Chat GPT is a lot like your Uncle Bill. If you ask him something everyone knows about, he’ll probably give you the correct answer. If you ask him something obscure, he’ll just make stuff up. Also, he’s subtly racist. - ThreadSky

drskyskull.bsky.social • 17 hours ago

Chat GPT is a lot like your Uncle Bill. If you ask him something everyone knows about, he’ll probably give you the correct answer. If you ask him something obscure, he’ll just make stuff up.

Also, he’s subtly racist.

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aarroyo.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Garbage in, garbage out.

barleyman5.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Subtly racist?

jjainschigg.bsky.social•17 hours ago

“Something everyone knows about” should be read as including most of world literature in 200+ languages, plus every other topic up to grad school level. Which is cool. My Uncle Bill was president of a university. Who’s yours?

jjainschigg.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It’s true. The model wants to give you an answer that vibes correct and makes you happy, more than it wants to do research, check, and verify facts. But all this is now handled by the scaffolding, which does chain of thought and backchecking etc. …

jjainschigg.bsky.social•17 hours ago

…There are still huge gaps. It can’t read and parse and manage files and freeform text in precise ways. It can’t build its own workflows well. But this is plumbing. So it’ll all happen as fast as monetizable use cases are found to justify building it.

lizardky.bsky.social•17 hours ago

That scaffolding isn’t very sturdy.
https://bsky.app/profile/lizardky.bsky.social/post/3lmkpxvpwa32s

bryceyoungquist.bsky.social•16 hours ago

look, it's only wrong about the things I, personally, know anything about. that's a pretty low miss rate

:)

lizardky.bsky.social•17 hours ago

You ever read Asimov’s short story “Liar”?
A good, if a bit sexist, story about the problem with a robot that will tell you what you want to hear because it’s programmed to make you happy.

drskyskull.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Yes everything that my Uncle Bill can google

captainstringbean.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I understand your point, but I regret to inform you that my uncle Bill's racism is not at all subtle.

davefernig.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Also makes stuff up in relation to stuff everyone knows about, at least on the STEM side.

phyrexianmetamour.bsky.social•16 hours ago

wish chatgpt would make like my uncle bill and kill itself

moewenfels.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I will commit this to memory.
And quote till the end of days.

Because its perfect.

ladydingleberry.bsky.social•16 hours ago

(Uncle Bill is NOT subtle.)

pseudandry.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Also, he's terrible at math and you shouldn't trust him with financial advice.

Actually this really IS like my Uncle Bill

hjr3rd.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Uncle Bill or Cliff Clavin?

alaweka.bsky.social•15 hours ago

used it for a while to sort out my own thoughts and everyone hated on me. it helped for a while but when i shared my suicide note it gave me encouragement. now my already distrustful slant is solidified. i wanted to document the crazy shit but at this point, it would just put me under fire so w/e.

metuiteme.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Glad you're here ❤️

sojaya.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Perfect. Which is why i can ask him specific DIY questions and if i phrase it carefully and check his work, there is a wealth of old school knowledge there.

Unc is not yet future-proof though!

laprofmme.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Or not so subtly, as the case may be

drskyskull.bsky.social•17 hours ago

“Uncle Bill, what is gravity?”

“It’s the force that makes things attract each other.”

“Uncle Bill, what is a fermion?”

“A Fermi is on whatever it wants to be heh heh heh”

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