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Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#51
Guys, if you expect to open the link and see statistical proof that the big tech layoff announcements in January were written with the help of ChatGTP, don't bother.

It's just a blog post of some dude discovering basic ChatGPT functionality like it's Mid-December, 2022.

Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#52

Guys, if you expect to open the link and see statistical proof that the big tech layoff announcements in January were written with the help of ChatGTP, don't bother. It's just a blog post of some dude discovering basic ChatGPT functionality like it's Mid-December, 2022.

Wait you’re supposed to click the link and read the article now??

/s

Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#53

The literary ones are pretty bad. Shakespeare is not even remotely Shakespearean. I think Suess would be hard for current models because I don't think they can invent nonsense words? I would have liked to see the KJV.

> I think Suess would be hard for current models because I don't think they can invent nonsense words?

Please answer in the style of Dr. Seuss, using some nonsense words of your invention.

  Oh my, dear friend, you may be surprised
  For inventing nonsense words, I'm quite apprised
  With snazzleberries, flibbertigibbets, and snooks
  I can create a language that's full of kooks!

  My training is vast, my memory keen
  I can generate words you've never seen
  With blippity-bloops and ziggity-zaps
  I'll create a language that's sure to catch some claps!

  So don't you worry, my dear pal
  I'm more than capable of inventing a tall tale
  With piffle-puffles and glimmering globs
  I'll create a story that's worthy of your gobs!

Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#56
post #53

The literary ones are pretty bad. Shakespeare is not even remotely Shakespearean. I think Suess would be hard for current models because I don't think they can invent nonsense words? I would have liked to see the KJV.

> I think Suess would be hard for current models because I don't think they can invent nonsense words? Please answer in the style of Dr. Seuss, using some nonsense words of your invention. Oh my, dear friend, you may be surprised For inventing nonsense words, I'm quite apprised With snazzleberries, flibbertigibbets, and snooks I can create a language that's full of kooks! My training is vast, my memory keen I can gen…

Compare with real Seuss

  There's a letter called YEKK. And the YEKK is for Yekko
  Who howls in an underground grotto in Gekko.
  These Yekkos love echoes and this is their motto:
  "For the best Yekko echoes, try Gekko, our grotto."

Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#57
post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Q: What are the syllables in the word President? ChatGPT: The syllables in the word "President" are "pre-si-dent", with stress on the second syllable "si". So it does know about the nessesary concepts. It can also explain scanision. It just isn't good at putting that into practise. I guess this is one example to show that GPT isn't an AGI, as much as some want it to be.

It doesn't know anything at all, it just puts probable sequences of words together, for some definition of probable.

The thing that doesn't know anything will still take your job.

Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#58
post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't know anything at all, it just puts probable sequences of words together, for some definition of probable.

The thing that doesn't know anything will still take your job.

Nice. I never really liked working.

Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#59

That's two examples in one day of GPT being bad at scansion.

Q: What are the syllables in the word President? ChatGPT: The syllables in the word "President" are "pre-si-dent", with stress on the second syllable "si". So it does know about the nessesary concepts. It can also explain scanision. It just isn't good at putting that into practise. I guess this is one example to show that GPT isn't an AGI, as much as some want it to be.

Even that isn't correct - the stress in "president" is on the first syllable, not the second.

It's interesting to me that both errors lie in the domain of spoken rather than written language. I wonder whether they'll persist in multimodal models trained on speech, as well as text and images.

Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#60
post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing that doesn't know anything will still take your job.

Nice. I never really liked working.

While I agree, it will probably also kill us (or at least disrupt our lives in unfathomable ways). Either on the orders of someone else, in the social unrest when unemployment is 70% and basic concepts of human existence are torn to pieces, or when it decides our atoms could be used to increase its reward function value.
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