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> It is basically like having an incredibly smart engineer/scientists/philosopher/etc that can explain things quite well This is the issue. It's more like the
by soperj 4y ago
> It is basically like having an incredibly smart engineer/scientists/philosopher/etc that can explain things quite well
This is the issue.
It's more like the dumbest guy in the room confidently convincing the everyone else that they know what they're talking about.
- notahacker 4y agoYup. As a pattern matching engine it's extraordinarily good. Ask it about the implications of some obscure theory and it will usually correctly interpret your question and return some sentences summarising the current state of knowledge on that theory. Ask it to explain it in simpler terms and it will simplify the sentence structure, swap some words and usually retain meaning. But then... ask it for some reading material on the same obscure theory and it'll use its knowledge of scientific papers on those theories and academic citation to return a well formatted list of papers with plausible titles and authors with the significant flaw that none of these papers exist. The dumbest guy in the room would struggle to make up plausible sounding scientific papers even if you gave them the reading list, but then the dumbest person in the room wouldn't be dumb enough to use the reading list to make up some nonexistent papers in the first place! (and ironically nor would the dumbest information retrieval algorithm in the room...)
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- zdw 4y agoWe've entered the Dunning–Kruger effect phase of the AI revolution.
- mokus 4y agoI think the bigger point is that it’s like a guy in the room. ChatGPT shows that the industry is graduating from Turing test territory to IQ test territory, and a lot of people are really hung up on the fact it’s failing the latter.