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GTP has always been the worlds best bullshit simulator. Its output is incredible until you look closely and realize that it’s not so much inaccurate, but comple

GTP has always been the worlds best bullshit simulator. Its output is incredible until you look closely and realize that it’s not so much inaccurate, but completely hallucinated. It’s the kind of thing that would be great for filling in Lorem Ipsum placeholder text that’s just convincing enough if no one looks too close.

verisimi 4y ago
Perhaps that's what it's been designed to do?
laserbeam 4y ago
The biggest problem is the internet doesn't usually look too close
- sigmoid10 4y ago
  Exactly. This just accurately mirrors social media as a whole. Producing and reading fake content has become a cornerstone of humanity.
  - nonrandomstring 4y ago
    Perhaps Sturgeon was right that 90% of everything is rubbish, but the speed with which fake content can be generated threatens to make 99.9% of everything rubbish. There are several scenarios for this technology to escalate. Back in the day it was fun to auto-respond to someone's mail auto-responder. The winner was whoever had the biggest hard-drive to hold a mail queue. It is merely a matter of time before companies realise they can replace people in PR, HR, customer service and other "public facing" roles with GPT-like technologies. At the same time the public are going to arm themselves with counter-technologies, as browser and mail client plugins. There's obviously a "market" for job application bots, auction bidding, ticket and holiday booking bots for scarce resources. But these will get sophisticated in their attempts to trick human users employed to filter and select. Once the "battle of the bots" is underway we'll see a rapid increase in essentially deceptive, nonsense traffic swamping systems. Real human activity may become impossible to discern in that digital environment.
shrimpx 4y ago
> just convincing enough That’s basically the principle of the Turing test. But maybe the GPT approach is fundamentally incapable of withstanding very detailed scrutiny.
- aenis 4y ago
  Just ask it what day it is. No detailed scrutiny needed.
  - shrimpx 4y ago
    I wonder if GPT models can get super precise or if there’s a fundamental limitation.
    - aenis 4y ago
      Indeed. Its a language model, not a knowledge model. But.. I would assume our brains too use language models to provide immediate, lazy responses - and resort to higher level models only when needed :-)

verisimi 4y ago

Perhaps that's what it's been designed to do?

laserbeam 4y ago

The biggest problem is the internet doesn't usually look too close

sigmoid10 4y ago
Exactly. This just accurately mirrors social media as a whole. Producing and reading fake content has become a cornerstone of humanity.
- nonrandomstring 4y ago
  Perhaps Sturgeon was right that 90% of everything is rubbish, but the speed with which fake content can be generated threatens to make 99.9% of everything rubbish. There are several scenarios for this technology to escalate. Back in the day it was fun to auto-respond to someone's mail auto-responder. The winner was whoever had the biggest hard-drive to hold a mail queue. It is merely a matter of time before companies realise they can replace people in PR, HR, customer service and other "public facing" roles with GPT-like technologies. At the same time the public are going to arm themselves with counter-technologies, as browser and mail client plugins. There's obviously a "market" for job application bots, auction bidding, ticket and holiday booking bots for scarce resources. But these will get sophisticated in their attempts to trick human users employed to filter and select. Once the "battle of the bots" is underway we'll see a rapid increase in essentially deceptive, nonsense traffic swamping systems. Real human activity may become impossible to discern in that digital environment.

shrimpx 4y ago

> just convincing enough That’s basically the principle of the Turing test. But maybe the GPT approach is fundamentally incapable of withstanding very detailed scrutiny.

aenis 4y ago
Just ask it what day it is. No detailed scrutiny needed.
- shrimpx 4y ago
  I wonder if GPT models can get super precise or if there’s a fundamental limitation.
  - aenis 4y ago
    Indeed. Its a language model, not a knowledge model. But.. I would assume our brains too use language models to provide immediate, lazy responses - and resort to higher level models only when needed :-)