Terence Tao on GPT-4

Re:Terence Tao on GPT-4 by SkyMarshal on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:26AM (#35540252)

> Ironically, Tao's post convinces me that AI, though amazing, isn't really the solution. Better UX and data quality is. Why was the data so disjoint to begin with? Why is Latex so hard to work with?

> In this case GPT-4 is used to solve a problem that shouldn't have even been one to begin with.

Friction. These problems shouldn’t exist, but they do anyway, and they’re everywhere. Anything human is inevitably going to be imperfect and messy to some greater or lesser degree, introducing friction into dealing with it. Especially as we produce more and more unstructured or semi-structured data, which AI is particularly good at wrangling. If AI can help us cut through that friction significantly faster and more accurately, that’s a win.

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Re:Terence Tao on GPT-4 by moffkalast on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:30AM (#35540325)

Let's just hope that someone doesn't task the AGI with eliminating friction and it realizes that humans are the problem.

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Re:Terence Tao on GPT-4 by layer8 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:48AM (#35540648)

Ironically, interacting with ChatGPT still comes with a lot of human-like friction and imperfection.

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Re:Terence Tao on GPT-4 by dwringer on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:57AM (#35541835)

IME most of that is of the form "I'm sorry, but as a large language model I..." and seems to have been drilled into it with training to dodge tricky subjects.

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