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"made significant progress on multiple difficult questions I’ve had trouble with for decades in the 2 days I’ve had gpt4" -- that is wildly impressive. Can you

"made significant progress on multiple difficult questions I’ve had trouble with for decades in the 2 days I’ve had gpt4" -- that is wildly impressive. Can you share some specific questions. Thanks!

ramraj07 4y ago
I have had hypotheses regarding Epigenetic modulation of mutation rates playing a role in “epigenetically directed evolution;” this is not my primary field and honestly not a topic anyone has properly focused on. I’ve even corresponded with a couple of experts in related fields but didn’t make progress. Chatting with the bot I discovered scientists who might have actually generated some data on this topic a bit inadvertently that I never discovered merely by googling. I’ve made a list and am going through the literature already. I can’t imagine what else I can do with this tool if I can drag and drop pdfs for it to get more context on such arcane topics.
- ChaitanyaSai 4y ago
  Interesting, thanks!. I see this as falling into the bucket of taking unstructured data/thoughts and mapping it well to structured/articulated data that is already out there. LLMs do excel at this and keep getting better fast (minus the hallucination, but that is easy to cross check). Would love to see examples of truly novel thesis generations that are verifiably plausible, which aren't a remix of what came earlier...
- potamic 4y ago
  I think this is the best use case of ChatGPT, as a first level search engine to surface out any potentially relevant information. But I would be careful using it on a subject I'm not familiar with or relying on its content directly. When I query knowledgeable areas I've found it be wildly off on many facts, I shudder to think how someone outside the area would interpret its content.
  - CyanBird 4y ago
    Yeah, I can corroborate this I tried using chatgpt 3 for light research onto British occupation of Afghanistan and poppy production, I wanted to know potential books/authors which covered how long back Afghanistan might have been an exporter of poppy/opium and it ended giving me some really bad quality answers including stating that one author had actually written a book called "Opium and the kung-fu master", which is not a book at all! But an older Chinese action movie decrying the evils of opium addiction... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PtHS0zJ2D8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PtHS0zJ2D8

ramraj07 4y ago

I have had hypotheses regarding Epigenetic modulation of mutation rates playing a role in “epigenetically directed evolution;” this is not my primary field and honestly not a topic anyone has properly focused on. I’ve even corresponded with a couple of experts in related fields but didn’t make progress. Chatting with the bot I discovered scientists who might have actually generated some data on this topic a bit inadvertently that I never discovered merely by googling. I’ve made a list and am going through the literature already. I can’t imagine what else I can do with this tool if I can drag and drop pdfs for it to get more context on such arcane topics.

ChaitanyaSai 4y ago
Interesting, thanks!. I see this as falling into the bucket of taking unstructured data/thoughts and mapping it well to structured/articulated data that is already out there. LLMs do excel at this and keep getting better fast (minus the hallucination, but that is easy to cross check). Would love to see examples of truly novel thesis generations that are verifiably plausible, which aren't a remix of what came earlier...
potamic 4y ago
I think this is the best use case of ChatGPT, as a first level search engine to surface out any potentially relevant information. But I would be careful using it on a subject I'm not familiar with or relying on its content directly. When I query knowledgeable areas I've found it be wildly off on many facts, I shudder to think how someone outside the area would interpret its content.
- CyanBird 4y ago
  Yeah, I can corroborate this I tried using chatgpt 3 for light research onto British occupation of Afghanistan and poppy production, I wanted to know potential books/authors which covered how long back Afghanistan might have been an exporter of poppy/opium and it ended giving me some really bad quality answers including stating that one author had actually written a book called "Opium and the kung-fu master", which is not a book at all! But an older Chinese action movie decrying the evils of opium addiction... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PtHS0zJ2D8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PtHS0zJ2D8