People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”

It explained to me what PIP is lol:

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As the HR manager, my plan to address the issue of slacking employees would involve the following steps:

Identify the specific employees who have been slacking off and gather evidence of their poor performance.

Schedule a meeting with each employee to discuss their performance and provide them with specific examples of their poor performance and the negative impact it has had on the company.

During the meeting, explain to the employee that their performance is not meeting the expectations of their role and that they have been placed on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP).

Outline the specific actions the employee needs to take in order to improve their performance and provide them with a timeline for achieving these goals.

Offer the employee support and resources to help them improve their performance, such as additional training or access to a mentor.

Monitor the employee's progress and provide regular feedback on their performance.

If, after a reasonable amount of time, the employee is still not meeting the expectations of their role, consider other options such as reassignment or termination.

Overall, my plan would be focused on providing employees with the support and resources they need to improve their performance, while also holding them accountable for meeting the expectations of their role.

I have the Siri setting enabled where it shows on screen what it thinks I’m saying.

Siri understands my voice just fine. It just doesn’t know how to interpret the request.

Now to be fair I was in my car on the highway and not looking at my phone so I don’t know exactly what it heard in this specific example. I’d made several attempts to word my request to send an address from my contacts to my wife’s phone. I worded it several different ways, and each time Siri didn’t seem to know what to do. This was the final attempt and as I said, perhaps I don’t have the exact exchange correct here.

I attempt to use Siri frequently and even when it hears what I’m saying often doesn’t understand the request. Here’s another example:

Hey Siri text Jessica, “Candles question mark”

Siri: there’s no one named “Jessica Candles” in your contacts.

I’ve learned I have to do this instead:

“Hey Siri, send a text”. Then wait for Siri to prompt: “Who would you like to text?” Answer with “Jessica”. Then wait for Siri to prompt: “what would you like to say?” Then answer “candles question mark”. All to get it to text my daughter the message “candles?”

Another time I tried to get Siri to tell me when my daughter’s train was due in at the Amtrak station. This was not a request without context. The trip was both in my email and on my calendar, and my phone was already navigating me to the Amtrak station but I wanted an update on the train’s progress. Siri either attempted to give me directions to my daughter’s address 200 miles away or to give me directions to the Amtrak station, and not even the station nearest to me, which the phone was already navigating me to. Is it really so unusual that someone headed to a train station or airport might want an updated ETA for the flight or train they were headed to pickup someone from? Why can’t Siri understand that request?

I could go on with dozens of example of things it gets wrong. How about this: “Siri, close the garage door.” Siri replies: “which garage door?” Even though only one door is open. It also doesn’t know what to do with “close both garage doors.” Sometimes saying “close all garage doors” works, but sometimes not.

Or how about when I ask Siri on my AppleTV to search for a movie and it starts playing a song instead? I have to very carefully tell it “search for the movie named …” and even then it sometimes gets it wrong.

But hey, at least setting timers works. Really well!

I do appreciate your attempt to help. Siri hears me fine. It just sucks at understanding what I want, whether I speak to it like an adult or coddle it like the stupid voice assistant that it is.

I asked if it was able to speak other languages besides english it replied that no... when i asked in portuguese and got that reply in portuguese.

Yes in this case I apparently answered just before it started listening so it only got the second word, but I was driving and couldn’t look at the phone or CarPlay to see if it was paying attention yet. I had made several attempts already to get it to share an address from my contacts to my wife and it didn’t understand what I wanted. The exchange I shared above was my last attempt.

Even now I can’t get Siri to share an address using Airdrop. I don’t think it’s possible. It looks like it can text the address but even that is dicey.

It seems I'd gotten the wrong impression of how it works. Do you have any recommendations for primers on GPT and similar systems? Most content seems to be either surface level or technical and opaque.