ChatGPT looks awesome, I'm really interested to see how it does with more niche topics. E.g. give it high school level, undergrad level, grad level, and research level math topics to generate notes for and see how it does for each one
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#32There has been a lot of "well, we had a good run" comments on ChatGPT threads from engineers lately. I get where this sentiment is coming from, but I also think that the article paints a good picture of how we must "pivot" as a species to avoid faceplanting completely. Zero Trust Homework sounds like a strategy we will be forced to implement: the system will frequently give the wrong answers (and not just on accident…
Over the weekend Twitter was 30% ChatGPT screenshots and 20% engineers frothing about how ChatGPT would replace programming, article writing, even Google Search.
Such engineers must be juniors, or have persisted in their life with a totally wrong idea of how engineering is done and engineering is built. I can't imagine thinking that one could build software systems or essay arguments by trusting an AI system you don't understand to provide answers you don't understand.
Like you say, we very well could faceplant society with this misconception that regurgitation plausible code and prose is what education and understanding looks like.
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#33I finally went ahead and tried ChatGPT this morning (along with everyone else seemingly - it is now heavily rate-limited!) and I am truly blown away. I ask questions about various things (in my case, embedded systems development on the PineNote) and it gives the same quality of answers I would expect from a median coworker. Sure they're maybe not 100% correct, but most coworker answers aren't 100% correct either. The…
>What are waveform files for e-ink screens? Followup: Is it possible to damage e-ink screens by modifying wave form files?
What is the value of these answers if there is a 1% chance of them being wrong?
From my experience it is a better way to google things, which certainly is an advancement and quite novel.
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#34Nothing quite beats a low key oral exam.
The trick is that they don't scale.
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#35I love talking to GPT, but I've tried using it for some serious stuff (research, biz-dev) and less than serious stuff (Dungeons & Dragons) and the magic is still there but it has obvious blind spots which might be solved in the future but we're talking about the present. I am wholly amused how everyone got on that dude from Google that accused the AI of being sentient and Google about not caring, and now you have hug…
> I am wholly amused how everyone got on that dude from Google that accused the AI of being sentient and Google about not caring, and now you have huge names in the tech industry kinda drooling over this with what I believe to be the same passion.
Is it strange? Someone can be extremely impressed with how a Boston Dynamic robot moves, while also being entirely unconvinced by claims that the lifelike movement is a sign of sentience.
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#36There has been a lot of "well, we had a good run" comments on ChatGPT threads from engineers lately. I get where this sentiment is coming from, but I also think that the article paints a good picture of how we must "pivot" as a species to avoid faceplanting completely. Zero Trust Homework sounds like a strategy we will be forced to implement: the system will frequently give the wrong answers (and not just on accident…
Over the weekend Twitter was 30% ChatGPT screenshots and 20% engineers frothing about how ChatGPT would replace programming, article writing, even Google Search. Such engineers must be juniors, or have persisted in their life with a totally wrong idea of how engineering is done and engineering is built. I can't imagine thinking that one could build software systems or essay arguments by trusting an AI system you don'…
Couldn't this help a 10x engineer become a 100x engineer? The secret is still going to be in understanding what to ask for and ensuring that what gets spit out works. It's just going to be so much faster. Is there anyplace in the world for a .5x developer or even a 1x developer in a chatgpt world?
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#37Nothing quite beats a low key oral exam. The trick is that they don't scale.
These days I give take home video exams. The students record themselves explaining their code for 5 minutes, which is about as long as it takes me to hand-grade a written exam. I can even play the video at 2x to cut the time in half. This scales at least to the size of my class (100 students on average, 3-4 hours isn't bad for grading an assignment).
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#38I like that fact the ChatGPT sometimes gives wrong answers. So do humans. Makes it human-like.
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#39I like that fact the ChatGPT sometimes gives wrong answers. So do humans. Makes it human-like.
Now, if you can explain to the AI why it is wrong, and if it could learn from that, it would be wild and even more human-like!
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#40There has been a lot of "well, we had a good run" comments on ChatGPT threads from engineers lately. I get where this sentiment is coming from, but I also think that the article paints a good picture of how we must "pivot" as a species to avoid faceplanting completely. Zero Trust Homework sounds like a strategy we will be forced to implement: the system will frequently give the wrong answers (and not just on accident…
Over the weekend Twitter was 30% ChatGPT screenshots and 20% engineers frothing about how ChatGPT would replace programming, article writing, even Google Search. Such engineers must be juniors, or have persisted in their life with a totally wrong idea of how engineering is done and engineering is built. I can't imagine thinking that one could build software systems or essay arguments by trusting an AI system you don'…
I guess a lot of people are afraid of being left behind.
What goes into the average developer's day? I think a lot of time is spent writing boilerplate, fighting with tiny CI errors, shuffling code, refactoring, writing tests and staring at code hunting bugs. As this technology matures, all of that noise might go away, and I think a lot of people are having a hard time imagining what they are left with.
Remember, we were trained in the "classical" fashion. How will budding engineers approach learning in 10 or even 50 years?