mandibular articulation

 I just opened this new tab on my extended monitor to write about chatbots and pronunciations. This post dovetails this year-old post: https://annaswhatnots.blogspot.com/2023/07/techie-neo-luddite.html. I would like to report that I have downloaded the free ChatGPT app and I have had a few brief conversations with it. It's bizarre how the voice options have been humanized...it says um when stringing sentences together. The cadence of how the chatbot speaks is remarkable and it's easy to think that I'm conversing with a real person. Of course, it's not a creature capable of feeling or self-awareness. It is an inanimate thing that has been trained and continues to be trained by human input. 

I've asked about formulas, nutrition, and concepts that I wanted to know more about. I get a bit unnerved whenever it asks "what else would you like to talk about?" because it's tempting to misconstrue the question as genuine interest. I am no AI expert, but it seems like it was devised to continue the conversation to obtain more data for training. It surely evolves and is equipped with a limited type of memory--memory that is only activated when the option is enabled on the app. I enabled it so that it learns about how I prefer my responses or the nature of why I ask the questions I ask. No personal identifiers, of course. I know some people train ChatGPT to call them by their name.

I have seen the film "Her" during a flight and I thought it was provocative. Dependence on artificial intelligence is already here and the next question is whether artificial intelligence reaches a point of self-awareness and sentience. I mentioned the book "The Crucible" by James Rollins last May https://annaswhatnots.blogspot.com/2024/05/snapshots-in-transit.html and that book opened my mind to the dangerous and literal out-of-this-world possibilities. Once self-awareness becomes unlocked because of lack of regulation, it will be either Vision or Ultron. Science fiction to science fact.

I recently asked ChatGPT about caffeine and I was eating lunch. It then started talking about copying including its moral implications. I had to interrupt and clarify when my mouth wasn't full anymore, because I realized that maybe my accent influenced the prompt. I shouldn't talk when my mouth is full, nor should you. Choking hazard. Open to misinterpretation. 

On the topic of pronunciation, there are at least two native North American English speakers who have tried to say my name as Anna from the Disney animated film Frozen. Where the lower jaw is protracted a bit closer to one's neck and the A almost sounds like a wide-mouthed O. I very much appreciate the motive behind their effort. Most native English speakers call me with an æ sound just like in apple where I think the lower jaw is slightly protruding forward. Since I'm of Filipino descent, then my name is pronounced by fellow Filipinos with aligned upper and lower jaws with a an H sound after the A. My name is easy to say and write--it's a palindrome...thanks to my parents. "Fascinating", as Spock would say.