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“As their mistakes become less frequent, users will likely be more susceptible to believing everything they generate…”

@John, this is an important and sobering point. Yes, we have to be more vigilant.

@Eduard, I’m not sure what to hope for!

I have a similar experience with AI. I’m curious if this is a fundamental problem with the architecture or it can be solved by enhancing it.

AI errors, our perception of their confidence, and our association of trustworthiness with confidence are all fascinating to me. A few random thoughts:

* one would think that if they can recognize an error after their veracity is challenged, they could check themselves beforehand (or even soon afterwards if quick response is a priority). Recently…[Read more]

This is jdoe replying to myself.

This is jdoe replying to mike.

Thanks for checking in, John. And for the reminder about Mary Ann’s birthday. We sent her an email.

Happy birthday, Mary Ann!

Hi all,

Since you haven’t heard from me for awhile, I want to give an update. I ran into some unexpected difficulties with my website, so I haven’t prepared any more talks yet. I’ll let you know when I’m ready to resume.

In the meantime, you might wish Mary Ann a belated Happy Birthday. It was Friday! 🎉

Thanks for organizing this, John. I look forward to seeing everyone who can be there on the 29th!

Based on the feedback by forum and email, we’re going with Sunday December 29th, 3pm Pacific / 4pm Mountain.

We’ll use link:
https://meet.google.com/wgc-jaqo-zmb

Hope to see you then.

I expect to be busy both weekends. However, I’ll try joining if I’m free.
Mary Ann

I guess the site doesn’t have to be up. Although people might be looking at it for the link if they didn’t save the email. Also, Tina and I might be iffy on the 22nd. So I guess, lets see, Wayne is good for the 29th. @david, can you do the 29th? If not I’ll check into whether we can do the 22nd.

Oops. I meant the 22’nd and the 29’th in December are OK for me. The 15’th I have an early family Christmas and won’t be able to make it. January is all clear right now.

It will be nice to see everyone. I’ve been very busy with a course I was giving and then a work project that took up all my time.

Is it helpful for the Physics Cafe to be up when we meet? We don’t use it during the meeting.

As I think about it, we might want it up during the few days before the meeting in case we need to broadcast last-minute changes.

Wayne, what is the other Sunday that works for you, besides the 22nd?

Yikes, I may be relocating the website that week. I would vote for either the 29th, or even to make it a “New Year” meeting in early January. (John, sorry if I steered you wrong in that last email!)

I agree with Wayne, the 22nd will work for me. Thanks John, I am sorry I have been absent but I really like to be part of this group. Greetings

Either the 22’nd or 22’th works for me.