You said:
how many "r".s in the word "strawberry"
Tuesday, May 06, 2025
OPEN AI, THE PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION (PBC)
Open AI released today information about its new planned structure.
After several months of studying how to raise money to finance the development of AI, and a well-publicized lawsuit with Elon Musk, Open AI has changed its planned structure from going to a for profit company, to remaining a not-for-profit but one which controls a "Public Benefit Corporation" (PBC).
Here's the announcement from Open AI:
ANNOUNCEMENT 2025-05-05
https://openai.com/index/evolving-our-structure/
Here's an explanation of a PBC from Wikipedia:
"In business, and only in United States corporate law, a benefit corporation (or in some states, a public benefit corporation - PBC) is a type of for-profit corporate entity whose goals include making a positive impact on society. "
A PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION - WIKIPEDIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
Here's a link to an earlier article, with news about the studies Open AI was conducting, to help determine its future structure:
OPEN AI NEWS - QPORIT - 2025-04-16
https://qporit.blogspot.com/2025/04/new-products-and-reports-from-open-ai.html
Labels: AI, Open AI, Public Benefit Corporation, Sam Altman. PBC
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
NEW PRODUCTS AND REPORTS FROM OPEN AI
Open AI has released several new products and reports in the last few days.
NEWS
https://openai.com/news/
OPEN AI o3 & OPEN AI o4-mini ("Thinking!") -- 2025-04-16
https://openai.com/index/introducing-o3-and-o4-mini/
THE o3 & o4-mini SYSTEM CARD (EXPLANATION) -- 2025-04-16
https://openai.com/index/o3-o4-mini-system-card/
THE SYSTEM CARD -- 2025-04-16
https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/2221c875-02dc-4789-800b-e7758f3722c1/o3-and-o4-mini-system-card.pdf
OPEN AI NON-PROFIT INSIGHT COMMISSION ADVISORS (with audio) -- 2025-04-15
https://openai.com/index/nonprofit-commission-advisors/
UPDATED PREPAREDNESS FRAMEWORK -- 2025-04-15
https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework/
FULL DOCUMENT
https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/18a02b5d-6b67-4cec-ab64-68cdfbddebcd/preparedness-framework-v2.pdf
INTRODUCING GPT 4.1 IN THE API (with audio) -- 2025-04-14
https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/
OPEN AI PIONEERS PROGRAM -- 2025-04-09
https://openai.com/index/openai-pioneers-program/
NEW INSIGHT COMMISSION -- 2025-04-02
https://openai.com/index/nonprofit-commission-guidance/
Labels: AI, AI Pioneers, API, GPT, GPT-4.1, Insight Commission, O3 O4-MINI, Open AI
Monday, January 13, 2025
A TERRIFIC USE CASE FOR OPEN AI GPT o1
In ancient times, if you had a problem with your computer or an application, the answer might be in the documentation. At that time, it was said that the cost and space requirements of the computer were dwarfed by the cost and space requirements of the documentation. If you could not find the answer in your wall sized bookshelves of documentation, a professional expert was needed, or the problem was just declared unsolvable.
Somewhat later, say mid 1990's, the idea of online help from someone sharing your computer screen on the young web appeared. (I helped invent one of the first systems like that at IBM.)
Later, if you had a problem, Google started making it possible to google it. If someone had encountered that earlier, you might find some kind of solution on the web. Still later, you might find an explanation posted on YouTube on the web. It was still hit-or-miss, and depended on what was already written down or had been explained on some video that search could find.
Now, OPEN AI GPT o1 will listen to your problem, and coach you through the answer. If you have a problem, it will give you more detail. The help can be amazing.
One example: In a multi-page sign-on/registration for an application, I was stuck. The NEXT button would not light up. I asked o1 for help. It explained how one of the terms on the page could not be seen unless the page was full screen, and that a button was looking for something quite different from what it seemed to me to be asking for. To make me feel better(?) o1 even pointed out that other people had the same problem!
The instructions from o1 were considerably more complete, easier to follow, and more correct, than the instructions from the application's own site!
I've had similar success getting HELP!!! using o1 a number of other times!
Labels: A history of HELP!, GPT o1, IBM, Open AI
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
eXtended Reality & the Future of US All Current Status & The Next 4 Years
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SPEAKER: Eric Roffman invented the term eXtended Reality
in 2015 in his website/blog QPORIT (https://qporit.blogspot.com/2015/09/some-variations-on-reality-extended.html)
where he reports on video, theater, new technology (like XR!), science,
and public issues. He is currently beta testing QPORIT XR, a
3D 360 webXR extension of QPORIT.
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course using xR HMD's). He also founded “THE AMERICAN FILM MAGAZINE”,
later selling the title to the AFI, and created the award-winning multimedia
computer game “Millennium Auction”.
(Image
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Adobe Photoshop Beta; prompts by EHR.)
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Labels: 180, 3D, AI, Amazon, Apple, AR, Blockade Labs, eXtended Reality, Future, Google, Headsets, MR, MS, NotebookLM, NVIDIA, Open AI, RunwayML, video, VR, XR
Sunday, September 01, 2024
AI and the SPELLING of STRAWBERRY
A very interesting YouTube short noted that CHAT GPT & other AI models did not correctly answer the question "How many r's are there in the word, "strawberry" ?". They answered 2, but the correct answer, of course, is 3. (stRawbeRRy).
(Note: I'm curious if the recent announcement of Open AI's "Strawberry" model is related to this issue. According to some reports, "Strawberry" is better at "precise" reasoning -- like math -- than AI predecessors.)
According to the short, this is because of the way the AI algorithm tokenizes the question (aka prompt).
I decided to test it.. First, here is a link to the short:
https://youtube.com/shorts/7pQrMAekdn4?si=SkXStomGcFlAX_gf
Here is my dialog with Chat GPT 4o:
ChatGPT said:
The word "strawberry" contains two "r"s.
You said:
No. there are three r's s t r a w b e r r y
ChatGPT said:
I see where the confusion might have come from, but the word "strawberry" indeed has two "r"s. Here’s the breakdown:
- s
- t
- r
- a
- w
- b
- e
- r
- r
- y
So there are two "r"s in "strawberry."
You said:
s t r=1 a w b e r=2 r=3 y 3 r's. I just counted
ChatGPT said:
It seems there's a mix-up. Let’s break it down again:
- The first "r" is in the third position: s t r a w b e r r y
- The second "r" is in the eighth position: s t r a w b e r r y
- The third "r" you mentioned might be the same as the one in the ninth position, but it's actually still the second "r."
So the word "strawberry" has two "r"s, not three. The confusion might be because the second "r" is repeated in your count, but it doesn't add up to three different "r"s.
You said:
the two r's come one right after another, but there is still one r by itself and 2 more r's together
ChatGPT said:
Apologies for the confusion in my previous responses. You are correct.
Let's break down the word "strawberry" letter by letter:
- S
- T
- R (1st "r")
- A
- W
- B
- E
- R (2nd "r")
- R (3rd "r")
- Y
So, "strawberry" contains three "r"s:
- The first "r" in the third position.
- The second "r" in the eighth position.
- The third "r" right after the second one in the ninth position.
Thank you for pointing that out, and I apologize for the earlier mistake!
Labels: AI, Open AI, Strawberry
Monday, June 10, 2024
APPLE & ADOBE NEWS
ADOBE's current Terms Of Use (TOU) seem to claim ownership of anything you create on Adobe. (?!?#!&&aach!) They claim they don't really mean that, and they are introducing a new TOU soon:
UPDATING ADOBE'S TERMS OF USE
https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/10/updating-adobes-terms-of-use
APPLE has just announced at WWDC that they are partnering with OPEN AI to improve their AI capabilities. Years ago, SIRI was really the first AI agent to be widely distributed. However its capabilities are currently vastly inferior to what is possible these days. This is a welcome refresh.
It is worth noting that, almost 50 years ago!, Apple published a video showing what a personal assistant might be like.
Even earlier (1968), in 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY, Stanley Kubrick demonstrated one way that AI could be problematic! If you have not yet seen this movie, you should. (It can be found on many streaming services.)
in addition to AI enhancements, there was other news.
For Apple Vision Pro (AVP) which debuted only a few months ago, there were several VisionOS announcements - including enhanced ability to promote 2D photos to 3D photos - and two new 3D cameras, plus enhanced spatial video capabilities coming from Da Vinci and Vimeo. They also announced future support for webXR.
APPLE WWDC
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc24/
APPLE KNOWLEDGE NAVIGATOR VIDEO - 1987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJsITGzXd0
2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY - PREVIEW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peMX_zlIIA4
Labels: 2001, AI, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Navigator, Kubrick, Open AI, SIRI, WWDC
