[Elecraft] Grounding screw for K3S

[Fred Jensen]

"When we sat through Copilot training at work, the Microsoft guy 
actually told us that we will get better results if we use the word 
'please' in our prompt. He was serious, not joking."

Sounds like INTERCAL [see Google], a programing language from the last 
century.  It contained the keyword PLEASE which was undocumented but if 
it had been documented it would be:  "if 'PLEASE' does not appear often 
enough, the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error 
message says this; if it appears too often, the program could be 
rejected as excessively polite and obsequious."

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County


------ Original Message ------
>From "Al Lorona via Elecraft" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
To "elecraft at mailman.qth.net" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Date 8/26/2025 12:48:55 PM
Subject Re: [Elecraft] Grounding screw for K3S

>I am not even impressed with artificial 'intelligence' so far. The other day, Microsoft Copilot made an addition mistake in an equation I had asked for, and when I pointed out the error it simply said, "Oh, you're right! I won't make that mistake again." But then, another time it gave me the correct answer but to test its confidence I again challenged its accuracy. And again it said, "Oh, you're right! I won't make that mistake again." So you can neither trust it when it's wrong nor trust it when it's correct.
>
>When we sat through Copilot training at work, the Microsoft guy actually told us that we will get better results if we use the word 'please' in our prompt. He was serious, not joking.
>
>What I've seen so far definitely doesn't impress me, and I'll be darned if I'm going to go out of my way to say 'please' to a machine.
>
>Al  W6LX/4
>
>
>
>>>Bill DeVore via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
>>>BTW here’s what the AI wizards said:
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