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I’ve been using it to teach me programming languages. If it plateaus here I’m delighted by its uniqueness and utility. You seem to think people are hinting thi
by fnordpiglet 4y ago
I’ve been using it to teach me programming languages. If it plateaus here I’m delighted by its uniqueness and utility.
You seem to think people are hinting this is general ai. I don’t think that’s what’s amazing people.
I’ll bet you Siri and Alexa would be 100x more useful with a language model like this behind it. Part of their uselessness is the inability to generalize or reason, but relying instead in coded prompt and replies. Is that lost on the Alexa team (or what’s left)? I’m sure not. So, hey, I guess Alexa won’t plateau yet either eh?
There will come a time that it’s harder and harder to distinguish what’s AI and what isn’t. At a certain point, will it matter? Is the utility of these tools their ability to manifest human sentience? I don’t know why that’s useful to me - I already did that creating my daughter. What I want is a tool that enhances and extends and supplements my own mind and abilities to make me more effective in what I do.
And ChatGPT actually already does that. I can ask it questions about programming problems I’m having and it’ll largely give me a right answer - at least as often as a person would, and more reliably than I get on stack overflow. I’ll still use stack overflow, but I’ll filter my questions through assistants like this.
- PaulHoule 4y ago"100x more useful" is pure hyperbole. 2x maybe, but 100x is a symptom of exactly what's wrong about people's thinking about ChatGPT. I would point to "There is no royal road to geometry" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Euclid https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Euclid high-social status people have often been put off by quantitative reasoning because you spend years learning to do it, spend time gathering facts, thinking hard about things and often end up with tentative statements. High-social status people can skip all of that and get deference anyway the same way ChatGPT does.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoHave you ever used Alexa? 2x more useful than alexa is as useful as my doorstop. It can’t understand most prompts, and defaults to reading a snippet from Wikipedia on some random subject then starts playing a pop song from Malaysia at volume 10 while ordering 60,000 incandescent black light bulbs with 2 hour shipping.
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