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What? The internet did that ages ago. We just pretended it didn't because some students didn't know how to use Google.

• Davidzheng 1y ago
  disagree? I had to write essays in high school. I don't think the kids now need to if they don't want to.
• atleastoptimal 1y ago
  Everyone knows how to use Google. There's a difference between a corpus of data available online and an intelligent chatbot that can answer any permutation of questions with high accuracy with no manual searching or effort.
  • simianwords 1y ago
    Do you really think the jump from books to freely globally accessible data instantly available is a smaller jump than internet to ChatGPT? This is insane!!
    • raincole 1y ago
      It's not just smaller, but neglectable (in comparison). In the internet era you had to parse the questions with your own brain. You just didn't necessarily need to solve them yourself. In ChatGPT era you don't even need to read the questions. At all. The questions could be written in a language you don't understand, and you still are able generate plausible answers to them.
      • simianwords 1y ago
        To a person from the 1920's which one is more impressive? The internet or chatgpt?
        • devmor 1y ago
          I don't think that's really a useful question, honestly. If you asked a person from the 1920's to choose what was more impressive between a Microwave oven and cellular communication (both consequences of the invention of radar), they'd probably pick the oven.
        • raincole 1y ago
          Obvious ChatGPT. I don't know how it is even a question... if you showed GPT3.5 to people from < 20th centuries there would've been a worldwide religion around it.
          • simianwords 1y ago
            Interesting perspective.
            • mdaniel 1y ago
              I recall the kerfuffle about (IIRC) llama where the engineer lost his mind thinking they had spawned life in a machine and felt it was "too dangerous to release," so it's not a ludicrous take. I would hope that the first person to ask "LLM Jesus" how many Rs are in strawberry would have torpedoed the religion, but (a) I've seen dumber mind viruses (b) it hasn't yet
              • dragonwriter 1y ago
                It wasn't Llama (Meta), it was LaMDA (Google). https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-engineer-claims-ai-chatbot-is-sentient-why-that-matters/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-engineer-c...
                • mdaniel 1y ago
                  Ah, thank you. While reading up on it, I found this juicy bit that I did not recall hearing at the time: > He further revealed that he had been dismissed by Google after he hired an attorney on LaMDA's behalf after the chatbot requested that Lemoine do so.[18][19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMDA#Sentience_claims https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMDA#Sentience_claims Then again, it's plausible that if I asked GPT-5 "do you want me to get you an asylum lawyer?" it may very well say yes
  • geraneum 1y ago
    > Everyone knows how to use Google. Everyone knows how to type questions into a chat box, yet whenever something doesn’t work as advertised with the LLMs, the response here is, “you’re holding it wrong”.
• klipklop 1y ago
  You are mistaken, Google could not write a bespoke English essay for you. Complete with intentional mistakes to throw off the professor.
  • a2128 1y ago
    In English class we had a lot of book-reading and writing texts about those books. Sparknotes and similar sites allowed you to skip reading and get a distilled understanding of its contents, similar to interacting with an LLM