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by tjr 3y ago
I do not trust LLMs. They may very often be right, and may very often be useful, but I do not trust them. If you require correct results, their output should be checked somehow.
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by tjr 3y ago
What would be an example sentence in which using the Oxford comma makes the meaning of the sentence less clear?
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by tjr 3y ago
I have only used a travel agent once. It was a helpful service for me at the time, but I think I paid roughly 40% over what I could have had I arranged everything myself. In other words -- a great business to be in!
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by tjr 3y ago
When working in an open cubicle office, I have deliberately had multiple tabs of audio going, such as, brown noise, white noise, air conditioning sound effects, and light instrumental music.
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by tjr 3y ago
Much commercially viable music is indeed pretty formulaic... so much so, that I wonder why we would even need something as sophisticated as "AI" to autogenerate it.
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by tjr 3y ago
Might also consider Winston's other book more focused on AI (rather than Lisp): https://people.csail.mit.edu/phw/Books/index.html#AI https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.034f/ai3/rest.pdf
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by tjr 3y ago
Indeed -- why would it even need to be a GPT system? But I personally do not want a chat interface. I find communicating with a computer via natural language to be more cumbersome than using a decent traditional interface. Perhaps some bank
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by tjr 3y ago
Also Cucumber test frameworks with Gherkin syntax.
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by tjr 3y ago
Forget AI; this is the next big thing in technology.
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by tjr 3y ago
I wonder if it's "fixed" or if it's just less obvious. It seems that an LLM would "hallucinate" a bogus answer if it didn't actually have a good answer somewhere in its training. Is GPT4 so much more train
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by tjr 3y ago
What will you do now instead?
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by tjr 3y ago
It may be a while before we can entirely trust ChatGPT to give us all the answers. I find the whole premise of ChatGPT -- or indeed, neural network systems in general -- to be untrustworthy. That does not mean useless! But more like a fir
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by tjr 3y ago
For what kind of labor?
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by tjr 3y ago
Maybe I’m a pessimist, but I’m skeptical about how this works out in the long term. People can barely handle the cashier-less kiosks at Mcdonald’s, and now you want them to talk to an AI? I'm generally ambivalent or even opposed to i
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by tjr 3y ago
Who are the 1%? Will they ever become those new genre pioneers if they don't spend time working on some of that 99% work first? Which they might not do any more, if AI does it instead?
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by tjr 3y ago
ChatGPT created the eight queens problem?
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by tjr 3y ago
I remember in high school literature class thinking that my classmates who were consulting Cliffs Notes were cheating. Then saw a copy of Cliffs Notes for our current reading assignment in our teacher's desk. Similarly, in math classes
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by tjr 3y ago
I used C++ in the 1990s and thought it felt messy and unpleasant. I've largely avoided it since then, but reading some more recent documentation, I think I would like today's updated C++ more than what I experienced decades ago.
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by tjr 3y ago
I don't feel qualified to answer that particular question, but I feel about done with smartphones for myself as an adult. I kind of miss my super-basic Motorola flip-phone that I usually left turned off in my backpack. Or even my pocke
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by tjr 3y ago
A fascinating example story! I think that does make it all make more sense why one would quit over not being able to use ChatGPT.
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by tjr 3y ago
Thank you again. I did not mean to claim that you disregard literally all rules, and I apologize for coming across that way. I find your explanation sound and reasonable. There are many rules that, even if not necessarily liked, are not suf
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by tjr 3y ago
Ah, so you are not disregarding this particular rule , but you disregard all rules that you feel impede you. That answers my question, thank you -- this has nothing in particular to do with GPT tools.
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by tjr 3y ago
Employees have been prevented (by rule) from doing things that would make them more productive for a long time. For a trivial example, programmers who are proficient in Emacs not being allowed to install and use Emacs. I still fail to see w
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by tjr 3y ago
I have seen companies have rules about (or against) cloud computing in general. I remember when decent web-based translation services first came out, and the guidance from BigCorp was to not use them for anything work-related. From what I p
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by tjr 3y ago
Companies banning the use of ChatGPT level tools going forward will find the rules either flouted, subverted or the employees going elsewhere. Why? Companies typically have many rules that they expect employees to follow. Why would employ
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by tjr 3y ago
I remember the 2nd edition coming out in printed form years ago. Perhaps there was some update in March of 2023, or perhaps this particular set of HTML files was published in March, but overall, the book has been out for a while.
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by tjr 3y ago
20-some years ago, I had this "20 questions" handheld electronic game that was eerily good at winning. I imagine it was a bunch of well-programmed tables of data, but in any case, it's certainly possible for a machine to do w
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by tjr 3y ago
This line sounds rather congruent with what Gerald Sussman has been saying for years. For example, from: https://dustycloud.org/blog/sussman-on-ai/ At some point Sussman expressed how he thought AI was on the wro
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by tjr 4y ago
In my opinion, based on what I have seen and understood thus far, not close at all. But they can, in some scenarios, give the appearance of being close, which might be enough to be useful for some AGI purposes, whatever those might be.
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by tjr 4y ago
This is true in aerospace software. Lots of process, lots of specification, lots of verification. I wouldn't want to say that GPT-seque tools would be useless here, but I really don't see them offering the same kind of magic lever

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