ChatGPT: How many letters has the string “djsjcnnrjfkalcr”?

Post by bambax » Sun, Jan 08, 2023, 5:42 PM UTC

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #110

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It's true that ChatGPT is just a program, a machine, and that we are "starting to anthropomorphize" it. But that's what it wants ! (Or, what its makers want.) > Do you expect google to tell that when it outputs the results? Well, Google doesn't tell me anything, it quotes things it has found on the web. The huge, huge difference between Google and ChatGPT is that Google never, ever says "I", while ChatGPT does. The o…

I can see that it's totally different from a search engine. If you can't understand that analogies don't need (and cannot be) to be perfect to be useful, you're not alone, and I'm afraid I can't help you. But -- IMHO -- you are very very wrong.

Post by schwartzworld » Mon, Jan 09, 2023, 1:39 AM UTC

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ChatGPT is assertive, authoritative, and even goes on to lie to justify its answers and "be right". It's a gasslighting machine. Here's an example I posted here a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33852236

I think Ezra Klein framed it right during his interview of Gary Marcus: > And his point is that what’s different between bullshit and a lie is that a lie knows what the truth is and has had to move in the other direction. He has this great line where he says that people telling the truth and people telling lies are playing the same game but on different teams. But bullshit just has no relationship, really, to the tru…

Post by jopython » Mon, Jan 09, 2023, 1:45 AM UTC

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #97

bambax wrote: post #7

ChatGPT is assertive, authoritative, and even goes on to lie to justify its answers and "be right". It's a gasslighting machine. Here's an example I posted here a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33852236

Those are human traits. ChatGPT is not human, and cannot be more assertive, authoritative or lying than Python. If you give python "0.1 + 0.3", it will instantly, and without a doubt, output "0.30000000000000004". Is Python arrogantly thinking it's right and misleading you? Of course not. This last sentence makes no sense, Python is just a program that does what it's programmed to do. But because ChatGPT is using nat…

Post by jfk13 » Mon, Jan 09, 2023, 9:57 AM UTC

shusaku wrote: post #116

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And do you trust its answers to be accurate? I expect they often are, but how will you know when it comes up with a spurious one?

That's a great question. Of course, the same could be said of random google search results, but I would definitely consider ChatGPT as more unreliable as a baseline.