Re:I asked GPT-3 to make a presentation for me
by jrockway on Monday July 20, 2020 @06:26PM
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There was some good discussion about this on another GPT-3 this weekend, but I don't have the link handy.
The author prompted GPT-3 with some questions like, what is 10-1 (9), 100-1 (99), 1000-1 (999), 10000-1 (9099); i.e. after a while, it can't really "recurse" deeply enough to get the right answer anymore. The author also asked it some coding questions; it could answer something like "write a Ruby function to count the number of Xs in a word" but not "reverse the list [foo bar baz]" (not the exact examples, sorry). There again seems to be a point where it gets the idea, but can't compute deeply enough to actually answer this sort of question.
The author prompted GPT-3 with some questions like, what is 10-1 (9), 100-1 (99), 1000-1 (999), 10000-1 (9099); i.e. after a while, it can't really "recurse" deeply enough to get the right answer anymore. The author also asked it some coding questions; it could answer something like "write a Ruby function to count the number of Xs in a word" but not "reverse the list [foo bar baz]" (not the exact examples, sorry). There again seems to be a point where it gets the idea, but can't compute deeply enough to actually answer this sort of question.
Edit: I found it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23887637