The public reject the use of ChatGPT – politicalbetting.com
The public reject the use of ChatGPT – politicalbetting.com
60% of Britons say it's unacceptable for MPs to use ChatGPT to respond to constituents' mail, following MP Mike Reader being witnessed using the tool on a train to reply to a constituent's emailAcceptable: 25%Unacceptable: 60%yougov.co.uk/topics/techn…
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People want that direct connection to their MP.
Can you ping me over the What,Three.Words. location please?
Investigation stops £17m entering the accounts of people ineligible for scheme
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/22/thousands-moving-abroad-illegally-claiming-child-benefits/
Sounds like a job for AI.
That said, as someone mentioned on the prior thread, there is a definite subset of young people that hate them, and want nothing to do with them
My older daughter is one. Loathes the whole idea. And no, that's not (solely) because I keep banging on about it, she says some of her friends feel the same and her half sister - my other daughter - in Australia is the same: and I've never brought up the subject once, with her
Sometimes it’s brilliant, and sometimes it’s shite. Unfortunately you have to know the subject to a certain level to know which one.
I love Waymo, but you are absolutely right that the lack of a human to enforce "no litter" means people feel free to leave crap in the back of the car. It's never been really gross with me, but I've had a car arrive with most of a MacDonalds meal spread out across the back seat.
They are - apparently - going to start using cameras to make sure cars are clean prior to arrival. But it is still a work in progress.
"I suspect MPs who use ChatGPT to reply to constituents..."
Granted, my letter writing style has been ripped off from other correspondents over the years, but the resultant word soup is entirely my own work.
I am expecting a PB outrage in three, two, one...
A very large chunk of the urban population use their cars (or are least their second car) only very occasionally. I think it could transform cities and open up land worth billions for housing, parks, cycle lanes and so on. The scale just isn't there yet though.
I only email if it needs to be on the corporate record. I feel quite strongly about this given the countless hours of wading through pointless emails. (Sorry, might be a generational thing).
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/august/new-sail-backed-dinosaur-species-unearthed-isle-of-wight.html
But how big is this new dinosaur? Disappointingly, the authors compare it to an American bison, because everything else has been sold to America so why not?
Such verdicts are known as "perverse verdicts"
I regularly send one word emails.
Either way it's very efficient, delays you by about 30 seconds, and seems to work. Why can't Waymo use the same tech?
MPs should probably use Claude.
I made my feelings quite clear some time back that she deserved a custodial sentence, but one of that length was unnecessary, exemplary or otherwise. (FWIW)
I've a certain amount of sympathy for anyone who falls foul of the law as a result of their own stupidity, but it's a limited amount of sympathy. And I can't say she stands out above the rest.
One time their side sent me a 9,000 word letter, I read it, then replied with ‘noted’ and their guy replied with some very unprofessional language, they never recovered.
My smugness levels hit a new peak and I was
even moreunbearable for weeks after.I have occasionally replied to people with I refer you to Pressdram’s reply in Arkell v Pressdram
I can't help feeling there may be a more efficient alternative to this!
But they're like any sensible startup: get it launched, move quickly, and only fix things when when people complain about them.
Waymo - a year from now - will have automatic scanning (which will also make sure you haven't left your phone behind), and if you leave trash more than once, will charge you a fee or ban you from the system. It's just not there yet.
AI cannot do that.
I also used to put in song titles in professional letters, AI cannot do that either, people appreciate that personal touch/style.
It should have been 100 words in the first place, indeed it was, but the sender needed to make sure that those *copied* in the email such as his boss and his boss, could see that there was a couple of day’s’ work in the 2,000 word version.
I am eagerly awaiting our driverless, private-car-less future
It is going to be utterly transformative for big cities, and make them SO much nicer and greener (and we will save so much money - and also lives)
Canada cancels many reciprocal tariffs as Olive branch to Trump.
https://x.com/kobeissiletter/status/1958905577611932025?s=61
1. I want to write what it is in my own mind,
2. Like any other body part, the brain needs exercise
3. I have a peculiar sense of humour.
"An existential crisis’: can universities survive ChatGPT?"
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/an-existential-crisis-can-universities-survive-chatgpt-7r38r72sv
Of course, the subtlety might not be there.
There are any number of things that I could get other people, or other things, to do for me, but which I prefer to do for myself.
That can all change in the future.
Same as people saying I write all my own code from scratch because I think I am an top tier coder. Good luck convincing employers with that one. Its the fastest way of not getting the job.
It's a bit like Rachel. My shares under her watchful eye have today reached an all-time high So I think she's a genius....
Reevesy's made me rich!
https://x.com/nypost/status/1958850232843731054?s=61
All I know is, if I'd been a local cab driver I'd have known the venue, and if I was new, I'd have checked where it was on the map before setting off. I don't use a cab often but they don't seem to know how to get between even two well-known locations without satnav any more.
- A report you wrote pre-AI that got great feedback
- Corporate style guide
- Bullet points that you want included.
Then there is a protracted back and forth because AI can't read your mind about what you think is important; providing a motivation or underlying strategy can help though.
Do you not enjoy exercising your own mind, and expressing what *you* think, on the page?
But the first years of the internet were like that. All the nerds were this is amazing, I can write this script that does this and that, where as the public were scratching their heads at how that was better. Now of course we have apps for everything, one click purchase, swipe gestures etc.
In the near future, all of the prompting stuff will be abstracted away behind better UIs.
You’re not an economist, you made tampon ads (Ooooh bodyform, bodyform for you-hoo) and did record covers.
TBF the paper - and the NHM website you link to - does say in one pic it is 2m high. No length given that I can find quickly but then the skeleton is incomplete - possibly preservation but also the main paper says "Unfortunately the excavation site was poached and an unknown amount of the skeleton was taken before collection could be completed."
So a bison would do - it's the right height, and with a muscular hump, no?
Also when the day comes, driverless needs to be properly driverless, i.e. I can sit in the back with a mate and drink beer if I feel like it. Until my phone can faultlessly recognise when I've pressed a button, and when I haven't, I won't hold my breath waiting for the arrival of true driverless tech.
Lord Haldane wrote to his mother once, frequently twice, a day all her life (and she lived to be very old and he didn't) describing in great detail everything he had done.* That's just his mother, not counting the enormous correspondence he had with everyone else.
It's not as though they were short letters either.
As Betsey Trotwood said of Micawber, 'Letters! I believe the man dreams in letters!'
*This is not in any way slightly disturbing or a reason why he never married.
Pfff! I bet they are reading me on PB. Wankers
I can rage against the light in terms of coding, but I would be shooting myself in the foot if I didn't get LLMs to enable me to write significantly more code per day. It gives me lots more time to exercise my mind on what is really important, thinking hard about solving novel problems.
It's also obvious - in my area, masters or PhD supervision - when a student produces a document which way exceeds their ability or, conversely, is bland and the student is insightful (this only happened once - it was better written but had much less interesting content than the student's normal work).
ETA: Undergrads, with whom you'd have less contact, would easily get away with it though, as long as they check the references!
But I think LLMs will allow challengers to come up fast as they can do a fair bit of the donkey work with far less people and faster.
I see it in what I do, people are turning around new ideas much faster.
MP get these days? A lot more than allows for reading and response by one person, I'm sure.