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AI winter? Hardly. It practically will convince people that AI is achievable. I'm not even sure it doesn't qualify as sentient, at least for the few brief momen
by SubiculumCode 4y ago
AI winter? Hardly. It practically will convince people that AI is achievable. I'm not even sure it doesn't qualify as sentient, at least for the few brief moments of the chat.
- AJRF 4y agoWithin the first 48 hours of release the vast majority of stories are about the glaring failures of this approach of using LLMs for search. You think the average consumer is seeing nuanced stories about this?
- TigeriusKirk 4y agoIf it was 99.999% incredibly useful, the vast majority of stories would still be about the glaring failures. You can't draw any conclusions at all from that.
- kenjackson 4y agoMost lay people I know haven't really attached to those stories. Most people still don't even know that Bing has chat with it. The crazy thing is that the conversations that these LLMs is having is largely like the conversations from AIs in movies. We literally just built science fiction and some folks in the tech press are complaining that they get some facts wrong. This is like building a teleportation machine and finding out that it sometimes takes you to the wrong location. Sure, that can suck, but still -- it's a teleportation machine.
- mach1ne 4y agoOkay, need to point out the obvious - a teleportation machine which takes you to the wrong place is a major issue. You really wouldn’t want to materialize to the wrong place.
- kenjackson 4y agoThat's exactly my point. It's a really big issue and before it was used for things of consequence that needs to get resolved. But it's still a freaking teleportation machine! I mean we now have chatbots that pretty much pass the Turing Test as Turing would have envisioned it -- and people are like, "Yeah... but sometimes it lies or has a bad attitude, so is it really all that impressive?"
- CatWChainsaw 4y agoOr that story where the teleportation machine actually has a chance of cloning you instead, so the clones have to be euthanized, except it might be you instead.
- prawn 4y agoMost people still don't even know of Bing. I've recently shown ChatGPT to people in tech-related or -adjacent industries and it's been their first exposure to it.
- HDThoreaun 4y agoI don't think the media screaming about it will have any effect other than maybe convincing people to try it. At that point they'll decide for themselves if it's something they want to continue using.
- squeaky-clean 4y ago"I used GPT and it worked fine" isn't a compelling headline or social media post. If you look at Newegg reviews for Hard Drives you'd draw the conclusion that HDD's have a 40% failure rate over 6 months. But that's because almost no one returns to write a review about a functioning hdd, yet almost everyone writes a review when one fails
- oldgradstudent 4y ago> I'm not even sure it doesn't qualify as sentient, at least for the few brief moments of the chat You need your head checked. Give it a short story and ask it a question which is not 100% explicit in the text. For example, give it Arthur C. Clarke's Food of the Gods and ask it was is Ambrosia in the story. Is a language model, and it behaves like a language model. It doesn't think. It's doesn't understand.
- falcor84 4y agoWow, how the goalposts have moved.
- oldgradstudent 4y agoIt's a magnificent achievement. But it simply does not do what it is hyped to do.
- westoncb 4y agoI haven't tried with Bing, but this kinda thing is super basic with ChatGPT at least: it can do what you're asking and far more.
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