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I find the reaction to Chatbot et al somewhat like a prism to the thought of the people who pose the questions and how they interpret the results. GPT-3 is amaz
by notanothereric 4y ago
I find the reaction to Chatbot et al somewhat like a prism to the thought of the people who pose the questions and how they interpret the results. GPT-3 is amazing in its ability to generate coherent grammar based on petabytes of ‘screenscraped’ Internet content… but looking for wisdom from it is somewhere between Magic 8 Ball and Ouija boards imo …
- vba616 4y agoI'm not looking for wisdom, just patterns. I guess that I'm looking for whether things that I don't see on the internet do exist somewhere. If they are in the model, then perhaps I'm just in the wrong bubble. If they aren't in the model, that's interesting. The foremost question I have is what can it do that Google can't. It seems like it might be a good programming tutor, which is really valuable for someone who is isolated from mentors. It doesn't seem like it writes ready-made code for you, but quickly gives (maybe) relevant examples. It's not very helpful on problems with a niche piece of free software. I mean, it provides the standard answers to the problems, which are not helpful. But it told me that I should use fetch instead of XMLHttpRequest, and confirmed that fetch doesn't require a library like Node.js - which seems to be true.