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That sounds like the worst part, not the best part
Yeah, sarcasm.
When you simply say an opinion that a lot of other people genuinely hold there's no way for sarcasm to come across
GPT makes learning fun again
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I've actually had great success with the automation of boiler plate DevOps nonsense using GPT-4, including: GitHub actions, Caddy scripts, Docker files, etc. Every second that I didn't have to: - go look up a similar problem on Google - open three or four stack overflow tabs - read through the stack overflow links - copy out the answer - change all the variables to match variable names that I want All of this represe…
Did you learn anything in the process? You'd still have to over the output and understand it, otherwise nothing has changed except the method of producing something you don't understand.
No, before I had “a problem I don’t know how to solve” and now I have “a solution I don’t know how to maintain”. Both may be suboptimal in some contexts, but one results in my application having a deploy pipeline.
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Yeah, sarcasm.
When you simply say an opinion that a lot of other people genuinely hold there's no way for sarcasm to come across
Ahahha here's an interesting thing. I've heard people here beginning to push the idea that learning X isn't important when machines can do it for you, but I was parodying, mocking, and otherwise shitting upon that type of belief, because only a total lunatic or cult member would assert that it's great if you never have to think again. What's indeed disturbing is that you perceive - while I lampoon - that there are many people who may actually hold some partial version of that view.
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"I'm not sure what the answer really is, but I'm not sure it's GPT." My suggestion is to stick with it and get a feel for what it's good at. I've found that after a few months of using ChatGPT every day I've developed a pretty solid intuition for which questions are likely to get good answers and which are likely to trigger hallucinations. It's difficult to describe what those intuitions are though! One rule of thumb…
> then ChatGPT is very likely to answer questions about it accurately. Uh, and sooo boringly, especially if there's even any tiny part of it that is developing or theoretical, and you want to learn about that part. I've used the phrase/request "more obscure (perspectives/explanations/etc)" with GPT so many times. (Try it, you might be surprised at alternative takes on things, takes which are not even necessarily cons…
Try switching to the OpenAI playground in the API console. You can adjust the system prompt and the temperature of the response. Higher temperatures = less predictable responses.
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I actually don't mind paying the $20/mo or whatever if it means no ads, hopefully this turns out to be a viable business model for them. Also, first company with an uncensored LLM that doesn't reply "As an AI language model" will get my money.
why have no ads when you can plaster it with ads and also charge $20? see: windows 11
Would LLMs even have to be plastered with ads? I suspect just being subtly biased would go a very long way and be very hard to detect.
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#126I'm in two minds about it. On one hand the internet (in general) has become so hard to find information on, and I agree with the author that GPT is a breath of fresh air. On the other hand I've seen GPT fail so miserably at topics that I'm knowledge about that I have a very hard time trusting anything it tells me. I'm not sure what the answer really is, but I'm not sure it's GPT. I wish we could go back to having sea…
> I wish we could go back to having search engines that actually led to useful information and not just advertisements, and I wish we had a GPT that would not tell lies.
This ^. Prompting google is much more intuitive than prompting a chat bot. Also results are instantly available and you get more options to chose from. You can also filter out information much easier instead of having it summarised by a closed box that decides what's best for you.
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I can. Even if the answers accidentally happen to be correct, that's just the broken clock happens to be correct twice a day. The information value of answers by ChatGPT is zero .
It sounds to me like you're letting your firmly held existing biases get in the way of you learning a powerful new tool. As I said in https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/8/llms-break-the-internet... > This is the thing I worry that people are sleeping on. People who think “these language models lie to you all the time” (which they do) and “they will produce buggy code with security holes”—every single complaint about…
I guess these development practices are widespread in the Python community. Other languages have higher standards.
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#128I really found asking GPT to put a math concept under a physics context very helpful for me. As a computational physics student, that is really how I understand math and the world. Only very few textbooks can help me with this. From [ Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words ][1], Steve once said in a interview in 1983: > The problem was, you can't ask Aristotle a question. And I think, as we look toward…
How do you know what ChatGPT tells you is correct?
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#129You can downvote me but I think OP hasn't learned how to learn yet. If OP reads Wikipedia by understanding every sentence and clicking on every link, that's deliberately sabotaging his own learning. Attitudes like "I don't really feel like spelunking through a ton more articles" simply shows OP isn't interested in learning per se, just quick answers. OP learns in a way that's very child-like. When you are a five-year…
Not that harsh but I do think that googling as well as ChatGPT will only yield in a superficial understanding of topics. For a deeper profound understanding, connections, complexities, etc. A different more holistic learning is required. Not sure how else to explain this.
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Just out of curiosity what would say is the optimal way to learn from an encyclopedia, research paper or Wikipedia?
Sticking to what you want to understand - for example, when reading a paper, you don't necessarily need to read the methodology, especially if it's out of your field. Read the abstract and the conclusion, identify any part of it that you are suprised by and would like further explanation, and go see that part of the paper. A lot of the paper is talking to peer and people wanting to verify the validity of the paper -…
>> you can mostly assume that the paper is valid
What? Is that something you can still assume in 2023?