NBA Coach JJ Redick Says He Spends Hours Talking to His "Friend" ChatGPT

[highplainsdem]

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/jj-redick-nba-chatgpt-lakers

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“I’m the type of person who, y’know, spends an hour and a half going down a deep, deep rabbit hole on ChatGPT,” Redick said. “It used to be Wikipedia, but now it’s me and my friend Chat.”

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As SB Nation’s Jacob Rude pointed out, the freshly-minted head coach spent most of the press conference with Pelinka talking about seeking wisdom from other pros, like former NFL quarterback Tom Brady. Giving Redick the benefit of the doubt, ChatGPT could just be another font of knowledge for the relatively inexperienced shot caller to draw on.

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It’s also not hard to imagine Redick — whose only prior coaching experience came as a fourth-grade volunteer coach — coping with the stress of the job via long, sycophantic sessions with his friend ChatGPT.

“Redick spoke last season about how he handles losses, saying he goes to his basement in the dark and watches film,” Jacob Rude observed. “And now, all I can picture is Redick sitting in the dark, film rolling in the background, while he has a conversation with ChatGPT.”

There's a link to another article on ChatGPT at the end of that one:

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises

[RockRaven]

1. Daily reminder that people successful in one arena are complete dumbasses in almost everything else.

Also a reminder that "successful" people are often more a product of who they know rather than exemplary skill.

[highplainsdem]

4. True.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Well, That Seems Maladjusted

Dude is in his 40s, for goodness sake.
And, he knows everybody.
So, he has conversations with a machine?
Sheesh.

[highplainsdem]

3. People are now going to wonder if he has ChatGPT give him coaching advice. And there's

really no way he can prove he doesn't.

Once you say positive things about generative AI and tell people you're using it - once you admit you think it's fine to do so - it's perfectly reasonable for others to wonder how often you turn your own thinking over to a chatbot.