More Human than Human
Update: Later, on the same day as the original post, I asked Bing what ABBV’s current dividend is, and received the correct answer of $1.48 per share. Immediately, I wondered why Bing nailed it this time. Then, I became aware that my setting for Bing was ‘More Creative’ (as opposed to ‘More Balanced’ or ‘More Precise’). This likely explains the parallel universe that I accidentally stepped into earlier that day. It doesn’t explain why it waited until I was a few iterations deep when it decided to get ‘creative’. Why didn’t it just respond with ‘chicken‘? That’s very creative. And why get creative with what is already historical fact? Should I have expected that? Shouldn’t ‘creativity’ be used in less factual arenas, like dreams or forecasts or emotional discussion? Do we need to play around with irrefutable historical fact? I still think the previously unspoken, yet implied warning about AI applies; use multiple sources to verify information provided to you, particularly if from a source you have not used previously. My main source for all things related to dividends, earnings, and fair valuation, is Sure Dividend. When I need additional detail, I venture out into other sources such as Yahoo! Finance, CFRA reports, and TD Ameritrade, and make sure that I reconcile back to my control totals. This fruitless venture into AI as detailed below was an effort to get quarterly dividends that would tie back to the yearly dividends easily obtained from the latest ABBV report available through my Sure Dividend membership. No one source is perfect, but Sure Dividend aims to be. Be careful out there, humans.
I am writing on September 15, 2023. I just completed a rather surreal chat with the AI-powered, Microsoft Bing add-on available in the Microsoft Edge browser. Life may never be the same.
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