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GPT3 Is Just Spicy Autocomplete

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Re: GPT3 Is Just Spicy Autocomplete

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Post by bgirard »

_huayra_ wrote: post #7

I'm getting pretty tired of these posts dunking on ChatGPT making it to HN. Yes, we know if you try to see if it is "smart", it'll fall down. It's pretty easy to show how silly it is compared to things a human could do, etc. Haha, robot do the mistake again! This is the equivalent of someone Googling something back in 2000 and saying "wow this is just a joke because I searched for 'cat' and got a few dog pics. It'll…

I have a similar experience.

I've been using it to explain minified code I come across and unusual code patterns I don't understand. It's similar to a coworker in that it's not always right but can generally point me in the right direction if not. But one that responds within seconds and not with a random delay of 5 minutes to 3 days. It also means that I'm interrupting my real coworkers less.

Re: GPT3 Is Just Spicy Autocomplete

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Post by deegles »

sakopov wrote: post #18

I know nothing about ML and AI and what GPT3 does looks absolutely magical to me. It helped me write unit tests the other day and the day before it generated a migration script for a new feature I was working on. A week earlier it helped me improve a letter I was writing to HOA to get some stuff fixed at the house. So all these posts dumping on GPT3 seem very unnecessary. What it does under the covers might not be al…

Yes, GPT-3 is not better than an expert at the same task. But most people don't have access to an expert's time, so a good-enough solution being widely available is game changing.

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Post by labrador »

msla wrote: post #15
labrador wrote: post #11

I was watching "HyperNormalisation" by Adam Curtis for the second time. In his segment on Eliza, an early example of a chat bot, I realized that Curtis makes a mistake in his interpretation of Eliza. For Curtis it's narcissism that makes Eliza attractive. Curtis levels the charge that Westerners are individualistic and self-centered often. But when an interview with the creator Joseph Weizenbaum is shown starting at…

> Curtis levels the charge that Westerners are individualistic and self-centered often. Thinking you can classify whole groups of people as if they were insects is a horrible mental handicap.

Curtis' shtick gets old after awhile. To hear him tell it we can no longer make sense of the world because it's complicated and politicians lie to us all the time, so we retreat into a mirrored room of our self, gratifying every desire to escape thinking about our futile life and soon approaching death.

I've watched just about everything he's made and honestly, he starts to sound like a moralizing preacher after awhile. We are selfish, self-centered, infantile, wanting computers to watch over us so we our worst impulses don't destroy us and so on. Things a preacher might say.

But his documentaries prompt me to think in different ways with other ideas, so I appreciate them for that

Re: GPT3 Is Just Spicy Autocomplete

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Post by avgcorrection »

_huayra_ wrote: post #7

I'm getting pretty tired of these posts dunking on ChatGPT making it to HN. Yes, we know if you try to see if it is "smart", it'll fall down. It's pretty easy to show how silly it is compared to things a human could do, etc. Haha, robot do the mistake again! This is the equivalent of someone Googling something back in 2000 and saying "wow this is just a joke because I searched for 'cat' and got a few dog pics. It'll…

> This is the equivalent of

No, it isn’t like that at all. People are claiming that ChatGPT is either intelligent or proto-intelligent (we’re on the precipice!). Which means being way, way more capable than a search engine.

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Post by slowhadoken »

Users are infatuated with and romanticize GTP. It’s similar to translation software. Compared to the human mind they’re brute force algorithms with access to warehouses of personal data. Any mention of this fact sends users into fits. It’s borderline compulsive. I often hear people saying “I don’t understand how it works but I think it’s impressive” and that sort of says it all. GTP attracts people who don’t know and/or don’t want to know how it works. They can’t reconcile their appreciation for it with the fact that it’s unimpressive. It’s a golden apple.

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Post by lostmsu »

avgcorrection wrote: post #25
_huayra_ wrote: post #7

I'm getting pretty tired of these posts dunking on ChatGPT making it to HN. Yes, we know if you try to see if it is "smart", it'll fall down. It's pretty easy to show how silly it is compared to things a human could do, etc. Haha, robot do the mistake again! This is the equivalent of someone Googling something back in 2000 and saying "wow this is just a joke because I searched for 'cat' and got a few dog pics. It'll…

> This is the equivalent of No, it isn’t like that at all. People are claiming that ChatGPT is either intelligent or proto-intelligent ( we’re on the precipice! ). Which means being way, way more capable than a search engine.

But it is way, way more capable than a search engine.

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Post by nickthegreek »

avgcorrection wrote: post #25
_huayra_ wrote: post #7

I'm getting pretty tired of these posts dunking on ChatGPT making it to HN. Yes, we know if you try to see if it is "smart", it'll fall down. It's pretty easy to show how silly it is compared to things a human could do, etc. Haha, robot do the mistake again! This is the equivalent of someone Googling something back in 2000 and saying "wow this is just a joke because I searched for 'cat' and got a few dog pics. It'll…

> This is the equivalent of No, it isn’t like that at all. People are claiming that ChatGPT is either intelligent or proto-intelligent ( we’re on the precipice! ). Which means being way, way more capable than a search engine.

"people are claiming" is in reality a narrow subset of people... like very few.

Re: GPT3 Is Just Spicy Autocomplete

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Post by avgcorrection »

lostmsu wrote: post #28
avgcorrection wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is the equivalent of No, it isn’t like that at all. People are claiming that ChatGPT is either intelligent or proto-intelligent ( we’re on the precipice! ). Which means being way, way more capable than a search engine.

But it is way, way more capable than a search engine.

Sorry. I meant to say way, way, way more capable. ;)
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