Is there a way to get it to babble less, i.e., use more compact and to the point language?
I used to simply ask it to make it brief, provide a summary or contain answer in N words and in my language it complied happily.
ChatGPT spitballing fundamental physics theories
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#12Is there a way to get it to babble less, i.e., use more compact and to the point language?
I used to simply ask it to make it brief, provide a summary or contain answer in N words and in my language it complied happily.
I have done that but it tends to actually omit some facts as well. This convo is after I asked it to stop adding disclaimers as you can see. I take it as just a quirk of a colleague and don’t mind it at this point lol.
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#13The first theory reminds me of Sarumpaet rules from Schild’s Ladder.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
"made significant progress on multiple difficult questions I’ve had trouble with for decades in the 2 days I’ve had gpt4" -- that is wildly impressive. Can you share some specific questions. Thanks!
I have had hypotheses regarding Epigenetic modulation of mutation rates playing a role in “epigenetically directed evolution;” this is not my primary field and honestly not a topic anyone has properly focused on. I’ve even corresponded with a couple of experts in related fields but didn’t make progress. Chatting with the bot I discovered scientists who might have actually generated some data on this topic a bit inadv…
Interesting, thanks!. I see this as falling into the bucket of taking unstructured data/thoughts and mapping it well to structured/articulated data that is already out there. LLMs do excel at this and keep getting better fast (minus the hallucination, but that is easy to cross check). Would love to see examples of truly novel thesis generations that are verifiably plausible, which aren't a remix of what came earlier...
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
"made significant progress on multiple difficult questions I’ve had trouble with for decades in the 2 days I’ve had gpt4" -- that is wildly impressive. Can you share some specific questions. Thanks!
I have had hypotheses regarding Epigenetic modulation of mutation rates playing a role in “epigenetically directed evolution;” this is not my primary field and honestly not a topic anyone has properly focused on. I’ve even corresponded with a couple of experts in related fields but didn’t make progress. Chatting with the bot I discovered scientists who might have actually generated some data on this topic a bit inadv…
I think this is the best use case of ChatGPT, as a first level search engine to surface out any potentially relevant information. But I would be careful using it on a subject I'm not familiar with or relying on its content directly. When I query knowledgeable areas I've found it be wildly off on many facts, I shudder to think how someone outside the area would interpret its content.
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#16Love it. A few days ago I did a similar exercise playing with alternative definitions of gravity. It was even able to provide (GlowScript 3.1!) code to run a simulation using the concepts we developed (and it worked). It’s amazing the feeling of going back and forth, iterating quickly on the ideas and then being able to generate code to test them.
Was it with gpt3x or 4? In these exercises 4 is miles ahead now, I’ll highly recommend ponying the 20 bucks and playing with it to see for yourself!
Are you referring to ChatGPT Plus?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was it with gpt3x or 4? In these exercises 4 is miles ahead now, I’ll highly recommend ponying the 20 bucks and playing with it to see for yourself!
Are you referring to ChatGPT Plus?
ChatGPT Plus is the platform, GPT4 is the model.
(ChatGPT+ allows you to specify which model you want to use.)
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#18very cool.
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#19Is there a way to get it to babble less, i.e., use more compact and to the point language?
I used to simply ask it to make it brief, provide a summary or contain answer in N words and in my language it complied happily.
had the same issue with the "TenetLang" chat thread -- will have to keep that in mind.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have had hypotheses regarding Epigenetic modulation of mutation rates playing a role in “epigenetically directed evolution;” this is not my primary field and honestly not a topic anyone has properly focused on. I’ve even corresponded with a couple of experts in related fields but didn’t make progress. Chatting with the bot I discovered scientists who might have actually generated some data on this topic a bit inadv…
I think this is the best use case of ChatGPT, as a first level search engine to surface out any potentially relevant information. But I would be careful using it on a subject I'm not familiar with or relying on its content directly. When I query knowledgeable areas I've found it be wildly off on many facts, I shudder to think how someone outside the area would interpret its content.
Yeah, I can corroborate this
I tried using chatgpt 3 for light research onto British occupation of Afghanistan and poppy production, I wanted to know potential books/authors which covered how long back Afghanistan might have been an exporter of poppy/opium and it ended giving me some really bad quality answers including stating that one author had actually written a book called "Opium and the kung-fu master", which is not a book at all! But an older Chinese action movie decrying the evils of opium addiction...