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ChatGPT made me cry and other adventures in AI land
- helloworld 4y agoThis is such good writing: it's thoughtful, incisive, and revealing. Before long, AI will probably be able to produce something similar, but meantime, I'm savoring that special feeling you get as a reader when a writer's words resonate deeply with you.
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- temp_account_32 4y agoThe most annoying things about generative pre-trained transformers is that everyone has some opinion on it, which they think is special or profound in some way. I am sick of having to filter out internet e-celebrity number 48320's opinion on it from my front page on every single website.
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- dang 4y agoOk, but please don't snark or fulminate on HN. We're trying for something else here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- lynx23 4y agoI susspect there is something different at play which resulted in tears. Let me guess: deep down there, they were crying because an AI wrote that emotional poem, and not the parent themselves... But thats an insight nobody really wants to know I guess.
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- electricmonk 4y agoKottke literally addresses that. > When you’re really in your feelings, even the worst movie or the cheesiest song can resonate with you and move you — just the tiniest bit of narrative and sentiment can send you over the edge. ChatGPT didn’t really make me cry…I did.
- lynx23 4y agoNah, that doesn't feel like they addressed what I was hinting at. Also, strictly speaking, its always yourself that makes you cry. And touchy people, or "zu nah am Wasser gebaut" trigger that more easily, thats all.
- electricmonk 4y agoYou're right. My point was that you're wrong because he literally said what was happening.
- lynx23 4y agoSure, they said they know what is going on. The essence of my statement was that they don't know yet :-) You're assuming self-reflection is always perfect, I am saying they are on a path... I don't really see a contradiction here...
- electricmonk 4y agoKottke, as an often self-reflective writer, is likely to know much more about his internal mental state than you do. That's my point. So it's not so much that I am assuming he has perfect self-reflection as it is that your wild speculation is much more likely to be off the mark than accurate. That's all I meant.
- exitb 4y ago> And when I read the last line, I burst into tears. So does that make ChatGPT a soulful poet of rare ability? No. I’ve thought a lot about this and here’s what I think is going on: I was primed for an emotional response (…) and ChatGPT used the language and methods of thousands of years of writing But that’s what’s humans do, don’t they? I’m not a poet, but if I wanted to become one, I can hardly think of way that wouldn’t involve reading a lot of stuff written by others.
- p-e-w 4y agoIndeed. Arguments like this one immediately make me ignore everything else I just read. This is magical thinking that willfully overlooks how art works in reality. As if Shakespeare could have written Romeo and Juliet even if he had never interacted with another human, or read a single like of text written by someone else – just "from his soul". What utter nonsense.
- joshspankit 4y agoI think the crux of the author’s statement is in the definition of “what humans do”. You seem to be thinking that he means “read a bunch of prior work and come up with something similar” where I think that the author meant something more like “navigate the emotional landscape and write something that evokes emotions in others”.
- jacknews 4y agoI see several posts where people are claiming 'GPT makes me 50% more productive at coding'. Is there any guide to how, or some livecoding stream examples? Is it just asking GPT to 'write a function which posts a url to facebook using the API' etc? Also how to get an OpenAI login/API key from an unsupported country?
- ahofmann 4y agoI can't share my code, but I do things like "here is my Livewire component and here is the blade view, remove these three properties and replace it with a Carbon object". And then I paste like 400 lines of code and walk around in my office. After a minute, I have sometimes 100% working code (PHP but also the frontend), that I can paste back in PHPStorm. Sometimes GPT-3.5 can do this, but sometimes I need to use GPT-4, because it "understands" much better what I want. Also, it sometimes optimizes my code, because it "saw" something, that I have not thought of. Github copilot was kind of cool, but this is magic and really helpful. It also just writes my unit tests. Prompt is "here is my code (pasted a few hundred lines of code), write tests."
- jacknews 4y agoYes I played briefly with copilot and it was amazing in some ways, and useful, but perhaps not revolutionary. WHat you describe seems quite different. Is the chat window still the way, there must be good ide plugins by now or soon?
- ahofmann 4y agoI think they did something with copilot x and vscode, where they have a chat like window in the IDE. But I'm using PHPstorm and since I mostly write laravel code, nothing is better than PHPstorm with the laravel idea plugin. I also think that the chat mode is the right way to work with an AI (as long it is so slow, like it is now), so I don't mind the copy-paste workflow.
- joshspankit 4y agoIt’s trivial to write a tool that interacts with the “ChatGPT 4” API to do exactly what you’re thinking of. The tools are coming faster than you’d think, it’s just that most of the IDEs need a couple months to go through UI design, QA, testing, debugging, documentation, and release.