Michael GartenbergFeb 14, 2023

The stages of playing with GPT-3:

- OMG this can do anything
- There goes my job
- I should start a business around this
- Some of the responses aren’t too good
- Actually, some of these responses are just awful
- This isn’t really intelligence
- This is just spicy autocomplete

(as was forwarded to me w/no attribution)

Show threadOliver Gießler
@Gartenberg As an attorney I can say: most if not all answers in German (!) to legal questions are utterly BS. It cites non existent rulings. Though it cites with confidence. Maybe I should worry 😆
Feb 14, 2023 at 10:10pmWeb
Show threadChristian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥Feb 15, 2023

@Giessler @Gartenberg It's the inability to say "I DON'T KNOW" that galls me (as it did, when I was 3 or 4 years old). The sheer lack of humility is … programmed in? It can't be just a side-effect, it's so pervasive.

As someone said to me yesterday, "Did they import all of Reddit?" YES, yes they did that.

Show threadManicDeeFeb 16, 2023
@Giessler @Gartenberg the time to start worrying is when the chat bot goes and sets up fake web sites with fake literature to reference so that any cursory investigation of citations will find sensible-enough-sounding papers, and then you have to go and actually background all the references to find that they were all created within five minutes of you asking your question.
Show threadMichael GartenbergFeb 16, 2023
@manicdee shhhh, don't give it any ideas. This is going to be a great tool for the upcoming election where previously illiterate nuts can now sound rational when they post.