ChatGPT is very good at making up stories to amuse my female friends. Ask it to write a love poem to a girl and she will be thrilled at the result. There is no verification or source required. ChatGPT is good for chatting. I find its Chinese is also very good. You can use ChatGPT to improve their English level for learners. There are a lot of benefits to the tech, but factual accuracy is not one of them.
On a Chinese social media platform I asked ChatGPT (the company is based in sunny California) where it was from. It said that it was from Huan, China, but then could/would not tell me where in Hunan was its home town. On Sun, 14 Jan 2024 at 07:26, o1bigtenor via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 3:06 AM ac via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > snip > > > > And, it's just a generic LLM. I've heard experienced developers > > > saying surprisingly positive things about GitHub's Copilot for quite > > > a while now. > > > As for the SQL issue - all search queries on Qwant / DDG / Google > > > lead to "how to join tables in SQL"; utterly useless. I know that > > > reasonably well. > > > And, who hasn't had a search lead them to StackOverflow where the > > > highest rated answer is strongly condemned further in the comments as > > > being wrong / out of date / insecure, etc.? > > > > > Actually, this is an interesting point. > > > > Google search seems to prioritise answers from humans and human sources. > > > > I searched on Microsoft the other day and was surprised to see that I > > could supply .js snippets (which I did not code and was too lazy to > > read through) and receive a correct answer direct from "search" > > > > So, us humans will be replaced as 'coders" - Machines will be writing > > the code which powers machines. Not only is that something for us to > > understand fully, but we also have to comprehend where we are all > > choosing to go. > > > > It is like watching episodes of "the Traitors" and seeing how the > > majority votes out a faithful. > > > > there is just nothing to do but be along for the ride :) > > > > > Lots of incorrect answers supplied by humans. > > > > > indeed, if only there was some way to 'sort' or use advanced search to > > set dates... (to exclude popular answers from 2009) or do more settings > > on search options... oh, wait.... - and then there are no search > > results... when is "search" not "search" and just becomes "answer" - > > interesting! - it is like a mobile phone - it is hardly even a mobile > > phone any longer, why do so many people still call it a 'phone' or a > > mobile phone... > > > > I think though that I will still be using Google for search, although > > when looking at it all from my perspective we are all already screwed, > > unless we can vote out all of the tratitors. (which seems increasingly > > unlikely) > > > Re: search engines - - - - to me they are totally frustrating. > > If I'm asking for a search where I want terms 'a + b + c + d + e' well - > I'm looking for where ALL 5 terms show up. Not where any one term is or > any two (etc etc). So if one is looking for very generic kind of items - - > well search is useful - - - if you're looking for the specific - - - - > search > - - - well - - its quite useless! > > As I've been pondering the AI stuff (tried to sign up for chatgpt but as > I'm > unable to use a cellphone at my location that's a no for even signup (and > no way to reach the idiots - - - - sorry I guess I should use people but I > wonder - - to let them know that I can't because its only after > registration > that connection is allowed - - - total circular logic that is!) what > I've come up > with is from looking at the past. > > Truly innovative and unique ideas/things are rarely enough even designed > or developed by a 'team' (that's changing in advanced materials these days > though) most often its an individual that finds something that the > thundering > herd has either ignored or doesn't know about. Somehow to date AI is more > about the thundering herd (and a technique that when fully utilized will > allow > major chip makers (and some small group of other hardware vendors) to > really cache in the bucks ('Follow the money' is the adage!). Am wondering > if that is the reason for AI's proliferation? > > What say you? > > TIA > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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