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Re: GPT makes learning fun again

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Post by throwaway2990 »

mrtranscendence wrote: post #183
throwaway2990 wrote: post #151

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> Every time someone claims ChatGPT doesn’t work they cannot give concrete examples. So I don’t believe you sorry. Are you implying that ChatGPT always works, and that every time someone says it didn't work, they're lying? This feels like a joke to me. The other day it gave me the wrong code to compute indices for a Delta table, possibly because that capability didn't exist in the library it was using when the model…

Lol I’m not sure you understand what an example is.

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Post by throwaway2990 »

JohnFen wrote: post #207
throwaway2990 wrote: post #151

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Maybe you're downvoted for calling a group of people liars rather than for liking AI.

Every single thread someone claims it doesn’t work. And in every thread I see comments asking for examples. And the OP can never give an example. So yes until people can provide reproducible examples to see it fail. They are liars.

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Post by JohnFen »

throwaway2990 wrote: post #212
JohnFen wrote: post #207

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Maybe you're downvoted for calling a group of people liars rather than for liking AI.

Every single thread someone claims it doesn’t work. And in every thread I see comments asking for examples. And the OP can never give an example. So yes until people can provide reproducible examples to see it fail. They are liars.

Your reasoning is bad here. You're jumping to uncharitable conclusions without evidence, when there are several other perfectly reasonable explanations for that behavior.

Re: GPT makes learning fun again

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Post by throwaway2990 »

JohnFen wrote: post #213
throwaway2990 wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every single thread someone claims it doesn’t work. And in every thread I see comments asking for examples. And the OP can never give an example. So yes until people can provide reproducible examples to see it fail. They are liars.

Your reasoning is bad here. You're jumping to uncharitable conclusions without evidence, when there are several other perfectly reasonable explanations for that behavior.

And yet still no one can give examples.

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Post by JohnFen »

throwaway2990 wrote: post #214
JohnFen wrote: post #213

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Your reasoning is bad here. You're jumping to uncharitable conclusions without evidence, when there are several other perfectly reasonable explanations for that behavior.

And yet still no one can give examples.

Or no one is willing to, which I find understandable for a number of reasons.

Re: GPT makes learning fun again

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Post by wrycoder »

kccqzy wrote: post #13

You 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…

Asking simple questions is a great way to start, it doesn’t matter how old you are. I think Feynman and Schrödinger would agree. Certainly de Broglie would. You can go down as deeply as you like.

Right now, if the level involves advanced math, it’s better to switch to other sources at some point, but that will change.

You can ask GPT-4 to tutor you, also.

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Post by savanaly »

phh wrote: post #91
brokencode wrote: post #19

I noticed a while back that the internet has made me terribly prone to skimming. It got to a point where I could hardly stand to read anything longer than a short news article. To learn anything useful on the internet, you pretty much have to skim. So much of the internet is so loaded with filler and BS that it is hardly worth reading at all. With ChatGPT, it’s incredibly refreshing to be able to ask a question and g…

It's interesting because that's my biggest gripe against ChatGPT, it's too verbose and very hard to skim through. Compared to stack overflow answers it'll be easily four times longer. Sure compared to for instance news website, it is less verbose, but those are easy to skim. I'm still able to read through well written text without skimming, though yes most of the texts I'll read I'll skim through, then go back and th…

Prepare a statement to copy paste at the start of every session asking it to respond in a concise way. And maybe include an example of how you want its response to look. I guarantee good results. Assuming we’re speaking of 4.

Re: GPT makes learning fun again

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Post by wrycoder »

rapsacnz wrote: post #75

Don't forget that GPT was trained on data from all the sources that failed you. So if we all collectively neglect them, and they fall over, we will lose many valuable resources. I think we need to think about how to keep these valuable sites going, because they are ultimately providing most of the value of the various available language models.

The sources didn’t fail. The point is, especially at the beginning, it’s easy to miss seeing the forest for all the trees.

Re: GPT makes learning fun again

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Post by wrycoder »

kumarvvr wrote: post #35
p-e-w wrote: post #33

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> It outputs what you want to hear Nonsense. How could it possibly know "what you want to hear"?

Because we tell it what we want. "How do I do this" "How do I do that" "What is this" "What is that"

And it tries to give an answer that would be interpreted as a positive, rather than negative, reply.
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