Re:Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
by kortex on Sunday December 04, 2022 @12:39AM
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It's probably downvoted because it's not word salad, not even figurative. Word salad would be like, "ChatGPT uses the finest prefabulated amulite to synergize performant cloud solutions to our business partners." But that's just jargon technobabble. Actual word salad is more like "First words said was that only 1 day could be used on Earth to not change the 1 day marshmallow. So they applied the 1 day and ignored the other 3 days."
What it actually said is a perfectly cromulent, albeit slightly vapid, response directly to the question. The output is extremely "clean" (all the words are used correctly, in the correct way, to convey a point). Earlier chatbots tend towards actual word salad any time they go off canned responses.
Re:Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
by girvo on Sunday December 04, 2022 @12:50AM
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Exactly. It's not word salad, it's pretty bog standard PR speak. Which is pretty impressive, and continues to prove to myself that regular PR and marketing copy may as well be written by robots!
Re:Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
by moffkalast on Sunday December 04, 2022 @06:08AM
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Well can we honestly disagree that marketing people are emotionless robots without a shred of empathy already?
Re:Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
by CGamesPlay on Sunday December 04, 2022 @12:55AM
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It occurs to me that one interesting use case would be a measure of the novelty of an argument, based on how likely the argument is to be produced by one of the large language models. If the model is likely to produce that argument, it isn't novel.
(1) The half of the response is just a rephrase of the original comment. ChatGPT does show this behavior when it can't process the input well. Not really sure if this behavior is intentionally designed.
(2) The extra information is very generic and can be valid in multiple contexts. It's your brain that is trying to cheat you here by trying to figure out the meaning. Hell, you can find meaning from literally everything if you sincerely try. One step back, and it's easy to realize how empty the response is.