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Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction

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Welcome to the New Normal

This past weekend has been an absolute shocker. This Government clearly has no idea what they are about and the police have even fewer clues. Here are four headlines from Saturday: One person shot dead at South Auckland church: Machete-wielding dairy robber chops off worker’s fingers: Many hospital

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You Asked For It and Now It Is Possible

You Asked For It and Now It Is Possible

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Donovan Clarke, CEO of Toitu te Waiora (I didn’t know either, so click here) used his work credit card for perks during a work trip to Australia in August. The cost to taxpayers was over $6000. Clarke was attending a Council of Ambulance Authorities (CAA) conference. The New Zealand

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How to Gift Someone a BFD Membership This Christmas

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Who is the Government?

Who is the Government?

The Doctor Ewan Campbell is best known for his innovative soil-conditioning system. It was apparently such a threat to mainstream fertiliser companies that he became the subject of a weird commerce commission investigation for misleading claims. Then, to top off the persecution, he was imprisoned for tax crimes on

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Reflecting on 2022
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Reflecting on 2022

Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura What a year 2022 has been, with the acceptance that Covid cannot be eliminated and the end of authoritarian mandates and freedom of movement being the highlights for me. Those who lived through World War II would have had more freedom of movement and expression

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You Asked For It and Now It Is Possible

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Face of the Day
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Face of the Day

Civil Servant Debra Jensen was the general manager of communications, digital and marketing at Te Hiringa Hauora (THH). Questions have been repeatedly raised about conflicts of interest in several projects Jensen has been involved with, but were ignored. Health NZ took over THH earlier this year and has done its

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National and Luxon Still Fail to Inspire

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Labour’s Hamilton West by-election loss at the weekend has been widely described as a disaster for the party, illustrating just how much the

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Jacinda Rips Off the Mask of Kindness
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Jacinda Rips Off the Mask of Kindness

The pressure Jacinda Ardern is now under is there for all to see. She has gone from the giddy heights of 60% adulation, thanks to her buddies at the UN putting the fear of God into everyone over Covid, to 29% popularity in the latest polls. Her apology in Parliament

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I Admire Craig Jepson

I Admire Craig Jepson

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Until a few days ago, I had never heard of Craig Jepson, and I suspect that that is also true of most New Zealanders. He has suddenly become almost as well-known as Meng Foon, the Race Relations Commissioner. Both men are hugely admired by some;

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How to Gift Someone a BFD Membership This Christmas

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Minions Are the Face of Public Health

Minions Are the Face of Public Health

Friends and family working in the NZ medical industry unequivocally toed the line when it came to enforcing the Covid vaccination mandates, including jabbing their own children with the experimental, partially tested and completely new technology. Without question. This surprised me, and I wondered why public health employees, the face

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Are You Getting the Picture Yet, Sweetie?

New Zealanders are heartily sick of the mewling, whining, miserable visage of Jacinda Ardern. She has become the most despised person in New Zealand politics. Little wonder then that she is essentially signalling she will be campaigning from behind strong fences and a veritable army of security next year: One

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Mahuta and Key’s UN Charter

Mahuta and Key’s UN Charter

The signing of the UN charter has influenced what is happening here in New Zealand and the Maori separative movement.  No one seems able to find that legal safeguard document that Phil Goff quoted and that was later mentioned by Key’s office. If you enjoyed this article please share

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