Holidays are Here Again – Scargill’s Tech Blog

I’m about to head off for a number of days holiday getaway in Segovia in the north of Spain so I imagined I’d go away you with some ideas even though I go off in research of culture…

Do you get as ill as I do of YouTube headlines which contain “… will change Everything”?

ChatGPT4 and other “Game Changers”

So ChatGPT 4 is heading to transform almost everything as it is now SO superb. No it is not. I decided to give it a very simple test:

“What is Peter Donald Scargill’s track record?”

“Peter Donald Scargill, also recognized as Pete Scargill, is a British blogger, developer, and technologies fanatic with a track record in electronics and computer science.”

“Scargill examined electrical and digital engineering at the College of Hertfordshire in the Uk, the place he acquired a Bachelor of Science degree. He also retains a postgraduate diploma in pc science from the Open up College.”

“Scargill has worked in a assortment of specialized roles in the course of his profession, like as a software engineer, specialized creator, and advisor. He has also been associated in various startups in the technology sector.”

“In the latest decades, Scargill has turn into effectively-acknowledged in the technological know-how neighborhood for his weblog, “Tech Scargill,” where by he writes about subjects connected to residence automation, the World-wide-web of Points (IoT), and Node-Purple. He is also a frequent contributor to on-line forums and social media teams concentrated on these subjects, and has made quite a few open up-supply applications and Node-Crimson modules that are extensively made use of by the group.”

All fantastic apart from for (importantly) the next paragraph. I’m not guaranteed I have ever been to Hertforshire hardly ever thoughts earned a degree there. In simple fact, I remaining college at 16 to enter the family members engineering company and in no way went back again into comprehensive time education. I did do a location of BTEC lecturing for a while in the Notheast of England and also attended an engineering class at a neighborhood college or university but that is about it. This is very well documented in my have personalized blog and elswhere. So the place did ChatGPT4 get this nonsense from?

Next… I formulated Bigtimer which you’ll see in this web site.

“What is node-red-contrib-bigtimer?”

“Node-Crimson-contrib-bigtimer is a Node-Red node module that supplies a graphical person interface for developing and configuring timers, schedules, and other time-centered situations in Node-Crimson. The node is made to simplify the procedure of scheduling gatherings by supplying a consumer-friendly interface for configuring time-based triggers.

With the node, you can set up sophisticated schedules, these types of as jogging a stream each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 8:00 AM, or triggering an function every hour concerning 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM on weekdays. It also includes characteristics such as countdown timers and time duration tracking, which can be useful for a assortment of automation and checking duties.

Total, Node-Pink-contrib-bigtimer is a helpful tool for any individual doing work with Node-Red who demands to timetable time-based gatherings in their flows.”

All excellent except that it Doesn’t give a graphical person interface. Node-Crimson does that.

“Who is the developer of node-crimson-contrib-bigtimer?”

“The creator of the “node-red-contrib-bigtimer” node module is Peter Scargill. Peter Scargill is a blogger and developer primarily based in the United Kingdom who has contributed to various open-resource assignments relevant to dwelling automation, the World-wide-web of Points (IoT), and Node-Purple.”

Very well, that is not Way too significantly off – but I have not been “based in the UK” for some time – I’m really based in Southern Spain. It turns out that as I generate this, ChatGTP4 has a expertise cut-off day of September 2021.

I earlier asked ChatGPT3 to explain my village below in Spain. Depending on how I phrased the concern I bought “…the people in Galera are incredibly friendly….” or “despite what you may imagine, the persons in Galera are much from friendly”. In simple fact the initially description is not much off – the second is utter garbage – a little bit like my intended educational track record.

And this was just a fairly harmless illustration of AI acquiring it mistaken. As for “this modifications everything” – I feel from now on I’m just heading to BIN any movie that begins with that headline. It is not so a lot the AI hype and generally sensational headline nonsense that anxieties me, it’s additional that at my age I’m completely informed of how gullible considerably of the inhabitants are and how easily they will be taken in by nearly anything in print – as if the tabloids in quite a few western nations which includes the British isles and United states are not terrible plenty of.

Shortly soon after I get back from my break, I hope to have some information for you on a new 4G router that claims two 4G inputs and the potential to load-share, all in an affordable, highly effective and versatile unit. I’m also probable to have the hottest AI gimbal (the M6) from Hohem and much more to chat about. I promise no synthetic headlines:-)

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