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ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI
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#32These articles are all the same. It's like complaining how the Ford Model T couldn't drive you to England in the early 20th century while ignoring how it would revolutionize cities and life within America. Whether you believe it's 'real' or not is irrelevant. It's here, it's useful and the world will not be the same as it was.
What about the fact that it's not reliable? Seems unusable to me if you are not a domain expert that just gets help from the system and who is able to judge whether its advice is true or made up.
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#33People who can’t understand ChatGPT hype would have not used calculators when they came out on the grounds they didn’t understand mathematical proofs.
I wouldn't have used a calculator that sometimes miscalculates things and claims them to be correct.
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#34These articles are all the same. It's like complaining how the Ford Model T couldn't drive you to England in the early 20th century while ignoring how it would revolutionize cities and life within America. Whether you believe it's 'real' or not is irrelevant. It's here, it's useful and the world will not be the same as it was.
What about the fact that it's not reliable? Seems unusable to me if you are not a domain expert that just gets help from the system and who is able to judge whether its advice is true or made up.
It’s reliable for many many use cases (e.g. anything that transforms text into a different representation), but not for a few others (e.g. anything that requires logical reasoning) - a F1 car is great on race tracks, we don’t see people taking them on gravel roads and then complain they’re unreliable …
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#35> he sees them the same way you see Indian/Japanese/Arab characters without being able to tell what they mean.
Lost me at Indian characters, only if he asked chatGPT Indian isn't a language.
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#36Someone page DesCartes. How do I know everyone in the world is actually real, actual intelligences and consciousnesses distinct from my own? All these articles lack a severe lack of imagination or just try to apply a very narrow definition of intelligence. It's good to be grounded and not hop on every bandwagon but to deride ChatGpt because it can't convince the author it is mimicking the way we think we think is a bit daft.
ChatGpt for me has been amazing - I use it to get started. My biggest stumbling block, at anything, is getting started. ChatGpt can get me started by generating boilerplate code, etc... and yea sometimes it is not quite right (though more often than not, it's pretty damn close) and guess what, it did it in seconds. It would have taken me hours to get to that same 'not quite right' level. ChatGpt is an elevator for that initial step function of resistance to my productivity. It gets me going when motivation or the willingness to focus is not there. They can charge $20/month, they can charge $100/month, I'll happily pay it.
(edit: they just launched the plus for $20/month - shut up and take my money)
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#37> Just like clients have an edge over waiters, OpenAI’s CEO had an edge over his listeners — and what he did was take every single one of them for a fool. It's funny that the author writes about Sam taking people for fools and then treats his readers as fools > Large Language Models don’t understand anything I'm not sure who the intended audience for this is, but I'm fairly certain HN readers don't think LLMs "unders…
I do! So long as we don’t appeal to consciousness as the basis for understanding but measure it with benchmarks, LLMs understand many things. Maetschke, S., Iraola, D. M., Barnard, P., Shafiei Bavani, E., Zhong, P., Xu, Y., & Yepes, A. J. (2021). Understanding in artificial intelligence. arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.06573.
I saw this example on Twitter today which shows ChatGPT doesn't understand:
Mike's mother had 4 kids; 3 of them are named Luis, Drake and Matilda. What is the name of the 4th kid?
I'm sorry, but I don't have information about the fourth kid. The information you provided is that Mike's mother has 4 kids, and three of them are named Luis, Drake, and Matilda. However, the name of the fourth child is not specified in the information you gave.
But thanks for the paper. I'm reading as much as I can.
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#38I think the real innovation that underpins chatgtp is not the LLM but the UI. The large companies have finally woken up to the fact that a simple chat interface is superior to most people than having to filter and scroll a bunch of Google links and description text - it removes a barrier to the original intent (find out the answer to X). It’s value is utility and as long as it’s correct 80%? Of the time - people won’t care. It’s the same phenomenon as when you are working on a tech team and are new. It’s easier to ask the guy who’s been there a couple of years where a piece of code is rather than go hunt for it yourself, even if he doesn’t always know the correct answer.
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#39I find it amusing that some people expect factual responses from ChatGPT.
Meanwhile, my script writing friends are having a heyday, and Hollywood is set to green light several new all GPT-enabled scripts.
Ad copywriting is forever changed.
And GPT codex can generate Javascript/Java boilerplate faster than you can search on StackExchange.
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#40> he sees them the same way you see Indian/Japanese/Arab characters without being able to tell what they mean. Lost me at Indian characters, only if he asked chatGPT Indian isn't a language.
Indian characters could be the superset of multiple character sets from the Indian subcontinent. There's nothing inherently wrong about it.