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The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

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Re: The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

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Post by famouswaffles »

The most impressive thing i've had Bing do is let the details go. Say you want a novel/comic/very long form content written and you can't write at all. But you have requirements. If you go to chatGPT and say, Here's exactly what i want including the plot direction and which characters meet who etc, write a novel...it's not going to end well.

It'll write something with no display of proper pacing at all. 100% chance most of the details you've specified happen in the first generation even with deliberate instructions otherwise. Not so with Bing. If you want the comic to have x character meeting y character and you specify some natural pacing, you may not have y character introduced for pages.

Example - https://imgur.com/a/iHr2GEy

Re: The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

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Post by unfairly4820 »

By the looks of how good Bing is with conversation. OpenAI has already said the GPT-4 "with great impact on functions like support, sales, content moderation, and programming." This sounds to me that 20% of the human workforce instantly got their countdown to termination to begin...

Re: The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

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Post by crummy »

Here's a trick question I posed to ChatGPT and Bing (so presumably, revealing an improvement in GPT-4):

What's heavier, a pound of bricks or two pounds of feathers?

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ChatGPT: They both weigh the same, which is one pound.

This is because a pound is a unit of measurement for weight and it is a constant value. So whether you have a pound of bricks or two pounds of feathers, they both still weigh one pound in total.

However, the feathers would occupy a larger volume than the bricks because they are less dense. This is why it may seem like the feathers would weigh more, but in reality, they weigh the same as the bricks.

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Bing: This is a common riddle that tries to trick you into thinking that different materials have different weights. However, the answer is simple: two pounds of feathers are heavier than one pound of bricks. This is because weight is a measure of how much force gravity exerts on an object, and it does not depend on what the object is made of. A pound is a unit of weight, and it is equal to 16 ounces or 453.6 grams. Therefore, two pounds of anything will always be heavier than one pound of anything else.

However, if you were to compare the same volume or amount of feathers and bricks, then bricks would be much heavier than feathers. This is because bricks have a higher density than feathers, which means they have more mass per unit volume. Density is a measure of how tightly packed the particles in a material are. A brick has a density of about 2 grams per cubic centimeter, while a feather has a density of about 0.0025 grams per cubic centimeter. Therefore, a brick takes up much less space than a feather for the same mass.

I hope this helps you understand the difference between weight and density.

Re: The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

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Post by nonethewiser »

crummy wrote: post #7

Here's a trick question I posed to ChatGPT and Bing (so presumably, revealing an improvement in GPT-4): What's heavier, a pound of bricks or two pounds of feathers? --- ChatGPT: They both weigh the same, which is one pound. This is because a pound is a unit of measurement for weight and it is a constant value. So whether you have a pound of bricks or two pounds of feathers, they both still weigh one pound in total. H…

Chat GPT 5: "The answer is two pounds of feathers, obviously"
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