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Why on gods green earth would I need to use GPT for my HVAC.

Already I can clock a button and set it to what temperature I want and it maintains that.

If I were someone whom got excited at the prospect of my AC being part of a botnet I could even connect it to the wifi and control it from an app on my phone or through a home assistant.

Who wants this? Why is this a thing? Good God you spent so much time wondering if you could you didn't stop to think if you should.

Edit: God this is even worse than I thought "For industrial control, developing high-performance controllers with few samples and low technical debt is appealing." I think that using GPT to run our industrial control systems is like asking dolphins to be in charge of our nuclear reactors. Whoever proposed this should never be allowed to make decisions regarding technology ever.

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The same reason even people who should know better implement all sorts of insane things in Excel. It's the tool available to them that they can find tutorials on using. With GPT it even seems like it's doing work for you.

Obviously anyone who knows anything about control systems immediately has five or six reasons why this is terrible, but in the meantime My First GPT is running lawn mowers from the sketchy discount shop because none of those people even knew how to ask.

Excel is at least capable of basic floating-point arithmetic. From the paper:

As mentioned in Section 3, we round all real numbers to their nearest integer values, based on the assumption that GPT-4 might have difficulty handling real numbers directly. In this section, we perform an ablation study to validate this assumption. The results are presented in Table 5, which demonstrates that using rounded real numbers can indeed enhance the performance of GPT-4, thereby confirming our hypothesis.

I think some methods of ML might be useful for things like HVAC or allow generation of controlling models that would be more cost efficient.

But GPT or LLMs... No. They are not for that.

If the AI can make as good or better decisions, why not use it?

Because GPT is not an «AI»?!

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AI: automation of intelligence.

AGI: implementation of intelligence.

Automation of intelligence (AI): taking a task that required an intelligent entity for performance, we devise algorithms that can provide.

Implementation of intelligence (AGI): we take the process itself of intelligence and replicate it algorithmically.

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An AI solves a problem reliably. An AGI has judgement. The context is not about any of this.

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