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> It simply predicts the next most likely word in a sentence So does your brain. And yes, you are correct that at this moment ChatGPT is not very good at produ

by M4v3R 4y ago

> It simply predicts the next most likely word in a sentence So does your brain. And yes, you are correct that at this moment ChatGPT is not very good at producing factually correct information on many topics, but that's not the only reason chatbots exist. It can do many more things, and I personally (as a programmer) and some people I know from different fields use it daily because it provides value for us (enough value in fact to make me pay the $25/mo price for premium). For example just yesterday it helped me build a proof of concept in Python to test whether a solution to a problem we had at work would work. With its help I've built a working PoC in literally 10 minutes, something that would take me probably more than 2 hours to complete if I didn't have the help because I'm not even a Python programmer (I'm in a different field entirely).

NobleLie 4y ago
Where did you learn that the brain works by simply predicting the next most likely word in a sentence? Tertiary note: I'm also a programmer and a researcher. It's failed pretty hard on both. Faking sources of medical / biological information, botching simple chronology, suggesting made up methods on well known programing libraries (3 of many examples). There was nothing I could do to correct any of these errors - no matter how much leading or pointing out error, it would acknowledge it and repeat it. I recognize the value of chatgpt (and roughly how it operates) but the excitement (marketing hype) is indeed over the top. It appears an incremental advancement of old word2vec (added human supervision and a few more things) but the sum total is still of questionable value in domains that mean the most to me (admittedly self centric, but many are like me, at least here)