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Re:We're All Wrong About AI by corethree on Sunday August 13, 2023 @08:50AM (#37109502)
This is illogical. The popularity surrounding gptx stems from the fact it produces great output for many people. That is the only rational explanation for why it's popular.

One reason that it may not produce good output for you is that you may just be a really smart person. The answers it gives you just seem too stupid to you because you're just so incredibly intelligent that any response it gives seems useless.

Other people like me who aren't as smart as you feel the output is at times relevant and at other times irrelevant. It's not a total waste of time to most of the population as we aren't as smart as you.

In fact smart people like you including the preeminent AI guy Geoffrey Hinton who repopularized AI in the last decade thinks LLMs are trivial in the same way you think of it. Or maybe I'm wrong here. Maybe it's not so clear cut as "total waste of time."

Re:We're All Wrong About AI by mdp2021 on Sunday August 13, 2023 @09:06AM (#37109667)
> feel the output is

We have given you books, we have given you masterpieces...

Re:We're All Wrong About AI by corethree on Sunday August 13, 2023 @09:36AM (#37109928)
I'm not smart enough to figure out how this has anything to do with the topic at hand.

You said LLMs produce absolute rubbish always for you. How does humans creating books or masterpieces have any effect on LLM output?

Apologies for not being smart enough to understand you.

Re:We're All Wrong About AI by mdp2021 on Sunday August 13, 2023 @10:02AM (#37110133)
You want to be "«smart»" (you should: you do not live isolated, you have responsibilities in the community): learn from the Masterpieces. We have given you ways: the Books are there to refine your intellect feeding your natural effort towards growth.

Smarten up and you'll appreciate the real things.

Re:We're All Wrong About AI by corethree on Monday August 14, 2023 @09:44AM (#37120939)
Have you heard of sarcasm?
Re:We're All Wrong About AI by mdp2021 on Monday August 14, 2023 @12:19PM (#37122837)
I have heard of the mandate to "strongest possible interpretation in assumption of good faith" after the guidelines. They made it preferable to take your approach literally instead of referring it to a form of rhetoric which appears of dubious appropriateness here.
Re:We're All Wrong About AI by corethree on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @12:42AM (#37130284)
Your interpretation is correct. No sarcasm in my statements and only a reference to it in my question. This was a genuine question for a point I have yet to make... In which you did not apply your mandate.
Re:We're All Wrong About AI by lostmsu on Sunday August 13, 2023 @12:31PM (#37111444)
It is also possible that they think they understood the answer when they did not.

I got impressed when GPT-4 was able to explain "TVC" from Permutation City.

Re:We're All Wrong About AI by mnd999 on Monday August 14, 2023 @08:25AM (#37120230)
> The popularity surrounding gptx stems from the fact it produces great output for many people.

Popular != Good

Re:We're All Wrong About AI by corethree on Monday August 14, 2023 @09:44AM (#37120928)
So everything that's popular is bad?

That's highly irrational and illogical. You are not thinking properly.

Popular can equal good or bad.

Re:We're All Wrong About AI by mnd999 on Monday August 14, 2023 @11:23AM (#37122092)
You're making my point for me.
Re:We're All Wrong About AI by corethree on Monday August 14, 2023 @11:32PM (#37129849)
I don't think you fully understand your own point.