ChatGPT: The Future of AI is Here!

[Lightwave]

The future is coming and you can't stop it...

It seems to have a particular strength at programming questions.. I'm asking it some planning legal questions and its not quite detailed enough.

Pity it can't get tricky legal questions out of my life........yet

 

[Jon]

I've read that it will avoid answering legal and financial questions by design.

Yes, the future is coming, and it doesn't bode well for places like Google, StackOverflow and AWF! People will just go straight to the AI and get their answers. Cognitive jobs and creative industries will be decimated. I will have to become a gardener or something.

 

[Lightwave]

I've read that it will avoid answering legal and financial questions by design.

Yes, the future is coming, and it doesn't bode well for places like Google, StackOverflow and AWF! People will just go straight to the AI and get their answers. Cognitive jobs and creative industries will be decimated. I will have to become a gardener or something.

Really difficult to predict what the sum total of the changes will end up as, I can see opportunities as well as dangers. If it makes everyone more productive but doesn't increase inequality I'll take it..

If its any consolation I'll probably be on the bins about the same time your planting up flower beds.

 

[Jon]

If its any consolation I'll probably be on the bins about the same time your planting up flower beds.

Hmm, that made me think...

 

[JonXL]

Who asks the questions? Can we ever get to the point where the question can basically be asked by anyone and an acceptable response come back? Or perhaps follow up questions for clarification?

And then who determines the acceptability of the output? Could an AI ever become good enough to determine the acceptability to a person of the output of another AI? And even if it could, would we want to trust that task to it?

As to that poetry, it could use some work on its meter...

 

[Isaac]

How is good output distinguished from bad?

well for starters (see previous posts on this thread), a vba function that does what it was requested to do

 

[Isaac]

I've read that it will avoid answering legal and financial questions by design.

Yes, the future is coming, and it doesn't bode well for places like Google, StackOverflow and AWF! People will just go straight to the AI and get their answers. Cognitive jobs and creative industries will be decimated. I will have to become a gardener or something.

It's actually a pipe dream of mine to have enough $ to say good bye to my computer screen job in the fake world and go work with my hands.
I would take gardening, if it encompassed a big and diverse enough area.
But my #1 dream would be to have a ranch of beef cattle in a somewhat remote area - Montana, or who knows.
When I was a boy, my Dad didn't have a farm, but allowed us teenage boys to experiment with the concept "a little bit" - over the course of our childhood, we experienced the ownership and care of
- Turkeys
- Chickens
- Pigs
- Beef cows
- Horses
- Turtles
- Rabbits
(and of course a dog and a couple cats were always present).

My favorite was the beef cows. They behaved like enormous, slow, gentle giants. I didn't like having to go outside in 0 degrees and re-locate them from being staked in one grassy area to another, but now I realize what a precious life that was, and how fake the one on the screen is.
Takes time to appreciate the good stuff in life!

 

[The_Doc_Man]

From your description, Jon, this reminds me of a plot from an old Numbers TV show in which a computer was purported to be intelligent, i.e. it would pass the Turing test. It was later revealed to be a super-plagiarist using highly sophisticated methods to find the most common responses to questions that were commonly asked, which it got by doing a web search super-fast based on some REALLY high-speed net searches.

 

[JonXL]

well for starters (see previous posts on this thread), a vba function that does what it was requested to do

Who determines whether "it does what it was requested to do"?

Or thinking a few more levels removed from the scripting itself, if it's asked to build an application, how can it be known whether it actually did as requested?

 

[Jon]

and how fake the one on the screen is. Takes time to appreciate the good stuff in life!

I see it less as fake, and perhaps more as artificial. Maybe that is what you mean anyway. In our DNA we have become accustomed to certain things, like greenery. I believe that is why we like potted plants indoors. It's my own pet theory, at least.

Apparently, certain landscapes have a more positive impact on the brain that others. Can't remember if it was dopamine hits or something similar. The ideal landscape was one of a forrest nearby, a river and some open grass. Each element provides its role in helping the survival of your DNA. For example, forest for safety and shelter, river for fishing and water, open grass for lawnmower job.

 

[Jon]

From your description, Jon, this reminds me of a plot from an old Numbers TV show in which a computer was purported to be intelligent, i.e. it would pass the Turing test. It was later revealed to be a super-plagiarist using highly sophisticated methods to find the most common responses to questions that were commonly asked, which it got by doing a web search super-fast based on some REALLY high-speed net searches.

I think the difference in this new AI is that it constructs things based on neural nets, which is akin to how the human mind works. No one knows for sure how the brain works in detail, but weights applied to neurons seems to be one of the strongest theories.

There is one thing for sure, the internet will be filled with AI generated text. StackOverflow is already getting tons of it, apparently.

 

[Jon]

Who determines whether "it does what it was requested to do"?

Or thinking a few more levels removed from the scripting itself, if it's asked to build an application, how can it be known whether it actually did as requested?

 

[Isaac]

Who determines whether "it does what it was requested to do"?

Or thinking a few more levels removed from the scripting itself, if it's asked to build an application, how can it be known whether it actually did as requested?

Run it and see if it works

 

[The_Doc_Man]

The "Did it do as requested" question is easy enough after the fact if you had specifications for your test. But the real trick is whether it "knows" that it CAN do as requested. That would require delving into computability theory.

 

[JonXL]

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And who is the requestor? The person who asks the AI or the person who asks the person who asks the AI?

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

Ask it;:- What is a woman?

 

[Jon]

 

[AccessBlaster]

I feel like this will be revised with liberal gibberish as soon as they become aware of its existence, similar to Wikipedia.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

I feel like this will be revised with liberal gibberish

I suspect you are correct! Mind you, I sense people are getting fed up with the nonsense.

 

[AccessBlaster]

The CEO of ChatGPT said regarding the cost "it's eye watering" I'm guessing it's not going to be free for much longer.