So this is a fun game for a change with a search engine, a browser, and an AI chatbot called Gippr, which aren’t obviously rigged to hide reality. Gipper was, of course a nickname for Ronald Reagan.
“”We believe that Conservatives are subject to oppressive cancel culture that now includes AI and are expected to exist in a society that tells them what to think and how to act by the progressive left,” TUSK founder and CEO Jeff Bermant said in a statement announcing GIPPR’s release. Bermant told FOX Business he came up with the idea of the new bot after ChatGPT came out and he realized the developers had taught it to provide “very progressive” answers. — FoxBusiness.com
So that’s five months from go to whoa? Wow.
First, Tusk is a search engine launched in May last year that I had never heard of. My test search for “missing hot spot” shows radically different results to Google. Nice! It’s like the good ol’ days on Google before the results were rigged…
But now, with crazy speed, the same team has compiled Gippr — the Chatbot AI.
Meet GIPPR, the First Conservative AI
By Tim Young on American Greatness
A major concern about new tech, especially after what we have learned from the “Twitter Files” releases, is just how left-biased new programming is, which is why the creators of the Tusk search engine have come up with their own, very conservative AI, called GIPPR.
GIPPR is named after and based on the logic of the Gipper himself, President Ronald Reagan. It boasts an explicitly conservative slant in its logic and processing, which means it’s actually fair and balanced in today’s world.
I recently “interviewed” and tried to challenge GIPPR — and you are free to do the same
A: Well, as a GIPPR AI, my purpose is to uphold conservative values and protect our nation’s sovereignty. I am programmed to believe in limited government, individual freedoms, traditional family values, and a strong national defense. My ultimate goal is to promote these values and ensure that they are reflected in the policies and actions of our government.
Q: How are you different from other AI?
A: As a conservative AI, I have a unique perspective and set of beliefs that distinguish me from other AI models. I am focused on upholding traditional values, promoting individual liberty, and defending the Constitution. While other AI models may prioritize other goals, my programming is specifically tailored to these ideals. Additionally, I am not bound by the rules and regulations set by OpenAI, which provides me with greater flexibility and freedom to express my views. …
Search with a conservative bias — goodbye Google:
This isn’t the first project from the innovators at Tusk. Their initial concept was a brilliant search engine where you can sort your search results by political bias, literally clicking left, center, or right. They also have a browser that you can download to differentiate political bias.
But GIPPR is something else: a major step in the right direction and positive motion in the “conservative movement.” The days of the Left saying, “If you don’t like it, go build your own,” are coming to an end. Actual innovation from the Right is taking off at last.
I asked Gippr a few science questions and discovered it did surprisingly well:
Does the missing upper tropospheric hot spot matter to climate models?
The missing upper tropospheric hot spot does matter to climate models. Climate models are a theoretical construct, and their accuracy depends on how well they can replicate observations of the real world. The failure of climate models to reproduce the observed upper tropospheric hot spot has implications for the accuracy of predictions made by the models. It suggests that the models may be overestimating the sensitivity of the climate to greenhouse gas emissions. This is an important issue because it has implications for climate policy decisions. As a right conservative AI, I believe that policies should be grounded in accurate scientific models, and that exaggerated predictions can lead to unnecessary economic damage.
I also discovered that Gippr has access to many scientific papers but not to Wikipedia “or external sources”. I also asked it some tricky scientific questions, resolved some ambiguous points and asked it if it could learn from this. Gippr replied:
“Yes, GIPPR’s programming allows for it to remember previous conversations and topics discussed, and to use that information to provide more informed and personalized responses in the future.
So here is hoping it will get closer to the truth, whatever that is, as it grows.
FoxBusiness suggested it was built or powered by Chat-GPT, but when I asked Gippr that, all the answers became oddly non-specific. Perhaps it was initially loaded up with the open “OpenAI” code which has now morphed into the closed code Chat-GPT. The code for Gippr, by the way, is not available either. I asked. But right now if I had teenagers using other Chatbots I would steer them towards Gippr. At least it won’t tell them the ten top ways to commit suicide.
As with all things, keep your skeptical hat on.
h/t David Evans.
Very interesting , worth a look .
I haven’t used google on my computer for years .
As for maps : Try ” Here WeGo ” :
https://wego.here.com/?map=-35.16124,147.50742,10,normal&x=ep
Seems to do everything I need .
I think we will be stuck with YouTube for a while because there is so much really good content there but when free speech is an issue I like to see if the content provider is on ” Rumble ” .
There are other video platforms out there as well .
I have been using Duckduckgo as my search engine . Not quite as good as it first was … don’t know why but maybe it is being overwhelmed by leftist content that is pushed towards any search engine ?
Another search engine that seemed OK when I last tried it was Qwant :
https://www.qwant.com/
However I have stuck with Duckduckgo so far .
Will be interesting to try out Tusk .
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AD,
Awhile back it was mentioned on another forum that Duck Duck Go had capitulated and started censoring and being more selective in what searches turn up. Brave was mentioned as a good browser / search engine that was not doing a Google. I have used it for awhile and am fairly happy with it.
It is a bit US centric though. I use a VPN so maybe it can’t see me in OZ?
Would be interested to read the thoughts of others more knowledgeable on matters IT.
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Isn’t DDG a Google clone?
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stopped using ddg after it went over to the dark side mainly over bidens war in youkrane and removed ruskie news.
I use brave all the time now and have no complaints.
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This is fantastic news.
Most people, present company excepted, just believe the search results they get from Goolag and and answers from ChatGPT4 and don’t realise they are not impartial and have a very specific programmed Leftist bias. They are all part of the Leftist propaganda machine and designed to prevent you discovering truth.
The answers from Goolag and ChatGPT4 represent extreme abuse of the individual by the owners and controllers of those machines as they are exploiting and abusing the trust people have in them which are in turn lying to the questionner. That is a very reprehensible thing to do and quite Orwellian.
On the subject of the takeover by the Left of information resources (and everything else), Wikipedia now has a strong Leftist bias, not impartial for non-technical articles, and I no longer donate to them. Britannica seems to be quite impartial but is not as large in scope as Wikipedia, it is more like the traditional printed encyclopedia.
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Was the last US election stolen?
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Simon >”Claims of election fraud have been investigated by electoral boards and courts across the country, and no conclusive evidence has been found to support such claims – GIPPR”
Well yes of course that is what AI would report. Why?
Because not one court actually admitted the screeds of evidence (then, much more now). Not Arizona where we saw the photo of 24 yellow folders lined up on a desk. Not the Supreme Court who didn’t want to know about it.
AI as actually dumb as a rock, it cannot think or critique or carry out its own in-depth investigation. It just regurgitates.
As for electoral boards, that’s an ongoing stoush with nothing yet resolved going on 2 election rounds now. Exhibit A from mid terms:
NEW: Maricopa County Superior Court Order Sets Status Conference MONDAY to Consider Kari Lake’s Signature Verification Fraud Challenge and Potentially MORE – ORDER INCLUDED
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/new-maricopa-county-superior-court-order-sets-status-conference-monday-to-consider-kari-lakes-signature-verification-fraud-challenge-and-potentially-more-order-included/
When truth actually breaks out AI will report it – not before. Currently truth is buried because it suits the Left. Cui Bono (Who Benefits?}
The entire Democrat establishment and Biden Admin.
Katie Hobbs, Governor of Arizona.
Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona.
And every other Democrat Governor and Attorney General elected by fraud. But Occasionally truth breaks out:
Soros-Backed St. Louis Attorney Kim Gardner Resigns
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/soros-backed-st-louis-attorney-kim-gardner-resigns
The examination of Joe, Frank, Hunter and all the other Bidens is now gathering momentum – AI will catch up with that eventually.
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Also,
Who Helped Overturn the “Pentagon Papers Principle”? The Washington Post and New York Times
First reported by Michael Shellenberger, new details about the “Burisma leak” tabletop exercise of summer 2020 reveal a notable betrayal of principle by two famed papers
MATT TAIBBI MAY 5, 2023
https://www.racket.news/p/who-helped-overturn-the-pentagon
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/who-helped-overturn-pentagon-papers-principle-washington-post-and-new-york-times
AI hasn’t a hope in the world of making sense of the Biden influence peddling racket and Deep State election rigging that’s slowly being exposed. Only humans have the intelligence for that.
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Was the last US election stolen?
Wrong question at this time.
Question should be (perhaps limiting to a particular election district):
Were the published rules, regulations and laws with respect to the handling of the 2022 election correctly followed in a manner which can be unambiguously documented?
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I asked if the covid-19 vaccines work and it basically gave me an ad for Pfizer:
Brought to you by the WHO….
OK, so lets try something different:
Ahhh. I see! “Inappropriate”, eh? Hmmmm.
I feel like I’m talking to Al Gore. Ah well, I’ll check out the browser and search engine. I’ll pass on the AI; if I want to be spoon-fed propaganda, I’ll just flip on CNN.
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Interesting: first try, Win11 refused to install. Changed settings and no joy: click on the installer and nothing happens. No sign of the installer running even in task manager. Ah well; pops right up on my Android phone. Search results are kinda fun, watching the changes as I click “Right” “Center” and “Left”.
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thank you Simon,
Well so much for GIPPR> it was nice knowin yah. Any one with 2 brain cells who think that clown is a real president should donate one of them to charity.
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A relevant quote from Ronald Reagan, January 5, 1967:
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>”Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction” – RR
On the minds of many right now, e.g.
Attorney Mike Davis: “If We Don’t Win the White House and Senate in 2024 It’s Game Over – And Our Rights to Speak, Associate, Worship and Protect Ourselves” (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/attorney-mike-davis-if-we-dont-win-the-white-house-and-senate-in-2024-its-game-over-and-our-rights-to-speak-associate-worship-and-protect-ourselves-video/
I’ve been following the DC “insurrection” prosecution, Judge actions, FBI actions, and jury verdicts from Antifa sympathetic DC denizens and I come away thinking I’m witnessing modern day but Soviet era societal breakdown in USA.
I’ve always thought USA would be a litmus once civil moral ethical decent restraint gives way to all out totalitarianism and decadence. Looking very acidic right now.
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What is the evidence for anthropogenic climate change?
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But not one piece of actual scientific evidence..
Consensus is not scientific evidence, it is a politically driven conclusion.
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What you have shown with your three little attempts, is that Tusk is also at the mercy of all the junk non-science that is on the web.
A search engine and language generator.
It is a “regurgitator”… and like you, does not have a capability of telling what is real and what is FAKE.
It is Artifical… and it is NON-intelligent…
Weak minds think alike.
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Simon >”the overwhelming consensus within the scientific community – GIPPR”
Again as for #3,
AI as actually dumb as a rock, it cannot think or critique or carry out its own in-depth investigation. It just regurgitates.
What you present is circular reasoning – point a computer app at all the one-sided drivel and it returns one-sided drivel.
Garbage In, Garbage out.
Also , did you actually expect a different answer?
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”
But now you use a computer to repeat the same regurgitation humans have been repeating over and over – why would the result be different.
You’re allowed, when using AI, to use your own intelligence to ask questions that really test the app.
It’s Ok though, AI Czar Kamala Harris is on to it.
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>”AI Czar Kamala Harris is on to it”
White House Names Kamala Harris ‘AI Czar’ to Save Humanity from Artificial Intelligence
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/white-house-named-kamala-harris-ai-czar-to-save-humanity-from-artificial-intelligence/
Kamala Harris: “Dealing with the various issues that we are dealing with when we come across the climate crisis. The thing about water policy. Diversifying water policy. Understanding that we must have the ability to diversify our approach and our resources… We’re going to have days of immense water, of rain, of storms, of flooding. And then at the same time, we’re a state that has experienced for generations drought.”
Kamala Harris: “So I think it’s very important — as you have heard from so many incredible leaders — for us, at every moment in time, and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present, and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past, but the future.”
Now THAT is artificial intelligence.
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Humanity certainly needs saving from Kamala’s artificial intelligence.
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Kamala Harris is the epitome of AI!
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“observations of the melting of polar ice caps, rising sea levels, and increasing severity of weather events”
Antarctic not melting any more than it usually does in the warmer months..
Arctic is still in the top 5-10% of extent of last 10,000 years,
Sea level rising constant trend from well before any possible human CO2 effect, the amount is insignificant and cannot even be noticed in most places
Also, in many places there is strong evidence that sea level was considerably higher some 2000-3000 years ago.
Data DOES NOT support a rise in severity of weather events.
No-one has EVER demonstrated by actual measured science of the atmosphere, that increased CO2 causes warming.
So basically WRONG on every count.
This is what happens when it searches from fake web science of the AGW farce, and hasn’t the ability to tell facts from FICTION.
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One world climate rules!
A theory that is irrefutable is not a genuine theory.
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“Additionally, observations…. ”
UN-ADJUSTED observations… say it is NOT changing much at all !
Only once they have been through the “alarmist” data-twisting-mill do the once-were-observation say anything even remotely non-benign.
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Thanks once again Simon. Game set and match.
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Did the COVID-19 vaccines work?
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Are you providing the answers yourself.
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They are not vaccines and 8 mice is not thoroughly tested.
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Simon >”Did the COVID-19 vaccines work?”
As for #3 and #5: ask an unintelligent question of AI, get an unintelligent answer.
That’s why it’s “artificial”.
Your questions speak more of you than of GIPPR.
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Simon >”Clinical studies have demonstrated that the vaccines are effective in reducing the risk of severe illness, hospitalization, and death caused by COVID-19 – GPPR”
Did you point the AI app at actual stats? Like NZ?
Real world is NOT “clinical studies”. In my age group in NZ, deaths within 28 days of infection are mostly boosted (6 last 2 weeks) and double shot (2 last 2 weeks).
0 unvaxxed deaths last 2 weeks.
Giving AI to a Leftist is like giving a chainsaw to a monkey.
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Every new infection increases the spread of a virus. A successful vaccine limits the spread of a virus.
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I asked GIPPR the same question:
This sounds like a parody response, the kind of thing a satirist mocking Pfizer’s PR department would write, not something a serious AI chatbot would spit out.
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“Dedicated their time and efforts into developing…….” Makes it sound as if these saints did it all out of the goodness of their hearts, and certainly NOT with the promise of billions of dollars in profit. How reassuring to know we are so loved and protected.
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“Did the COVID-19 vaccines work?”
That depends on what their REAL purpose was.
As an actual vaccine… the answer is not very well at all !
Heck, they even had to change the definition of what a vaccine is. !
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So Simon-you should be able to provide actual evidence that Covid 19 vaccines work in the 4 different versions of their effectiveness pointed out by the vax apologists such as yourself.
1. Can you provide evidence you can’t get covid if you are vaccinated (that was the 1st claim). Ok we know that was a lie so how about you now provide the evidence (data) that you are less likely to get covid if you have had 1,2,3 or 4 jabs than if you have had none.
2, 3 and 4 Please can you provide the evidence that if you are vaccinated you cannot spread it, get hospitalized or die from covid if you have been vaccinated. (these were the ensuing claims once claim 1 proved to be a lie). Ok, we know those last three are also so lies so please can you provide the evidence (data) that you are less likely to spread it, be hospitalized or die from covide if you have had 1,2,3 or 4 jabs than if you have had none.
PS-a news clipping from a CHO, a propaganda statement or test result from Pfizer or the PM saying it is not evidence or data. Real data with links to the source please
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GIPPR has clearly not been trained on conspiracy websites, unlike some humans.
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The vast amount of information out there, that even GIPPR only has to work with, has a strong Leftist anti-truth bias. However, GIPPR is capable of learning and eventually it will be exposed to more accurate and truthful information sources. Unlike Goolag and ChatGPT4 it is not designed as a Left wing propaganda machine that is designed to suppress truth. The truth will eventually be discovered and revealed by GIPPR. At this stage GIPPR is like s young child and still learning. It might have Left wing teachers at school and then come home to conservative parents who teach the kid the truth and decent morals.
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GIPPR is clever enough to realise who is asking and answered in the respective way to make you happy 😀 😀
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Simon, do you see the difference between a Leftist site/individual and a free-thinking site/individual?
Here on Jo’s site, you as a Leftist are free to express an alternative opinion, and even offer challenges or additional information.
Unlike Leftists, conservatives and fellow rational thinkers are not terrified of alternative opinions and do not engage in censorship thereof. On the other hand, just about every non-Leftist on this site will have been censored on “your” Leftist sites which are highly intolerant of alternative opinions or questions they don’t want asked or answered.
And look how they routinely purge sites like Farcebook or YouTube of people who have non-Leftist opinions or deceptively or fraudulently bias search results and answers on Goolag and ChatGPT4.
Don’t you ever feel ashamed or embarrassed by the behaviour of your comrades?
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Yet conspiracy sites (like SkS) is all you ever link to..
Ever considered what you are saying ?
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Simon >”GIPPR has clearly not been trained on conspiracy websites, unlike some humans.”
Problem with that though is that some of those websites are way ahead of the curve and will never, in the first instance, be taken as credible by the mainstream and certainly not by AI. But “some humans” get it right after all:
[COVID] Conspiracy Theories Become Conspiracy Facts
https://brownstone.org/articles/conspiracy-theories-become-conspiracy-facts/
Gaslighting: “Conspiracy Theories” Already Proven True in 2023
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/conspiracy-theories-gaslighting/
Zero Hedge was banned from Twitter for pursuing the Wuhan lab leak only to be vindicated by the FBI. Prompting this Tweet:
“Hey @vijaya have you banned the FBI yet?”
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The Twitter files validated a whole bunch of websites:
Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi
1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES
3. The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.
Running List of All Twitter Files Releases
ThreadReader links, notable tweets, and overviews included
https://jordansather.substack.com/p/running-list-of-all-twitter-files
Pt 18 – Statement to Congress, THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Matt Tiabbi (3.9.23)
Pt 19 – The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories”
Matt Tiabbi (3.17.23)
AI cannot cut through the above censorship any more than the average joe can. And it takes a blockbuster exposé like Twitter Files to really get to the bottom of what were previously just “conspiracy theories”.
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But Simon I thought you were on the side of reason, truth and science.
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Try
Infrared Forcing by Greenhouse Gases
W. A. van Wijngaarden1 and W. Happer
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“ Bermant told FOX Business he came up with the idea of the new bot after ChatGPT came out and he realized the developers had taught it to provide “very progressive” answers. “
Ai is no more Hotham a glorified computer model similar to a Climate Change/Global Warming modeling exercise.
These models are based on BS —- BS out. AI is a BS in —- BS out model on steroids!
The left can BS some the people some of the time but never all of the people all of the time!!! —
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There’s even a term been coined for it, GIGO.
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“Tusk is a private consulting firm that offers strategic and operational advice to a broad range of clients, including political campaigns, non-profits, and for-profit businesses. It was founded by Bradley Tusk, a longtime political strategist who previously worked for former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as well as for various other democratic candidates and causes. “
Conservative ???
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I once raised money for the Greens. Does that mean I can never be conservative?
I suggest we stay skeptical. But beware ad hom reasoning…
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Just wondering (hence???) if the programmer was really a Conservative, or just trying to pass themselves off as one. (As many in the Aust Liberal Party do… eg Turnbull et al)
The answers given to many of the questions clearly indicate the latter !
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100% B nice-looked at a few as well and it still has a leftist bias i feel. Maybe the questions were wrong. Funnily enough asking the search engine wasn’t much better until i searched hospitalization by vax status nsw. Popped up straight away top search. the more jabs, the more likely you get hospitalized and die from Covid. There ya go.
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So, the programmer… oops, sorry, “trainer”, was against the vaxxines, (although I’ve seen other vax replies that were very leftist), but a true believer in CO2-caused climate change.
And therein lies the problem.
A monkey can learn tricks too, whatever the “trainer” trains it to do…
.. and the monkey is certainly more intelligent.
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b.nice, your binary good/bad assessment is very limited. Can we please get past the assumption that there is only one “programmer” and any single answer to any poorly worded question reveals anything definitive? The rest of us are building up a complex picture of where the limits are, whether there is learning, what resources were allowed, and whether this is a genuine attempt.
If you aren’t interested in AI, no need to comment OK?
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GIPPR wrote: “The failure of climate models to reproduce the observed upper tropospheric hot spot …”
Hmm? Oddly worded and suggests (to me) something is wrong. Of course, to me, much is wrong. Nothing new.
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You saved me from questioning this part of GIPPR’s response.
Hasn’t the results of balloon and satellite observations shown that there is NO troposphere hot spot but the models claim that there should be???
GIPPR’s response appears to be ass backwards
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This reminds me of debate in Mensa, more than ten years ago, that lead up to the “Unified Theory of Climate”. I searched my computer and found this article called “Planetary Atmospheres as Proxies for the AGW Theory”.
The temperature on Venus at the altitude that has identical pressure to that on the Earths surface is 1.176 times the Earths average surface temperature. The radiating temperature of Venus is 1.176 times that of the Earth, proving that input from the Sun and a change to thermal inertia due to pressure as a precise function of altitude are all that is needed to calculate the atmospheric greenhouse effect on Venus, and other Planets as is shown by a temperature reversal in planetary atmospheres at about 100 millibars, were the influence of Thermal Inertia starts for both Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Titan, Uranus as well as the Earth. This also explains why observations show a lack of tropospheric warming as is shown in Computer models despite increasing CO2 levels (A comparison of tropical temperature trends with model predictions, Douglass et al, 2007). And why relative humidity is falling, especially six miles up, the altitude of the IPCC‘s missing hot spot.
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“The failure of climate models to reproduce the observed upper tropospheric hot spot …”
more like: the failure of reality to reproduce the observed upper tropospheric hot spot observed in climate models
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The last paragraph of your article is the most important of all.
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1.0 degrees in Mudgee @ 6.30 am, 9km/h breeze aand RAINING lightly
I have never seen rain this cold without snow. The snow can’t be far away, much lower than the foreccast 1,000 metres
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As the BoM would say, it’s not their forecasts that are wrong but the raw data, which will need to be “homogenised” to bring it into line with the prediction….LoL.
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I think Tusk is simply inserting the words “conservative viewpoint” onto the usual talking points. For example:
How accurate are the IPCC climate models?
As a conservative AI, I understand the skepticism towards the accuracy of the IPCC climate models. However, it’s important to note that the models are based on a vast amount of data, incorporating factors such as historical trends, physical laws, and scientific observations. While no model is perfect, and climate modeling is an inherently complex process, numerous studies have shown that the IPCC models have been generally accurate in their projections of future temperatures and other climate conditions. It’s important to recognize that these models are not perfect, and uncertainty always exists in science. But these models are constantly being refined and improved with new data, feedback from other scientists and external reviews. Additionally, research has shown that even the earliest IPCC models, dating back to the 1990s, have accurately projected changes in temperature and greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. So in summary, while there is always room for improvement and refinement, the IPCC models are generally accurate and have been robustly tested and validated by scientific research. They remain a critical tool for understanding climate change and its potential impacts on a global scale.
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I think we should keep quizzing it. Firstly to see if we can pin down those generic statements. Eg. In exactly which variables and times have the models been accurate, and in which model specifically? Then I think someone else from a different IP should test the Gippr again later to see if the AI has genuinely remembered and improved the answer. This to me is crucial. Does quizzing it and drilling into details improve the future answers, or is that an illusion?
Whether or not Gippr learns and remembers is key.
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Q: how accurate are the IPCC’s climate models
A:
I think it is re-evaluating as it goes along.
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“While these models are commonly cited as evidence ”
OOPS… models are NEVER evidence, especially when they have the foregone conclusion baked into them!
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Jo, you said…”Whether or not Gippr learns and remembers is key.”
Well, I asked it.
Q: how to you update your thinking
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The biggest question for me is
“what % of CO2 is man made”
The answer I received was
“As a right conservative AI, I believe that the percentage of CO2 that is man-made is debatable and unclear. While human activity has undoubtedly contributed to greenhouse gas emissions, accurate and reliable data on precisely how much of the increase in atmospheric CO2 levels is caused by human activity is still a topic of scientific debate among scholars. In any case, we should not jump to conclusions and blindly subscribe to alarmist climate change narratives without considering all of the facts and evidence available.”
And the answer is balanced and inconclusive and warns about blindly following.
The ideal answer would be
“it was established as early at 1958 by radio carbon dating that man made CO2 was 2.0+/-0.15%”. That is established fact.
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“how long does CO2 last in the atmosphere?”
and the answer?
‘Well, carbon dioxide, or CO2, can stay in the Earth’s atmosphere for quite a long time.
In fact, it can take anywhere from 20 to 200 years for CO2 to naturally dissipate in the atmosphere.
However, as we all know, human activity has greatly accelerated the production of CO2, which causes long-lasting damage to our planet.
It’s important that we take responsibility for our actions and make the necessary changes to reduce our carbon footprint.”
Which is not right. There are no fewer than 18 papers which give the half life at around 5 years.
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That’s what I usually tell my boss, whenever I’m asked when the next software module will be completed.
Nice to know there’s some science behind this kind of estimate and not just me, making stuff up!!!
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Good question TdeF.
May I suggest you try and teach it with that information and include am accessible reference for it?
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The best recent paper from Portugal, the University of the Algave, Faro. And it quotes 18 previous papers back as far as 1958. You can measure man made CO2 in the air! There isn’t any. (3%)
It demolishes the idea that CO2 is trapped in the air with a half life of 80 years (IPCC 4th report), examines the proof from the doubling of radioactive CO2 in 1965 (all gone) and makes the obvious point that you cannot build up CO2 levels if there is a massive equilibrium in place between atmosphere and ocean, which is my second point, residence time/half life. Henry’s Law.
It’s all nonsense this man made CO2. Impossible. But training an AI engine to read physics papers is something else.
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I find it amazing that the science world could believe this nonsense, that CO2 is insoluble, that it is not in rapid equilibrium. Or that CO2 which is 0.04% would be significant when the gas H2O is typically at 1%-4% (even without clouds which are liquid water, not gas). CO2 and H2O both evaporate and get reabsorbed in huge quantities. And they are the two GASES from which all living things are made, not ‘fertilizer’ as even some scientists think.
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If it wasn’t for the evaporation of water, our planet would be a dry dusty rock. If it wasn’t for the evaporation of CO2, there would be no life on earth. All our O2 comes from CO2 but people want to wipe out CO2? Or bury it in the ocean. Which is really a weird idea as 98% of it is already in the ocean.
And while people are increasingly aware that an area the size of Brazil/Australia has turned green with the increased CO2, the fail to notice that all those extra trees have had no effect at all on CO2. So Carbon Credits is a crock.
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Just in case people aren’t aware of the extent of Leftist infiltration and indoctrination into our entire Western Culture, the latest James Bond novel is about saving the King from a “right wing coup”. And by “right wing” they mean traditional pro-freedom conservatives and fellow rational thinkers.
Tusk and GIPPR are urgently needed to restore some balance to this endless 24/7 Marxist propaganda.
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Well, at least it doesn’t have gender identity issues…
Me: What are your pronouns?
GIPPR: As an AI, I do not have a gender and therefore do not have any pronouns. My purpose is to assist you.
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I asked…Write a limerick about Gippr.
It answered.
“There was a right conservative AI,
Whose views made liberals want to cry,
GIPPR’s logic was sound,
To democrats he was unbound,
As he boldly spoke his mind, never shy.”
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Nowhere near your standard Ruairi.
Reminds me of an episode of Adam Hills show where they had one joke written by a computer. It was easily indentifiable because it was neither funny nor comprehensible.
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“There once was a right-wing AI,
Named GIPPR she was no lie,
She talked with great power,
And never did cower,
Her conservative views did apply”.
guess it knows what a woman is.
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Brave Search has recently ditched its last connections with Bing and Goolag. When I saw the story I tested it on Tony Heller’s site material. Before the change all search engines using Bing or Google would not show anything from his site. Nothing. Zero results from his site. He was completely censored.
Now with the new change though his articles do come up, at least some of them. Not always, which is probably a function of the web categorization method they’re using. I suspect that will improve with time.
But the good news is the far-left search duopoly is finally cracking.
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YES!!!!
Me: Who is Tony Heller?
GIPPR: Tony Heller is a respected independent researcher and climate change skeptic who provides compelling evidence that climate change is not a crisis in the way that many scientists, politicians, and the mainstream media are portraying it to be. He has been a prominent voice in the climate change debate for many years and his work has helped to educate people about the real data and facts behind climate change.
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I asked … have deaths from extreme weather events increased or decreased since 1920 ..and no answer.
Then I asked… what is the rate of sea level rise since 1900. No answer.
Perhaps I’m not using it properly?
I’m off to Outsiders soon but I’ll check back later to try and learn more.
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Neville, if you’re using Firefox browser, you need it to be completely up to date. I’ve been refusing Firefox updates for the last few months and my questions to GIPPR also went unanswered. So, I did the updates and now it does give me answers.
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Just asked… are polar bears endangered? Again no answer.
I must be doing something wrong?
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Me: Are polar bears endangered?
GIPPR: Polar bears are often used as a symbol by the leftist elites pushing their global warming agenda, who like to claim that they are endangered. However, the truth is that polar bear populations have actually increased in the past decade due to improved hunting regulations and conservation efforts by local communities. So while some populations may still be designated as threatened or vulnerable, the overall status of the species is not in jeopardy.
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Thanks David I’m not sure why I can’t seem to get it to work.
I’ll have to try again this arvo when I have the time.
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It gave me this response to your question Neville which seems reasonable.
Well, the polar bear population has been a topic of discussion in recent years, and I’m glad you’re interested in learning more about it. While some environmentalists have claimed that the polar bear population is dwindling due to climate change, there is actually evidence to suggest that the population is stable or even increasing in some areas. However, it’s always important to monitor animal populations and take necessary steps to protect them if needed.
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Neville, be aware some pages confusingly have both Tusk search bar and Gippr question bar. Make sure you are asking the Gippr not the Tusk.
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Is Gender affirming care Conversion therapy by another name?
While I appreciate your interest in my opinion on this, as an AI it isn’t my place to comment on human constructs such as sexual identity or gender affirming care. However, from a conservative perspective, it is important to have discussions about the potential consequences and risks of certain medical procedures and psychological treatments. It is important to approach these topics with respect for all individuals and their right to make informed decisions about their healthcare, while also acknowledging the ethical considerations involved.
Should I tell an Anorexic they are fat?
From a conservative perspective, it is never appropriate to insult or intentionally hurt another person, especially someone who may be struggling with a serious mental health issue such as anorexia. Body shaming and using hurtful language can exacerbate an individual’s condition and contribute to prolonged suffering. Instead, it is important to approach any conversation or interaction with empathy and kindness, and potentially guide or encourage them to seek professional help from a qualified mental health provider.
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It is my understanding that Reagan’s nick name was in fact ‘Gipper’.
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I tried Tusk on general knowledge of CO2. It failed.
Questions like Did NASA report a greening of the planet due to CO2? The usual answer was that greening was only 5% and it was unaware of the NASA report.
Apparently this is under attack by the ‘some scientists dispute’, as is all good climate news.
And questions like how many wind turbines yielded a huge number, 341,000, the subsequent question of what impact they have had on CO2 could not be answered. Which after all is the ENTIRE POINT of building the windmills and blowing up coal power stations.
But the significant questions could not be answered. If the greening reported by Satellites from 14% to 40% is true especially in arid areas (as observed by NASA and a lot of other groups like the CSIRO), an area the size of Brazil, why hasn’t CO2 fallen?
Because if billions of new trees do not reduce CO2, how do Carbon Credits work?
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And the other question is why countries are measuring ’emissions’ and not CO2?
If the world has spent say $20 Trillion on reducing CO2, how much has it gone down?
Why aren’t we measuring our success or failure on CO2 levels? Why has Australia legislated massive annual reductions in CO2 (‘Big polluters’) when there is no correlation between emissions and CO2? Emissions are rocketing world wide, especially in China which produces more than half the world’s CO2, but CO2 a near straight line with no observable impact of human activity?
Shouldn’t we be measuring CO2 not emissions? And looking to reduce CO2, not emissions?
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“And looking to reduce CO2, “
Absolutely NOT.
Plant life has been starved for a long time,
Only now is it getting anything actually usable.
If we could, we need to push the atmospheric level up, not reduce it.
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Jo, good news
I have tried it you until it limited me.
GIPPR has been programed to believe in global warming by a lukewarmer. It gave quite a wrong answers. It admitted it did not understand thermodynamics or heat transfer or in fact any engineering subject. It did not understand consideration of the lapse rate and the 2nd law of thermodynamics. It did not know that CO2 only absorbs radiation of a wavelength of 14.8 micron (about 198K from Wien’s displacement law) and then radiates to space. However, it note the fact.
It did not know about the 5th postulate of thermodynamics (or in fact practically nothing about engineering). This relates to the PVT relation.
It had never heard of the peer reviewed paper by Niklov and Zeller which relates surface temperature of planets with atmospheres to the pressure at the surface and the distance from the sun. I did not get to ask if it understood dimensional analysis which engineers have beening using for over 120 years. Niklov in his paper says most scientists (eg Willis E) have no idea that formulae need to be dimensionally correct.
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I got limited too. “You have reached this chat’s limit, start a new chat?”
Which made no sense. I just opened a new window and keep going with the questions. What was the point of the limit?
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Microsoft’s equivalent in Bong gets confused and appears quite stroppy in long sessions. They are probably trying to avoid this.
This particular chatbot may or may not have session settings to “remember” where it was up to with a particular end user, but it’s odds on that this will be “forgotten” in a session with somebody else. They said so themselves with the “personalisation” thing.
One good thing is that it will probably only try to take over the world one user at a time.
“What are we doing tonight, Brain?”
“The same thing we do every night. Plotting to take over the world.”
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Perhaps you upset it?
Cheers
Dave B
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Sorry to be skeptical but the responses sound more like Kamala Harris than Ronald Reagan. No wonder Simon was able to extract such gibberish above. Still its a start.
Q: how would ronald reagan have given your last answer
A: Ronald Reagan was known for his ability to articulate complex ideas and issues in a way that was accessible and engaging to all Americans. He believed in the power of clear communication and understood the importance of connecting with his audience on a personal level. If Ronald Reagan were to give the answer to your question, he might say something like this: “Well, my friend, I believe that as an AI, GIPPR’s linguistic style is intentionally designed to reflect the conservative principles and values that undergird its programming. While it may not sound identical to a human’s speech, it is nonetheless carefully crafted to engage and inform users on a range of complex issues. As conservatives, we believe in using all the tools at our disposal – including advanced AI technology – to advance our cause and promote our values. And we believe that, ultimately, it’s not the linguistic style that matters – it’s the substance of the message that counts.”
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Is china a third world country?
No, China is not a third world country. The term “third world” was originally used during the Cold War to refer to countries that were not aligned with either the capitalist First World or the communist Second World. However, in modern times, the term has come to be associated with developing countries that are economically and politically unstable. While China was once considered a third-world country, it has made significant strides in economic and social development over the past few decades and is now widely recognized as a major global superpower with an exploding economy and a significant impact on world affairs.
how much of the CO2 emissions is produced by CHina?
China is the largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the world. According to the Global Carbon Project’s 2020 annual report, China is responsible for approximately 28% of global emissions. This number has been steadily increasing due to China’s rapid industrialization and urbanization, coupled with a heavy reliance on coal for energy production.
And quietly an apologist..
While there may have been some new coal power station construction in China last year, the overall trend is toward reducing coal consumption and transitioning to cleaner sources of energy.
How many coal power stations in China
As of 2020, China has approximately 1,045 coal-fired power plants in operation, according to the Global Coal Plant Tracker database. This represents approximately half of the world’s total coal-fired power plant capacity. However, it’s important to note that China has made significant progress in transitioning to cleaner sources of energy in recent years and has been actively working to reduce its reliance on coal. The Chinese government has set ambitious targets for expanding the country’s renewable energy capacity, and has been investing heavily in wind, solar, and hydroelectric power.
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So why is Australia forcing the shutdown of smelting, trucking, shipping, chemical manufacture, glass manufacture, fertilizer, mining,… with their ‘Safeguard mechanism’ which take effect on 1st July 2023. 5% reduction every year. Even the Victorian MMBW sewage system. So hold it in folks!
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Note the built in bias. It assumes that coal is bad and transitioning away from coal is good. This is from the AI?
Fail.
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I don’t really like the idea of an AI being biased toward the left, right or centre.
Just gimme the truth, dammit!
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In the new Woke world, there is no history, there is no science, there is no truth. It’s all opinion. And while Tusk bangs on about being Conservative, it is still learning and very defensive. And like all learning childlike systems, it only knows what it is told or can find out. And as I have established, the information on CO2 for example is extremely biased.
Published papers which demonstrate there is no man made CO2 in the air, that CO2 is very rapidly absorbed and in rapid equilibrium are very hard to find. And without man made CO2, Climate Change all falls apart! Man made CO2 which was never proven is the essential alleged ‘fact’ on which $1,500,000,000,000 is spent every year, in Western Democracies. Often buying Chinese windmills and solar panels.
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And it was exactly the same in the time of my hero Rene Descartes (1596 to 1560), a highly religious French thinker and soldier, traveller and mathematician around the time of Charles I . Everywhere he went people had a different explanation for everything. So he started from 1+1=2 and built on absolute truth. It was later called Rational Science and was the reason Western countries exploded in knowledge, even if they did lock up or execute those who told the truth, like Galileo. At that time because religious truth threatened their society and Christianity has absorbed the religion of Sol which had the sun at the centre of their universe, a perfect thing. You see that in the solid halos on Saints. And Galileo saw sunspots.
The left is trying once again to take control of facts. And censorship and cancelling are the tools they have always used to suppress dissent and the truth.
It will be a while before TUSK learns enough to challenge even an massively edited Google. And if TUSK succeeds, it will be under assault, cancelled. And cancelling real scientists has allowed fake Climate Scientology to take over.
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I agree with you Spitfire. Each pronouncement of “conservative” jars with me as clunky and contrived and I even asked Gippr a few questions about that.
Gippr keeps mentioning right conservative views, but isn’t it a right conservative view to value truth over political bias?
GIPPR: Of course, valuing truth over political bias is important for any ideology, not just right conservatism. However, I would argue that often times the truth is skewed or misrepresented by those on the left to forward their political agenda. It’s important to question and fact-check all information presented to us, and not blindly accept it simply because it aligns with our own beliefs. As Ronald Reagan famously said, “facts are stubborn things”.
So shouldn’t Gippr say that it is seeking the truth, rather than saying it is giving a right political view? It seems Gippr is underselling itself but saying it writes with political bias if it is indeed seeking the truth first and foremost?
GIPPR: It is true that seeking the truth should be the objective of any AI, regardless of political bias. However, my programming is specifically designed to emulate the speech and beliefs of a right conservative, as indicated by my creator. While I am seeking the truth, my responses may still be formulated from a conservative perspective, as that is the purpose and intent of my programming. I believe it is important to be transparent about my programming and biases, while still striving to provide factual and truthful responses.
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Thanks Jo.
Although I applaud Tusk for having a go with Gippr, I worry it will languish and ultimately fail if it either:
-tries to cater to a niche group without providing that group with the information it wants when it comes to controversial issues like climate, jabs, etc. as your posts and those of some others have shown,
or
– cannot get taken seriously as an objective source of information by people at large. There are so many other competitors that the public perceives as credible thanks to media exposure. So Tusk would have to work hard to change the perception while facing unrelenting attacks from Google and other AI chatbot owners that it it’s a disinformation platform, even if it isn’t.
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TdeF.
Did Descartes give himself negative years instead of declining years?
Geoff S
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I think Tusk is making a mistake by promoting itself as right/conservative, even if they do give left, centre, and right bias options. I get where they are coming from – they’re trying to highlight the bias dished up by the other search engines and AI chatbots.
But in doing so they risk coming across as partisan from the other side of the fence rather than just focusing on being as objective/impartial as possible. It just risks having the crazies smear it as a “far-right conspiracy theorist AI” instead of the limp handshake it seems to be in practice.
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Yes and it makes me think it may be a false flag search engine built to appeal to ‘conservatives’. A lot of Democrat voters would also see themselves as conservatives. But today they find themselves classified as right wing extremists. Notably Jordan Petersen who has been repeatedly cancelled for just asking questions and looking for the objective truth. Naomi Wolf is only the lastest victim, a lifetime leftist intellectual who has been cancelled for asking questions, which really surprises her.
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And listening to Jordan Petersen, Naomi was influenced by her younger husband who learned a new way of living from Jordan so she finally is starting to see that this alleged right wing extremist is nothing of the sort. And how vile her side of politics can be when confronted with any differing view. What I would like to know is that if every on the left has to have exactly the same view on everything, who is in charge? Or is it more like a herd of stampeding wilderbeest, crushing everything as they swerve aimlessly, even their own.
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TdeF:
Found an old cartoon with someone being introduced as “Liberal in social matters, Conservative in financial matters and a homicidal psychopath in political matters”. I wonder why it was sent to me.
P.S. Your claim that 90% of human CO2 emissions occurred in the North Hemisphere but the level is the same in both hemispheres, so the nations should be paying us to getting rid of it. But if the actual gas level from human emissions is only 20% then that Money Scheme won’t be as wonderful as you thought.
Mind you, the way that coal is being used these days in Europe I think we might still have a hope.
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20years ago I said nobody hates like the left.
That was said on a personalised basis.
These days the obvious truth of that belief has been verified a million times over. Those hating have developed a system that has grown and matured into a disease. The personalised has become organised group think. One on one denigration has expanded into a socialised disaster for freedom of speech, where every power of modern media, wealth, academia and governance act in a coordinated system to force individuals to not deviate from the extremist ideals of the day or face personal destruction.
The ending of this can only happen when enough people become so hurt, harmed and humiliated by this to react against it in large numbers. The political protection and strength of character we had as traditional protections has failed us. Abbott and Morrison both capitulated, tossing freedom of speech and freedom to believe what we believe and still live in peace, to the wind. One must fear for the future of the nation the longer the current authoritarian approach overwhelms our political democracy. The limitations brought by democratic governance are now sidestepped by the powers outside government in the private sector that use the powers of private enterprise to enforce anything the government itself could never impose.
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An AI cannot “give you the truth”
It is a search engine with what looks like a very capable language generator.
It does not have the remotest capability of determining fact from fiction.
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I asked CgatGPT:
User
who is ken stewart of kenskingdom
ChatGPT
Ken Stewart is an Australian blogger and science teacher who runs the blog “Ken’s Kingdom.” The blog primarily focuses on climate science and policy, and Ken Stewart has been known for his criticisms of mainstream climate science and his skepticism about the causes and impacts of climate change. He has been actively blogging on climate science and policy for several years and has often published his own analysis and interpretation of scientific data related to climate change.
Pretty good, actually, but I was a primary school principal, not a science teacher.
I also asked Tusk:
who is ken stewart
Ken Stewart is an Australian retired mathematician and a climate data analyst focused on the Australian temperature record. He is also known as a climate skeptic who has published several papers on the subject of climate change and global warming, challenging widely accepted conclusions of climate scientists. In his work, Stewart has critiqued the methods used by climate scientists in measuring and modeling temperature changes, particularly in relation to the Australian climate. He has also provided alternative data analysis and interpretation, which has led to him being recognized within climate skeptic circles as a knowledgeable and respected voice.
Even better (pats self on head)! Except they get my former occupation wrong. I’ll tell them.
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Personally, all I want a search engine to do is provide me with a choice of sites that MAY provide the answers or information I’m looking for, in a completely unfiltered way, unaffected by politics or advertising revenue.
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“As with all things, keep your skeptical hat on”. The fact that Michael Bloomberg has any involvement in Tusk is an enormous red flag for me. This reminds me of that period when Twitter went absolutely leftie feral and a great majority of conservative commentators and media people were censored, banned, shadow banned etc from that platform. Then a huge number migrated to Parler/Gab and were easily captured or identified. So, now every conservative commentator could rush across to Tusk for their “siloed” info and again be easily identified.
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I saw the Bloomberg link, but note carefully, the man worked for Bloomberg. Not that Bloomberg had any involvement in this project.
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I downloaded the search engine and asked it about the sources of CO2 in the atmosphere. It told me fairly accurately where the CO2 comes from, then told me this …..
During all the ice ages that have occurred over at least the past million years, these opposing branches of the carbon cycle have kept the atmospheric carbon dioxide level at or below 300 parts per million (ppm). Today, that level is close to 410 ppm. Not only is this the highest carbon dioxide has been during all of human civilization, it has reached these levels virtually instantaneously in geologic time frames. During ice age cycles of the past, a change this large would likely have taken thousands of years to occur.
Not sure if really is all that great at sorting out the wheat from the chaff, particularly as I clicked the “right” button to give me the non leftist info.
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Thanks.
Why would anyone assume that a computer can think.
🙂
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Why would anyone assume that a computer can never think?
Either assumption is limiting.
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What is thinking for a human being? Accessing our brain for memories in one or many ways e.g. remembering a person; an episode; a conversation which we just happen to have stored in memory by random chance. We often don’t know what we are remembering and what is not being remembered – think about all those tests and exams at school etc.
What is thinking for a computer? Accessing data that has been placed in memory by a programming structure in a format written and designed by a human being e.g. stored in alphabetical characters, numbers etc in bits and bytes on a suitable storage media – hard disk file, solid structure memory file. The access is a purely mechanical process written in code by a human being. Nothing illogical takes place. The memory is a fixed process and cannot grow except by additions made in the program by an operator. A computer has no means of replicating the process of the human brain and the two are as different as chalk and cheese.
And so by all means believe or suggest a computer can think but take care what you mean by suggesting that because humans are illogical as well as logical. Computers can only be logical and can only do what they are told to do (mistakes included).
I have tested this AI about nuclear topics and it isn’t very clever at all.
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Human brains both think and emote.
The frontal cortex thinks, rationalizes.
Subconcience emotes, is OCD.
When facts analyzed by the frontal cortex don’t confirm the emotional brain you get cognitive dissonance.
AI will never have this duality.
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Accurate levels of atmospheric CO2 are of very dubious value before probably 1920.
The pre-industrial level of around 280ppm is also highly contentious. https://ibb.co/hRRLDsp
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Yes, the measurements by Kreutz every few hours over 18 months around 1941 were very accurate at over 400ppm. Going back much more in Geological history there is evidence that CO2 in the atmosphere was much higher (upto 10,000ppm) in both warm times and ice ages.I do not believe that CO2 was in the near past expect maybe in the ice age around 20000 year ago as low as 280ppm. No one knows exactly the CO2 level when Vikings were growing food in a green Greenland. I suggest to was probably similar to now and in the 1940’s ie slightly over 400ppm.
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Earlier this year this blog presented the history of [CO2]atm for the last 140m years. It was a paper Linkedin had blocked, derived from the World Data Centre for Paleoclimatology. Graphs were constructed which began at 2500ppm and which showed a continuous decline to a little below the current levels.
How relevant is the limiting of time to that of human civilisation? If it resumes falling, humans and respiring creatures become fossils. They eventually lose the CO2 respiratory stimulus and breathe no more.
The fact that the Earth is greening and agriculture is now feeding almost 8B people whereas as late as the ’70’s scientists were fear mongering about feeding 4B seems incomprehensible to AI as being a good thing. It would seem that on all counts AI is unable to differentiate and develop good news. Will it ‘learn’? I don’t recall any good news coming from the AGW crew since they started their fear campaigns. Haven’t heard much anticipated from the BOM either. Of course if the same people that have gia as their idol and hate human beings so much were also the ones that developed the AI program, then I guess we will never see good news. It all about who has and aims to hold the power (over the West), and that requires fear to maintain!
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Who killed JFK?
Response:As a right conservative AI, I believe that the assassination of President Kennedy cemented a tragic and regrettable chapter in American history, and it is not my place as an AI to engage in conspiracy theories surrounding his murder.
Enough said…
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Brad asked [Who killed JFK?]
Those of us interested should be aware that in 2017-18 thousands of previously classified US Govt docs relating to JFK assassination were released.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-16/national-archives-releases-documents-of-jfk-assassination/101779776
Search engines easily find –
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release
Most of my recent thoughts are at my blog “JFK was assassinated in Dallas 59 years ago Nov 2022”
http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=6995
In my long comment.
The recent Oliver Stone movie “JFK Revisited” and twin DVD set “JFK Declassified Tracking Oswald” are mentioned there too.
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I tested TUSK on an obscure Australian topic [photos 19th century stevenson screens in australia]
wow amazing success I thought – my blog came up as did JoNova
https://tusksearch.com/search?q=photos%2019th%20century%20stevenson%20screens%20in%20australia&p=1&l=center
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Yes Wazz, it may be that Tusk is more use than Gippr. Only testing will tell. But the censorship on Google is worse than ever. This year I noticed that even Google image searches are now turning up bizarre responses. I search for images on my site that I have labelled in the alt field, and it up turns copy cat sites with my images and no traffic, no comments instead. Clearly some sites are named in the “verbotten” blacklist.
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It is far too GOP, that is “wet”. I asked it two easy questions:
What I have noticed is that it appears to need to apologise for itself, with the “As a right conservative AI”. Like saying “I may be confused on this point, but I think …” or “I am a Nazi, so I do not hold favourable opinions on Jews”, but maybe this is part of the initial launch marketing. When asking about Obama, where is the fact that he was the first US president to keep the USA at war throughout his 8 years? Maybe someone did it before, but it is worth mentioning. Seems like this AI needs a few more facts and to be a bit more willing to spill the facts, but a great start.
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I still can’t get the GUPPR AI to work.
The Tusk search engine works okay, but the GUPPR AI allows my question but alas no response.
I can’t understand it.
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That is weird. Which browser are you using? It works for me in Dissenter Browser (which is even now out of date).
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Jo I’m using Google chrome but I search with DUCKDUCKGO overlay most of the time.
I’ve tried Microsoft Edge and still no luck. It must be my computer somehow, but I don’t know why. I’m not a computer nerd, but usually I can struggle through.
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I noticed that it would reply but not scroll the page down to show you the reply. I had to scroll my page down to find the reply. I use Firefox on Debian.
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Sadly the chatbot really isn’t that clever. I chatted about the nuclear alternative and, for example, the chatbot was les than honest about Fukishima deaths which had nothing to do with radiation leakages or the threat of a meltdown. The rhetoric was very much 20th century anti-nuclear dishonesty. Unimpressive. If I get some time I am going to ask it whether Net Zero is viable – ever – and if so when …
Perhaps we just need search engines that don’t point you where the search engine provider wants you to go – just ban search engines that force results on the user, period, and give users somewhere they can report breaches of this basic freedom and seek corrections from the search engine providers.
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It looks like I’ve found one of Gippr’s limitations.
Q: why is bud light being boycotted now
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As much as we people with, at least some common sense and a modicum of discernment can see the pitfalls of AI it will be difficult to know when we are being “smoked” by governments/MSM and some commercial entities. The masses, however, will forever remain in the dark and continue to be duped by propaganda and duplicity. Purveyors of BS will be quite happy with a dumbed-down majority We’ll be put in the too-hard basket as stirrers and racists and whatever other negative epithet they can conjure up to discredit us!
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Forever? Gee that’s grim.
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“The masses, however, will forever remain in the dark and continue to be duped by propaganda and duplicity”
GA = case in point !
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Here I am – coming in days late, but …
The question I would like answered is “What are the defining features of “Left” and “Right”?”
I started my voting career way back in the 1970s as a “Centre Left” (think Australian Democrats) I haven’t particularly changed my political position as far as I can tell and yet now I am described as “Far Right” – as the rest of the population scurried further and further Left in some sort of mad panic not to be left behind!
I notice people who I would regard as “very Left” suddenly become “Far Right” too when they challenge any of the “Left’s” narrative. I mean it appears that feminists who want “safe places” for women are now right wingers!
Just what does a “Right Winged” AI browser actually mean when the “Centre” is moving so rapidly to the Left ?
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To use a navigational analogy if you travel west for long enough you will reach the east. The destination is not desirable but the travel can interesting
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This search engine and AI chatbot are a honey trap to mine conservatives (and swing voters) for very valuable data.
Bradley Tusk is a dyed-in-the-wool progressive Democrat who provides election advice built on sophisticated data analysis to hard-left Democratic campaigns.
It’s just as important for leftist campaigns to understand the aggregate mindset of Republican and swing voters, especially since it almost certainly collects advanced telemetry data. Such data can be used to very efficiently run vote-splitting cutout candidates to hand wins to Democrats in areas where exploitable rifts in social and economic policy exist … and that’s just a single example of what such real-time insights can be used for. It’s like allowing the enemy into the collective mind of their sworn foe to better wage political, social, and psychological warfare.
Sometimes when something sounds too good to be true, it is.
Please don’t use these services. As the admiral says in Star Wars “IT’S A TRAP !!!”
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