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Do you complain that any Google search returns lot of bullshit as well? ChatGPT is only a tool, yet a powerful one. There are many uses that are quite reliable

Do you complain that any Google search returns lot of bullshit as well? ChatGPT is only a tool, yet a powerful one. There are many uses that are quite reliable and producing no bullshit. If you don't see them, too bad for you. How should we call the rejection of AI? Intelligism? Artificialism?

bambax 4y ago
> Do you complain that any Google search returns lot of bullshit as well? No, I don't. Google Search has absolutely NOTHING in common with ChatGPT. The comparison arises often here and elsewhere, and it's absurd. I will keep repeating that as many times as necessary. I guess this is my plight now. Google Search produces no content at all. Zero. It returns page urls, and snippets of text extracted from those pages. It's always possible to verify where the information comes from, on which page. ChatGPT speaks in its own name and says "I", and asserts that it's right, even when it obviously has no clue what "right" even means. I don't reject AI; but ChatGPT isn't "intelligent". Yes, it's a tool. It's a hammer that randomly hits your thumb hard, and then claims it absolutely, positively was a nail.
- xeyownt 4y ago
  So here another way to see ChatGPT that maybe could help you understand its value better. I see ChatGPT as a student and you as the teacher. The student can be sometimes smart but oftentimes quite stupid. She/he's in a hurry and always try to pretend she/he knows because she/he wants the best graduation. You, as the teacher, you have to detect the bad and the good. Later, you hire the student. Because, although she/he produces sometimes silly responses, she/he's very quick at collecting information from all kind of sources, and at making nice summaries of it, and can perform many "directed" tasks almost perfectly. And maybe, someday, she/he'll learn and produce less bullshit.
  - bambax 4y ago
    This is an interesting analogy. But a teacher is supposed to know more than a student does. If that's the case then all's good. Yet in most examples the user of ChatGPT knows less and asks it for help in a domain they don't master, be it political/philosophical essay writing or writing code in a language they don't practice, and then publishing said texts or putting said programs in production. This cannot end well.
- mcv 4y ago
  > > Do you complain that any Google search returns lot of bullshit as well? > No, I don't. Well, I do. Because Google's signal to noise ratio is absolutely terrible.

bambax 4y ago

> Do you complain that any Google search returns lot of bullshit as well? No, I don't. Google Search has absolutely NOTHING in common with ChatGPT. The comparison arises often here and elsewhere, and it's absurd. I will keep repeating that as many times as necessary. I guess this is my plight now. Google Search produces no content at all. Zero. It returns page urls, and snippets of text extracted from those pages. It's always possible to verify where the information comes from, on which page. ChatGPT speaks in its own name and says "I", and asserts that it's right, even when it obviously has no clue what "right" even means. I don't reject AI; but ChatGPT isn't "intelligent". Yes, it's a tool. It's a hammer that randomly hits your thumb hard, and then claims it absolutely, positively was a nail.

xeyownt 4y ago
So here another way to see ChatGPT that maybe could help you understand its value better. I see ChatGPT as a student and you as the teacher. The student can be sometimes smart but oftentimes quite stupid. She/he's in a hurry and always try to pretend she/he knows because she/he wants the best graduation. You, as the teacher, you have to detect the bad and the good. Later, you hire the student. Because, although she/he produces sometimes silly responses, she/he's very quick at collecting information from all kind of sources, and at making nice summaries of it, and can perform many "directed" tasks almost perfectly. And maybe, someday, she/he'll learn and produce less bullshit.
- bambax 4y ago
  This is an interesting analogy. But a teacher is supposed to know more than a student does. If that's the case then all's good. Yet in most examples the user of ChatGPT knows less and asks it for help in a domain they don't master, be it political/philosophical essay writing or writing code in a language they don't practice, and then publishing said texts or putting said programs in production. This cannot end well.
mcv 4y ago
> > Do you complain that any Google search returns lot of bullshit as well? > No, I don't. Well, I do. Because Google's signal to noise ratio is absolutely terrible.