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I'm seeing a lot of skepticism about these claims of GPT models becoming important in search, especially on here. What people seem to find remarkable about Chat

by sva_ 4y ago

I'm seeing a lot of skepticism about these claims of GPT models becoming important in search, especially on here. What people seem to find remarkable about ChatGPT is, that it seems to answer general questions fairly well, but what I find remarkable about it is: it makes you feel like it understands what you're trying to tell it. I sometimes make a half-assed prompt not even spelling correctly (and not caring, because the GPT will pick it up anyways), and the result from the model seems to repeat to me what I wanted from it. Then it sometimes gives a wrong answer, but it legitly seems to correctly repeat what I asked from it. I think this might be the real killer feature - it isn't (currently) giving accurate answers, but it is giving people the feeling that they're being understood. Humans crave that, and I find that might be the main reason for its popularity. And the issue of providing the 'correct' information might just be an engineering problem.

jodrellblank 4y ago
That is a good point. I asked ChatGPT "What was the book with the guy stuck on Venus or wherever who had to grow food in poop?". ChatGPT replied "The book you're referring to is likely "The Martian" by Andy Weir." which makes me feel like it understood me even though I deliberately got the planet wrong and was vague about the rest. A human who knows the story would likely get it right because one of the most grossly memorable scenes is him growing potatoes using poop for fertiliser. To the same prompt, Google's top result was a Wikipedia page for a Ray Bradbury book, and told me the result was "missing poop". It's always frustrating that Google ignores words I typed in, and here it's one of the key words in the query. Yes, ChatGPT makes me feel like I'm talking to a helpful assistant and Google, Bing, Siri, Cortana, OK Google, Alexa, don't. (I think Google used to feel like that, years ago when its results were good?)

by sva_ 4y ago

jodrellblank 4y ago

That is a good point. I asked ChatGPT "What was the book with the guy stuck on Venus or wherever who had to grow food in poop?". ChatGPT replied "The book you're referring to is likely "The Martian" by Andy Weir." which makes me feel like it understood me even though I deliberately got the planet wrong and was vague about the rest. A human who knows the story would likely get it right because one of the most grossly memorable scenes is him growing potatoes using poop for fertiliser. To the same prompt, Google's top result was a Wikipedia page for a Ray Bradbury book, and told me the result was "missing poop". It's always frustrating that Google ignores words I typed in, and here it's one of the key words in the query. Yes, ChatGPT makes me feel like I'm talking to a helpful assistant and Google, Bing, Siri, Cortana, OK Google, Alexa, don't. (I think Google used to feel like that, years ago when its results were good?)