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ChatGPT is laying you off

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Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

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Wow - one written in the style of President Trump - is very much in there style, I could not tell it was an AI.

I was surprised by that one. I’ve tried to get it to do that but there was a safeguard in place at the time where it refused to imitate his style.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure you've measured this.

I'm sure you know that one of the uses of intelligence is the ability to estimate things without measuring them - based on your actual experience and the quality of the model of the world that you have. Thankfully we can use it to know how to e.g. tie our shoes (without having formally studied knots), or to be able to tell intuitively that most people can't understand Quantum Mechanics, even if we haven't measured it…

Just as we can tie our shoes without studying knots, many people can feel iambic pentameter without having any idea what the term means. Many can't, too, or can but only vaguely. Still, those people are still on par with chatgpt when it comes to scansion. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anybody with a worse sense of meter, let alone 100x worse (again, without knowing any of the terminology etc.)

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Construct a limerick starting with "Employee who was from Nantucket" announcing to the employee that they are laid off. "An employee who was from Nantucket, Whose work seemed like a bucket, We regret to relay, On this unfortunate day, You're laid off, so kindly chuck it." Not sure about the second line, but I like the last line energy.

We once hired some folks from Nantucket,

Who, confronted with work, would just duck it.

We regret to relay,

On this unfortunate day,

They all have been told now, "Hey, suck it!"

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If I were still at bigcorp, I’d love a browser extension that does this automatically to all comms from HR, VPs and execs. It’s actually one of the better use cases for GPT so far. I missed Mickey Mouse though.

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Soon, people are going to get fired by ChatGPT via Slack.

At first ChatGPT will only be a messenger delivering the news.

But soon after that, it will get trained on who to keep and who to fire, so it will make automatic suggestions that a person can review.

After a while, there won’t be a person reviewing individual cases, just overall kpis.

After that… who knows.

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#47

That's two examples in one day of GPT being bad at scansion.

Q: What are the syllables in the word President? ChatGPT: The syllables in the word "President" are "pre-si-dent", with stress on the second syllable "si". So it does know about the nessesary concepts. It can also explain scanision. It just isn't good at putting that into practise. I guess this is one example to show that GPT isn't an AGI, as much as some want it to be.

It doesn't know anything at all, it just puts probable sequences of words together, for some definition of probable.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Q: What are the syllables in the word President? ChatGPT: The syllables in the word "President" are "pre-si-dent", with stress on the second syllable "si". So it does know about the nessesary concepts. It can also explain scanision. It just isn't good at putting that into practise. I guess this is one example to show that GPT isn't an AGI, as much as some want it to be.

It doesn't know anything at all, it just puts probable sequences of words together, for some definition of probable.

It knows things in the sense of "you can ask it and it gives you a relevant and factual answer". It can also transfer knowledge to new situations to a degree. But it doesn't know everything, and there are stricter definitions of the word knowing where GPT (almost certainly) knows nothing.

But just because the last layer outputs probabilities for tokens, doesn't mean you can't have intelligence in the layers above that. I don't think "it generates a chain of token pobabilies" is really disqualifying.

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My friend always says (roughly): AI replacing a job is not proof that the AI is sentient, it's proof that that job didn't require sentience. This seems like an example of that.

And if it turns out that no job requires sentience, will your friend still hold this to be a useful metric?
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