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Re: CheatGPT

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Post by resource0x »

brycedriesenga wrote: post #190
Thorentis wrote: post #113

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Multiplication problems are not language problems. There is no data in the training set where there is a likely probability of the next token in the "86 * 0.0007 =" sentence being correct. People need to stop treating ChatGPT as a computation engine. It is not wolfram alpha. It is not google. It is fancy autocomplete trained on a large subset of the internet.

You can use this for that: https://huggingface.co/spaces/JavaFXpert/Chat-GPT-LangChain (GPT + WolframAlpha + Whisper)

I tested several AI chats, and none of them could correctly answer the question: "what is heavier, 1 kilogram of nails or 1 kilogram of feathers?". Does this one know? (I don't have openai key, can't test it myself).

EDIT: turns out, the latest version of chatGPT knows the answer. They also fixed the answer to another famous trick question("The son of my father, but not my brother. Who is that?")

Re: CheatGPT

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Post by Swizec »

epicureanideal wrote: post #162
josh2600 wrote: post #123

So most interview questions like "make a binary tree" are dead. The best interview question that will never die: "What's the weirdest bug you debugged? What made it weird?" For posterity: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/my-hardest-bug-eve...

> "What's the weirdest bug you debugged? What made it weird?" If you can remember, 5-10 years after you solved it.

Can’t have been that good a bug, if you can’t.

Been close to 15 years since some of the horror stories I can tell. Hell, over 20 years for some of my favorite lessons.

edit: Point is the good shit stays. You’ll remember the best stories, fear not.

Re: CheatGPT

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Post by CamperBob2 »

netfortius wrote: post #182
josh2600 wrote: post #123

So most interview questions like "make a binary tree" are dead. The best interview question that will never die: "What's the weirdest bug you debugged? What made it weird?" For posterity: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/my-hardest-bug-eve...

> The best interview question that will never die: "What's the weirdest bug you debugged? What made it weird?" @ChatGPT: Give me three sample answers to the following questions related to programming: "What`s the weirdest bug you debugged? What made it weird?"

    "One time, I was working on a project where the UI kept freezing when a certain button was pressed. I spent hours debugging the code, but couldn't figure out what was causing the problem. Eventually, I discovered that the button's event handler was accidentally triggering an infinite loop that was consuming all the CPU resources, causing the UI to freeze. It was a weird bug because the symptoms were not immediately obvious and it took a lot of digging to uncover the root cause.

    I once spent an entire day trying to figure out why my code was behaving erratically when processing a certain data file. It turns out that the file had some hidden control characters in it that were causing my program to misinterpret the data. The bug was weird because I had never encountered a situation where hidden characters were causing issues before.

    One time, I was working on a codebase that had been written by multiple developers over a long period of time. I was debugging a particularly tricky issue where certain data was being lost between different parts of the system. After a lot of investigation, I discovered that one of the earlier developers had implemented a workaround for a different issue that involved storing data in a global variable that was being accidentally cleared by another part of the code. It was a weird bug because it was caused by a seemingly innocuous change that had been made months earlier and was difficult to trace back to its origin."
Welp, we're boned

Re: CheatGPT

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Post by menzoic »

enraged_camel wrote: post #181
meindnoch wrote: post #160

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>So most interview questions like "make a binary tree" are dead. "Make a binary tree and explain it on this whiteboard"

ChatGPT also has decent explanations tbh.

ChatGPT provides excellent explanations in multiple languages for all code I've seen it write.

Re: CheatGPT

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Post by kerpotgh »

meindnoch wrote: post #160
josh2600 wrote: post #123

So most interview questions like "make a binary tree" are dead. The best interview question that will never die: "What's the weirdest bug you debugged? What made it weird?" For posterity: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/my-hardest-bug-eve...

>So most interview questions like "make a binary tree" are dead. "Make a binary tree and explain it on this whiteboard"

[dead]

Re: CheatGPT

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Post by haolez »

throw310822 wrote: post #209

I don't understand how most of the comments here seem to be along the lines of "these interview questions are useless now" or "we need to rethink education, it hasn't kept up". These all seem absurdly myopic to me. What we're seeing is the first instance, still very limited and imperfect, of AGI. This is not going to make some interview questions obsolete, or give students more tools to cheat with their homework. It…

I don't know if this is an AGI-like experiment, because LLM are trained on human knowledge. I'd expect that real AGI wouldn't need such a thing and would improve on its own. That's the moment where we become obsolete.

Re: CheatGPT

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Post by marginalia_nu »

brucethemoose2 wrote: post #188
marginalia_nu wrote: post #14

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> This tool is going to evolve dramatically over mere months. Why do you say this with certainty?

Just assuming the current pace of advancement will continue. Good text and image synthesis were basically impossible 2 years ago, and every time I check up on Github some huge new innovation has come out.

Is there really a basis for such an assumption?

Don't returns tend to diminish with effort, rather than increase?

Re: CheatGPT

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Post by alex_sf »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #213
netfortius wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The best interview question that will never die: "What's the weirdest bug you debugged? What made it weird?" @ChatGPT: Give me three sample answers to the following questions related to programming: "What`s the weirdest bug you debugged? What made it weird?"

"One time, I was working on a project where the UI kept freezing when a certain button was pressed. I spent hours debugging the code, but couldn't figure out what was causing the problem. Eventually, I discovered that the button's event handler was accidentally triggering an infinite loop that was consuming all the CPU resources, causing the UI to freeze. It was a weird bug because the symptoms were not immediately o…

I mean the first and the third aren't great. So, 33% chance of being boned.

Re: CheatGPT

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Post by tsol »

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #205
user432678 wrote: post #149

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Everyone’s ChatGPT gangsta until their ChatGPT-trained doctors start giving fatally wrong diagnosis. 100% agree with whole comment. I interview cheaters time to time, their excuse of not learning stuff is exactly that. However, in the end they’ve cheated themselves more than the system.

With the rate they give fatally wrong diagnoses and treatment plans today, I wonder if ChatGPT could be actually better for patients.

? ChatGPT doesn't diagnose and isn't a doctor.

Re: CheatGPT

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Post by gptgpp »

CharlesW wrote: post #204
saghm wrote: post #198

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How is it at writing physically on a whiteboard?

It currently requires a human for that.

I hear that it'll be an app you can run on your neuralink. I'm very excited to beta test it.

Should be any day now just like full self driving.

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