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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by lqet on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @10:18AM (#34504618)
> These tools are about as good as a non specialist with time to undertake some bullshitting.

Even if you are right, you still acknowledge that ChatGPT is on the level of a non-specialist bullshitting human you can have a meaningful conversation with. This alone would be enough to freak me out. If you would've told me that this is possible 10 years ago I would've called you crazy.

Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by jvanderbot on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:40AM (#34506030)
Subjectively incredible; objectively questionable.
Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by throwaway675309 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @07:34PM (#34512704)
I know a lot of people are vividly impressed by this but to me "writing in the style of" (Victorian sonnets, poems, hip hop lyrics) is the equivalent of transfer learning and feels more like a cheap parlor trick.

While I wont deny that it has impressive summarization abilities in terms of making excellent Q&A if you're willing to vet the information, I wouldn't exactly say that chatGPT is capable of meaningful conversation. It has great powers of recollection but its capacitive powers to produce new interesting information feels highly formulaic.

Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by hammyhavoc on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @08:19PM (#34513070)
I laughed when I read someone call its output "meaningful".