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Exactly which makes me think the egos are perhaps bruised. Yes obviously it will be wrong but using it you keep that in mind.

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.

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I believe where I disagree with you is the basically "understood" part. I don't think ChatGPT and the current models understand anything at all. Not in a way thats not fundamentally flawed and would require a complete new approach. I am hopeful that it can evolve into an incredible knowledge indexing tool but I am very hard pressed to believe it can do anything other than that at the moment.

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.

Framed differently: what would you (be able to) do, or (be able to) build with an infinite number of “8 year olds” at your disposal?

A lot because I can dispatch them to collect the background knowledge for the next step. I’ve had multiple 8 years olds I’ve raised to be older and even human 8 year olds can be incredibly useful when given instructions. Actually if I remember correctly they were so useful we had to ban child labor?

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