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Scam Altman says it’ll take another year before ChatGPT can start a timer. An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen. (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

well messages are clearly not stateless (otherwise there would be no context), but in general yes the issue is not the lack of capability, it's the complete unawareness of it and the insistence on lying about it.

THIS time it is ridiculously obvious but what if it does this after checking a very large data set where there would be no (good) way to verify its answer?

This is why Ai, in it's current form, is basically useless. If you cannot trust it NOT to lie, and must/should verify everything yourself, you might as well skip the useless step of asking

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    To call AI useless is quite a strong statement.

    There’s a million places to use it!

    The problem is that the market thinks there’s a billion places to use. And right now we’re funding 999 million places that shouldn’t be using AI but have the funding to do that dumb thing so we can figure the one million places where it makes fantastic sense.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I get your point and yes, I was exaggerating for effect but... are there a million places to use Ai where you can blindly trust its output/work?

    I do not really think it's completely useless; however, I do think the uses are very very limited (compared to the hype) and the cost of running these models for the benefit they provide makes them even less practical

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