• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Chat GPT, and the many other similar systems, are unable to conceive of something new or original, merely imitate what has already come before.

    Students who use it to write essays are shooting themselves in the foot, because, chances are, they can’t think for themselves either.

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      11 months ago

      Chat GPT, and the many other similar systems, are unable to conceive of something new or original, merely imitate what has already come before

      This. God do i hate that LLMs are called generative ai

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        11 months ago

        They are generative in the sense of generating output, nothing more. With the “intelligence” part of the AI we got a fluke, should’ve called it something else until it gets to the real intelligence level (that is now dubbed AGI)

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      I think of Chat GPT like a sometimes-inaccurate-calculator. There may be some legitimate uses for the technology, but it’s still nice to know how to multiply numbers without it.

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      Chat GPT, and the many other similar systems, are unable to conceive of something new or original, merely imitate what has already come before.

      So it does what grade school teachers expect of their students?

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      Except they can absolutely come up with new things; their responses aren’t just cut and pasted bites of previous text snippets. They are generated based on a neural network’s idea of what the most likely next token is, and tokens are often fragments of words. There’s a reason you can have it do arbitrary things with text- Because it’s doing slightly deeper things than just imitation.

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      11 months ago

      Most people can’t do that and generative AI, no matter how limited is still better than the average shlub.

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      Or you could just learn how to use a tool to do better with instead of bitching about progress. Hur dur calculators can’t do math, they need unique input. No fucking shit Sherlock, lern2technology you fucking boomer.

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        11 months ago

        Was this comment generated by AI?

        I’m sure the prompt was something like “write a response to this comment while sounding like I enjoy eating crayons in my free time.”

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        11 months ago

        My experience with AI, and the absolute fucking dorks that talk endlessly about it, is that neither are capable of original thought.

        It’s not the technology I don’t like, it’s the users.

        Also, why so angery?