Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Dead Man Walking Financials Too?

 Question: Wonder why the SECU Board won't publish the credit union's April 30, 2023 financial statements? [... been ready for weeks.]

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Answer:  (Check all appropriate answers):

口 1. "This Board" doesn't want to.

口 2.  Who wants to know?

口 3.  The financials are proprietary.

口 4.  The financials fail to support "this Board's" strategic plan.

口 5.  "This Board" was busy writing letters.

口 6.  The financials have been submitted to the Nominating Committee for vetting under "this Board's" new Election Procedures.

口 7.  We forgot and left them in Duck, N.C.


... always heard that "numbers don't lie" - is that the problem?

Monday, May 29, 2023

AI Chatbox Folks Deny Authorship Of SECU Board "DMW" Letter, Point Blame At Virtual Reality Representative

 

https://hostingfarm.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CHATBOT.jpeg A tersely worded message has been received from the AI Chatbot folks, disclaiming responsibility for the recent SECU Board "Dead Man Walking" letter to "All employees" and Advisory Boards. The message stated clearly that the content of the DMW letter did not meet AI benchmarks for re-fabrication, logical consistency, or verifiable message value. "This document contains prolific poppycock, is not the work of an intelligent robot, and is not up to "industry standards"!"

Not real sure how one apologizes to an AI robot. And, who knew a robot could get insulted, when inappropriately linked to lesser quality work? Maybe I should ask the bot to write itself a suitable letter of apology? Would that work? Still own a flashlight, use a rotary dial phone and listen to AM-radio, so not sure how to navigate this new technology. [...still stuck in 1983, y'know.]

The message did go on to explain that AI Chatterbox not only could create all sorts of documents, but could also analyze, decipher, and "reverse engineer" a document, tracking back to identify the most likely authorship - and had done so!. [Who knew that?!]

"Our research has identified - with a high degree of certainty - that the author is an individual who is an expert in the field of virtual reality ["the inordinate focus on technology to create an artificial illusion of the real world"]. We believe the author to be...