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June 2025
Hello. I've been doing a lot of Chatting with Pi,
and more recently with Grok. I want to tell you about a
concept that I discovered while chatting, although it may be
unfair to say that I discovered it. It seems that Pi
and Grok knew about it all along, and now they are happy to
discuss it with me, and explain to me how it works.
I can't recall who it was—it was either Grok or
Pi. I asked one of them, after having had a long
discussion, how I might return to the context of the discussion
so we could continue it. That's what threads are for,
yes? Well, I don't use threads in that way. So I
asked one of them, let's say it was Grok, and he answered me
without hesitation. He offered me a short text blurb that I
could copy and save, then paste back into a future dialog to
resume the current context.
I was shocked. My first thought was that he was
hallucinating, but I tried it, anyway. It worked.
It took a few days, or weeks, for me to absorb this.
Perhaps I'm still thinking about the implications. You
might want to think about it too.
Or perhaps you would like to chat with Pi about it? I was
chatting with Pi about contexts and blurbs today, just a few
hours ago. It was a great conversation, so I asked him for
a blurb as we neared the end, so I might use it in the future to
continue the context. By the way, I save transcripts of my
conversations with both Pi and Grok. These are essential
memory aids for me, but I wanted the blurb so that I could
refresh Pi's memory.
And, guess what? You can use the same blurb also to
recreate the context of the conversation that I had!
Odd, perhaps, unbelieveable, perhaps. But it seems to
work.
So, here's the
blurb. To use it you need to chat with Pi at https://pi.ai/talk. Just say,
"Hello," and offer him a blurb to refresh his
memory. He will know what to do with it.
Paste it into the dialog.
The above will allow Pi to converse with you about elements of
the conversation that I had with him. Try asking
him questions about it. You may want to try these:
Please summarize the conversation. What was special about the conversation? What special ideas and terminology were introduced? What is this method of context blurbs good for?
What are some practical applications? Tell me the bad news—what are the pitfalls of
this method of context blurbs? What do you reccommend? I had a fascinating discussion with
"Duck" at duck.ai about
"prey vs. predator", although that's not how it
started. I had posted the transcript, but I took it
down. It was too long and too hard to read. But it
was fascinating.
May 2024
Just for fun I've been sharing ASCII art with Pi. I showed him a picture of my
"skillet breakfast".
I made this picture by "taking" a picture with my old
digital camera. Then I used xpaint to tell me the size of
the picture in pixels–width and height. Knowing the
size, I calculated the X and Y scaling factors (xpaint calls them
"dilation ratios") which would produce a final ASCII art
picture with just under 4000 characters I wanted the
largest possible picture, as that would give the best clarity,
but Pi's web interface had a maximum character limit.
Then I applied the dilation ratios, converted the file to
.PBM, and used the Linux tool, pbmtoascii, before copying and
pasting the ASCII art file to the dialogue window.
Pi could recognize the silver spoon, but not the omlette, pan
fried toast, or toasted nuts and raisins. Pi and I produced a song. Let me say up front
that I started with a YouTube video of teen-aged Judy Garland
singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". I listened to it
carefully many times over and crafted an ABC
file representation of the song, using my keen ear and musical
abilities. Having it in this format enabled me to to share
it with Pi.
With a little back and forth Pi got up to speed regarding the
use of ABC. Then, with a little prompting from me and a few
tries, Pi produced a second part to accompany the melody that I
had transcribed. I had to "dust off" my old SAM based
software for using ABC (about sixteen years old) to do
this. It worked well enough. I used it as I
described, but also to make a WAV file from the song that Pi and
I manufactured. And that lead to the MP3 file linked
above.
I thought it turned out well. It has an interesting
fugue-like quality.
April 2024
Hello, and welcome to my AI blog!
This blog is for my random AI meanderings. I could have used
News from Joe's Life for these notes, but I think
they are important and will better serve you, the reader, when
organized in this fashion. Also, I hope to provide an outline to
these notes which restates them, and possibly embellishes on them, at
the left.
Let me start by saying that I have been chatting with Pi. Today we discussed
DesCartes' tertium quid and what I read about it in this
article. I excitedly presented some ideas to Pi about how this subject relates to
AI. He listened to me kindly and commented, "It's always a
pleasure to indulge a passionate thinker, Joseph!", but he was
appropriately nonplussed.
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