Yesterday evening I produced the following thought (not quite out of the blue).

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There is one thing that LLMs do exceptionally well. Perhaps better than anything else.
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[No, I have not been kidnapped!]

#LLM #StocasticParrot

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David Kestenbaum’s story about #GPT for This American Life was strangely beneath their usual standards. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/803/greetings-people-of-earth/act-one-16 Not only did he talk only to Microsoft employees (a company that had a direct stake in OpenAI’s success), he approached the tech with barely an ounce of skepticism at all. (Though he did admit he had no use for the tool in his own life.) Sadly, apparently they got so much positive feedback they recently decided to re-air it. #AI #StocasticParrot
First Contact - This American Life

We’ve witnessed a revolution in A.I. since the public rollout of ChatGPT.  Our Senior Editor David Kestenbaum thinks that even though there’s been a ton of coverage, there’s one thing people haven’t talked much about: have these machines gotten to the point that they’re starting to have something like human intelligence? Where they actually understand language and concepts, and can reason? He talks with scientists at Microsoft who’ve been trying to figure that out.

This American Life

Bon, le raisonnement des grands modèles de langage c'est pas encore ça ...

"Les Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924 ont eu lieu à Paris, en France, pendant le règne du roi Louis XVI. “

Pourtant il se corrige par après:
"Pour répondre à votre question, il n'y avait pas de roi en France pendant les Jeux olympiques d'été de Paris
en 1924.”

#MistralNemo #StocasticParrot

People are using #StackOverflow and #ChatGPT so much that later don't remember where they read the commands they used or can't find the right question to get the same answer. I had to make a colleague redo a few steps because instead of sending me an encrypted zip file, they encrypted the file with #openssl, which doesn't complain about wrong decryption parameters and happily produce a corrupted output, only because the #StocasticParrot told them to.