A quick conversation with ChatGPT

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(02-01-2023 11:22 PM)BruceH Wrote:  

(02-01-2023 01:00 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  But honestly, I am a bit bewildered about the apparent hostility and negativity against artificial intelligence shown in this forum.

In 1982 the economist Bernard Avishai wrote "The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them half-way."

ChatGPT is a great piece of research but it's very much only half-way. The hostility, well my own at least, is not against ChatGPT itself but the way it is seemingly being adopted uncritically.

Well said!!

I agree fully with Max, I'm a bit surprised by the jollies folks seem to get denigrating imperfect results (perhaps not knowing their attempts to use are actually improving it...).

But I am bewildered at folks wanting to turn it loose on real world issues, and apparently expecting it to be up to the task. In Max's metaphor, a bit like asking the HP-45 to solve demanding real-time 3D simulations and poo-pooing it for not being able to do it yet. While I guess the key word in there is yet, it's the expectation that's at fault, not the technology.