You see the end of human society. Others see something that can't count backwards from 10.
For now, this thing is a probabilities trick, similar to a Magic Eight Ball toy in function and impressiveness. These conversations are no more indicative of intelligence than "Signs point to yes" is indicative of paranormal activity. Both are clever. How impressed one should be with either, is an exercise entirely left to the reader.
This just isn’t true. The images and text generated by these AI are so much more than some dollar store gimmick. ChatGPT can generate regexes in seconds that take seasoned developers hours. DALL-E can generate images well enough to pass as illustrations in children’s books.
We are well beyond 8-ball territory.
It's a useful tool for boilerplate text auto-population. In the same way as that image AI revolution has currently been harnessed to produce... content aware fill in Photoshop. It's absolutely not an epoch shift in the balance of man vs machine dominance.
People are getting very caught up in the hype.
> This just isn't true. The images and text generated by these AI are so much more than some dollar store gimmick.
Asking ChatGPT and Magic 8 Ball a string of questions are both essentially "just" returning probabilistic walks through canned latent space.
Who on earth is spending hours writing a single regex?
I’ve also used it to create simple Python scripts to automate AWS stuff.
I would definitely pay a monthly subscription for it.
But the root post never once mentioned "intelligence". All that matters is whether the system's output, whether art or prose or a bash script, is good enough to be used. Even "good enough after a skilled human editor goes over it", which seems to be where we are now in art and prose and bash scripting, is more than good enough to fundamentally change global society forever.
The handwringing about the measurably real effects of fake news and algorithmic nudging shows that society actually understands the threat. We've barely even entered the era in which writing becomes free-as-in-beer, and you can already ask ChatGPT to write you limericks about canola oil. Producing high quality N writing about X used to cost a lot of money, and the writer would take a variable amount of time to write it, let alone come up with it, structure it, polish it. It's not about some fear of an AI takeover; AI as a multitool wielded by the unscrupulous is the real threat.
The word "intelligence" is in the term "AI".
>>>These conversations are no more indicative of intelligence than "Signs point to yes" is indicative of paranormal activity. Both are clever. How impressed one should be with either, is an exercise entirely left to the reader.
Whether the AI's output is "indicative of intelligence", or whether the indication of intelligence was at all concerning to the root commenter, isn't the topic at hand. Stupid gotchas aren't actually responses.
You sail right over the point the root commenter makes, and the one I attempt to clarify -- it's not about whether the AI is actually "intelligent", or if it can take over the world, or if it can impress or is pointless or is a Magic Eight Ball: it's about whether its output is "good enough" for purpose. And it is, so it'll be used by those who don't care about things like authenticity or art.
Or authentic engagement with what's being said -- there will soon be the unlimited ability to frustrate people who care about addressing the topic at hand rather than what the bad-faith arguer wants the conversation to become.
Of course, i mostly tested it on things i already knew in depth. So i caught many areas it got subtly wrong. If it could either reduce this error rate or improve understanding of it's own knowledge bounds.. boy, i would use that every day.
It didn't feel alive.. it felt like a calculator, but the best calculator i've ever seen. I was and am immensely excited for the v2 or v3. Also a little afraid.
An accountant with an abacus is better at accounting than one without, but the abacus has no idea what accounting or math are, it can't even count.
This thing is a remarkable abacus for information from The Pile.