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I'm sure everyone is kinda tired of this answer, but gpt4. At least I have the share thing now so those who want to avoid it don't have to see a big pasted outp

by IanCal 3y ago

I'm sure everyone is kinda tired of this answer, but gpt4. At least I have the share thing now so those who want to avoid it don't have to see a big pasted output. https://chat.openai.com/share/25124525-0bad-4c13-ae5a-ae4beac60360 https://chat.openai.com/share/25124525-0bad-4c13-ae5a-ae4bea... 3.5 doesn't really get it, 4 does. There are some that aren't great but the context is pretty small and it can be a decent launching point.

TeMPOraL 3y ago
I took your prompt and tried to get it to generate a bit less serious-sounding backronyms. GPT-4 is good at this. Me, not so much. https://cloud.typingmind.com/share/b49794e0-4b2b-4213-ae2e-8f63a39acacd https://cloud.typingmind.com/share/b49794e0-4b2b-4213-ae2e-8... I'll grant one thing: the paper must go well with cheese.
- JasonFruit 3y ago
  That was a beautiful misunderstanding, right out of 1960s scifi.
- leononame 3y ago
  This made me laugh out loud on the toilet. The cheese ones are great, I really like FETA
- IanCal 3y ago
  Fantastic. I tried a few dafter ones based on this https://chat.openai.com/share/d9a31442-96e5-4a18-92d9-d217c7304803 https://chat.openai.com/share/d9a31442-96e5-4a18-92d9-d217c7...
JasonFruit 3y ago
People are justifiably excited about these language tools, but we're getting tired of this answer because it's not a good answer: "Use GPT-4! Some of the answers aren't that great, but it's at least a starting point." That's like if you asked how to sort a list and remove duplicates, and the answer was to import it into a spreadsheet program and follow these steps instead of just "sort | uniq". It's suggesting a general-purpose tool to do a specific job maybe kinda acceptably instead of suggesting the right tool for the job. It reminds me of the microwave cookery books that came out after consumer microwaves became available: there are things a microwave is good at, but those books used it for everything, just like we're using GPT-4 today. We'll calm down eventually.
- thelastparadise 3y ago
  > Is there an online tool/piece of code that can find words like this in a string? ...but he's using a language model for a language task.
  - JasonFruit 3y ago
    Not all language tasks, even, are going to be best handled by these models.
    - heyoni 3y ago
      But if there isn’t a better one then this isn’t the microwave analogy you think it is
- yyyk 3y ago
  >That's like if you asked how to sort a list and remove duplicates, and the answer was to import it into a spreadsheet program and follow these steps instead of just "sort | uniq". That's exactly how many Windows office users do it, they paste a list into Excel and use it to remove duplicates. There are alternatives even on Windows, but It's must easier for them to use a single general-purpose graphical tool (and let's not get started with the abominations VLOOKUP is used for). I used to look down on that but then I realized that using a graphical program for list manipulation is kinda cool and that this program is rather capable, and could create combinations that are rather difficult to do with the more specialized tools. I still use these specialized tools (I'm used to them, and I can do some stuff they can't easily do in Excel).
  - TeMPOraL 3y ago
    Yeah, I used to look down on that kind of things too, and a decade later, I find myself doing those very things. Yes, I know sort | uniq. I even have a couple Linux shells open on my Windows work system. But I can't for the life of me remember the magic flags, so I'll either paste the list to Emacs and M-x sort-lines + M-x delete-duplicate-lines, or paste it to Excel and do it there, or do something even more cheesy - whatever is least likely to break my flow. There are tools more or less optimized for any specific job, but the best tool for the job is the one you have handy, and are experienced in using. I too increasingly often find myself using GPT-4 for random, ad-hoc tasks. They may or may not be better tools out there. I may even have some installed. But none of them beat being able to just describe what you want, paste some data, and get the results out few seconds later.

by IanCal 3y ago

TeMPOraL 3y ago

I took your prompt and tried to get it to generate a bit less serious-sounding backronyms. GPT-4 is good at this. Me, not so much. https://cloud.typingmind.com/share/b49794e0-4b2b-4213-ae2e-8f63a39acacd https://cloud.typingmind.com/share/b49794e0-4b2b-4213-ae2e-8... I'll grant one thing: the paper must go well with cheese.

JasonFruit 3y ago
That was a beautiful misunderstanding, right out of 1960s scifi.
leononame 3y ago
This made me laugh out loud on the toilet. The cheese ones are great, I really like FETA
IanCal 3y ago
Fantastic. I tried a few dafter ones based on this https://chat.openai.com/share/d9a31442-96e5-4a18-92d9-d217c7304803 https://chat.openai.com/share/d9a31442-96e5-4a18-92d9-d217c7...

JasonFruit 3y ago

People are justifiably excited about these language tools, but we're getting tired of this answer because it's not a good answer: "Use GPT-4! Some of the answers aren't that great, but it's at least a starting point." That's like if you asked how to sort a list and remove duplicates, and the answer was to import it into a spreadsheet program and follow these steps instead of just "sort | uniq". It's suggesting a general-purpose tool to do a specific job maybe kinda acceptably instead of suggesting the right tool for the job. It reminds me of the microwave cookery books that came out after consumer microwaves became available: there are things a microwave is good at, but those books used it for everything, just like we're using GPT-4 today. We'll calm down eventually.

thelastparadise 3y ago
> Is there an online tool/piece of code that can find words like this in a string? ...but he's using a language model for a language task.
- JasonFruit 3y ago
  Not all language tasks, even, are going to be best handled by these models.
  - heyoni 3y ago
    But if there isn’t a better one then this isn’t the microwave analogy you think it is
yyyk 3y ago
>That's like if you asked how to sort a list and remove duplicates, and the answer was to import it into a spreadsheet program and follow these steps instead of just "sort | uniq". That's exactly how many Windows office users do it, they paste a list into Excel and use it to remove duplicates. There are alternatives even on Windows, but It's must easier for them to use a single general-purpose graphical tool (and let's not get started with the abominations VLOOKUP is used for). I used to look down on that but then I realized that using a graphical program for list manipulation is kinda cool and that this program is rather capable, and could create combinations that are rather difficult to do with the more specialized tools. I still use these specialized tools (I'm used to them, and I can do some stuff they can't easily do in Excel).
- TeMPOraL 3y ago
  Yeah, I used to look down on that kind of things too, and a decade later, I find myself doing those very things. Yes, I know sort | uniq. I even have a couple Linux shells open on my Windows work system. But I can't for the life of me remember the magic flags, so I'll either paste the list to Emacs and M-x sort-lines + M-x delete-duplicate-lines, or paste it to Excel and do it there, or do something even more cheesy - whatever is least likely to break my flow. There are tools more or less optimized for any specific job, but the best tool for the job is the one you have handy, and are experienced in using. I too increasingly often find myself using GPT-4 for random, ad-hoc tasks. They may or may not be better tools out there. I may even have some installed. But none of them beat being able to just describe what you want, paste some data, and get the results out few seconds later.