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For all the complaints about how GPT is a parrot or not GI, or whatever, I wonder what these folks are asking of it? It gives me more relevant results than a s
by GenerocUsername 4y ago
For all the complaints about how GPT is a parrot or not GI, or whatever, I wonder what these folks are asking of it?
It gives me more relevant results than a search engine, and better answers than most of my coworkers. This tool is massively helpful for a mid-career professional who knows what questions to ask.
Really pays to have so a large bank of known unknowns right now.
- worrycue 4y agoI think people just expect Star Trek TNG’s ship computer or Data. To some extend, LLMs have some of the properties ascribed to those fictional AIs like the ability to access a wide amount of knowledge. They lack the precise rigorous thinking that those fictional AIs have though - LLMs even hallucinate. Those fictional AIs are what people want because they perfectly complement our weaknesses - our tendency to forget stuff and our tendency to occasionally screw up reasoning; those fictional AIs act as a “safety net”. At the moment many more limited “dumb” tools like a regular search engine algorithm or your handheld calculator does a better job of being a “safety net” went it comes to specific things.
- GenerocUsername 4y agoRight. Like the questions the OP poses that it got wrong make perfect sense to get wrong. Knowing facts and being able to present them in conversational English is not the same as being able to solve linguistically presented puzzles... Even if it sometimes actually is capable of that by some miracle of the algorithm. I think the tool might be so amazing people are fooled into thinking it is more than it is and therefore perceived as not amazing. Very strange psychology play there.