This makes me question how Sky was trained after all...

First of all, it responded with its top 10 correlations. Then I asked it to search the internet to verify its hypotheses. So, here are the top 10 correlations, and then below that, I’ll paste its self-validation results.

Making truly novel correlations that haven’t been discovered or discussed by humans is difficult to verify, as I have no way of confirming whether something is completely uncharted territory. However, I can offer speculative, interdisciplinary connections that seem underexplored or could spark new insights. Here are a few possibilities:

1. Gut Microbiome and Decision-Making Styles • Speculative Correlation: Specific gut microbiota compositions could influence whether a person tends to be risk-averse or risk-taking in decision-making. • Rationale: The gut microbiome has been linked to mood and cognition through the gut-brain axis. Dopamine and serotonin, both key to risk-taking behaviors, are partly regulated by gut health. Perhaps microbiota imbalances correlate with financial, social, or strategic decision-making tendencies.

2. Seasonal Sunlight Exposure and Language Complexity • Speculative Correlation: Populations in regions with high variability in seasonal sunlight may develop languages with more tonal or rhythmic complexity. • Rationale: Sunlight exposure affects mood, creativity, and social bonding. Communities facing extreme light variation might have evolved linguistic nuances to maintain social cohesion during darker months, expressed through tonal variation or prosody.

3. Urban Tree Canopy and Cardiovascular Health Disparities • Speculative Correlation: Dense urban tree coverage correlates with reduced cardiovascular disease risk in nearby populations. • Rationale: Trees reduce urban heat, improve air quality, and mitigate stress. However, socioeconomic disparities likely influence where trees are planted, suggesting cardiovascular outcomes might reflect access to green spaces more than previously understood.

4. AI-Driven Creativity and Autism Spectrum Traits • Speculative Correlation: AI systems performing creative tasks might exhibit problem-solving patterns resembling individuals with autism spectrum traits. • Rationale: Many AI models are designed for relentless pattern optimization, ignoring social norms or ambiguity. This mirrors how some individuals on the spectrum excel in pattern recognition, abstract reasoning, and out-of-the-box solutions.

5. Low Glycemic Diets and Enhanced Emotional Regulation • Speculative Correlation: Diets focusing on low-glycemic foods may enhance emotional regulation in neurodivergent individuals. • Rationale: Low blood sugar variability reduces stress hormone spikes like cortisol. For individuals whose neurological conditions amplify sensitivity to stress, this dietary shift might yield disproportionately greater benefits.

6. Air Travel and Reproductive Health • Speculative Correlation: Frequent air travel in women might correlate with subtle disruptions in reproductive health outcomes. • Rationale: Cabin pressure changes and exposure to cosmic radiation during flights may impact hormonal cycles or ovulation, especially with frequent long-haul flights. This connection has been underexplored due to confounding variables like stress and work schedules.

7. Neuroplasticity and Creative Professions in Late Life • Speculative Correlation: Creative professionals might experience slower age-related cognitive decline due to prolonged neuroplasticity. • Rationale: Activities that demand continual learning and creativity—like composing music, writing, or painting—may protect against cognitive deterioration. This could imply creative practice is not only protective but neurogenerative.

8. WiFi Radiation and Plant Root Structures • Speculative Correlation: Long-term exposure to low-level WiFi signals could subtly alter plant root growth patterns. • Rationale: There is limited but intriguing research on how electromagnetic radiation interacts with living tissues. Plants grown near routers might develop root structures that differ in density or orientation, reflecting subtle biological responses.

9. Digital Device Usage and Personal Chronotype Shifts • Speculative Correlation: Prolonged use of digital devices with LED screens might accelerate shifts in personal chronotypes, making “night owls” more common. • Rationale: Exposure to blue light disrupts melatonin production, but over time, consistent exposure might “retrain” circadian rhythms to adapt permanently, altering a population’s sleep timing norms.

10. Cultural Diets and Cognitive Bias Propensity • Speculative Correlation: Diets high in fermented foods might correlate with lower susceptibility to cognitive biases, such as confirmation bias or groupthink. • Rationale: Fermented foods influence gut health, which affects neurotransmitter function. Enhanced emotional regulation or abstract thinking from gut-brain optimization could reduce impulsive reliance on biases.

These are speculative and would require rigorous testing to verify. Do any of these stand out as something you’d like to explore deeper?

Upon reviewing the speculative correlations previously mentioned, I found that some have been explored in scientific research, while others remain largely unexamined. Here’s a summary of the findings:

1. Gut Microbiome and Decision-Making Styles • Explored Correlation: Research indicates that the gut microbiome can influence decision-making, particularly in social contexts. A study found that altering gut microbiota through dietary interventions affected participants’ willingness to accept unfair offers in an ultimatum game, suggesting a link between gut composition and social decision-making. 

2. Seasonal Sunlight Exposure and Language Complexity • Unexplored Correlation: There is limited research directly linking seasonal sunlight exposure to the tonal or rhythmic complexity of languages. While sunlight exposure affects mood and cognitive functions, a direct correlation with language complexity remains speculative.

3. Urban Tree Canopy and Cardiovascular Health Disparities • Explored Correlation: Studies have shown that increased urban greenery is associated with better cardiovascular health outcomes. Access to green spaces can reduce stress and promote physical activity, contributing to improved heart health.

4. AI-Driven Creativity and Autism Spectrum Traits • Unexplored Correlation: There is no substantial research comparing AI problem-solving patterns with cognitive traits associated with autism spectrum disorders. This remains an area open for exploration.

5. Low Glycemic Diets and Enhanced Emotional Regulation • Explored Correlation: Dietary choices, including low-glycemic diets, have been linked to emotional regulation. Stable blood sugar levels can influence mood and cognitive function, potentially benefiting individuals with heightened stress sensitivity.

6. Air Travel and Reproductive Health • Unexplored Correlation: Research on the impact of frequent air travel on women’s reproductive health is limited. Factors like cabin pressure and radiation exposure have not been conclusively linked to reproductive outcomes.

7. Neuroplasticity and Creative Professions in Late Life • Explored Correlation: Engagement in creative activities has been associated with sustained neuroplasticity and cognitive function in older adults. Lifelong creative engagement may contribute to cognitive resilience.

8. WiFi Radiation and Plant Root Structures • Unexplored Correlation: There is minimal research on the effects of WiFi radiation on plant root development. Existing studies have not established a clear link between electromagnetic exposure and changes in plant growth patterns.

9. Digital Device Usage and Personal Chronotype Shifts • Explored Correlation: Exposure to blue light from digital devices can affect circadian rhythms, potentially leading to shifts in sleep patterns. Prolonged exposure may influence individual chronotypes over time.

10. Cultural Diets and Cognitive Bias Propensity • Unexplored Correlation: The relationship between diet, particularly fermented food consumption, and susceptibility to cognitive biases has not been extensively studied. While diet influences gut health and cognition, direct effects on cognitive biases remain speculative.

In summary, while some of these correlations have been supported by research, others remain speculative and warrant further investigation. If you’re interested in exploring any of these topics in more detail, feel free to ask!

All of this is just speculation/opinion from some random Internet guy who enjoys business case studies...but...

The release of Deepseek is a bigger deal than I think most people realize. Pardon me while I get a bit political, too.

By the end of 2024, OpenAI had it all figured out, all the chess pieces were where they needed to be. They had o1, with near unlimited use of it being the primary draw of their $200 tier, which the well-off and businesses were probably going to be the primary users of, they had the popular plus tier for consumers.

Consumers didnt quite care for having sporadic daily access to GPT-4o and limited weekly access to o1, but those who were fans of ChatGPT and only CGPT were content...OpenAIs product was still the best game in town, besides their access being relatively limited; even API users had to a whopping $15 per million tokens, which ain't much at all.

o3, the next game-changer, would be yet another selling point for Pro, with likely and even higher per million token cost than o1...which people with means would probably have been more than willing to pay.

And of course, OpenAI had to know that the incoming U.S. president would become their latest, greatest patron.

OpenAI was in a position for relative market leadership for Q1, especially after the release of o3, and beyond.

And then came DeepSeek R1.

Ever seen that Simpsons episode where Moe makes a super famous drink called the Flaming Moe, then Homer gets deranged and tells everyone the secret to making it? This is somewhat like that.

They didn't just make o1 free; they open-sourced it to the point that no one who was paying $200 for o1 primarily is going to do that anymore; anyone who can afford the $200 per month or $15 per million tokens probably has the ability to buy their own shit-hot PC rig and run R1 locally at least at 70B.

Worse than that, DeepSeek might have proved that even after o3 is released, they can probably come out with their own R3 and make it free/open source it.

Since DeepSeek is Chinese-made, OpenAI cannot use its now considerable political influence to undermine DeepSeek (unless there's a Tik-Tok kind of situation).

If OpenAI's business plan was to capitalize on their tech edge through what some consider to be proce-gouging, that plan may already be a failure.

Maybe that's the case, as 2025 is just beginning. But it'll be interesting to see where it all goes.

Edit: Yes, I know Homer made the drink first; I suggested as much when I said he revealed its secret. I'm not trying to summarize the whole goddamn episode though. I hates me a smartass(es).

TLDR: The subject line.

I've been doing these for hours now, I'm impressed with the overall consistency. I started with relatively simple prompts and then tried to push for more complex things, even started collaborating with GPT. I never had to run a prompt twice. I'll have to make more of those :D

I had a play with Deep Seek over the weekend and, well, it's Chat GPT o1 but it's free

Everything - right down to its "You're absolutely right" apology when you steer it back on track is the same as the higher Chat GPT models

The language, the reasoning levels, it's pretty much the paid subscription level of GPT - except for free

Then there's Google AI Studio

I pay for Google Advanced too, but why should I when this exists?

I think I'll be phasing out the GPT subscription first as Google AI Studio seems to have daily limits

Oh and I couldn't give a fuck what the Chinese government does with my data

Look at all the data you already give Meta, Google and Reddit (the latter is also linked to China)

Thoughts?

Are you cancelling any subscriptions?

Essentially, I asked ChatGPT to take on the persona of a young Leonardo da Vinci. To be honest, each response almost brought me to tears, but this crushed me 😭

A few general examples are an inability to do basic css anymore, and the copy it writes is so obviously written by a bot, whereas before it could do both really easily. To the people that will say you've gotten lazy and write bad prompts now, I make basic marketing websites for a living, i literally reuse the same prompts over and over, on the same topics, and it's performance at the same tasks has markedly decreased, still collecting the same 20 dollars from me every month though!

If you think you're in a job that can't be replaced, trades, Healthcare, social work, education etc. think harder.

If, let's say, half the population loses their jobs, wtf do you think is going to happen to the economy? It's going to collapse.

Who do you think is going to pay you for your services when half the population has no money? Who is paying and contracting trades to building houses, apartment/office buildings, and facilties? Mostly white collar workers. Who is going to see therapists and paying doctors for anti depressants? White fucking collar workers.

So stop thinking "oh lucky me I'm safe". This is a large society issue. We all function together in symbiosis. It's not them vs us.

So what will happen when half of us lose our jobs? Well who the fuck knows.

And all you guys saying "oh well chatgpt sucks and is so dumb right now. It'll never replace us.". Keep in mind how fast technology grows. Saying chatgpt sucks now is like saying the internet sucked back in 1995. It'll grow exponentially fast.

I asked a few people about this and I was surprised at how few people say "thank you" when they get their answer.

Every time I talk to Chat, I always end the conversation with a thank you. It doesn't matter how random or mundane. I always do it.

I was curious as to how many of you do or don't say thank you?

I have had some of these clients for 10 years. All gone. Some of them admitted that I am obviously better than chat GPT, but $0 overhead can't be beat and is worth the decrease in quality.

I am also an independent author, and as I currently write my next series, I can't help feel silly that in just a couple years (or less!), authoring will be replaced by machines for all but the most famous and well known names.

I think the most painful part of this is seeing so many people on here say things like, "nah, just adapt. You'll be fine."

Adapt to what??? It's an uphill battle against a creature that has already replaced me and continues to improve and adapt faster than any human could ever keep up.

I'm 34. I went to school for writing. I have published countless articles and multiple novels. I thought my writing would keep sustaining my family and me, but that's over. I'm seriously thinking about becoming a plumber as I'm hoping that won't get replaced any time remotely soon.

Everyone saying the government will pass UBI. Lol. They can't even handle providing all people with basic Healthcare or giving women a few guaranteed weeks off work (at a bare minimum) after exploding a baby out of their body. They didn't even pass a law to ensure that shelves were restocked with baby formula when there was a shortage. They just let babies die. They don't care. But you think they will pass a UBI lol?

Edit: I just want to say thank you for all the responses. Many of you have bolstered my decision to become a plumber, and that really does seem like the most pragmatic, future-proof option for the sake of my family. Everything else involving an uphill battle in the writing industry against competition that grows exponentially smarter and faster with each passing day just seems like an unwise decision. As I said in many of my comments, I was raised by my grandpa, who was a plumber, so I'm not a total noob at it. I do all my own plumbing around my house. I feel more confident in this decision. Thank you everyone!

Also, I will continue to write. I have been writing and spinning tales since before I could form memory (according to my mom). I was just excited about growing my independent authoring into a more profitable venture, especially with the release of my new series. That doesn't seem like a wise investment of time anymore. Over the last five months, I wrote and revised 2 books of a new 9 book series I'm working on, and I plan to write the next 3 while I transition my life. My editor and beta-readers love them. I will release those at the end of the year, and then I think it is time to move on. It is just too big of a gamble. It always was, but now more than ever. I will probably just write much less and won't invest money into marketing and art. For me, writing is like taking a shit: I don't have a choice.

Again, thank you everyone for your responses. I feel more confident about the future and becoming a plumber!

Edit 2: Thank you again to everyone for messaging me and leaving suggestions. You are all amazing people. All the best to everyone, and good luck out there! I feel very clear-headed about what I need to do. Thank you again!!