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I'm mystified that there would be an expectation of accuracy based on it knowing a response that happened to be accurate to a question about the one word they k

I'm mystified that there would be an expectation of accuracy based on it knowing a response that happened to be accurate to a question about the one word they knew off the top of their head. The one word they remembered.

kragen 3y ago
the one word that was most represented in not only their own personal training set but chatgpt's
- neltnerb 3y ago
  At that point I could no longer tell if the author was just trolling. Is it not obviously absurd? We have actual translation tools that are trained to be accurate instead of just return a likely response to a query of that type.
ineedasername 3y ago
I’m more thinking that a curators could provide a list of items on display in that particular exhibit during the short period of time the author could narrow things down, with corresponding descriptions like would be accompanied by the exhibit. Museums, like libraries, are organizers of information. Think of them somewhat as databases. Of course some are better than others at this. I once had cause to track down a beautiful statue I’d seen in the MoMa some years earlier because I wanted to find a reproduction. It was gone. I found a local docent and asked, describing it (bronze color, a few feet high, sweeping curves that led to points and formed a vaguely human shape) They weren’t sure but went to inquire. I waited maybe half an hour before they came back and said it was titled “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”, but it was not currently on display. I asked if it was somewhere in storage that would allow a quick viewing (sometimes possible) but unfortunately it wasn’t. But being given the title, it enabled me to buy a small reproduction, which sits on my desk :)
- neltnerb 3y ago
  What does that have to do with poor evidence of accuracy? I was only talking about how silly it is to train an AI with specifically what to respond if someone asks what a particular word means, then ask what that word means and think it means anything when it spits out the answer. I agree that you should just talk to people, it sounds like this person is underestimating librarians (and museum curators, who I will avoid calling "museum librarians" because it seems impolite), who are far better at parsing incomplete details into a coherent search methodology. It's amazing how far they can get with very very bad descriptions.

kragen 3y ago

the one word that was most represented in not only their own personal training set but chatgpt's

neltnerb 3y ago
At that point I could no longer tell if the author was just trolling. Is it not obviously absurd? We have actual translation tools that are trained to be accurate instead of just return a likely response to a query of that type.

ineedasername 3y ago

I’m more thinking that a curators could provide a list of items on display in that particular exhibit during the short period of time the author could narrow things down, with corresponding descriptions like would be accompanied by the exhibit. Museums, like libraries, are organizers of information. Think of them somewhat as databases. Of course some are better than others at this. I once had cause to track down a beautiful statue I’d seen in the MoMa some years earlier because I wanted to find a reproduction. It was gone. I found a local docent and asked, describing it (bronze color, a few feet high, sweeping curves that led to points and formed a vaguely human shape) They weren’t sure but went to inquire. I waited maybe half an hour before they came back and said it was titled “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”, but it was not currently on display. I asked if it was somewhere in storage that would allow a quick viewing (sometimes possible) but unfortunately it wasn’t. But being given the title, it enabled me to buy a small reproduction, which sits on my desk :)

neltnerb 3y ago
What does that have to do with poor evidence of accuracy? I was only talking about how silly it is to train an AI with specifically what to respond if someone asks what a particular word means, then ask what that word means and think it means anything when it spits out the answer. I agree that you should just talk to people, it sounds like this person is underestimating librarians (and museum curators, who I will avoid calling "museum librarians" because it seems impolite), who are far better at parsing incomplete details into a coherent search methodology. It's amazing how far they can get with very very bad descriptions.