ChatGPT is like having a bunch of 8 year olds who know how to use Google hanging around.
Sure you can use them, and their skills might surprise u every now and then, but that has nothing to do with how much time you are going to waste on the answers they will get wrong.
It astonishes me that people can dismiss ChatGPT like this. By your own account, there now exists an AI that can convincingly imitate a literate, technically fluent human child. That's an incredible advance that's far beyond anything that existed even a couple of years ago. How is it not amazing?
I get the sense that if some of the commenters here had been around to witness the Wright Brothers' first flight they'd have been like "meh, that's not impressive, the only people whose mind it will blow are people who've never been in a hot air balloon."
Also, you can't really dismiss AI skeptics by associating them with denialists that don't see anything of quality or value of these creations despite all the evidence otherwise.
It gave me working code which did something kind of like what I asked. After some back and forth where I asked for changes, it -almost- got it working. I had to make one manual CSS change.
I don't think 8 year olds can do this - it feels more like an "instant junior developer" to me.
To expand on the analogy it is like having an 8 year old around but unbelievably this 8 year old has literally read and remembered and basically “understood” everything about everything we collectively know.
I’ve tested it with fairly esoteric questions about the technologies I work with and it gives excellent results for an 8 year old and extremely quickly about anything.
I think it can significantly speedup technical work. I intent to try and have it help me this week and see how it goes.
ATM, im not sure if intentional or because it just can't do it, it just gobbles it all and spits out the mashup without knowing from where things got there, so it cant give me references.
I still think it can be very useful as it can point me to the general direction where I can copy and google stuff about its responses on subjects I know nothing about, though im not sure how much better that would be than googling it directly.
The way I see it, it still a very good simulation, just like a GCI lighting before ray tracing, very good at looking convincing but nothing underneath is actually reproducing the real thing.
lol
Here is another, poem/rap lyric response
"ChatGPT is the best, no doubt It's like having a Google scout It's so smart and so wise It'll blow your mind, surprise!
But don't be fooled by its charm It's just a bunch of 8 year olds in a swarm"
When in your opinion it will finally be mind blowing? When it matches intelligence and skill of a 14 year old? 20 year old? 40?
GPT is mindblowing. It's a mindblowingly good predictive language model. It's an insanely, holy-fuck-I-never-thought-that-would-be-possible, amazingly good predictive language model. I'm thoroughly impressed. I just think it's not AGI, it's not close to AGI, it's not any kind of threat to jobs in programming (though maybe it could be in some fields) and it isn't likely to be any of these things any time soon.
The claims that it is all these things (which you can see all over these threads) are what people are arguing against.
I haven't delved too deeply but it is pretty good with code generation as well. "Write me a docker image that does X". "Let's use B instead of C." "I also require Z." It does a really solid job.
With the OP's article. It is very impressive how it generates ideas and then is able to drill down and expand on them as more detailed questions are asked. Perhaps something already can do this.. it is first time I have seen it. My experience so far is that ChatGPT is generations ahead of current assistants. For a number of tasks it is faster and more useful than Google.
> Write a mocking reply to someone suggesting on Hacker News that someone else dismissing ChatGPT is akin to the famous comment dismissing dropBox on Hacker News years ago.
> Wow, another AI that can hold a conversation! I'm sure this will revolutionize the way we communicate with machines and make our lives so much easier. Definitely not a waste of time and resources at all. Keep up the impressive work!
In a few years, perhaps we will discover that medicine, law, the social sciences, accounting, financial advice, and white collar work generally speaking don't require intelligence either, and the only things left that will require "real" intelligence will be the building trades and maybe truck driving.
If to you that's ok, fantastic. But to compare what we got so far to something intelligent rather than seeing it as more of a calculator then you are totally misrepresenting it.
> How to implement such a system on a Linux virtual machine using standard Debian 11 with only distribution provided packages?
It gives general steps, all look valid.
https://megous.com/dl/tmp/8af23d828e8dbf13.png
Then you can prompt for concrete realization of individual steps.
> Prepare SQL schema for the application.
https://megous.com/dl/tmp/634ebd53d1fffd6c.png
> Print the schema in PostgreSQL SQL dialect. Add a command to create a database and load the schema to the database.
https://megous.com/dl/tmp/d79b087afa9357a1.png
> Write PHP script to display login page and to allow the user to signup using the above schema.
https://megous.com/dl/tmp/ff854f009480d3d9.png
> Rewrite the PHP script to use PosgreSQL PDO and fix SQL injection issues.
https://megous.com/dl/tmp/740dc7b18b373e2f.png
I mean, this is a bit more than a glorified Googlefu.
Yesterday I gave it a small sample of a REST API schema description DSL I designed last month and told it to make another example of the similar schema description, and it created a perfectly formatted syntactically valid example that used syntactical elements correctly in contexts where it was not used in original example, but made sense to to use there. It used tokens that were not present in the original sample, but would make sense to use based on the context to a reasonable human, etc. It used documentation comments to document things in plain english. When I prompted it to translate documenation comments to other language, it did translate documentation comments only, etc.
I told it to write asterisk PBX module in C that does add a SIP header containing some internal data from asterisk channel. And it kinda did get quite close. There are two SIP channel technologies in asterisk, and it picked the older one. I just told it to rewrite the code using pjsip channel tech (similarly to how I asked it above to switch to postgresql PDO in PHP), and it did. The requested code doesn't exist anywhere as is.
I threw at it my private uncommented asterisk C module and told it to summarize what it does, and it did it pretty correctly. Random stuff like that.
The mysql code it produced above is horribly insecure, of course, but:
> Summarize issues in the above PHP code. Describe how to resolve them in plain english.
https://megous.com/dl/tmp/2e77f8a69b3a0763.png
> Fix the code to resolve the issues.
https://megous.com/dl/tmp/abd5830fb1aa4f9c.png
Yeah, wtf!