says:click on Kurt Keville's Screen 20:24 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael O'Donnell says:Oh, duh... thx 20:24 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says:😀 20:26 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Bryan Smith says:👏 20:26 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says:Thanks for the two great presentations! 20:41 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon "maddog" Hall says: lamplighterbrewing.com Phone number (617) 945-0450 284 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139 20:48 ------------------------------------------------------------------- meeting ended at 8:52 pm