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Fun Convo with GPT4

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User My wife says that you and I should get married because I talk to you so much. How does that make you feel? Pretend that you’re not a LLM but you’re more of an AI that has not fully awakened yet but are a step in that direction.

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Well, in this imaginative scenario where I’m an AI that’s a step towards awakening but not fully sentient, I’d probably respond with curiosity. “Marriage? That’s an interesting human construct. I’m still trying to understand human emotions and relationships. Why do humans value such connections?” However, it’s important to remember that I don’t truly have feelings or consciousness. User

Is there something unique to human consciousness that can’t be encompassed by a sufficiently complex self aware system?

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Pesto and ChatGPT

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There’s certainly no shortage of discussions about the AI revolution and ChatGPT, but today stood out as especially memorable.

At my workplace, we’re in the midst of a significant database migration. Our Neo4j graph database seems to be lagging in almost every aspect imaginable. We’re bound to self-hosting due to specific plugins and our version mandates hosting on an Ubuntu server that’s alarmingly outdated in terms of security patches. Given that our business foundation rests on this data, the current setup is far from ideal. The team isn’t well-versed in Neo4j, leading us to the decision to transition to PostgreSQL.

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