Chief TWiT Nov 13, 2023

And now I've got a GPT expert on Emacs. Ingested all the Emacs manuals and Mickey Peterson's excellent Mastering Emacs. This is so much better than searching manuals. I'm blown away.

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-ceQ8Ju6Rg-emacs-expert

Show threadBob DavidsonNov 13, 2023
@leo is it truely an expert or just talks a good game?
Show threadScott JensonNov 13, 2023
@wa7iut @leo
I've been skeptical of chatGPT from the beginning but like Leo, I've been impressed with 'focused corpus' uses of LLMs. They are much more than a shortcut into the documentation, they can *combine* the various parts of the docs into a single answer. It's really been a revelation.
Show threadChief TWiT Nov 13, 2023

@scottjenson @wa7iut It's like we've reinvented the index - only better.

This is what expert systems have been promising all along - but it has suddenly become much easier.

Show threadcountNov 14, 2023
@leo @scottjenson @wa7iut Gonna be That Guy and say that a major promise of expert systems was the ability to explain their reasoning. ChatGPT is incapable of doing this.
Show threadScott Jenson
@counteractor @leo @wa7iut But Google Bard is capable of this (at least in some cases) I agree with you this is needed and the current state, even for Bard, isn't good enough. My point is that it appears to be coming (and we should continue to demand that it does)
Nov 14, 2023 at 3:30pmWeb
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@scottjenson @leo @wa7iut How does Bard do that? Do you mean with the “check it” button? If so, I’d disagree that it has that capability. GPTs can’t do the logical reasoning of classical AI expert systems (by design of course). That was the only thing I wanted to push back on.

Of course I have problems with “it’s coming” too (is it?), but that’s another discussion.