Not sure about physics but I am really looking forward to see games with NPC characters powered by ChatGPT. That would make some game world really deep and involving.
ChatGPT spitballing fundamental physics theories
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Re: ChatGPT spitballing fundamental physics theories
#32Love 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!
Can confirm. This week a physicist friend came by to give it a try. He asked some questions related to his domain. I was fully expecting GPT to bullshit its way through it, from experience with GPT 3. But to my surprise, and to his, it got quite decent answers.
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#33I spent 20minutes being gaslighted by it trying to convince me some very obvious false logical statement in set theory is true. It wouldn't for a second admit any doubts and would just say it's sorry I'm confused and that it'll explain it again more simply.
This thing is not good for developing any useful theories other than a creative crutch.
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#34I know some physics, but not enough in this area to judge if the results here are accurate. With the inaccuracy of AI chatbots, this makes this tool not useful for me for learning new concepts, as they might be blatantly wrong.
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#35I tried GPT-4 after the launch by a couple of hours and it tried so hard to sell me the idea that terms on the two sides of an equation can be of different dimensions.
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#36Not sure about physics but I am really looking forward to see games with NPC characters powered by ChatGPT. That would make some game world really deep and involving.
Working on it.
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#37This is really awful, the text is completely content-free but it's got everyone who's not a domain expert hooked. I didn't know whether ChatGPT's ability to babble convincingly was going to cause trouble or be a funny quirk that we all knew about and worked around, but this thread is really making it look like the pessimists were right about it. The problem is that it gets past many people's filters because its phras…
Lots of cults and belief systems operate this way
Like that time a science fiction writer started his own religion based on characters from his novel and got a bunch of celebrities financially tied to it
Or when holistic practitioners procedurally generate an unsubstantiated preventative cure
Might as well just turn your brain off now, you won’t need it
Raised by Wolves moment
Re: ChatGPT spitballing fundamental physics theories
#38Not sure about physics but I am really looking forward to see games with NPC characters powered by ChatGPT. That would make some game world really deep and involving.
Ask it to play a MUD with you. You may need to specify the system prompt. It works right now on GPT-3.5 just fine. Try it, I'm playing one currently.
Re: ChatGPT spitballing fundamental physics theories
#39This is really awful, the text is completely content-free but it's got everyone who's not a domain expert hooked. I didn't know whether ChatGPT's ability to babble convincingly was going to cause trouble or be a funny quirk that we all knew about and worked around, but this thread is really making it look like the pessimists were right about it. The problem is that it gets past many people's filters because its phras…
Haha that's for now. But humans do this too, attempting to copy the shell around a concept: the way it is expressed.
In American English, this is frequently authority speech mimicking law enforcement, scientists, or lawyers. All while lacking any knowledge of anything but the outer dressings of something.
In this way, the problem is that the AI is just mimicking most of us on most things.
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#40Not sure about physics but I am really looking forward to see games with NPC characters powered by ChatGPT. That would make some game world really deep and involving.
ChatGPT lowers information complexity by smoothing and averaging the information content, so no, likely you'll see the opposite effect.
We already went through this with Stable Diffusion - the content it produces looks very professional, but also somehow exactly the same no matter the subject.