random_cynic

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by random_cynic 4y ago
No one cares about your anecdotes and feelings. These people conducted thousands of systematic tests for at least six months. If you want to be taken seriously then do the same.
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by random_cynic 4y ago
Stephen Wolfram himself thought that Wolfram could be combined with GPT when ChatGPT was released like 4 months ago. Only due to that they worked together to build the plugin. He also authored the best article I've seen on how ChatGPT
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by random_cynic 4y ago
> its almost silly to question Google's ability to build useful LLMs. Unless they release a model one can "use" and verify their claims it's literally silly to make this statement.
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by random_cynic 4y ago
> good AI use cases (quick formatting, intelligent auto-completes, intention detection from sheet structure) could probably speed us up by 20% That would imply these AI systems have been integrated well, which in most cases are not and I
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by random_cynic 4y ago
> They are aggressively integrating it into their products And no reason to suspect that it won't spectacularly backfire. Not that they're integrating (or more correctly slapping it on with some hot glue) transformative technol
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by random_cynic 4y ago
Without the underlying model what's the point of the facade?
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by random_cynic 4y ago
There are literally thousands of chat clients based off their API. So are they also chatGPT or the model they specifically trained and aligned for chat?
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by random_cynic 4y ago
I like how people on Reddit cannot distinguish between ChatGPT itself and its web front end. I thought Reddit is programmer friendly. Has anyone checked if the services using the API have been affected or not?
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by random_cynic 4y ago
https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1637131262300409856
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by random_cynic 4y ago
I can predict even without looking into comments that we will see all five stages here but probably mostly still denial. I'm excited primarily because this is really the best educational tool I've ever seen, I want to see what I c
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by random_cynic 4y ago
Except in this case, the correct answer is really one each. No one responsible will feed kids that young four muffins in one go. :)
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by random_cynic 4y ago
Maybe stop treating it like an intern and learn some prompt engineering (there are good tools out there).
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by random_cynic 4y ago
What you described (with superfluous and ornamental technobabble) works perfectly well with a functional human with "understanding" as well, that's why people can be brainwashed or tricked into saying lot of stupid stuff. Non
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by random_cynic 4y ago
It's remarkable that you skipped past "companies from every category" and jumped straight into your ramblings about Microsoft. I don't care about Microsoft, I used them as an example to disprove your bollocks claim about
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by random_cynic 4y ago
That's because people haven't been imaginative enough to use them that way (they're too busy jailbreaking it to say racist things or proselytizing on social media). Even in past 24 hours some people have already found it use
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by random_cynic 4y ago
> I'm less impressed by OpenAI's GPT-x because I don't think it's very useful technology Living in that sort of bubble must be very uncomfortable. Companies from virtually every category are pouring money in OpenAI st
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by random_cynic 4y ago
You're in denial. That's okay, everyone is too.
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by random_cynic 4y ago
What has happened to this site? Full of bs takes like this.
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by random_cynic 4y ago
So not only Redditors copy every post from here, they somehow also have to join the discussions here and drag the whole site down to their level.
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by random_cynic 4y ago
Hate to inform you that the "cat is literally out of the bag" now. There's no putting it back. If it isn't DA it would be someone else. Right now, anyone who does anything creative like painters, authors, composers, desi
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by random_cynic 4y ago
So google is trying to both kill Mozilla and keep it alive? Are they trying to create a Schrodinger's Mozilla?
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by random_cynic 4y ago
Please read again. Thanks
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by random_cynic 4y ago
> I'm sure the future without MV2 will have users launching .exe files to mod Chrome which is much much worse Average internet (hence chrome user) don't even know what mod means. They don't care about ads (at least not eno
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by random_cynic 4y ago
From the fact that there are so many government, university and bank websites that simply doesn't work with Firefox or anything other than non-chromium based. In fact, many explicitly say that the user needs to use Chrome for the best
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by random_cynic 4y ago
> A fad has nothing to do with when the stuff was invented. It only has to do with people choosing it from the dominant reason being other people chooses it. If that's your interpretation of a fad then you're still wrong. The d
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by random_cynic 4y ago
> Just because it took longer to learn, that doesn't mean it's better or worse at creating good code. It does mean that armchair pundits are less likely to be correct in their hot takes. They lack experience and understanding A
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by random_cynic 4y ago
> People still trying to revive Perl against modern fad, for example, Python. Lmao Python has been around since 1991 only three years after Perl appeared. How's it a fad? Sucess of python is a testament to the difference a simple an
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by random_cynic 5y ago
Are you serious? Writing a shell script or thinking about ways of tweaking stuff is not valuable but wasting time reinventing wheel is? You're the perfect example why there is a complete lack of creativity. Everyone is about making poi
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by random_cynic 5y ago
Another pointless "replacement", that achieves what anyone with a basic knowledge of Unix and shell scripting can put together with couple of aliases and/or shell scripts. No thanks. Most of development today is basically abo
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by random_cynic 5y ago
> What it was "optimized for" is irrelevant if it's legible and has good information. It's not having good information that is important, what's critical is finding relevant information quickly, tagging and lin

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