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Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? by dr_dshiv on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:20AM (#35193845)
Except Watson and Alpha weren’t useful out of the box to everyone. They weren’t the fastest growing app of all time and couldn’t even remotely play that way. ChatGPT isn’t hype because it is so useful — it’s already on the “Plateau of Productivity”.

But it looks like an exponentially steep climb from here. indefinitely

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Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? by photonbeam on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:42AM (#35193988)
They said the same thing about transistor scaling
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Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? by pixl97 on Friday March 17, 2023 @03:21AM (#35194247)
Being that you and I are talking to each other by forming thoughts in meat that us causing other meat to move around tells me that digital thought still has a lot of scaling room ahead of it.

Maybe superintelligence isn't possible for some reason, but the fact we exist should tell you that general intelligence is not magic.

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Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? by swexbe on Friday March 17, 2023 @10:15AM (#35197388)
Your brain is analog. Trying to emulate this with a digital computer is bound to come with some computational cost.
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Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? by Filligree on Friday March 17, 2023 @11:04AM (#35198000)
Good thing we aren’t trying, then. GPT works in a completely different fashion.
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Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? by pixl97 on Friday March 17, 2023 @12:25PM (#35199209)
The world created by human thought has given us such excess means of power production that we have literal gigawatts of electricity we can use in a trade off where it doesn't take us 4 billion years to make efficient circuits.
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