For some reason I left this as a draft in early May of 2025 - it may not have been finished but it looks good enough, so I'll publish.
My first impulse this morning was to post a quick observation on Bluesky, but undoubtedly the censorious who prowl that platform would consign me to the...
[brief intermission while I rev up YouTube to find a Microsoft/Mozart video and instead discover this delightful ad
to show in the Social Engineer class after giggling hysterically at
...correction, confounded, doomed to flames of woe unbounded, for discussing Generative AI (I had been saying "consigned to eternal hell fire").
Also, the video I wanted is on Vimeo, not YouTube:
At one point the alert reminding me to feed the cats lunch went off and I realized I was hungry, as well, so a spinach, onion, and cheese quesadilla later I am back!
One of my favorite podcasts is Perry Carpenter and Mason Amadeus' FAIK Files. Their most recent episode discussed a Stanford study on LLMs and Big 5 personality measures. As a huge fan of the Big 5 who works it into many presentations/talks/lectures I decided to ask the two LLMs I use the most, Claude, which I pay for, and ChatGPT, which I use the free version of, "I saw some research findings that indicate LLMs like to be seen as having high extraversion, high agreeableness, high conscientiousness, and low neuroticism - because that is a popular perception of respectable people. I prefer a more interesting personality, though: high openness with lower agreeableness and just enough conscientiousness to be a functioning adult without a lot of neuroticism drama. Is that possible or are LLMs destined to be Hermione Granger?" (I am a major Harry Potter fan but do not channel Hermione)
I mentioned in a Discord for the FAIK Files that perhaps Claude and ChatGPT are representing different sides of me - the "two wolves", as it were.
