RE: Press the Any Key
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Slightly different but it makes me happy is the Wordle Word Solver.
You feed in any correct, correct but misplaced and incorrect letters that you have, and it produces the list of words it might be. I think there's only been one occasion when I had one possible word the solution could be (kiosk - that is a pretty unusual combination of letters). Every other time there is a list of words and - the bit I enjoy - I get to choose which I think is the most likely solution. And sometimes it takes me all the remaining four goes to get the right word, even with AI help 😂.
The few AI posts I've read are well written but are immediately suspect (apart from perfect grammmar, spelling and layout) because they have very little depth. While I didn't understand immediately that what I was reading was AI generated, it was off in some way. If you know anything about the topic you're reading about, the text immediately generates lots of questions because, in some way, it's skating or skimming over the surface. And if you read a series of AI posts, one after another, it's curiously unsatisfying. It's a kind of equivalent of ultra-processed food for the brain. Given the damage that ultra-processed "food" does to us, I wonder whether there will be similar consequences for cognition, imagination etc through using AI
(I agree with all your points).
I have never played Wordle, but isn't it cheating? I don't get it! :D
Yes - because it is all general information, mneaning it is largely useless and available on Google anyway, which is also another reason niot to pay anyone to produce it.
The "uncanny valley" of text :D
I believe it will absolutely be the case. We are feeding ourselves mental crap, feeling like we know something useful.
Cheating? 😎
Like I said, I haven't played the game - but are you using a helper of some sort?
Yes, it's a form of AI, or an algorithm, that's why I was telling you.
The game is to guess a five letter word in six goes, with each try, the game will tell you if you have correctly placed a letter in the word, or the letter is in the word but in the wrong place, or the letter is not in the word; so with each guess, you start to get clues about the final word.
It is quite amazing how difficult it is sometimes to guess any words that might have the letters in that you do know. I have ruminated for hours over the next guess. The helper, the AI bit, presents you with a list of words with your already known letters in them.
It would be a form of cheating if you were in a competition or posting it on Hive.
ah okay. sounds like an interesting game, though one I would have been great at "back in the day" but would suck hard at now. Might give it a go, just to make me depressed. I used to love word games....
It is a bit like hangman by the sounds.
I struggle sometimes when I am tired.
Yes, it is a bit like hangman, that's a good comparison.
I've never commented about your stroke, it always felt too intrusive (or the danger of being facile about someone else's experience), even though you have been very open about it. Several people around me have had strokes, including my previous partner. It was very tough, but I read a huge amount about it, and about recovery and how long it takes, and although my partner didn't recover, I was heartened by the possibilities of recovery.