The entrances of Ogof Draenen include traditional surface entrances, as well as cave connections to other nearby cave systems such as Ogof Cnwc. Some of the well-known entrances to Ogof Draenen include Bridge Cave, Bull Pit, Lower Entrance, Little Neath River Cave Entrance, and others.
Blimey! I can't wait for the first report of a through trip from Ogof Cnwc to Little Neath via Draenen.It really pushed the boat out for my reply:
We don't talk about the 15+ other entrancesGoing back to the "Can ChatGPT write software" issue. Er, no, not in and of itself, as it has no understanding of content and simply regurgitates other people's material based on a pattern match. I'm not denying that is one way of doing a literature search while occupied supping a pint, but it isn't raw intelligence. So, I asked how to use SFTP to transfer files to a server at the command line level and it came up with this DOS script below amongst 5 pages of other stuff including a couple of pages from some Unix Manual as used at Indiana University:
echo YourPassword > temp.txt
psftp username@server –pw YourPassword –b commands.txt
del temp.txt
Now, even someone who is not a programmer can see that putting your own password (whatever it is) into a temporary file, then not referencing that temporary file in the subsequent PSFTP command line, and then deleting the useless temp file, is plain silly.
Someone else fed ChatGPT their half-hour smart meter readings for the past year requesting enlightenment. The response was a chart showing a “24x7” view of it showing the hour-of-day totals versus the weekday summed over a year. All well and good, other than the clocks going back and forth seasonally - but how do we know an alternative weekly or daily total view of that year would not also have been illuminating? Or even calculate the average and standard deviation by week or by day, or a seasonal interpretation, or even a simple total for the year? There are after all things called summer and winter and annual expenditure. So yes, it can interact in a fun way, put 17,520 readings through a stats package and create a chart, but that is not intelligence. If creating a chart is intelligent then Excel is intelligent.
As to getting hold of caving news, I asked ChatGPT how many entrances are there to Ogof Draenen? Its answer:
"Ogof Draenen, located in South Wales, UK, is one of the longest cave systems in Britain. As of my last update, there were several entrances to Ogof Draenen, but the exact number may vary depending on how one defines an "entrance." Generally, there are around 15 to 20 entrances, including surface shafts and openings leading into the cave system. However, due to the dynamic nature of caves, with new entrances occasionally being discovered and existing ones altered by natural processes, it's advisable to consult the most recent sources for the latest information."
Perhaps there really are 20 entrances most of the time. I must go and look for the few remaining that I don't know about this weekend. And it is self-evident that the most recent sources rather than historic ones would have the latest information, surely?
A couple of years ago when asked how many entrances Ogof Draenen had, ChatGPT said the list included Little Neath River Cave, Ogof Cnwc and Bull Pot. I suppose this is evidence of learning.Going back to the "Can ChatGPT write software" issue. Er, no, not in and of itself, as it has no understanding of content and simply regurgitates other people's material based on a pattern match. I'm not denying that is one way of doing a literature search while occupied supping a pint, but it isn't raw intelligence. So, I asked how to use SFTP to transfer files to a server at the command line level and it came up with this DOS script below amongst 5 pages of other stuff including a couple of pages from some Unix Manual as used at Indiana University:
echo YourPassword > temp.txt
psftp username@server –pw YourPassword –b commands.txt
del temp.txt
Now, even someone who is not a programmer can see that putting your own password (whatever it is) into a temporary file, then not referencing that temporary file in the subsequent PSFTP command line, and then deleting the useless temp file, is plain silly.
Someone else fed ChatGPT their half-hour smart meter readings for the past year requesting enlightenment. The response was a chart showing a “24x7” view of it showing the hour-of-day totals versus the weekday summed over a year. All well and good, other than the clocks going back and forth seasonally - but how do we know an alternative weekly or daily total view of that year would not also have been illuminating? Or even calculate the average and standard deviation by week or by day, or a seasonal interpretation, or even a simple total for the year? There are after all things called summer and winter and annual expenditure. So yes, it can interact in a fun way, put 17,520 readings through a stats package and create a chart, but that is not intelligence. If creating a chart is intelligent then Excel is intelligent.
As to getting hold of caving news, I asked ChatGPT how many entrances are there to Ogof Draenen? Its answer:
"Ogof Draenen, located in South Wales, UK, is one of the longest cave systems in Britain. As of my last update, there were several entrances to Ogof Draenen, but the exact number may vary depending on how one defines an "entrance." Generally, there are around 15 to 20 entrances, including surface shafts and openings leading into the cave system. However, due to the dynamic nature of caves, with new entrances occasionally being discovered and existing ones altered by natural processes, it's advisable to consult the most recent sources for the latest information."
Perhaps there really are 20 entrances most of the time. I must go and look for the few remaining that I don't know about this weekend. And it is self-evident that the most recent sources rather than historic ones would have the latest information, surely?