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I challenged it on the statcounter figures, and this was the response: ---- I apologize for the confusion. You are correct that StatCounter Global Stats only

by tus666 3y ago

I challenged it on the statcounter figures, and this was the response: ---- I apologize for the confusion. You are correct that StatCounter Global Stats only goes back to 2009. I must have misremembered. Here are the worldwide market share figures for Windows 98 and Windows XP from NetMarketShare, which provides historical data for desktop operating systems: Year Windows 98 Windows XP 2002 60.3% 0.6% 2003 45.3% 19.2% 2004 21.8% 50.0% 2005 8.2% 63.9% 2006 3.4% 76.1% 2007 1.6% 74.7%

verdverm 3y ago
Are you even checking the sources it claims? NetMarketShare only looks to go back to 2016. :facepalm: At this point, your methodology is looking quite sus Are ready to accept that ChatGPT is reliably lying to you? The longer your conversation with it goes on, the worse it gets
verdverm 3y ago
> I must have misremembered. The fact that ChatGPT says this is very misleading. It does not perform recall, just token generation based on the most likely continuation of the input. It will even finish your questions
vaidhy 3y ago
Without this thread, how do you know enough to challenge the results? If you have to challenge every output, why is it useful in the first place?
- verdverm 3y ago
  It's useful for some things but not others. For example, I used it to help me know how to adjust some things with matplotlib that I hadn't used in years. I wasn't even sure what to type into google to get good results, looking over the docs would have taken longer than the time I spent with ChatGPT. Like how we all learned how to search with Google early on, the same thing is going to happen with LLMs. They are certainly better at handling the questions and clarification for refinement, something we often do with each other. When they start responding with questions for clarification, rather than just spitting out whatever, that will be a nice step forward.

by tus666 3y ago

verdverm 3y ago

Are you even checking the sources it claims? NetMarketShare only looks to go back to 2016. :facepalm: At this point, your methodology is looking quite sus Are ready to accept that ChatGPT is reliably lying to you? The longer your conversation with it goes on, the worse it gets

verdverm 3y ago

> I must have misremembered. The fact that ChatGPT says this is very misleading. It does not perform recall, just token generation based on the most likely continuation of the input. It will even finish your questions

vaidhy 3y ago

Without this thread, how do you know enough to challenge the results? If you have to challenge every output, why is it useful in the first place?

verdverm 3y ago
It's useful for some things but not others. For example, I used it to help me know how to adjust some things with matplotlib that I hadn't used in years. I wasn't even sure what to type into google to get good results, looking over the docs would have taken longer than the time I spent with ChatGPT. Like how we all learned how to search with Google early on, the same thing is going to happen with LLMs. They are certainly better at handling the questions and clarification for refinement, something we often do with each other. When they start responding with questions for clarification, rather than just spitting out whatever, that will be a nice step forward.