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ntewinkel

I just became aware of an AI named chatGPT by OpenAI, which can do a lot of amazing things. As in, mind-blowing how well it does things!

For example, you can ask for advice on how to get a better sleep, or even how to be more romantic, and the responses are even better than I would have expected from a person!

And… you might want to sit down for this… it can write software!

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It wrote the whole sketch, with comments, and then explains where to get the required libraries.

I’m impressed!

  • NPR did a story on chatGPT, where an author was giving it a setup and then critiquing the writing that chatGPT 'created' (or plagiarized).  With little information in the setup, chatGPT would find stories that had all sorts of detail added, just not any detail that was pertinent to the authors story.  As the author added more detail to setup, the stories began to ring true and actually make sense.

    It seems that AI is still constrained by the adage "Garbage in, Garbage out".

  • in reply to ntewinkel

    I think you're right - it was my first thought as I was reading it.  Like Alexa, Siri and Cortana.  

    AI just isn't that clever really.  I studied it back in 80's and it struck me then that it wasn't really "intelligent" and I haven't really changed my mind, even if a researcher/scientist/professor/whoever liberally sticks the word "inference" into their sentences as if the machine is genuinely making new connections.  It all comes back to the algorithm developed by a programmer(-ers) which defines the boundaries in which the machine can actually "think".  Data-crunching has become blazingly fast obviously, and databases can remember associations but in my mind it still comes down to a look-up.  

    Language parsing algorithms have significantly improved because of fast data crunching, almost into real-time now.  I remember the early days of speech-to-text (where it took just as long to fix up the errors as it did to just type the thing in the first place) and now it's fascinating watching the "AI" routine listen to speech, put the words up on screen and dance backwards adjusting "what it heard" based on subsequent wording elaborating context.  Not really intelligence but it is certainly life improving.  There was a chap at work who used a system which tracked eye movement and used speech understanding to operate his PC - he was pretty much as fast with that as anyone else without impairment.  It was brilliant, worked in an open plan office and didn't require him to speak at anything above a whisper.

  • in reply to beacon_dave

    Oh hahaha! Is that what it does? Plagiarize everything?

    Laughing

    I already noticed that slightly more complex coding questions don’t really give great results.

    So then maybe this AI is more of an Internet search tool that takes the extra effort to collate a single result for you.

  • "...And… you might want to sit down for this… it can write software!..."

    Or just copy it from elsewhere...

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