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When GPT3 was opened up so that anyone could create an account, I was excited to try it. I was quickly disappointed. Its ability to chat was quickly shown to be

When GPT3 was opened up so that anyone could create an account, I was excited to try it. I was quickly disappointed. Its ability to chat was quickly shown to be pretty terrible -- it could mostly make reasonable-sounding English sentences, but it was like talking to someone who was maybe a bit drunk and not really listening. I can't imagine using it as an interface for a customer to interact with product support. The whole thing just made me a bit sad. I really was so excited. Nothing it could do was very impressive, even aside from holding a conversation. The most impressive thing I've seen is Copilot, but even that's been next to useless from a practical perspective.

axg11 5y ago
Is it not unfair to expect GPT-3 to perfectly tackle this issue when it has been trained as a general purpose model? For customer support or other more specific chatbot applications there are better machine learning models.
- mrtranscendence 5y ago
  I don't know if it's fair or not, but I don't know how else you'd use its conversational abilities. Maybe it's just a party trick.
mrtranscendence 5y ago
Because a friend of mine is into Chuck Norris facts, I tried to train GPT3 to give them. Some of the more novel (as far as I can determine) facts it gave: * A duck's quack does not echo. Chuck Norris is solely responsible for this phenomenon. * When you open an umbrella in the rain, do not be alarmed if Chuck Norris falls out of the sky and lands on you. The rain drops are simply being pushed away by his roundhouse kick. * In an emergency, you can use a bucket of water to put the fire out. However, if Chuck Norris is directly responsible for the emergency, use a flamethrower. * In an airport, there is no "B" gate. There is only "C" gate. The "B" stands for the bus you will take from the plane after Chuck Norris lands on it. * There are no weapons of mass destruction, Chuck Norris lives inside every element on the periodic table. It's why you see him in your sodium chloride. I'll let you be the judge as to whether these are funny.

axg11 5y ago

Is it not unfair to expect GPT-3 to perfectly tackle this issue when it has been trained as a general purpose model? For customer support or other more specific chatbot applications there are better machine learning models.

mrtranscendence 5y ago
I don't know if it's fair or not, but I don't know how else you'd use its conversational abilities. Maybe it's just a party trick.

mrtranscendence 5y ago

Because a friend of mine is into Chuck Norris facts, I tried to train GPT3 to give them. Some of the more novel (as far as I can determine) facts it gave: * A duck's quack does not echo. Chuck Norris is solely responsible for this phenomenon. * When you open an umbrella in the rain, do not be alarmed if Chuck Norris falls out of the sky and lands on you. The rain drops are simply being pushed away by his roundhouse kick. * In an emergency, you can use a bucket of water to put the fire out. However, if Chuck Norris is directly responsible for the emergency, use a flamethrower. * In an airport, there is no "B" gate. There is only "C" gate. The "B" stands for the bus you will take from the plane after Chuck Norris lands on it. * There are no weapons of mass destruction, Chuck Norris lives inside every element on the periodic table. It's why you see him in your sodium chloride. I'll let you be the judge as to whether these are funny.