Don't believe the hype: why ChatGPT is not the “holy grail” of AI research
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Re: Don't believe the hype: why ChatGPT is not the “holy grail” of AI research
#2Sure, anyone that uses ChatGPT knows it's currently not perfect.
But there's a presumption that these tools are going to keep improving over time. Which is presumably why the AI hype is so strong.
Whether AI ends up displacing people from their jobs in the long term, well, that's impossible to know. Just because no technological advancement has ever done that in the past doesn't mean it will never happen in the future.
Re: Don't believe the hype: why ChatGPT is not the “holy grail” of AI research
#3This critique asserts that ChatGPT propagates inaccuracies. While there may be instances where this holds true, the given example does not substantiate this claim. The article alleges that ChatGPT stated Russia has launched bears into space, an assertion that is evidently false. However, my own interaction with ChatGPT 4.0 contradicts this. When I posed the same question, the AI unequivocally responded that no nation has, in fact, sent bears to space. Thus, in this instance, the claims of the article are unfounded.
This response was also written using chat GTP
Re: Don't believe the hype: why ChatGPT is not the “holy grail” of AI research
#4It's really easy to get an LLM to hallucinate by asking an open ended question - the type typically answered by a Google search or checking Wikiedpia. However, this is not the best application of LLMs. This criticism is getting old.
LLMs are great at:
- Text synthesis given all of the facts in a prompt (expand these bullet points)
- Summarization (condense this text)
- Data extraction (fit this data into this schema)
- Fiction (virtual characters, scripts, etc.)
They will dramatically change these industries.
Re: Don't believe the hype: why ChatGPT is not the “holy grail” of AI research
#5Between Vice going bankrupt and AI Salon has to be sweating.
Re: Don't believe the hype: why ChatGPT is not the “holy grail” of AI research
#6This is yet another article about "ChatGPT" that doesn't contain the strings "GPT-4" or "GPT4".
Re: Don't believe the hype: why ChatGPT is not the “holy grail” of AI research
#7It's really easy to get an LLM to hallucinate by asking an open ended question - the type typically answered by a Google search or checking Wikiedpia. However, this is not the best application of LLMs. This criticism is getting old. LLMs are great at: - Text synthesis given all of the facts in a prompt (expand these bullet points) - Summarization (condense this text) - Data extraction (fit this data into this schema)…
> However, this is not the best application of LLMs
It is, however, the commercial application everyone - including search engines! - is implementing.
Re: Don't believe the hype: why ChatGPT is not the “holy grail” of AI research
#8This critique asserts that ChatGPT propagates inaccuracies. While there may be instances where this holds true, the given example does not substantiate this claim. The article alleges that ChatGPT stated Russia has launched bears into space, an assertion that is evidently false. However, my own interaction with ChatGPT 4.0 contradicts this. When I posed the same question, the AI unequivocally responded that no nation…
Water Bears (tardigrades) have gone to space:
Re: Don't believe the hype: why ChatGPT is not the “holy grail” of AI research
#9It's really easy to get an LLM to hallucinate by asking an open ended question - the type typically answered by a Google search or checking Wikiedpia. However, this is not the best application of LLMs. This criticism is getting old. LLMs are great at: - Text synthesis given all of the facts in a prompt (expand these bullet points) - Summarization (condense this text) - Data extraction (fit this data into this schema)…
> However, this is not the best application of LLMs It is, however, the commercial application everyone - including search engines! - is implementing.
I can see LLMs as a novel front-end for a traditional search engine.
Re: Don't believe the hype: why ChatGPT is not the “holy grail” of AI research
#10This critique asserts that ChatGPT propagates inaccuracies. While there may be instances where this holds true, the given example does not substantiate this claim. The article alleges that ChatGPT stated Russia has launched bears into space, an assertion that is evidently false. However, my own interaction with ChatGPT 4.0 contradicts this. When I posed the same question, the AI unequivocally responded that no nation…
Most articles like this are comparing older versions of chatgpt and pointing out flaws. ChatGPT-3.5 for example still states Russia has sent bears into space.