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Re: ChatGPT Plus

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Not being able to do simple math is a surprisingly huge bug IMO Me: 5000 * 5000 * 5000 ChatGPT: The result of 5000 x 5000 x 5000 is 125,000,000,000,000. Me: 5000 * 5000 ChatGPT: The result of 5000 x 5000 is 25,000,000. Me: 5000 * 25000000 ChatGPT: The result of 25,000,000 x 5000 is 125,000,000,000. Integrations with services like wolfram alpha would be nice as well (although shouldn't be necessary to solve basic mult…

It's not a "bug" in the traditional sense, but a consequence of how language models work. Probability distributions over token chains are very powerful tools for generating human-like written text, but they perform poorly at symbolic inference. Humans have the same limitations, which is why math is a separate topic taught in schools that focuses not on knowledge but on algorithms. Understanding natural language syntax and semantics doesn't necessarily enable you to calculate.

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You use it consistently during the workday and it's still not worth $20/mo?

I pay $80 a year for IntelliJ and that works out to waaay less than something like CoPilot or ChatGPT and is waaay more consistently useful. $20 a month for ML tool that is only sometimes useful is a tough sell, especially in a world where a lot of people feel like $80 a year for IntelliJ is too much. Coders are thrifty bastards, except when it comes to their personal vices in which case financial responsibility goes…

Copilot is worth it. Even with a Jetbrains license.

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Didn't they release a $42 plan a couple of weeks ago? What's the difference here - or did it just flop so they dropped the price and rebranded?

The $42/mo thing was a hoax. Several news outlets picked it up since it looked pretty legit. In hindsight, the price point should have tipped us off.

Just did a bit of Googling and it seems a few people did "confirm" the $42/month price, e.g. https://twitter.com/chillzaza_/status/1616927021472354304?s=...

Could still be fake/hoax, but alternatively it could be real and OpenAI just dropped the price after consistent feedback that it was too high.

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This is one of those puzzling things to me. You own your life - why not spend your own money for the things that make you and your life better? Who cares? I worked at a job where I had a small, crappy monitor. I made decent cash. I just bought a large decent monitor and brought it into work. I ended up using it for many years. My life was significantly better. I've done that at several jobs since then, and NEVER regr…

When I worked at Amazon I brought my own monitor and chair. When I was leaving I put monitor on the chair and rolled it through security and loaded it into my car. Nobody asked a question, I’m still surprised many years later that security seeing somebody removing furniture and equipment from the building just shrugged at it :)

> Nobody asked a question, I’m still surprised many years later that security seeing somebody removing furniture and equipment from the building just shrugged at it :)

Not wanting to spoil it, I’ll just say that if you haven’t seen this show then you’re in for good laugh:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8d-bM-Whsmk

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Can you help me understand why the ChatGPT model has an inherent bias towards Joe Biden and against Donald Trump? This is not really what I would expect from a large language model .......

It's a uniquely American perspective that the two political parties should be treated equally. From a global perspective, one is far more problematic than the other, and GPT reflects that accurately.

And yet you’d almost certainly complain if an American company meddled in your country’s politics.

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~~~ To the ChatGPT Team ~~~ I'm currently receiving answers FROM OTHER USERS with this new version from 30 Jan, completely unrelated to my question: Q: Why is it easier for me to do endurance training on an empty stomach? A1: There are several things you can do to reduce the chance of getting a yeast infection: regenerate response: A2: There are many benefits to using cloud storage solutions such as Google Drive, Dro…

(I work at OpenAI.) Thanks for the report — these are not actually messages from other users, but instead the model generating something ~random due to hitting a bug on our backend where, rather than submitting your question, we submitted an empty query to the model. That's why you see just the answers and no question upon refresh — the question has been effectively dropped for this request. Team is fixing the issue…

Funny how gdb is helping debug openAI!

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I've been using ChatGPT pretty consistently during the workday and have found it useful for open ended programming questions, "cleaning up" rough bullet points into a coherent paragraph of text, etc. $20/month useful is questionable though, especially with all the filters. My "in between" solution has been to configure BetterTouchTool (Mac App) with a hotkey for "Transform & Replace Selection with Javascript". This i…

Nice, I'm the developer of BetterTouchTool and I'll definitely use this one myself :-)

using BTT since discovered in 2016 and it's essential. Time for a lifetime with a new version, there a lot of things how you can make Mac more pleasant for your use. Thank you for the app!

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I'm less concerned about how many jobs are going to be replaced and more about how they'll be replaced. The AI is not decerning and right in the announcement, OpenAI states it's intention on "correcting assumptions": > challenge incorrect assumptions I imagine some of these assumptions will be bias towards particularly ideologies / things people desire. - https://twitter.com/Basedeyeballs/status/1613269931617050625 -…

Ask it about any left/right divided topic and you will find that left leaning viewpoints are positively asserted while the right leaning topics are something that ChatGPT cannot comment on at best or are rebuffed with the left leaning response at worst. I find it disturbing. But I'm a classic liberal which clearly isn't the mindset of the people running ChatGPT. As for the "challenging incorrect assumptions" nothing…

Can you give an example?
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