Re:GPT-4
by rychco on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @02:37PM
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Completely agree. I've been frequently using ChatGPT to learn new things in my free time. I realize that there's a huge amount of downplay regarding the accuracy of responses, but unless you're asking specifically for verified references or quotes, it does remarkably well in smoothly guiding you towards new keywords/concepts/ideas. Treat it like a map, rather than a full-self-driving tesla, and it's tremendously useful for learning.
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True in some regard, but for me, it also just invented words / phrases that nobody else uses. So "treat with caution" is definitely appropriate.
Re:GPT-4
by nonethewiser on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @03:16PM
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That’s true but I think he’s suggesting it generates ideas which you can then research. You would know that it was hallucinating when you go to research a topic and find nothing. So using it as a discovery tool basically.
Re:GPT-4
by nick47801676 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @02:13AM
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Heavy caution... I tried this with GPT3 on a topic I know well (electric motors) and beyond what you might find in the first page of a search engine it went to hallucination station pretty quickly.
"it does remarkably well in smoothly guiding you towards new keywords/concepts/ideas"
Are you more effective at finding such new keywords/concepts/ideas with ChatGPT's help than without, or is it just that style of learning or its novelty that you prefer?
Re:GPT-4
by eep_social on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:19PM
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> a full-self-driving tesla
Sorry for the derail, but this does not exist and yet this is the second time today I’ve seen it used as a benchmark for what is possible. Would you care to say more?
Seems like a pretty apt analogy. People want to use LLMs like a fully self-driving Tesla, but the "self-driving Tesla" version of LLMs doesn't exist either.
Re:GPT-4
by eep_social on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @11:18PM
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touché, though I doubt the gp meant it that way