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Personally, I'm getting very fatigued by ChatGPT. Now I basically understand how it works (string words together with some randomness consistent with an existing body of work), everything else flowing from that is just tiring. Yes, it's going to get facts wrong, yes it's going to sound sentient, yes it's going to be subject to manipulation by users. (and btw, of course it's going to sound sentient, it's trained on a dataset that includes a shit load of scifi fiction about robots becoming sentient) It's very uninteresting to me at this point, I wonder as people start to understand what ChatGPT does there's going to be a backlash, where it gets entirely written off. In much the same way that by 2020 alot of people would hear the word "cyrpto" or "web3" and just shut down, I suspect that will happen with ChatGPT too.

When you really start to prod this and think "Ok, this tool by design is going to produce highly plausible but completely untrue information" do we really think the sensible next step is "Better integrate this very tightly into our primarily tool for finding out accurate information"? Because that appears to be the current plan.

parent SilverBirch 3 years ago

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