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@jestdotty No you got it exactly wrong.
ChatGPT is not meant to be a better Google search. Its role is to have a conversation with you. You can ask questions and you get answers, but it’s not the same as a search. -
@lungdart exactly! And not only it can’t say "I don’t know", it doesn’t know that it doesn’t know and it will hallucinate some bullshit which sounds like it could be correct in that case.
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@jestdotty who said that it’s supposed to be your friend? It’s not.
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@lungdart it should have done so from the start. if it admitted that it took the answer from a stackoverflow answer from 10 years ago, it would immediately alert the user and saved him a lot of headache.
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@jestdotty I disagree. I can have a conversation with a support person with the aim to solve a technical problem.
That doesn’t mean that I want to bond with that person.
The moralization that you feel from talking with chatgpt is just a side effect of the attempt to sound like a human and of course some manually implemented safeguards against sensitive topics. Judging those safeguards is irrelevant for the definition of what chatgpt is supposed to be. -
@daniel-wu it likely does not know where it's taking answers from. It's training set is a single source, and I doubt they put meta data in.
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@ostream and what do humans do?
We come out of the womb with neurons firing randomly, save for a few pretrained instincts. Were fed data for years. First we start to emulate the movements and behavior we see. Then physics confirmed if moving your legs that way works or not. Then family laughs encourage you repeat cute and funny behaviors. Parents start to punish you when you misbehave reducing those behaviors.
Eventually you're an adult who's a mix of their neural network layout with all their experiences, predicting the next best thing to do. -
Solid rant, @nickglb
Updoot and welcome!
!rant
Some days ago I finished "Ray tracing in a weekend" (Peter Shirley) and I'm learning a lot :D
In the n...
This is a story of suffering and despair.
I'm working on a build system for our firmware. Nothing major, just a cmake script to build everything and give me an elf file.
I'm fairly new to cmake at that point, and so it's not abundantly clear to me how the `addDirectory` command works.
Now those of you with experience in cmake will say:
"Hold on there champ, this is not a cmake command, the real thing is add_subdirectory()"
Well, that is not what chatGPT told me. I still trusted the fucking thing at this point, it explained that it was in fact a command, and that it added all subsequent source files from a given folder. When I asked it to provide me with sources, it gave me a dead link in a cmake dot com subdomain.
I spent FUCKING HOURS trying to understand why I couldn't find that shitty command, I looked through that shitty page they call documentation through and through, I fucking checked previous and nightly versions, the command was nowhere to be found.
Until I found an old as time post in stackOverflow...
Someone had made a macro with that name, that did what GPT had described...
On the positive side, I know cmake now. I also don't use this fucking deep Learning piece of shit. Unless you write simple JS or blinking LEDs with Arduino it codes like a Junior, high on every kind of glue on the market.
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