#1013 Using Chat GPT - Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland) (22nd June 2023)

Hello, welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland, and hello, hope you're well. Just to let you know what this is.

This is a it's kind of a, you know, relaxing, relaxing, boring, pointless, tedious, repetitive podcast. The idea, even though some of those words may may seem negative, it's not really because the idea is that at the very least, it can be a distraction. The very least, the very, very, very least, it can be a distraction from how you're feeling or as if you want to be distracted from how you're feeling, you may feel great.

So what this will just add to that it just feel even better. It helps you to feel relaxed, gives your mind an opportunity to slow down. Because one of the things that people have told me over the over the centuries is that one of the main causes one of the main obstacles to falling asleep for some people is an overactive mind.

Now, I think because I've got a very unactive, underactive mind myself, because everything's very, very slow motion with me. I talk slow, I think slow, I walk slowly. Everything I do is pretty much slow.

So that by listening or watching me can almost allow you to tune in with me. There's a bit of buzzing going on with this. I'm gonna turn this unplug the computer.

Oh, that's it. Brilliant. That was lovely.

Thanks. Thanks for that. Thanks for that nice sound.

I'll put it on mute now. Why didn't you do that before? I didn't realize it was going to make a sound. That's why.

And so Oh, oh, yeah, only listen when you can safely close your eyes. So that's kind of why I'm doing this. And why I've been doing it for five years.

The this Let Me Bore You To Sleep is because the idea is just to it's subtle, it's gradual, progressive, and other words that kind of mean the same thing. Letting yourself relax, giving yourself permission to let go. Yeah, that's it ready.

So thanks for listening. Bye. Right, let me have a look.

What have I got on here? Check my stats, but I'm not going to do that because I know how much people enjoy that. So I was talking yesterday, or the day before about wanting to look on you look in the newspapers and look on the news websites and try and find some uplifting stories, some humorous articles or stuff like that. And what I thought I'd try and do is use GPT, GPT, GPT.

Now, I imagine most people know what GPT is, but if you don't know what it is, it's AI is the most famous AI thing at the moment. And it's called chat GPT. It's part of the openai.com franchise or whatever.

And basically, you can search for style got something on my ear. That's weird. I hope it's not another flea.

It might be. You never know Vinnie loves running around in the long grass. For some reason flea seem to like long grass, which is weird considering how tiny they are.

Why would they be so specific to want no can't be in the short grass, even though the short grass is still 1000 times longer than we are. Now must be long grass. Very greedy, need a lot of space, maybe.

So yeah, jack chat GPT is something that you can build stuff on, you can ask questions, you can search. I mean, originally, it was just jet chat GPT. And you could search the database, ask questions.

And they, I think they, they basically made a map of the internet up to 21st of September 2021. Something like that. Very specific, wasn't it? But after that, if you ask the question, for example, if you ask a question, who's the Prime Minister, and it would say, Boris Johnson.

Now, we've had about 16 Prime Ministers since him. So, you know, it wasn't up to date. And then they introduced GPT four still wasn't up to date.

But it was faster, it was it was more concise. And then they introduced plugins. And we can now search the internet using Bing.

And there's a lot of different plugins is plugins where you can you can ask PDF files questions. I want to say PDF files, p p d f got to say quite quick, quite slowly. p d f files, if you say it too quickly, it sounds it sounds wrong.

Why would I want to ask them questions? No PDF, like, you know, digital, you know, books come in that format that you would read on, you know, digital books and stuff. So anyway, the there's lots of different plugins, it's quite good. It's quite warm in here.

So what I'm going to do, I'm going to search browse with Bing. And I'm going to ask GPT. It doesn't do voice activated, it might do it on.

I don't know. I mean, I've got the I've got the where is it? My plan. You can I mean, because it's so popular, can't always get a response.

So if you pay $20 a month, on top of that, there is tax, so it's about $24 a month or something. But you can get it is available even when demand is high, fast response speed, priority access to new features. So I've I just signed up for that because I was intending to use it.

And I want to learn how this stuff works. Because not just about the GPT is other stuff is it helps you with so there's there's an app called mid journey, which is a an image creating app, or any image creating AI platform. And I don't like it because you need to use discord.

And it's it's like having to go between different things. They're trying to sort that out. So you just in one place, stay in one place, I'm happy with that.

I don't want to keep going to different places. And you know that for me, that's that doesn't work. But it's very popular.

And you can make some of the most beautiful images. And one of the reasons one of the things the most important things for those kinds of AI apps is prompts is what you put in what you ask for. And if you ask for certain things in a certain way, using the correct terminology, the correct words, it could be a difference between an average image and a spectacular image.

So chat GPT can help you with prompts, which is quite cool. It can also let's say if you've got a transcript, you could put or maybe not a whole transcript, but you can put in a transcript of a podcast and say, give me a summary, or give me keywords, tag words, whatever, you know, so I can put them into the to the search engine to help search engine find your stuff.

There's lots of things there.

I mean, for one thing, I can just ask. I just realized this microphone is very close to the key board. If I can move this around a little bit.

That's better. Right. So if I ask it, oh, it's now gone.

Where'd it go? Where'd it go to? Where is it? Oh, there it is. Come on. Come on.

Blimey. Oh, good. So find me I want some news, some uplifting news.

So search. So I'm going to browse with B. Okay. Search web for 10.

I'm gonna move around here for a second 10. uplifting news stories. So it's doing that browsing the web.

Let's see what happens. Let's see what occurs. Clicking on a link.

Now I'm hoping it just doesn't search online for a web article that says 10 uplifted news stories, which I think it might do. Okay. I'm hoping that it will actually search through the different, you know, news websites to find stuff, but I might need to be a bit more specific.

If I wanted to do that. Okay. So it's starting to come up here are 10 uplifting news stories.

The first one. Mother Teresa of Vietnam. I've heard I've read this one before.

Ms. Huyeth Thuy Hoang overcame decades of homelessness to help hundreds of orphans. So that is that's a nice story. Number two blue whales have returned to California at levels not seen since before the whaling industry.

Okay, that's nice. mentioned the whaling industry isn't quite so but yeah, apart from that. Number three, a woman found four plates for $6 made by Picasso at a thrift store, which moved her to tears.

Okay. And what did she drop them? I mean, why was she crying? And I kind of want to know more. I want to know more.

Number four, Rome, finally opened to the public, the spot where Julie Caesar met his end at senators hands. How's that an uplifting story? Blimey. Number five, a man aims to make economy class more spacious with innovative double-decker aircraft seats.

Oh, when you said economy class, I thought we're talking about you like a university course of a double-decker aircraft seats. Surely there's enough enough room in the university. So making more space of it.

Okay, cool. Yeah, cool. I suppose.

Number six, a 90 year old earned a judo belt level reached by only six people in the nation. Good. That's that's a lovely story.

A 90 year old. Now, it's not that he's got his black belt, which in itself would kind of almost be a bigger thing. Because it meant it maybe started doing judo at age 85.

And he got his black belt at 90. But this is someone that's if he's reached the level that only other six people in the nation doesn't say which nation. And then he's probably been doing judo for decades and decades and decades.

But good for you. Wow. Number seven, a diver cleaning the ocean floor found a new iPhone still working in a waterproof bag and returned it to its owner.

Wow. How do you clean the ocean floor? Vacuum cleaner mop? I don't know. How do you do that? What are the chances of finding an iPhone? How did he know who it belonged to? How do you know it was a man? Why do you assume it was a man? He he all the time he he.

It's just easier just to say he or she ate a dazzling ancient bronze sword found in Germany still shines after 3400 years. Um, cool. Number nine, clean fuel was made by pulling CO2 from air and plastic waste.

Powered only by the sun and photosynthesis. Isn't that what creates plants to grow? Photosynthesis was that how to develop pictures? I don't know. So that's that's good.

A clean fuel was made by pulling CO2 from the air. CO2 is air, isn't it? So that's the oxygen. So by pulling the oxygen from the air.

I used to believe, well, until about a week ago, I used to think that air was oxygen. I did like, yeah, but it is not no, but it's not all oxygen. And what percentage what percentage of air is oxygen? Okay, so I was surprised at this.

What percentage of air is oxygen? It's going to depend on the country, to be fair. So the percentage of oxygen in the earth's atmosphere is approximately 20% by volume 21%. That's average across the world.

Only 21% of the air is oxygen. I'm not sure what to do with that fact. Number 10, a man became friends.

A man became friends with a fish and the pair meet the pair meet every summer in the same Winconsin Lake. Hmm. Okay, I need more information on that one.

I do. I'm going to look at that website. Good news.

Oh, good news. There's a website called Good News Network. Blind me.

All of this stuff. Blah, this is ridiculous. See, chat, chat GPT has not gone through the news websites.

It's just gone to one website. Good news network.org. Every single one of those stories that one to 10 were on this one page. Blimey.

So granddad wins gold in arm wrestling after taking up sport three years ago. Okay, but then and nearly and it has a negative bit there. So let's get rid of that.

Black hole emits jets of x rays. 60,000 times hotter than the sun. The brightest quasar ever observed.

I understood some of those words. NASA unveils an x plane, they hope will save Earth. Okay.

So this is man becomes man becomes friends with fish. There's a picture of a man and a snorkel, you know, with thing. And it's a fish just look at him.

They're underwater. I guess that's the best way to meet really, isn't it? And if you're going to meet a fish, underwater is probably the best place to meet. And you can meet in Costa's coffee, but it's not what you found a fish is it? But they can't drive.

Diver cleaning ocean floor fires. Okay. dazzling ancient bro.

Bronze found in German still signs after 3400 years. Wow. There's some people that believe that the earth was only created less time ago than that, isn't there? I don't know, because I wasn't there.

So I don't know when the when the world started. Apparently, the whole Big Bang theory is wrong. Scientists have discovered not making actually public today.

But yeah, apparently, it's the discover stuff in space. Thanks to the they've got a telescope, a new telescope that's up there. up there.

And it's not really up there, though, because it could be down there. Either way, it's outside of the this planet, isn't it? It's, it's up there. It's there.

It's there. It's wherever. Could be there.

Might be there might be there. It's somewhere. And they've found stuff.

I think what it is, is if I get it right, is there's a theory that the stars that we're looking at are generally burnt out suns. A lot of them, they're burnt sun, they're gone. But it's such a long time ago that they it just takes millions of years to get you know, we're still getting it.

But it's time and distance. And you can, you can tell I don't know what I'm talking about, can you? Good. Well, now they've discovered as they get, they can get closer to it.

Magnification wise, the what should happen is it should become dimmer, the light should be dimmer as you get closer, because it kind of ain't there no more. And the closer you get to it, the dimmer it gets. or brighter it gets one of them.

I don't know. But anyway, apparently, they like say, well, this doesn't make sense, because it's the opposite to what we thought it was before. Now it helps if you know what they thought before.

It also helps if you know what they've discovered would make that story a bit more interesting and perhaps make more sense. Not sure I did it that much justice, if I'm honest. Never mind.

I'm going to give this another go. Right. Search through, search through BBC news websites for 10.

Good news stories. 10 positive. Yeah, should I say positive? Positive news stories.

Oh, no, the computer is starting to smoke. No, understand. No, understand.

Search through BBC news website for 10 positive news stories. It's not moving particularly quickly. It's really struggling with that one.

Now, I'm not going to ask for it to go through the mail newspaper website to find positive and uplifted news stories because I don't think it's going to come up with anything. So even though it's on chat, GTP, GPT, I can't even say it. GTP, GPT-4.

And it's the premium one. It still takes a while. But then I'm asking it to do quite a big thing, aren't they? It will be quicker.

The new updates are going to make it quicker. Eventually. The thing about this is Bing, it's using Bing.

Bing uses chat GPT in the Bing search engine. So you can find stuff and as part of Bing. But Bing is just a personal opinion.

The actual page, I'll open up the page. This is Bing, okay. It's just nonstop stories.

And at the top search the web, it's all this stuff. That's just it's adverts. And pictures and this is kind of clickbait.

The whole thing is clickbait. And I'll be honest with you. Oh, wait a minute.

Curvy mom says she gets filthy looks from parents on the school run. Let me just check this out. Okay, I'll save that for later.

So yeah, it's this stuff on I want to see it. It's like it. It's not because I'm offended.

It's distracting. Google. If I go to Google, it just tells you know, finish browsing, there was an error.

There was an error generating a response. Hmm, searching the BBC news channels websites for positive news stories. Of course, that's going to be complicated because that's not what the BBC was not what any news channels about is it? A positive news story.

What you mean, have a news story that that causes the viewer or the reader to feel nice inside? What? Okay, our fat is coming up. So this is 10 here are 10 uplifting news stories from the BBC over the last 300 years. Okay.

Number one. A father and son duo team up as beach lifeguards. Yes, that's nice.

Number two, a former teacher continues to help children to learn to read at 91. Why are the children still at school at 91? I mean, I've heard of being kept back, but blimey. I mean, I was behind I was I was when I was at school, I was because this is the early 80s.

I was classed as a dunce. I was in the dunce class. Now, the thing is, I'm not not including myself in this.

But a lot of the other kids in the dunce class were interesting. They were the most interesting kids in this in the in the year. Because they weren't in the dunce class because they were unintelligent.

It's because they just wouldn't do what they were told. And maybe that's I think, I don't know why I was a mixture of that, I guess. And anyway, a person's life, now this is number three, a person's life improved significantly after surviving.

Exactly. Why? That's not even a positive. That's not a positive story, because they're focusing on something that really bad that happened.

Let's just move away, move away. Number four. Birmingham is identified as the luckiest place for lottery players.

Cool. That's a nice that's that's a bit pointless, but it was it was a nice, nice story. I mean, it's a long way to go to buy some lottery tickets.

But hey, number five, two dolphins were successfully returned to the sea after a beach rescue. Cool. See, none of them sound particularly, I mean, that is that's obviously it's a nice thing, but none of the none of the stories sound particularly positive, and they are positive.

But you know, I mean, does that make sense? Okay. A former prisoner secures his first job after 22 years. So yeah, good.

But you focus like I'm thinking 22 years, that's a long time. But good for him or her. Number seven, a woman denotes, donates her wedding dress.

No, exactly. No, we're not going to read the rest of it because it's focus, it's also focusing on a negative thing. Number eight, a missing dog was found in an ambulance after an eight month search.

So the ambulance is missing for eight months. Wow. How does an ambulance go missing for eight months? And they're quite big, aren't they? And they've got the word ambulance on the side.

And you think people would notice an ambulance driving around, being driven by a dog, you know. Number nine, a climber was found during a rare rescue operation in the Everest. Again, the zone that's just named this which has got a negative term.

Positivity, everybody, a bit of positivity. Number 10, Hollywood stars donate 5000 pounds. To a charity football match.

That's nice. This was a better response. So I'm gonna put better.

Now. I'm going to see whether or not the link goes to exactly the same page every time. And they're all on the site.

Yeah. uplifting stories is the BBC is actually a page called uplifting stories. kittens stuck in drain rat in rain pipe for three days found happy as good pop star village green bid or Eurovision hopeful May Miller may Miller returns to school.

Unfazed. Officer delivers a baby on the highway. It's a stranger I met at the beach gave me her kidney.

That'd be a bit of a weird meeting, wouldn't it? I've met a couple of strangers in the past that give me the telephone number but wow. Wow. Oh, before you go take this.

What is it? It's my kidney. Right, okay, so they really struggle with what positivity means. So what should we do? Okay, Fox News.

Do the same, the same with Fox News, Fox News. Let's see if there's uplifting stories from Fox News. There's gotta be there's gotta be site Fox News 10 positive news stories 2023.

So this is like the whole year so far. I couldn't get 10 for one day. That'd be I'm going to probably need your help with this.

I mean, what what represents a positive news story? I mean, I guess for me was it wouldn't be a news story. But a little story would be and when I went to university, I struggled and I found it very difficult. But I was helped by by people on my course.

One person particularly who I wouldn't have my degree without her. But also other people helped me as well on the course. And I nearly pulled out a few times.

Because it just I didn't at the time I didn't know I had bipolar, you see. So again, again, perhaps not a positive thing to focus on. But you know, this is about me.

So it's fine. It's fine. I give myself a pass.

And I wasn't diagnosed until 2011 December. So I finished college and finished university 2010. When I when I graduated, they gave me a certificate of achievement, as well as my diploma or my degree certificate.

And I said, What was that? What was that for? Because I didn't really understand. He said, the person in charge of the course said, because of what you went through, and the fact that you still stuck at it. So for me, the positive side is good on me, you know, I felt quite good about myself that I did it.

But I did it with help. And if I hadn't have had that help, I wouldn't have stuck the course. So, yeah, Oh, Fox News managed to get four.

They found four in the last this year so far. So here we go. Number one, a Las Vegas man introduced his son to the firefighter who saved the dad's life 23 years ago.

That's it. That is a nice story. I like that.

That's nice. And here's something I'd liked, you know, this when I was I was about six months old. This, this is the story.

It's not negative story. But it's I was I lived with foster parents from the age of six months to about two years. Now, I've never seen those foster parents since.

And I don't remember them because I was so little so young. And it's a long time ago. I don't know how old they were at the time.

They might have been they might have been elderly, they might have been in their 40s or 50s, which means there's a chance they're not around anymore. I don't know. But what I do know is that they had me and one of my brothers for that period of time, a year and a half, whatever it was.

And they wanted to adopt us. So they clearly loved us. And there's something about I don't know.

To love a child that isn't yours is almost it feels like a almost a stronger love in some ways. And it's not I won't go but I can't I can see it's quite it'd be quite easy to love your own child, but to love someone else's child, and to want to devote your, your life to raising from very young age. And it's a lifelong thing, isn't it?

So they were clearly amazing people.

They didn't have to adopt they were just they were just looking after us for a little while. And the point I'm trying to I'd like to see them I'd like to I don't know where they are. I don't know what their names are.

I don't know anything. They did live in Enfield, North London. As far as I'm aware.

I'd love to meet them to say thank you. Because that was probably potentially my most stable period of my life as a child, and they clearly loved me. And that period of six months to two years is well between being born and two years, three years old, whatever, that's one of the most important periods of your life like for learning and developing and all that stuff emotionally.

So I had a really healthy period with them. So I just I'd love to meet them. I'd love to just to say thank you or not even meet them necessarily.

But I might meet them and recognize them. You know, they might be in my psyche. Their her face, his face, I'm guessing there was two, I don't know.

But you know, I was a little baby, looking up at her and him. And I grew up from that to being able to talk, I guess, and walk and all that stuff with them. So they were there for such an important part of my life.

And I've got no idea who they are, or, you know, I'd like to just say thanks to them, really, because the hugely important part of my life that I've never been able to really, I can't remember it. I can't remember them. But I wonder if I saw her or him like, oh, they look familiar.

I don't know if it works like that. Anyway, number two, a 99 year old Florida woman shared advice about living a long and positive life in a video that went viral on Instagram. I've seen a few of those videos.

And people 101 or 120 or ever talking about their life and what they what they their advice. I remember there was one bloke. He said, Yeah, drink gin every day.

Drink gin every day. Like, just drink alcohol. I don't think that's probably the best advice.

It worked for me. Oh, I remember my nan. Of course I remember my nan.

No, but I remember she, I think someone said to her, I don't know who it was said to my nan. If it was one of her kids, one of my uncle's rants, or maybe my dad, I don't know. I don't think my dad would have said it to her.

But he said, why you put so much sugar in your tea? Because my nan would put lots of sugar in. The main reason she would put sugar in is because her taste had gone. You know, hearing her eyes, everything had kind of gone.

She was so old. She was like 94 95 when she left. And 96 maybe, but her taste buds are pretty much gone.

So the only way she could taste it was by putting a lot of sugar in. And I don't know if it was my aunts or someone like that said, Mom, you're putting too much sugar in your tea. She said, How is that going to affect me? How's that going to be harmful to me? I'm 95 years old.

I've had sugar in my tea my whole life. And I think she said something like, How old do you think you're gonna be? Hey, come back to me when you're 95. So she might not have said that, I probably made it up.

It's like, it basically leave me alone. I'm 95 years old. I don't need to be told how many sugars I'm allowed in my tea.

And then she's gone on about, you know, you know, nearly every doctor, every doctor I've ever had. They're not even alive anymore. They didn't have any sugar in their tea.

She didn't say that either. But she made a good point though. It's like, well, if you get to be 95, if you're lucky enough, some people don't class it as luck.

But if you are lucky enough to live to be that old, to be that age, do whatever you want to do. And most do. Most 95 year olds I've ever met, they do what they want to do.

They say what they want to say. They don't care anymore. Because it doesn't matter.

Because they realize after all those years that they might as well just be themselves. And if they want to have a burger, if they want to have sugar, if they want to swear, or if they want to drink alcohol, they'll do it. And I think my nan started drinking.

She'd have a little drink before she went to bed. And she started doing that I think when she was in her 90s. Oh, my camera's about to run out.

Oh, well. So the next one, a police force unveils a new track attractor named Optimus crime thanks to a four year old Transformers fan. Number four, a son donated his kidney to save his dad's life at the ultimate father as the ultimate Father's Day gift.

Cool. I knew someone that he was a comedian. And he was he basically got married and whatever.

And then he has kidney failure and his wife donated her kidney to him to save his life. And I thought, what if that relationship perhaps doesn't go quite to plan? You can never leave. You can never leave.

You're there forever. Because what happens because at the end of the relationship, I want my stuff back. I want my CDs.

That's my bed. That's my television. Well, that's my kidney.

You know, like, oh, okay. It's yeah. Anyway, I'm gonna go.

So thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself. Because you do deserve to be happy.

Be gentle with yourself and do something nice today. Do something that perhaps you haven't done for a while. Something that makes you feel good doesn't have to cost money.

Just something that feels nice. pamper yourself. Treat yourself kindly.

Just give it a go. See how it feels. And I will speak to you again tomorrow.

Thanks for listening or watching. Take care. Lots of love.

Bye.