I believe in the power of open collaboration to create digital commons. My promise to you is I explore the leverage points that create change in complex systems keeping the humans in those systems at the forefront with empathy and humor.
Untangling Systems: Using Models Together ChatGPT and Earth Index
Using Models Together ChatGPT Atlas and Earth IndexA lot of my experimentation lately is using common AI tools in different ways. I decided to see what would happen if I tried using ChatGPT with geospatial models. And I just did a simple experiment where I was working to create labels in Earth Index and using ChatGPT's browser Atlas as my partner in that. I'm sharing with you part one, which is not the more successful part of doing this. ChatGPT has difficulty using the map and it would have been much faster for me to do it by myself. I also tried this workflow 4 different times and with different types of features dairy farms, green houses and mining. The first time I did it was the most successful, but it was also the time I wasn't recording. Part two, I'll show you how we review the predictions. It worked quite a bit better for that, I could see how the LLM might actually be helpful in a custom application. I also observed some other difficulties. Earth Index has some unique aspects to its interface that aren't as common as some of the more traditional Slippy map implementations. It made me wonder if it would be harder with an LLM browser to use non-traditional interfaces. Because it definitely gets caught up a little here. Here are the results in video form. And surprise, I have a YouTube channel now too! -Kate |
Untangling Systems
I believe in the power of open collaboration to create digital commons. My promise to you is I explore the leverage points that create change in complex systems keeping the humans in those systems at the forefront with empathy and humor.
Faux Consensus and the Least Bad Decision Trap We will get back to talking about AI soon. I promise. Those that were waiting for me to take a break from the AI, here we go! Today, let’s talk about an older and much messier technology: humans trying to make decisions together. I have been thinking about data governance for a new project I am working on, and it keeps reminding me that, in plain language, governance is the rules and norms a community agrees to play by. Not just what tools we...
Tobler’s Law in Latent Space There’s an idea in geography called Tobler’s First Law of Geography: “everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things.” It sounds almost obvious when you first hear it. Of course nearby things are similar. But recently I’ve been wondering whether AI is quietly breaking this intuition, or revealing that “near” was always more complicated than we thought. Deeper into Tobler Tobler was not the first to notice this...
Thoughts on meeting fatigue, because I have thoughts again I was staring at the wall. My mind was blankish. I say blankish because there was still this nagging feeling that I had forgotten something. That there was something left to do. This was not simply resting, it was more light disassociation. If disassociation could ever be light. My brain had quietly opted out. I was anxious about all the things I should be doing, aware of time passing, but unable to pick anything up. No book. No...