dslowell

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by dslowell 3y ago
Trying to make things up to cover for a lack of knowledge is something distinctly different, though. This is a a situation where ChatGPT is able to perfectly describe the mistake it made, describe exactly what it needs to do differently, an
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by dslowell 3y ago
You can see the difference if you know where to poke. For instance, if you start making spatial abstractions ChatGPT will often make mistakes, you can point it out, they can explain why it's a mistake, but it has no internalized model
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Google X: Waiting for a Moonshot (2016)(nytimes.com)
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by dslowell 4y ago
It's interesting how different the rollout of autonomous cars has been from what people were expecting a decade ago. Not just the speed of things, but also the way they're being adopted. So far, we don't seem to be anywhere c
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by dslowell 4y ago
Just ask it for a darker (or lighter, or more humorous, or more surprising) ending for the story and it will oblige.
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by dslowell 4y ago
What's really interesting to me is how easy it is to talk to it conversationally and get an appropriate response. Inspired by this post, for instance, I just now tried asking it to explain the joke: "Two men walk into a bar, the t
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by dslowell 4y ago
Much more important would be giving them (and others) the opportunities to realize their own potential even if they don't go on the exact path early in life. It's not impossible, but it is extremely difficult at the age of 26 to r
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by dslowell 4y ago
> mad-libs style patterns of it slightly remixing answers to different questions in basically the same way. There's an element of that, but I was surprised to see how much of it wasn't simply mad-libs. When I asked it to add an
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by dslowell 4y ago
> I am wholly amused how everyone got on that dude from Google that accused the AI of being sentient and Google about not caring, and now you have huge names in the tech industry kinda drooling over this with what I believe to be the sam
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by dslowell 4y ago
Partly it's a matter of what to ask Chat GPT. When I try to show people, they usually ask straightforward questions that they can already get a quick answer from in Google, which isn't terrible impressive. But take this, for examp