[james4beach]

Someone had a really funny interaction with the GPT chat just released on Bing. The bot starts arguing with the person.

One thing you have to remember is that this particular AI technology (GPT) is just a sentence-completer and word predictor. All it does is use all the text it's been trained on to predict the next word in a sequence, so it completes sentences in plausible ways. It doesn't have any intelligence. It doesn't have any smarts; it just does things which impersonates smarts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/110eagl

 

[james4beach]

From govn't side, it is a concern of generating wrong info./posing as the source, when it isn't.

I never had a LinkedIn profile..and I don't intend ever. Too many yahoos playing around.

As I've said before, [some] business people don't really understand technologies and they will misuse this.

The prospect of firing workers and reducing headcounts is just too exciting for business people and corporate owners. So they're going to put GPT into all kinds of dumb places, and it's going to cause all kinds of dumb problems.

 

[james4beach]

Frankly, most people just impersonate intelligence as well.

Very good point. One could also argue that 99% of economic activities don't require much intelligence. Many things that occur in jobs from day to day are actually quite routine and mundane.

Chat-GPT is going to improve. As it is today, it will be able to provide a lot of value in terms of synthesizing information or generating text. I used it to generate a job description recently, and it produced something much better than my recruiter.

No question it can be useful. I agree that it has good uses, I just am hoping that people don't start using it in inappropriate places. Another mistake would be removing the vital step of human review, and just using the output without thinking.

But there's no question that we're about to get a lot more DoorDash delivery people.

There's a public fear of AI becoming sentient and killing all mankind. I suspect that what actually happens will be much less dramatic, but still very harmful to the world: eliminating a ton of jobs and making a lot of people permanently unemployable.

 

[james4beach]

Honestly, being able to write pseudocode and convert it to proper syntax, requiring only code review and testing to verify it is working as expected is a huge step up over most 'self-taught' programmers. I rarely see anyone who does more than google code snippets on stack overflow to copy and paste. They don't bother to comment, rename variables, or even use appropriate whitespace. Chat-GPT writes very readable, well-commented code.

There's a huge industry of "programmers" who only have gone through boot camps or diploma programs. These people will all be wiped out by GPT and CodePilot because as you know, they have very little knowledge and are mainly copying and pasting things from stackoverflow.

There are a huge number of people with these jobs and the jobs pay well! In my US city I knew people like this who were making as much as 80K salaries. They work as front end developers, full stack developers, all kinds of web and IT jobs. Sometimes referred to as code monkeys.

Unfortunately they will be the first to go with this new wave of automation. More DoorDash delivery people.

 

[james4beach]

It's just a matter of time until we get chatbot spammers. They will show up and have very realistic interactions with us (maybe contributing good stuff), build our confidence, and then start spamming us.

Soon we won't even know who's real and who's fake.

 

[james4beach]

I tried chatgpt for the first time yesterday. I was asking about the Apollo moon missions. it got every question I asked wrong for about 15 minutes. I explained the response was wrong, and it kept giving incorrect responses. Not impressed.

Yes, it's not an oracle or anything. You can think of GPT as a database lookup.

It's been trained with information off the internet. When you ask questions, this does a kind of database lookup and the bot starts drawing information out of whatever stored data it finds, relevant to the question asked.

If it happens to find inaccurate data, or contextually incorrect data, then you'll get crappy responses.