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2023: The Year of AI

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Re: 2023: The Year of AI

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Post by Nullabillity »

steveoscaro wrote: post #41
Nullabillity wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People were amazed by ELIZA back in '67. That doesn't mean that it did anything useful...

What’s your point? Because I can’t imagine it’s to suggest that GPT4 doesn’t do anything useful.

The usual "use cases" mentioned usually seem to boil down to:

- Acting as a lossy text decompressor (harmful)

- Acting as a lossy text compressor (mostly trying and failing to undo the damage from above)

- Acting as an outright bullshit generator (harmful)

- Acting as a poor substitute for a search engine with a propensity for trying to bullshit you (harmful)

- Acting as a poor substitute for a parser (which, even if it worked would be dumb because it doesn't understand structured output, so now you have two parsing problems)

- Generating broken and/or extremely poorly factored code (harmful)

- Hiding plagiarism (harmful)

GPT (and the AI hype in general) is the wrong solution to the wrong problem. Look at the effort that Google wasted on Duplex instead of OpenTable.

Re: 2023: The Year of AI

#83

Post by steveoscaro »

Nullabillity wrote: post #81
steveoscaro wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s your point? Because I can’t imagine it’s to suggest that GPT4 doesn’t do anything useful.

The usual "use cases" mentioned usually seem to boil down to: - Acting as a lossy text decompressor (harmful) - Acting as a lossy text compressor (mostly trying and failing to undo the damage from above) - Acting as an outright bullshit generator (harmful) - Acting as a poor substitute for a search engine with a propensity for trying to bullshit you (harmful) - Acting as a poor substitute for a parser (which, even if…

That's all very knowledgable-sounding, but in reality, lots of people are using GPT every day for legitimately helpful and productive things.

Re: 2023: The Year of AI

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Post by Nullabillity »

steveoscaro wrote: post #83
Nullabillity wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The usual "use cases" mentioned usually seem to boil down to: - Acting as a lossy text decompressor (harmful) - Acting as a lossy text compressor (mostly trying and failing to undo the damage from above) - Acting as an outright bullshit generator (harmful) - Acting as a poor substitute for a search engine with a propensity for trying to bullshit you (harmful) - Acting as a poor substitute for a parser (which, even if…

That's all very knowledgable-sounding, but in reality, lots of people are using GPT every day for legitimately helpful and productive things.

Are you going to bring any counterexamples or keep assuming that someone… somewhere… must surely have found an actual use case for this garbage?
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