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Translating Akkadian clay tablets with ChatGPT?
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#102Seriously, how many people here can cuneiform?
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From 'do robots dream' to 'how do we make them stop'
Great, we already need robot neuroleptics to stop them hallucinating.
When people dismiss the alignment problem by anthropomorphising AI, my go-to meme is:
Owing to the fact we have no idea what we're doing, the first human-like AI is likely to have literally every mental illness, mixing Alzheimer's paranoid schizophrenia, grandiose narcissism, manic depression, and unconstrained hallucinations.
So yes, we'll need digital neuroleptics, amongst other things.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not only double-check, but probably triple- or quadruple-. There's too much chance of hallucination to trust one or two instances; I think this could be done, but would require a number of disconnected instances doing the translations, with the resulting documents compared with each other to see a) which ones are more prone to making things up, b) if they hallucinate in similar ways, and c) where they agree, which wo…
Last week, a story in praise of ChatGPT ended with a haiku that has the wrong syllable count. Why check when it sounds good?
ChatGPT is the only LLM I have seen that can count syllables at all. It seems to be a gap in the way most of them are trained, since they only get text and never “hear” words pronounced.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually-- though I love the attempt to use AI on this problem-- you could probably get an answer in a fairly straightforward manner by contacting the museum. Curators (and knowledge organizers & cataloguers of all sorts like professional librarians) tend to very much enjoy the curiosity of the public into obscure niches. It might take time in terms of foot-speed, but the current staff could likely track down the rec…
their patience with biblical literalists who tout chatgpt hallucinations as evidence of biblical inerrancy may be limited
I don't know. A natural biproduct of my my job that every few days I have to trace down information related to someone's "gut feeling", no matter how much of a non sequitur their reason would be, and even knowing that sometimes they don't care because they're just trying to fish for any evidence to push forward their agenda, even the more absurd questions are interesting in a puzzle-solving-game fashion in pulling together the informational pieces to make the question go away.
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That’s a reasonable take. The opposite take is also reasonable. So I think there will be a market for both.
There's a huge market for Real Housewives style 'reality' TV...
There is. Better than a lot of what many critics consider good TV. Turns out that one size doesn’t fit all.
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their patience with biblical literalists who tout chatgpt hallucinations as evidence of biblical inerrancy may be limited
I'm mystified that there would be an expectation of accuracy based on it knowing a response that happened to be accurate to a question about the one word they knew off the top of their head. The one word they remembered.
the one word that was most represented in not only their own personal training set but chatgpt's
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There's a huge market for Real Housewives style 'reality' TV...
There is. Better than a lot of what many critics consider good TV. Turns out that one size doesn’t fit all.
No, and I'm glad there's something for everyone. I'd hate to live in a world where only things approved by some definition of good are available. Doesn't lead me to think that high demand for something makes that something a reasonable thing.
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There is. Better than a lot of what many critics consider good TV. Turns out that one size doesn’t fit all.
No, and I'm glad there's something for everyone. I'd hate to live in a world where only things approved by some definition of good are available. Doesn't lead me to think that high demand for something makes that something a reasonable thing.
You're basically saying that if you don't like the take then it's not reasonable. I find that unreasonable. :-)
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, and I'm glad there's something for everyone. I'd hate to live in a world where only things approved by some definition of good are available. Doesn't lead me to think that high demand for something makes that something a reasonable thing.
You're basically saying that if you don't like the take then it's not reasonable. I find that unreasonable. :-)
I think "cheap iffy translations are great because cheap" and "rich people drinking and fighting over parties" are pretty unreasonable things. I'm proud of that stance.