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Eh… your complaint describes every single piece of information available on the internet. Let’s try it with other stuff: “Looking at solutions on stack overfl
by ninkendo 1y ago
Eh… your complaint describes every single piece of information available on the internet.
Let’s try it with other stuff:
“Looking at solutions on stack overflow outsources your brain”
“Searching arxiv for literature on a subject outsources your brain”
“Reading a tutorial on something outsources your brain”
There’s nothing that makes ChatGPT et al appreciably different from the above, other than the tendency to hallucinate.
ChatGPT is a better search engine than search engines for me, since it gives links to cite what it’s talking about and I can check those, but it pays attention to precisely what I asked about and generally doesn’t include unrelated crap.
The only complaint I have is the hallucinations, but it just means I have to check its sources, which is exactly the case already for something as mundane as Wikipedia.
Ho hum. Maybe take some time to reevaluate your conclusions here.
- tensility 1y agoThat tendency to hallucinate that you so conveniently downplay is a major problem. I'll take reading the reference manual myself all day rather than sifting through the output of a bullshit generator.
- ninkendo 1y agoI'm not trying to downplay it, it absolutely is a major problem. But it's a very different problem from "outsourcing your brain". In fact, the tendency to hallucinate is the very reason you still need to use your brain when using an LLM. As I said, it's not any different from a web search or a wikipedia read: It's one input, and you still have to think for yourself.