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I get the sense that you don't understand the purpose or design of chatgpt No tool can do everything

paul7986 2y ago
what it cant tell you the correct date.. how simple is that and yeah i use chatGPT in many different ways ... i was pointing out an example from today in which it was flat wrong for such a simple thing.
- spencerchubb 2y ago
  A large language model is trained on vast amounts of text to predict the next token. That tool will have no idea what the current date is, unless the developers augment it by telling it the current date.
  - paul7986 2y ago
    Few weeks or more ago I discovered Burger King has a cotton candy slurpee/icee ... I've been enjoying one once to a few times a week. But not all locations have it yet chatGPT seemed to know which locations have it & each one it told me ..they had it available to buy. Very useful so today went to one closest to me which always has it but today they said we no longer do. Thus I asked chatGPT has been discontinued as well asked for its sources which it provide saying it's still available per information as of today. Then I asked it what is today it gave the wrong date ..two days in the past. I'm surely not using it to ask for just the date yet still it should know such a simple thing as current date if asked..ppl expect it to like Siri and Alexa can tell u it..users expect the same UX and way better!
    - spencerchubb 2y ago
      That is indeed a weakness of chatgpt - it's not so good with super current information That is because it is only trained on info up to a certain date It's good to know what tools are good and bad at
      - paul7986 2y ago
        ummm chatGPT is very slowly becoming mainstream... for to become fully such no user and or prospective user cares about it's limitations .. it needs to work like previous similar technologies do like Siri and Alexa. User experience is utmost important without it Apple wouldnt be apple and chatGPT as it's current trajectory is going looks to become as big as the current biggies. Thus everyone including parents/grandparents/etc will be using it and those users dont care about LLM talk and etc.. they have no idea what it is. chatGPT just works for them and somewhat magically so.. it even knows the current date as mom, dad or grandma be like this thing doesnt know the current date Siri does. You must not be a UX professional ;-)
        spencerchubb 2y ago
        Yes Siri and Alexa can tell you the date. But I feel like you are assessing chatgpt unfairly. Would you say that a mobile phone is bad because you cannot run powerful programs like on a laptop? No, the mobile phone has its own purpose, which is convenience Chatgpt can do many things that siri and alexa cannot: draft emails, write code, write unit tests, help me brainstorm, give me cooking recipes, or even talk about relationship issues. Every tool has strengths and weaknesses

what it cant tell you the correct date.. how simple is that and yeah i use chatGPT in many different ways ... i was pointing out an example from today in which it was flat wrong for such a simple thing.

spencerchubb 2y ago
A large language model is trained on vast amounts of text to predict the next token. That tool will have no idea what the current date is, unless the developers augment it by telling it the current date.
- paul7986 2y ago
  Few weeks or more ago I discovered Burger King has a cotton candy slurpee/icee ... I've been enjoying one once to a few times a week. But not all locations have it yet chatGPT seemed to know which locations have it & each one it told me ..they had it available to buy. Very useful so today went to one closest to me which always has it but today they said we no longer do. Thus I asked chatGPT has been discontinued as well asked for its sources which it provide saying it's still available per information as of today. Then I asked it what is today it gave the wrong date ..two days in the past. I'm surely not using it to ask for just the date yet still it should know such a simple thing as current date if asked..ppl expect it to like Siri and Alexa can tell u it..users expect the same UX and way better!
  - spencerchubb 2y ago
    That is indeed a weakness of chatgpt - it's not so good with super current information That is because it is only trained on info up to a certain date It's good to know what tools are good and bad at
    - paul7986 2y ago
      ummm chatGPT is very slowly becoming mainstream... for to become fully such no user and or prospective user cares about it's limitations .. it needs to work like previous similar technologies do like Siri and Alexa. User experience is utmost important without it Apple wouldnt be apple and chatGPT as it's current trajectory is going looks to become as big as the current biggies. Thus everyone including parents/grandparents/etc will be using it and those users dont care about LLM talk and etc.. they have no idea what it is. chatGPT just works for them and somewhat magically so.. it even knows the current date as mom, dad or grandma be like this thing doesnt know the current date Siri does. You must not be a UX professional ;-)
      - spencerchubb 2y ago
        Yes Siri and Alexa can tell you the date. But I feel like you are assessing chatgpt unfairly. Would you say that a mobile phone is bad because you cannot run powerful programs like on a laptop? No, the mobile phone has its own purpose, which is convenience Chatgpt can do many things that siri and alexa cannot: draft emails, write code, write unit tests, help me brainstorm, give me cooking recipes, or even talk about relationship issues. Every tool has strengths and weaknesses