Re:Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT
by abenga on Thursday July 20, 2023 @05:21AM
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Especially with an Idea of how they work, I find it very hard to trust them too. Doesn't help that the couple of times I asked them about something subtle, GPT gave me code with the same bugs I was trying to fix. I can see how a beginner would find it useful though.
Re:Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT
by bregma on Thursday July 20, 2023 @06:27AM
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So it's really just a refinement of Wikipedia, but with custom answers to more explicit questions.
Re:Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT
by doctormanhatten on Thursday July 20, 2023 @07:01AM
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I don't know about you but I trust Wikipedia a lot more than I trust ChatGPT.
Re:Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT
by n6h6 on Thursday July 20, 2023 @09:52AM
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Plus, with Wikipedia, you can clearly see the sources or the lack of them. I tried asking ChatGPT for a source twice. One time, it gave a source. Another time, it gave the "as a language model I can't" spiel.
Re:Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT
by __loam on Thursday July 20, 2023 @01:33PM
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Wikipedia actually has a system for creating knowledge and verifying it, while ChatGPT was trained to convince humans.
Re:Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT
by ModernMech on Thursday July 20, 2023 @08:15AM
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> suffering from hallucinations and are routine liars with a compulsive need to answer confidently even when they know nothing.
Sounds like a description of narcissistic personality disorder or schizoaffective. Of course proto ai would have a personality disorder, go figure.
In the future, the job of an ai psychologist will be to certify the personality of ai products. Gotta make sure you’re not shipping a shrink wrapped psychopath.
This is my hang up with LLMs … I don’t trust them.
Frankly it seems just as easy if not easier to just google keywords and read sites.
Google vs LLM is like asking random people on the internet (some are brilliant, some don’t know anything, some are nuts, … etc.) vs asking random people on the internet but all of them have a history of suffering from hallucinations and are routine liars with a compulsive need to sound confident in what they are saying even when they know nothing.