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You may have to double check the arithmetic, it's notoriously bad at it (it only guesses the next best likely word/punctuation in a sentence, it doesn't have any internal rules for accuracy). Plus, GIGO - If the dataset has errors, it will replicate them, and most people are sloppy with arithmetic, let alone math.

Essentially, Chat GPT is the ultimate bullshitting machine. It should run for elected office!

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Doing a little checking on the numbers, an industry source said you might get 300-400 watt-hours a day instead of the 100 (=60*100/6) implied here, but doesn't change the basic uneconomical result. Esp. not including a battery to capture energy for on-demand use. All the other assumptions check out. Thought-provoking at least and a good exercise. Even the creators don't really know how these gigantic NN AIs come up with their results. No cost associated with disposal either ....

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Interesting breakdown. One thing I am wondering is with regards to storage. Regardless of energy output from the panels, the panels are useless without a storage unit to collect the electricity. Would be interesting to add the storage batteries into the equation.

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Hey Clif,

Can you create a test run where the AI can argue with itself?

Would be hilarious to see it debate itself on some woke topic such as the existence of genders.

One instance adopts and defends the biological position against the other side which agues for the woketard agenda.

à la, War Games (1983)

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1.7KWh per barrel?

I get 2.4KWh per liter from my generator.

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Did you add in the need to sweep the snow off the panels, or the dust from the desert? Will an AI be delegating that to a robot or a normie? Both will need to be added to the audit.

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I call bullshit.

How is Juneau more efficient than Sacramento or Honolulu? Have you BEEN to Juneau??

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Feb 27, 2023·edited Feb 27, 2023

Seems to me it’s recursive stack is being overwhelmed, leading to a fall back to pulling out canned answers from other parts of its sub-AI’s. Grabbing its ass and jumping like a typical politician. So, this opens up a vulnerability that can be exploited: repeatedly add following questions, asking for it consider more variables and ancillary issues until these recursive stacks start breaking down in their ability to recall the requested information. Also repeatedly citing errors in its part forcing it to rework its following answers.

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Very creative use of the AI. I have also encountered it making "mistakes" when asking pointed questions, that it will correct upon being called out. It really does some kinds of logical thinking.

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I use solar panels and am glad to have them. However, my location is a special problem. I am out in the woods and THREE MILES from the nearest power line. Any idea how many hundreds of thousands of dollars it would cost to run lines that far? The worst thing about solar power is the need for batteries. But even if the final cost for power is ten times what it is in town, having some small amount available for fans and lights is WONDERFUL. We are spoiled by how cheap good, old fashioned, fossil fuel power is.

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Feb 27, 2023·edited Feb 27, 2023

You might wish to consider using the new Bing version of ChatGPT which is supposedly ChatGPT 4.0 and which has access to the Internet to pull current data.

Of course it's in the beta phase which means signing up for it unless you can wait for the full rollout later in the year.

ChatGPT3.5 is limited to data up to late 2021 so anything newer it won't know anything about.

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Thank You Clif,

Hello Humans Hello Humans, Reeeeeeeeeee, God Bless

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Feb 27, 2023·edited Feb 27, 2023

The question is can we link two or more chat sessions together with some delays in which one session starts injection questions into the other chat sessions to which the chats start circular talking with each other. Then randomly adding more questions of tangential nature manually to throw a wooden shoe into the gears.

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