it all goes back to Douglas Adams, AI will give you an answer, but wont tell
you the question.
For that you need the planet Earth.
On Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 07:31:50 AM PST, Goldman, Adrian
<[email protected]> wrote:
I think it really depends on use case. It’s extremely good at removing english
language mistakes, for instance. But at heart it’s a statistical model, right?
What word is likely to follow ‘what’ in a sentence about ChatGPT, for instance.
Like my last. The likelihood of painterly is very close to zero, but is, word,
token have all got high probabilities. So for things it should be good at - it
really is good.
That doesn’t include facts: the intersection of words with the world.
chatgpt5 does facts slightly better than chatgpt2. I remember asking it for
sonnets and 2 hadn’t got a concept of sonnet - but 3+ do. You’ll get 14 lines
in one of the classic sonnet rhyme patterns in iambic pentameter.
But don’t worry it’s going to take over the world. Sam Altman says so.
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You know the real problem with the enshitification of the internet is legal
liability. If meta, OpenAI, Google, TikTok, x etc had the same legal
liabilities as publishers, they would stop producing and distributing crap
because otherwise they would be sued out of existence.
Adrian
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On 25 Jan 2026, at 16:24, Harry Powell
<[email protected]> wrote:
I read this yesterday -
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal
And this (and similar articles) a while back -
https://grokipediawiki.com/analysis/plagiarism-scandal-investigation/
These don’t inspire me to use either.
Harry
On 25 Jan 2026, at 13:17, Hughes, Jon
<[email protected]> wrote:
hi,
there has been much talk of using AI to write code for us and of it making the
world better. people in this group have their own opinions regarding alphafold,
for example, but at a much simpler level, i just asked chatGTP something about
electrical power generation: his/her/their answer finally included,
""Interpretation per joule: 4–12 €cents per kWh equals 4–12 × 10⁻⁶ € per joule,
since 1 kWh = 3.6 MJ". well, we all make mistakes, right?!
cheers,
jon
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