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They're simultaneously both overhyped and underhyped because people aren't really thinking about them the right way, or using them the right way. They want to u
by _yb2s 2y ago
They're simultaneously both overhyped and underhyped because people aren't really thinking about them the right way, or using them the right way. They want to use it as an oracle where they ask a straightforward question, and get a straightforward correct answer. In reality they're more of a simulator- you describe a scenario with your prompt, and they play it out for you the way it would likely occur in real life. To accurately predict text as they are trained to do, they have to simulate the scenario generating the text, not provide the most correct and simple completion to the text.
This is why you can ask it a simple physics question for example, and the default might be to give a wrong answer based on a popular misconception. But tell it that it should answer as Richard Feynman, and it can give the correct answer. It "knows" that the first answer was incorrect, but it's still a more appropriate/likely answer given the default scenario, where it effectively assumes it is supposed to act as a random internet stranger when it answers.
- skydhash 2y agoYou do simulations in a lab, you go to the library for information. Google search was supposed to be the web’s library, where you go looking for what other users have produced. Now, it’s a simulation lab, where the input is imprecise, the process unknowable, and the result unreliable. That’s a children’s playground.
- _yb2s 2y agoYeah, they are an awful replacement for a search engine... but I think their actual intelligence and abilities is much higher than people realize or expect, because of misunderstanding what they are, and hoping them to be something else.
- chefandy 2y agoSure, but you're not in the business you think you're in: you're in the business your customers think you're in. Incredible products that don't meet customer expectations are about as useful as crappy products that don't meet customer expectations. They either need to change the product to meet them, or do a better job of communicating the real benefit and addressing the customers' difficulties. It's certainly not on their customers to independently figure out why their product is useful.