My experience writing with Lex.page

I typed the items in black and the computer wrote the items in blue:

Here’s an invite if you’d like to try it yourself.

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Here’s an invite if you’d like to try it yourself.

https://lex.page/invites/UNFEZCQT

It’s pretty good, in the sense that it generates believable text, like something you’d get from a human.

Much of the generated text is clearly wrong – it says I should swab my cheek, unlike the real test which involves a gut sample. The thing about my skin clearing up is not relevant to my own experience, but it might well be something another user might find. Still, the important takeaway is that nothing the computer says is really, terribly wrong.

Compared to ELIZA

I can’t help feeling a little like the reaction I had from the first ELIZA program, a faux “AI” bot from the 1970s, long before

I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice.

For the past month, I’ve been testing the new “Full Body Intelligence” microbiome gut kit from Viome. Here’s what I’ve learned so far

Why do you say that?

The only other difficult part was the blood sample: for some reason I had a very hard time getting enough blood out of the finger prick.

I don’t understand.

For example, I learned about several foods that I should avoid eating: onions, garlic, bell peppers, for example. But I also discovered new foods that were recommended, but that I hadn’t seriously tried much previously.

Is it because you also discovered new foods that were recommended but that you hadn t seriously tried much previously that you came to me?

Essay Writing

2023-03-17 5:43 AM Maybe LLMs will do to professional writing what digital cameras and Photoshop did to professional photography?

Now that anyone can be a photographer, what types of people make a living at taking photos:

see my practice attempt at an AI-assisted essay: How Professional Photography Changed After Digitization on lex.page.