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Me too, though there's an uncanny valley hiding in the spectrum of responses from bing right now. That is, I'd ask it to summarize the difference in views from
by davidthewatson 4y ago
Me too, though there's an uncanny valley hiding in the spectrum of responses from bing right now. That is, I'd ask it to summarize the difference in views from a novelist, a computer scientist, a media theorist, and a philosopher across more than a half decade and was shocked at how good the quick summary paragraphs were considering my question was something like "compare and contrast the beliefs and values of David Foster Wallace, Alan Kay, McLuhan, and Byung Chul-Han, respectively. Then I asked another question and bing went off the rails getting 3 paragraphs wrong and then going from English into Spanish for no apparent reason other than I presume its source material had parallel language issues. It was surprising how good bing's right answers were given how bad its wrong answers were, especially considering that it had caught the fact that while there's a lineage of ideas from early media critics to present, the tech had changed dramatically underneath those criticisms and bing was aware enough of that substrate to note it in a separate "meta" paragraph about that change of tech, for lack of a better term.