Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten about this!

Yes, it’s going to be very difficult to do reliable model testing and comparisons with OpenAI. To say “I did this with ChatGPT 5” doesn’t really mean anything. And, the “I like the cite stuff” crowd is now even one step further from reproducibility.

Thanks Andrew! It was fabulous to have you join @digitalarchivst.bsky.social and I for the AI seminar today. What an awesome day. We'll have to do it again soon!

I can’t believe I didn’t think of that!

My wife and I watched the show last night. It was fantastic! We both had a couple of full-on belly laughs at the portrayal of "the genealogy nerd." Let's just say... it bore striking similarity to some conversations that have happened in our house. :-)

Few truly understand the tools and techniques that they use; from food supply through to air travel. So, they rely on people they “trust” and rules of thumb that they acquire through their own inexpert experience. This works poorly for new tools. It’s called the “bleeding edge” for a reason.

Clearly, where all the cool kids are hanging out!

Oh my. Time to clean out the cabinets. Maybe even a fire sale, by which I mean... start a big bonfire in the backyard kind of fire sale. :-)

For what it's worth, I still go for the add-on DVD/Bluray player. Although, I can't remember the last time I put something in it. Maybe it is a cup holder, afterall?

I distinctly remember when a media player became an add on to the base model computer. I've got to admit, even as a citizen of the 'net, I was a bit surprised.

Probate documents can be golden! Glad that hear that you're finding good info. The handwriting isn't too painful, I hope. :-)

I can access it on the mobile app, but the website is dead to me!

There will definitely be a "which tools are best for what" session!

It makes so much sense, especially once someone else thought of it. :-) Very insightful on their part!

The research focuses on identifying the most impactful portion of the context window on the LLM's response. Even though they don't go after the source, it's just a short step from where they left off to try to do a web search for the source material. I can see someone else picking it up from here!

Thankfully, several of the chatbots can now identify the sources of the research that they do on your behalf. Perplexity.ai has provided sources for a while now, and GPTSearch (built into ChatGPT) started doing this last month. You can now research with confidence now... but, check those sources!

Reminds me of how I felt at the end of two days researching at the Family Search Library last year. Absolutely gassed!