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If you tell GPT-4 specifically to respond with proper jargon for the domain like that found in a textbook or journal it provides much much more useful replies.

by ghotli 3y ago

If you tell GPT-4 specifically to respond with proper jargon for the domain like that found in a textbook or journal it provides much much more useful replies. Silly that prompt engineering is what's required but at least for my purposes wherein I fact check it's output it's right nearly all the time and I've learned a great deal.

__loam 3y ago
Even then there's literally nothing stopping it from making shit up.
- ghotli 3y ago
  Sure yeah, for now. Just saying I literally use it to mine out things to confirm (/ not believe until I do) and so far it has very rarely led me astray and even then it's been small nuance. It's striking.
  - lionkor 3y ago
    What do you mean "for now"? Yes, right now, at the most impressive it's ever been, it has this fundamental flaw.
    - fennecfoxy 3y ago
      Which is hilarious considering humans make shit up, lie and parrot falsehoods _constantly_. Even without intending to.
    - ghotli 3y ago
      Assuming you're serious and not just knee jerk reacting to the flippant way I replied, this is pretty much exactly what I meant. The full text of this short story I can't find a good link (old ones I've read are broken links now) but this reading on YouTube will suffice. Asimov, The Last Question https://youtu.be/ojEq-tTjcc0 https://youtu.be/ojEq-tTjcc0
wanttocomment 3y ago
It doesn't mean it's less biased. All of these styles are exploited as a form of rhetoric. Many people simply take information written in a textbook style as authoritative.
fennecfoxy 3y ago
And that's why I ignore the people that laugh at the whole prompt engineering thing, because it's a genuine skill. At the moment GPTs are trained on so much data across so many domains that you have to treat it like a person who has similar knowledge. If I just walk up to you and start sputtering jargon about a very specific complex topic, when you were just chatting to another friend about all sorts of everyday topics, you're not going to be able to reply to me immediately. With these GPTs it helps to get it "in the mood" for your topic by preloading keywords and shifting the topic over and deeper so your desired topic is clearer to the attention mechanism.

by ghotli 3y ago

__loam 3y ago

Even then there's literally nothing stopping it from making shit up.

ghotli 3y ago
Sure yeah, for now. Just saying I literally use it to mine out things to confirm (/ not believe until I do) and so far it has very rarely led me astray and even then it's been small nuance. It's striking.
- lionkor 3y ago
  What do you mean "for now"? Yes, right now, at the most impressive it's ever been, it has this fundamental flaw.
  - fennecfoxy 3y ago
    Which is hilarious considering humans make shit up, lie and parrot falsehoods _constantly_. Even without intending to.
  - ghotli 3y ago
    Assuming you're serious and not just knee jerk reacting to the flippant way I replied, this is pretty much exactly what I meant. The full text of this short story I can't find a good link (old ones I've read are broken links now) but this reading on YouTube will suffice. Asimov, The Last Question https://youtu.be/ojEq-tTjcc0 https://youtu.be/ojEq-tTjcc0

wanttocomment 3y ago

It doesn't mean it's less biased. All of these styles are exploited as a form of rhetoric. Many people simply take information written in a textbook style as authoritative.

fennecfoxy 3y ago

And that's why I ignore the people that laugh at the whole prompt engineering thing, because it's a genuine skill. At the moment GPTs are trained on so much data across so many domains that you have to treat it like a person who has similar knowledge. If I just walk up to you and start sputtering jargon about a very specific complex topic, when you were just chatting to another friend about all sorts of everyday topics, you're not going to be able to reply to me immediately. With these GPTs it helps to get it "in the mood" for your topic by preloading keywords and shifting the topic over and deeper so your desired topic is clearer to the attention mechanism.