All this buzz around ChatGPT is really people finally realizing that transformers exist.
ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
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Re: ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
#22I don't think GPT is a con, it's doing exactly what it was trined to do. I think the problem is people put false confidence into it. Because it appears to give correct information, ChatGPT has been put on this pedestal by the non-tech world as being some revolution. In fact it's not a revolution, they just figured out how to build a chatbot that returns convincing statements that sounds human, correct information is…
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Re: ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
#23I can't tell what is worse now: the sycophantic ChatGPT hype guys/gals who write articles "it's coming for all of our jerbs!", or articles like this one that deliberately misuse ChatGPT and then say "it's overhyped". They're both missing the point. Yes, ChatGPT can be tricked, confidently give wrong answers, but it is still ludicrously useful. It is basically like having an incredibly smart engineer/scientists/philos…
> Can't cite their sources?
Has there been research on neural nets who could cite their sources? In common cases, thousands or millions of items in the training set have contributed to the weights in the pathways that activate for a certain input. But maybe for some inputs, only a small number of items in the training set contributed strongly to the weights on the pathways the are decisive to the output? Could you design a data structure that would keep this information in the neural net?
Re: ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
#24I can't tell what is worse now: the sycophantic ChatGPT hype guys/gals who write articles "it's coming for all of our jerbs!", or articles like this one that deliberately misuse ChatGPT and then say "it's overhyped". They're both missing the point. Yes, ChatGPT can be tricked, confidently give wrong answers, but it is still ludicrously useful. It is basically like having an incredibly smart engineer/scientists/philos…
“Sycophantic” to whom?
Re: ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know that it's an "incredibly smart" anything; I think it'd be better described as incredibly well-read, with poor discretion. But there's definitely uses for a tool that produces a lot of boilerplate content that a human can then proofread (ex: writing cover letters, filling out unstructured paperwork, etc.) Edit: I personally underestimated the use-case, because the "more optimal" thing to do when auto-fill…
I dunno, I recently learned about how the Toyota Synergy Drive system works in detail. Despite being the type of person who'd be interested in that kind of thing I thought it was not generally well understood, I've only come across one website which described it in detail. I asked ChatGPT about it and it game me a fairly surface level answer. I then asked it for more details and it went into detail far beyond what th…
Out of curiosity, I'd have the following questions:
1. Would you be able to notice if it made something up, given that it's going beyond the detail that you know?
2. Did it have any details that aren't covered in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Synergy_Drive
Re: ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
#26"Cars won't replace horses, because they require roads and horses don't."
Still waiting on those autonomous cars.
Unlike many other software development tools, I've found ChatGPT to be useless so far.
Re: ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know that it's an "incredibly smart" anything; I think it'd be better described as incredibly well-read, with poor discretion. But there's definitely uses for a tool that produces a lot of boilerplate content that a human can then proofread (ex: writing cover letters, filling out unstructured paperwork, etc.) Edit: I personally underestimated the use-case, because the "more optimal" thing to do when auto-fill…
I dunno, I recently learned about how the Toyota Synergy Drive system works in detail. Despite being the type of person who'd be interested in that kind of thing I thought it was not generally well understood, I've only come across one website which described it in detail. I asked ChatGPT about it and it game me a fairly surface level answer. I then asked it for more details and it went into detail far beyond what th…
In my experience from asking it questions about things that I know well, the deeper you get into the weeds with it, the more likely it is to invent some kind of extremely plausible-sounding but incorrect answer. How confident are you that what it told you is actually correct?
Re: ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
#28I can't tell what is worse now: the sycophantic ChatGPT hype guys/gals who write articles "it's coming for all of our jerbs!", or articles like this one that deliberately misuse ChatGPT and then say "it's overhyped". They're both missing the point. Yes, ChatGPT can be tricked, confidently give wrong answers, but it is still ludicrously useful. It is basically like having an incredibly smart engineer/scientists/philos…
> Can't cite their sources? Has there been research on neural nets who could cite their sources? In common cases, thousands or millions of items in the training set have contributed to the weights in the pathways that activate for a certain input. But maybe for some inputs, only a small number of items in the training set contributed strongly to the weights on the pathways the are decisive to the output? Could you de…
perplexity.ai/ specifically uses web sources to construct natural language.
I believe it's going to be in Bing soon?
Re: ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
#29I can't tell what is worse now: the sycophantic ChatGPT hype guys/gals who write articles "it's coming for all of our jerbs!", or articles like this one that deliberately misuse ChatGPT and then say "it's overhyped". They're both missing the point. Yes, ChatGPT can be tricked, confidently give wrong answers, but it is still ludicrously useful. It is basically like having an incredibly smart engineer/scientists/philos…
I had problem with the citing as well (have to ask separate questions, then google it).
It would be a huge improvement if it would be trained to provide references by default.
Re: ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
#30Too harsh!
ChatGPT is lossily compressed knowledge of humanity collected on the Internet.
And it can talk! That's extremely new for us poor hoomans and so we get extremely excited.
I found out, it gets about one in ten things wrong. When this happens it spews confident bullshit and when I confront it, it cheerily admits that it was wrong, but can continue to produce further bullshit. I understand the comparison to a con man.