Trust but Verify! Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 26, 2025, at 4:35 PM, Fred Jensen via Elecraft > <[email protected]> wrote: > > "When we sat through Copilot training at work, the Microsoft guy actually > told us that we will get better results if we use the word 'please' in our > prompt. He was serious, not joking." > > Sounds like INTERCAL [see Google], a programing language from the last > century. It contained the keyword PLEASE which was undocumented but if it > had been documented it would be: "if 'PLEASE' does not appear often enough, > the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error message says > this; if it appears too often, the program could be rejected as excessively > polite and obsequious." > > 73, > > Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW > Sparks NV DM09dn > Washoe County > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From "Al Lorona via Elecraft" <[email protected]> > To "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date 8/26/2025 12:48:55 PM > Subject Re: [Elecraft] Grounding screw for K3S > >> I am not even impressed with artificial 'intelligence' so far. The other >> day, Microsoft Copilot made an addition mistake in an equation I had asked >> for, and when I pointed out the error it simply said, "Oh, you're right! I >> won't make that mistake again." But then, another time it gave me the >> correct answer but to test its confidence I again challenged its accuracy. >> And again it said, "Oh, you're right! I won't make that mistake again." So >> you can neither trust it when it's wrong nor trust it when it's correct. >> >> When we sat through Copilot training at work, the Microsoft guy actually >> told us that we will get better results if we use the word 'please' in our >> prompt. He was serious, not joking. >> >> What I've seen so far definitely doesn't impress me, and I'll be darned if >> I'm going to go out of my way to say 'please' to a machine. >> >> Al W6LX/4 >> >> >> >>>> Bill DeVore via Elecraft <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> BTW here’s what the AI wizards said: >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected]
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