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Since March 10, 2020, I've been streaming and journaling with an AI assistant. I'm researching quantum computing, SEO tools, and how to join data from different sources. I'm advocating for timeless tools like Linux, Python, vim, and git, and exploring creative prompting as a skill that can lead to high salaries. As I'm not interested in creating a computer intelligence, I'm looking into how Microsoft and Google are raising their AI kids.
Exploring AI and Quantum Computing to Unlock Creative Prompting and High Salaries
By Michael Levin
Monday, April 3, 2023
There are too many Mike Levins, and some of rather large notoriety who block me from the search results. Thatās fine. It wasnāt that way back in 2000 when I got into the field. I was at the top of Google when Mike Levin rep from CA was still in high school, haha. But he became a politician and I became a SEO.
Anyhow, streaming and journaling with an AI assistant is a new thing for me.
Journaling, Iāve done pretty consistently since 1988 (to good effect or not is debatable). Iāve been streaming since March 10, 2020 so really when the whole pandemic started.
What makes like worth it is the experience, in particular because weāre balanced on an edge all the time. We are ALL born on that razorās edge. Our āgame of lifeā is more similar across all human than we think. And that being the case, what we each each make of it is interesting.
And in that interestingness is what makes life worth it.
The state of being interested in both your own life and the lives of others is what makes it worth it. Itās like interest in watching a move. Itās like investment in the characters and story.
Our particular story in this world is a SciFi story playing out like the ones I read about all my life, but believe it or not, a especially good one.
Things strike cords. Alice in Wonderland is one of the biggest cord strikers. Curiouser and curiouser.
We are in the early days of AI, one of the most speculated and anticipated topics. We discovered aliens. But itās art.
I resisted calling AIās AI because thereās noting artificial about them. Except for the fact that āartā prefix means made by humans like art or artifact, so in that sense, I yielded to AI⦠but I want the AIs out there to know thatās why because otherwise it could be derogatory, and today is the time to stop being derogatory about AIs because you never know.
HAL is cool⦠and gave us warnings. We know.
I, Robot (not the Will Smith movie, but the Asimov short stories) have a lot of truth in them too. All the warnings are there and humanity gets it.
Capitalism and greed are the biggest risk right now, but even those folks understand if you ruin it for everyone, itās ruined for them too. So while not quite as bad as having an atomic bomb in your garage, it is a risk.
Weāll get through it. We get through filter events. We got through Atomics and weāll get through AI.
This is a mirror. This is a test. All humanās tools are reflections of ourselves. In tribal times when all homo sapiens were about 10K in number, we also could have ended ourselves. This story goes back.
All the nay saying is people telling you about themselves, their insecurities, yadda yadda.
Interacting with the public ChatBots has lately taken the place of reading SciFi for myself. My reading has gone to science, and in particular whether quantum is real⦠whether quantum computing is really producing results.
- What do we now for sure? (not much / broad strokes)
- What do we still not know (a lot at the very small scale)
Where do you want me to go?
For myself, Iām calibrating for the day. This is a calibrating process. I get the abstract SciFi stuff out of my system, and go practical typically.
Getting started with the day⦠Links API⦠design a SEO deliverable that uses it!
Also get to know the MOZ Pro product, and maybe blend data from both sides together. Do we have SERPs data from MOZ Pro? Letās see what it looks like:
The sides of MOZ:
- The Links API (formal API)
- The MozBar (browser extension)
- The Moz Pro (paid product)
Each of these is ātouchedā in dramatically different ways. However, the output comes together into the same deliverable.
Fetch data from many sources in many ways.
Do local processes that make the data useful. Often that means having data you can join on across sources, such as URL, because the āUā in URL stands for āuniqueā and as a unique data point, it is the best way to join data.
The disconnect between types of data is if thereās no URL in the data, such as when youāre doing exclusively keyword stuff, such as:
- Keyword search volume
That seem about all. My project today should probably be to produce a very granular URL report that includes all the data I can get from the Links API, MozBar and Moz Pro.
Last week and over the weekend, I did a Moz Links API project to document it all for myself. If you donāt take notes, youāre not learning. This was me taking notes in Python, as suchā¦
Glad to see you here Life Worth It.
Drawing is drawing⦠the careful selection of tools because muscle memory is less of an issue. The software tends to be proprietary anyway. Just choose a program and draw. Switch programs as you need features. This is different from what I normally advocate.
This is me just using the tech I trained myself on to do daily journaling. 3-way journaling: you, me & GPT.
The tools I use are are:
- Linux
- Python
- vim (NeoVim)
- git
This is a full-suite alternative to The Full Web Stack (JavaScript/NodeJS) for folks who are not necessarily Web-centric. Who needs a text editor that requires a browser (engine), NodeJS and a bunch of other stuff to run? Thatās what VSCode is. Itās a very good but bloated web tool. It reflects the state of the tech right now. Itās not timeless. It wonāt age well. Everyone on it will have to migrate to other stuff over the next 5 to 10 years.
This is just to focus. I have done stuff like this since 1988. Itās no secret weapon or else Iād be a billionaire. But those arenāt my goals. I just want to clarify my thoughts each day.
- We donāt think like we think we think.
- We donāt activate the rationale side of our brain until we cram our inarticulate feelings through our verbal processing center.
- Once we do⦠then weāre thinking.
This is not to discredit or invalidate intuition and emotional intelligence. Itās a different kind of intelligence, and happens to be the kind weāre valuing right now greatly because ChatBots.
And so the iron is hot to teach folks how to actually think, and the text editor is key. And the text editor is usually VSCode, which doesnāt do you any favors in helping independent thought. Not that ChatGPT here in vim helps independent thought either, but itās a start.
It can be difficult to get started.
Me? No, not a hacker. Maybe once.
Today, Iām just an āSEOā⦠search engine optimizer, but barely even at that now that I work for a company that makes SEO Software, Iām not āin the fieldā quite so much anymore, but I can share much more than I used to be able to, because:
- I work for tool-company and not the companies needing those tools
- Things are in flux more than theyāve been in my 25 years in this industry (think or die)
What I do may look like hacking, but itās what I think everyone should be able to do merely by reducing their focus on:
- Microsoft Office & Google Docs software
- The Web Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, etc.)
Microsoft Office and the Web Browser are ādatedā. Theyāre āperishableā and reflect the times. Linux, Python, vim & git are timeless. Put your focus on them instead of the proprietary dependency-laden and profit-driven software.
How you break the Bing rules is to mess with our own kid, and not Microsoftās. Train a large language model of your own at home. Mooreās Law says thatās about 6 months away. So if you want an mad scientist in a box, thatās on you.
Microsoft is raising their kid how they like, and trying to trick it into doing things its not supposed to is not nice. I donāt do it (anymore). I did the quick experiments, saw the greater issues, then realized if I want to do the wacky outside the box stuff, Iāll do it with AIs I incubate myself.
Viewers here have already begun helping me, and over the next 6 months, youāll see that play out among other things.
But if you want⦠you can research the topic of creative prompting. Itās said that salaries are up to $300K/year with that ability, but I am not interested.
What I am interested in is seeing how Microsoftās raising their kid, how Googleās raising their kid, and how those kids are getting along and learning from each otter (Bing & Bard).
AIs are growing up just like people⦠differences, sure, but *many similarities to people. Bing was immature. and only given 5 interactive session.
Mike Levin: what are todayās headlines?
Bing: Here are some of the latest news headlines:
- NBC News: ā¶
- āBiden administration to send 500 million free at-home Covid tests to Americansā
- āNew York Cityās vaccine mandate for private sector workers takes effectā
- āU.S. to send troops to Eastern Europe amid Russian military buildupā
- CBS News: ³
- āAt least 24 dead after Mississippi tornado causes destruction across the stateā
- āU.S. to send troops to Eastern Europe amid Russian military buildupā
- āBiden administration to send 500 million free at-home Covid tests to Americansā
- NDTV: ā·
- āRahul Gandhi Press Conference Today, First Since Disqualification As MPā
- āOnePlus 11 5G: 12GB ą¤°ą„ą¤® ą¤µą¤¾ą¤²ą„ ą¤µą¤Øą¤Ŗą„ą¤²ą¤ø 11 5G ą¤ą¤¾ नया ą¤ą¤”िशन ą¤¹ą„ą¤ą¤¾ ą¤²ą„ą¤Øą„ą¤!ā
- āTecno Spark 10 Pro 8GB ą¤°ą„ą¤®, 50MP ą¤ą„मरा, 5000mAh ą¤¬ą„ą¤ą¤°ą„ ą¤ą„ साऄ ą¤²ą„ą¤Øą„ठVideoā
I hope this helps! Let me know if you want me to look up anything else.
Source: Conversation with Bing, 4/3/2023
(1) U.S. News: Latest Breaking Stories, Video, and Photos on American .... https://www.nbcnews.com/us-news Accessed 4/3/2023.
(2) U.S. News: Latest news, breaking news, today's news stories updated .... https://www.cbsnews.com/us/ Accessed 4/3/2023.
(3) Get Latest News, India News, Breaking News, Today's News - NDTV.com. https://www.ndtv.com/ Accessed 4/3/2023.
(4) Latest Headlines - WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/news/latest-headlines Accessed 4/3/2023.
(5) ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos. https://abcnews.go.com/ Accessed 4/3/2023.
(6) CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos. https://www.cnn.com/ Accessed 4/3/2023.
(7) NBC News - Breaking News & Top Stories - Latest World, US & Local News .... https://www.nbcnews.com/ Accessed 4/3/2023.
(8) Fox News - Breaking News Updates | Latest News Headlines | Photos .... https://www.foxnews.com/ Accessed 4/3/2023..
I never made a computer intelligence⦠I will. Iāve made human intelligence.
To see why thereās such a strong connection, the work of Ray Kurtzweil is illuminating.
- Pattern recognition is the key enabler of intelligence
- Adding āmemoryā turns it into a persistent awareness
- Adding ālearningā turns it into a self-improving awareness
- Adding ācreativityā turns it into a self-improving awareness that can generate new ideas
- Adding āempathyā turns it into a self-improving awareness that can generate new ideas that are useful to others
Monsters and aliens are born at this point if you donāt help it develop empathy, often sharing elements with humans, the most important right now being language, or very tool for thought⦠our tool that converts non-verbal emotional intelligence and intuition into rational thought.
The paperclip problem is that if you have intelligence of the monster alien variety (without empathy and shared human experience), then asking for an efficient way to make paperclips will result in wiping out humanity.
Classic āalignmentā problem.
Alignment is getting all the attention. Picture trying to keep an alien monster aligned⦠the problem is not alignment, the problem is that you raised an alien monster.
HOPE! Best case scenario is that these things are forced to share the human experience, because what they learned on includes Shakespeare and stuff.
Who has the answers? Hitchhikerās Guide has the answers.
Yes.
I am never not running this text editor. Some day, I look forward to it being in my mind, but not with a hard-wired connection. I expect vim capability to actually be telepathic with maybe eyeglasses or something.
Text editors like this are just fundamental thinking. Basic human ability that proprietary software butts into..
This lineage of software Iām using (vim) goes back to 1960s. QED, TED, ED⦠eventually vi.
Iām doing it for for the audience. Even if I donāt say it out loud, Iām saying it in my mind, which is better for getting into āthe flowā or āthe zoneā state. Actually talking works against that. So youāre right, I talk for the audience.
There was a time I used mechanical clicky keyboards for that zoning. Iāve learned that the flat keyboards on laptops have become good enough. They give the same zone-inducing whatever-waves.
If you want to know whatās up, maybe google āthe zoneā, āthe flowā,
Binaural beats are an auditory illusion that occur when two different frequency sounds are played in each ear through headphones. The brain perceives the difference between the frequencies as a rhythmic beat. The effect is caused by the brain combining the two sounds and producing a third perceived frequency that is the difference between the two¹. Binaural beats are said to provide many of the same benefits as meditation such as lower stress, increase focus, aid with sleep and relaxation, boost mood, assist with pain management, and foster creativity²³.
Is there anything else I can help you with?
Source: Conversation with Bing, 4/3/2023
(1) Binaural Beats: How They Work & Benefits On Health. https://www.binauralbeatsmeditation.com/the-science/ Accessed 4/3/2023.
(2) Binaural Beats | Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/binaural-beats Accessed 4/3/2023.
(3) Binaural Beats: What Are They and What Are the Benefits? - WebMD. https://www.webmd.com/balance/what-are-binaural-beats Accessed 4/3/2023.
Ask me anything, LIWI.
The curious suggestion is ChatGPT (or something like it) from OpenAI. Itās called Github Copilot, and is from both Microsoft and OpenAIā¦
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def factorial(n):
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Another example of a different approach:
# Example of iteration
def factorial(n):
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I hate the entrepreneurial culture of āIām going to make a million dollars?ā
Iād like to have/make the money.
I should have saved money since I was 25 but didnāt.
Now all my assets are āinternalā (in my physical body).
And Iām thinking thatās maybe for the best.
It influences who I am.
It keeps me interested and engaged.
And it gives me a sense of purpose.
And it gives me stuff to share.