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It's 1994. Larry Llyod Mayer has read the entire internet, hundreds of thousands of studies across every field, and can answer queries word for word the same as
by joenot443 2y ago
It's 1994. Larry Llyod Mayer has read the entire internet, hundreds of thousands of studies across every field, and can answer queries word for word the same as modern LLMs do. He speaks every major language. He's not perfect, he does occasionally make mistakes, but the sheer breadth of his knowledge makes him among the most employable individuals in America. The Pentagon, IBM, and Deloitte are begging to hire him. Instead, he works for you, for free.
Most laud him for his generosity, but his skeptics describe him as just a machine that spits out words. A stochastic parrot, useless for any real work.
- yathaid 2y agoDoes his accuracy take a sudden precipitous fall when going from multiplying two three-digit numbers to two four-digit numbers?
- falcor84 2y agoI don't know about you, but when I do math without a calculator, my accuracy also drops precipitously whenever they add a digit.
- throwaway290 2y agoDo you have self awareness to anticipate the drop in your accuracy and refuse to perform the operation?
- falcor84 2y agoI do anticipate it, but in the situations I'm asked to do such calculations, I don't usually have the option of refusing, nor would I want to. For most real would situations, it's generally better to arrive at a ballpark solution than to refuse to engage with the problem.
- throwaway290 2y agoBallpark solution is in a way refusing...
- pjs_ 2y agoThis is a solved problem, ChatGPT uses a python prompt to do arithmetic now. Just like you would… all good. You Can Just Check Your Own Claims
- joenot443 2y agoIn the very unserious hypothetical I'm describing, I'd say Lloyd's capabilities match that of GPT-4. In this case, he's not a calculator, but he is a decent programmer, so like GPT-4 he quickly runs the operation through a script, rather than trying to figure it out in his head. https://chatgpt.com/share/67ac17df-fd9c-800d-9d3d-03c66b3e863c https://chatgpt.com/share/67ac17df-fd9c-800d-9d3d-03c66b3e86... "The result of 720947×263647 is 190,075,513,709."