For more along these lines see Gary Marcus' latest <https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-got-99-problems-and-twitch>. He must have written it fast and didn't proofread it. It's worth reading nevertheless.
And if you're interested, my long abstract submission to IACAP-2024 <https://pretalx.iacapconf.org/iacap-2024/me/submissions/N388VQ/> has related thoughts. (Scroll down until you get to the link for the actual paper.) -- Russ Abbott Professor Emeritus, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 8:39 AM Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > GPT is dead, long live LLMs! > > The following is a pretty good (IMO) reflection on what GPT is bad (and > good) for. > > https://medium.com/@jordan_gibbs/how-to-not-use-chatgpt-8088ec559681 > > I've been messing with GPT3/4 and Bard for most of a year now and the > honeymoon is definitely over, not that it ever started. > > I like to refer to them as "bar friends" because my expectations of them > fall just about where my expectations of a new bar friend might be. I > don't expect them to be interesting much less informative or useful on any > given topic, but am pleasantly surprised if/when/as they turn out to be any > of the above. > > I rarely take the advice of a "bar friend" at face value, but do find that > they can often bring new perspectives from either their unique personality > or their unique experiences. This is not to say I don't "trust" my > bar-friends, just that I trust them to be who they are, even though I > likely don't *know* who they are. > > I feel I've come to know GPT and Bard well enough to agree with Gibbs > (above) about it's limitations and biases... > > My main use of them seems to have degenerated to A) fancier/easier > interface to web-search; B) Brainstorming on new ideas; C) Burning off my > excess-ideation energy. > > I have also used it effectively to *re* start programming projects which > I've abandoned, bringing me back up to speed on syntax more efficiently > than 1) RTFM; 2) cut-and-try with compile/execute tools. > > Caveats: > > A) I have never been (known to me) fooled by their propensity to "make > shit up"... either I am skeptical enough or already have enough knowledge > that they haven't slipped anything past me, though they have 'tried". Or > maybe they are slicker than I know? > > B) Given that I am pretty loosey-goosey in my own flights of fancy when it > comes to Brainstorming, I don't feel they have ever lead *me* astray. If > *they* could be lead astray, it would be more likely that direction. > > C) Mary (and FriAM and several other friends) don't have to endure *as > much* of my "flying off in all directions at once" > > Coding: Once I've got my sea (C? Java/Python/JavaScript/PS/???) legs back > under me, GPT is only minimally useful (usually to outline an algorithm I'm > familiar with but have forgotten or am too-lazy-to-reconstruct details of) > and generally distracting, creating tangents and dead-ends that I don't > need. > > Of course GPT-5 and/or SteroidBard will roll out some day and I'll either > be re-enamored or so jaded as to not-bother... who knows? > > I'm curious what others here experience with these tools. SG is the only > one I know to be as (or more) engaged than I am, but I suspect a few here > have done some time with these tools from each of your unique perspectives? > > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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