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People were amazed by ELIZA back in '67. That doesn't mean that it did anything useful...

• steveoscaro 3y ago
  What’s your point? Because I can’t imagine it’s to suggest that GPT4 doesn’t do anything useful.
  • bamboozled 3y ago
    Their point is, we’ve been here before.
    • stavros 3y ago
      In the way a Lamborghini and an oxcart are both "here".
    • steveoscaro 3y ago
      Not really
  • Nullabillity 3y ago
    The usual "use cases" mentioned usually seem to boil down to: - Acting as a lossy text decompressor (harmful) - Acting as a lossy text compressor (mostly trying and failing to undo the damage from above) - Acting as an outright bullshit generator (harmful) - Acting as a poor substitute for a search engine with a propensity for trying to bullshit you (harmful) - Acting as a poor substitute for a parser (which, even if it worked would be dumb because it doesn't understand structured output, so now you have two parsing problems) - Generating broken and/or extremely poorly factored code (harmful) - Hiding plagiarism (harmful) GPT (and the AI hype in general) is the wrong solution to the wrong problem. Look at the effort that Google wasted on Duplex instead of OpenTable.
    • steveoscaro 3y ago
      That's all very knowledgable-sounding, but in reality, lots of people are using GPT every day for legitimately helpful and productive things.
      • Nullabillity 3y ago
        Are you going to bring any counterexamples or keep assuming that someone… somewhere… must surely have found an actual use case for this garbage?
• 54t245 3y ago
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