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Huh. Where are my inflation hedges: farmland and real estate? It’s missing half my assets. The recommendations show that half the assets have not been analyzed.

Historically, the benefit of computers has been that they do what you ask them. Also, the real Dalio is not this lazy. I’ve met him. He is a meticulous pain in the ass.

Let’s see if we can get it to do all the requested work and analyze the entire portfolio. I haven’t argued with a computer before. I’ll try to be diplomatic. They are supposed to become our overlords. I don’t want an AGI to take it out on me because I was mean to his mother.

At least it now includes the entire portfolio. The observations are general but not incorrect. They are definitely not Dalio class and don’t address my specific asset allocation.

I still can’t wrap my head around why it initially only took half the portfolio. It must be some attribute of Large Language Models.

I’ve heard that LLMs can lose focus and not complete a task well. Apparently, ‘magic’ language can help them perform better. For example, ‘Breathe in and Focus’ or ‘This is Important for my job’ have been shown to make the Chatbot work better. I wish I were kidding. This is new technology. Maybe working with super-intelligence requires pleading. I’m game.

The bot’s answers are much longer and more detailed with the ‘magic’ language. It also asks for additional clarification questions. Indeed, it tries harder when you tell the task is more important. I wonder if it also uses more GPU power for inference. Funny. However, it still misses half the portfolio.

Dalio GPT ‘Hallucinates’ That I Own Gold ~ I’m OK to plead some more. I’ll ask it to include the full portfolio in the instructions so that the user doesn’t have to constantly correct the bot, which would be immensely frustrating.

WTF? It includes the full portfolio ~ and, for good measure, adds Gold to the portfolio, which I would definitely know if I actually owned it. These LLMs are so weird. Imagine a bot that tracks your assets. In the process, it loses track of some of the assets and imagines ones you don’t have. What a cluster. It would make FTX look like a great steward of your wealth.

Perhaps it’s because Dalio talks about Gold, and many portfolios include Gold. However, in relation to my portfolio, it’s entirely irrelevant because there is no Gold.

Excerpted Comments from Readers on the AI Chat

This was a fun read. At the root of it, all this stuff is being programmed by myopic, socially maladapted misfits nursing a grudge for normal, red-blooded human beings, among other biases (like being too young to know better and ignorant of Western Civilization). It is "trained" with information found online. What could go wrong?

never forget that.

I tried ChatGPT via a friend (paranoid - oh yes). It sucks at law, too complex, atm... It occurred to me that it would only learn my job if I were stupid enough to teach it. I also learn't it's been programmed by everyone's favourite psychos at the WEF. And there ended my foray into AI.

To call artificial computing "intelligence" is preposterous.

Artificial computing is mechanical.

It’s calculations and outputs are fixed on its programming.

An intelligence is a "free thinking entity" which can adopts it self and grow in armory in its surrounding.

A closed programed calculating machine or person, cannot be seen as an intelligence form, as its computing or thinking is circumscribed by its programming .

In fact, to call intelligent something artificial is a scam used for dehumanize humanity, and make people psychological subjects to machines.

I don't see how AI will ever become intelligent like humans when even humans who have advanced degrees are not intelligent.

Another funny reason why AI will never develop intelligence: we are intelligent in order to survive, even our emotions and thoughts have connections to motor centers of the brain. Without a body, AI is essentially living in language or numbers, not reality.

But people can feel free to believe the pseudo-science dogma and sci fi dreams of these tech "geniuses".

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Exactly, a living body is a must. Intelligence is embodied. . . . No physical body - no intelligence.

More Problems with AI ~ "If there is no God, then everything is permissible." ~ Dostoyevski

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