<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Also someone still needs to take out the trash, fix infrastructure, etc<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Garth Shaneyfelt</div><div>Let’s Create a Better World</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 18, 2024, at 2:22 PM, Robert Archer via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Something to keep in mind when pushing this:<div><br></div><div>None of the LLM systems are currently profitable, and are being kept cheap by injections of private equity. There is a danger that should be brought up that access to these systems could be curtailed at some point by price point or industry shake-up, or become problematic as their use is subsidized by selling the data/schema that are used in them, if they are not kept within an organization . . .<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 18, 2024, at 12:45 PM, Rob Laporte via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"><div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><p style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-right: 9pt;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:9pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi All,</span><br></p><p style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-right: 9pt;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:9pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For several months my firm has been studying </span><a style="text-decoration:none;" href="https://www.2disc.com/blog/can-ai-replace-upper-management-lines-in-the-sand/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">LLMs</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, like ChatGPT, and integrating it throughout our operations. In the process, it occurred to me how our region could counteract the inevitable decrease in paid labor which LLM’s will cause.</span><br></p><p style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-right: 9pt;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:9pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I imagine that some kind of LLM association could pool talents to create profession-specific “</span><a style="text-decoration:none;" href="https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpts/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">GPTs</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” (or the like with other LLMs). Each profession, like law, accounting, even kinds of retail service and stores, could have a committee to make their GPT based on a master schema established by the overall association. Using such tools, and saying so in marketing communications, could increase the total amount of business per profession. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m conferring with State employment agencies about this, and Chambers of Commerce are also candidates for advancing such associations.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There’s much more I can detail about this, but for now I’m just floating the idea for feedback.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m leaving on vacation through Monday, after which I’ll eagerly join any conversation that ensues here.</span></span><br></p><div class="zmail_signature_below"><div id="" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" data-sigid="1535369000000073001"><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px"><span class="size" style="font-size:13px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">Best Regards,<br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px"><span class="size" style="font-size:13px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; color: rgb(170, 48, 37)"><b><span class="size" style="font-size:13px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif">Rob Laporte</span></span></b><span class="size" style="font-size:13px"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; 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