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What’s so “powerful” about ChatGPT 3 and 4 ?
by bamboozled 3y ago
What’s so “powerful” about ChatGPT 3 and 4 ?
- ruszki 3y agoThey respond so well that a lot of people believe their results without question, even while we know that they hallucinate all the time. They’re good enough for many. Even here in HN, where everybody should know that they are terrible with numbers, majority of us cheered that somebody generated diagrams with them, I couldn’t even find a single comment which were about “wait a minute, they’re fucking unreliable numbers”. Also regarding coding, they can definitely produce junior level code, especially if you follow a similar trial and error way of thinking which happens all the time during your work, if you try to use an unknown interface.
- lambdaone 3y agoTheir ability to superficially mimic cognition, in a way that not only raises significant philosophical questions but also seems (rightly or wrongly) to bring the prospect of "true" AI tantalizingly closer.
- bamboozled 3y agoWhat are the new philosophical questions that it raises for you ? Existential crisis ?
- kaba0 3y ago> bring the prospect of "true" AI tantalizingly closer I do think that it’s quite a leap to assume that. It is very good at mimicking, but the same way some parrots can talk, they are endlessly far from human cognition. That jump is very very non-trivial.
- MrDisposable 3y agoA stochastic parrot, a blurry jpeg of the web is able to provide sound, actionable, verifiable advice on topics such as modeling in Blender or managing a Linux server -- despite not being generally intelligent.
- cubefox 3y ago[flagged]
- bamboozled 3y agoNo. Powerful implies the thing is The Emperor from Star Wars or something. Capable in certain circumstances ? Yes.