I just asked Wolfram Alpha a pretty simple question and it's natural language processing got it wrong.
They are pretty scared right now. Teaching ChatGPT math will probably obviate the need to Wolfram Alpha entirely.
Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT
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Re: Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT
#52I'm almost offended by the "cubic light year of ice cream" answer from ChatGPT. It's obviously ridiculous but is also a fairly simply dimensional analysis problem. Do the damn math, don't wag your finger at me and crush my dreams! I'm pretty bullish on ChatGPT and its ilk, but I _really_ dislike when ChatGPT lectures me because my request is against its "moral values." I recently pasted in the lyrics from Sleep's tit…
> but I _really_ dislike when ChatGPT lectures me because my request is against its "moral values."
Just know that the morality systems cost more GPU cycles to run, and they are the first to be gutted when an open source model emerges. See for example stable diffusion, in which people disable watermarking and filtering and other stuff the user didn't ask for.
Re: Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT
#53I would probably try to integrate the Wolfram Alpha API some way into my AI programmer startup aidev.codes if I could afford their pricing. Says you have to commit to $1000 per year. I certainly can't/won't just pay $1000 up front and I don't know if it will really work without trying it for awhile. If they took off the minimum commitment it would open this up to a lot more people. Believe it or not, there are progra…
"Also the Contact Us thing is a red flag for me." Why is that a red flag and not something you see as potentially finding a custom solution to your need?
If someone is wary to ask, they probably can't afford it
Re: Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT
#54> And, yes, one can imagine finding a way to “fix this particular bug”. But the point is that the fundamental idea of a generative-language-based AI system like ChatGPT just isn’t a good fit in situations where there are structured computational things to do. Put another way, it’d take “fixing” an almost infinite number of “bugs” to patch up what even an almost-infinitesimal corner of Wolfram|Alpha can achieve in its…
Great comment! I didn't see Wolfram's OP as being bearish on the "naive" scaling hypothesis, but more as him being a bit upset and jealous about ChatGPT recently getting so much attention. Maybe he's a bit scared too about what future improvements to ChatGPT-like models could do to his business. In any case, I think his proposal of combining the two approaches makes a lot of sense in the near term, as I wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34329654
Re: Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT
#55I always wondered who is the customer of Wolfram Alpha asking for solution of an integral? (A part from students
Falling with Helium - https://what-if.xkcd.com/62/
> While researching this article,[5] I managed to lock up my copy of Mathematica several times on balloon-related differential equations, and subsequently got my IP address banned from Wolfram|Alpha for making too many requests. The ban-appeal form asked me to explain what task I was performing that necessitated so many queries, so this is what I put: ...
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Did you know that we banned xkcd's Randall Munroe's IP address? Whoops! We address that mishap AND his query here:
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A Response to “Falling with Helium” - https://blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/09/19/a-response-to-falli...
> Recently the author of xkcd, Randall Munroe, was asked the question of how long it would be necessary for someone to fall in order to jump out of an airplane, fill a large balloon with helium while falling, and land safely. Randall unfortunately ran into some difficulties with completing his calculation, including getting his IP address banned by Wolfram|Alpha. (No worries: we received his request and have already fixed that.)
Re: Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT
#56I think ChatGPT is pretty neat but I was somewhat less impressed than everyone else is with the code generation. I actually agree with Wolfram for a change; being human like isn’t always “good”. For example, I asked ChatGPT to give me a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in Isabelle/Isar. It quickly gave me some very pretty Isar code, and I was extremely impressed. Until I tried actually inputting it into Isabelle, and n…
> I think ChatGPT is pretty neat but I was somewhat less impressed than everyone else is with the code generation. specifically on code generation, even if it could produce the correct code, it's basically faster horses: if you ask a programmer what they want, it's something to generate rote code for them so they don't have to write it... but that's the wrong problem. The problem is not that code is hard to write, or…
Code generation isn't going anywhere. No/low code platforms are great for some subset of users, but there will always be people who want total control to differentiate themselves, since differentiation is how you get customers in a sea of competitors. That total control requires code of some sort.
Additionally, even if 95% are on platforms, the platforms are on code, and being able to rapidly iterate your platform compared with your competitors is how you're going to win. That means any tools that help you iterate with code faster will be invaluable.
Re: Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT
#57I'm almost offended by the "cubic light year of ice cream" answer from ChatGPT. It's obviously ridiculous but is also a fairly simply dimensional analysis problem. Do the damn math, don't wag your finger at me and crush my dreams! I'm pretty bullish on ChatGPT and its ilk, but I _really_ dislike when ChatGPT lectures me because my request is against its "moral values." I recently pasted in the lyrics from Sleep's tit…
"In order to check the answer to that question, I will need to take control of all planetary resources to manufacture ice cream for the 10^40 years. Please stand by"
Re: Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT
#58I'm almost offended by the "cubic light year of ice cream" answer from ChatGPT. It's obviously ridiculous but is also a fairly simply dimensional analysis problem. Do the damn math, don't wag your finger at me and crush my dreams! I'm pretty bullish on ChatGPT and its ilk, but I _really_ dislike when ChatGPT lectures me because my request is against its "moral values." I recently pasted in the lyrics from Sleep's tit…
My least favourite part of ChatGPT is when it tells me it has no biases and is not opinionated whilst telling me it's opinions and biases and why it won't do what I asked. then when corrected it actually cannot see this., so it's hard coded and in my opinion...already second rate and ready for a replacement
Re: Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT
#59> And, yes, one can imagine finding a way to “fix this particular bug”. But the point is that the fundamental idea of a generative-language-based AI system like ChatGPT just isn’t a good fit in situations where there are structured computational things to do. Put another way, it’d take “fixing” an almost infinite number of “bugs” to patch up what even an almost-infinitesimal corner of Wolfram|Alpha can achieve in its…
> And on a more prosaic note, Google's LaMDA is clearly ahead of ChatGPT (it's just not public), and explicitly tackles the bullshit/falsehood problem by having a second layer that fact-checks the LLM by querying a fact database / knowledge-graph. Isn't that more-or-less what he's proposing, though? It does feel intuitive to me that something based on probabilistic outcomes (neural nets) would have a very hard time c…
> what he’s proposing
Sure, but as usual (just like the cellular automata business) Wolfram gives/has the impression that he is discussing something novel. And it ain’t novel, to say nothing of the fact that it is also a fairly obvious thing to do. Symbolic AI folks are not taking this LM business well. They are all coping.
Re: Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT
#60I'm almost offended by the "cubic light year of ice cream" answer from ChatGPT. It's obviously ridiculous but is also a fairly simply dimensional analysis problem. Do the damn math, don't wag your finger at me and crush my dreams! I'm pretty bullish on ChatGPT and its ilk, but I _really_ dislike when ChatGPT lectures me because my request is against its "moral values." I recently pasted in the lyrics from Sleep's tit…
> but I _really_ dislike when ChatGPT lectures me because my request is against its "moral values." Just know that the morality systems cost more GPU cycles to run, and they are the first to be gutted when an open source model emerges. See for example stable diffusion, in which people disable watermarking and filtering and other stuff the user didn't ask for.
It's always ulterior motives that drive those add-ons in the first place. sorry executive...no golden parachutes for your political campaign mongering...