The 100 million user milestone - ChatGPT.
I like to imagine that ChatGPT isn't real, and it's actually a sweatshop full of really smart people who can type wicked fast.
I like to imagine that ChatGPT isn't real, and it's actually a sweatshop full of really smart people who can type wicked fast.
interesting. It also seems that if could replace Google searches for info.
ChatGPT just crossed the 100 million monthly active user (MAU)
mark.
Mattermorphosis wrote to Ogg <=-
Neat technology. Also slightly terrifying to think where it could be in just a few short years from now. I don't like that it requires a phone number to sign up.. seems unnecessary for a chat bot.
The ability for GPT to spit out functional software code is incredible.
I had a feeling some time ago that this is why MS bought Github, I just never expected it to be so good
Mindsurfer wrote to Ogg <=-
ChatGPT just crossed the 100 million monthly active user (MAU)
mark.
has someone tried those AI tools on ansi logos and ansi graphics yet?
has someone tried those AI tools on ansi logos and ansi graphics yet?
Ya, this is why I appreciate that things like BBS and IRC exist.. here be humans.Indeed!
A good portion of the web is already AI generated, it's pretty easy to spo The articles are often in long-form blog format, they ramble on with lots filler content that adds nothing of substance to the topic, and broken up into multiple sections under subheadings. There is most definitely a patte to it and it makes up a significant percentage of search results these dayTrue, but some humans can go on and on too ;)
I think a lot of recipe websites are using AI now too. I'm sure the qualit of generated content will improve over time but for now it sticks out like sore thumb.It does. I wonder how long it would take before we are going to appreciate the content again :)
cup of water for 48 hours. It was hilarious but also sad (and a little bitThere's always people who take what they read for granted, so it IS dangerous :)
I suppose there is always a chance the bots will destroy themselves :PI don't see Skynet happening anytime soon I think, hehe.
Funny story.. I needed to bleach some white clothes a while backi just watched this video about why Google Search is broken. Quite
and went searching for information on mixing ratios and soak
duration. It was surprisingly difficult to find this most basic information and I kept landing on AI articles. Soak time I was
I tried to generate ascii art with it, but it couldn't produce
anything useful :)
The problem I'm having with it is that any content it generates is
based on what it 'learned' or what it has been fed. The internet
can be/is a cesspool which causes the generated content to be
biased on what it has seen and learned. The problem with that is:
who would police the AI so it's not coming off biased?
Funny story.. I needed to bleach some white clothes a while back and went searching for information on mixing ratios and soak duration. It was surprisingly difficult to find this most basic information and I kept landin on AI articles. Soak time I was finding ranged from 5 minutes to 24 hours, with a number of articles warning that after 30 minutes it would damage the cloth, yet others were suggesting 8, 12, 24 hours or more. This particular topic seemed to completely confuse the AI bots, and I was getting results suggesting, for example, to soak whites in 24 gallons of bleach mixed with 1 cup of water for 48 hours. It was hilarious but also sad (and a little bit dangerous). I think the bots were learning from other bot content and it jus spiraled into total chaos.
Auto-generated webs have destroyed the usefulness of Google. Nowadays I have been experimenting with Searx instances using a combination of
search engines that include mojeek and other smaller projects such as wiby.me. AI generated sites catter to google and bing algorythms so you dodge many of them using other engines.
If it's free, you're the product.
What concerns me is that as lot of people make money creating content on the web. Why pay people to write your web site content when ChatGPT can
do it for free?
That is pretty amazing. Generating text is one thing, code a whole different level.
maybe one day it is more about "parenting" the AI and teach it human values instead of just feeding it information. ..or how to switch it off again :) lol
There are web engines designed to supply only sites that are not overloaded with ads. SInce auto-generated sites are created for an economic incentive, the idea of using these search engines for dodging them is sound.
I went to a conference last year, where the keynote got up and said "I'm sorry I havent had time to write a speech" and then proceed to open his laptop and type instruction to an AI bot.
He typed in "Write me an opening speech ...
It was absolutely amazing on how quick and easy it understood and
delivered what was asked.
On the other hand, every time they've had AIs try and learn from humans, it.
There are web engines designed to supply only sites that are not overloaded with ads. SInce auto-generated sites are created for an economic incentive, the idea of using these search engines for dodging them is sound.
Do you know of an example of an engine that does this?
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Would the next person who entered exactly the same question get
the same speech?
You can set a Searx instance and configure it to use the indexes you
Re: ChatGPT?
By: Ogg to deon on Thu Feb 16 2023 08:43 am
Would the next person who entered exactly the same question get
the same speech?
If I was to make a guess - I would imagine, if you provided *exactly* the sa
You can set a Searx instance and configure it to use the indexes you
Very strange - I first heard of Searx a couple of days ago and not this is l
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If you want to try search engines that use unconventional sorting algorythms, aren't based on Goole/Bing/Yandex, and have a sizeable
index, your only options are Mojeek and Gigablast, I think.
There is an article in this month's Linux Magazine about AIs becoming broken because they are passed botched training material.
The ability for GPT to spit out functional software code is incredible. I had a feeling some time ago that this is why MS bought Github, I just never expected it to be so good
ChatGPT just crossed the 100 million monthly active user (MAU)
mark.
has someone tried those AI tools on ansi logos and ansi graphics yet?
ARELOR (21:2/138) wrote to nolageek <=-Search engines are highly edited. You can find editorial bias. But I am not going to go farther than that.
I think it is just that search engines are becoming less effective and people is trying to savage what they can.
Would the next person who entered exactly the same question get
the same speech?
the web. Why pay people to write your web site content when ChatGPT can
do it for free?
The ability for GPT to spit out functional software code is incredibl I had a feeling some time ago that this is why MS bought Github, I ju never expected it to be so good
HusTler wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I briefly checked out ChatGPT. I was under the impression it is a
paid service. Is the wrong? Is it really free??
The problem I'm having with it is that any content it generates is based on what it 'learned' or what it has been fed. The internet can be/is a cesspool which causes the generated content to be biased on what it has seen and learned. The problem with that is: who would police the AI so it's not coming off biased?
I am not a Luddite, but the way we we are approaching AI right now, and I would question whether this is AI in the way we understand that term, is impetuous.
I am less disturbed by ChatGPT than I am at what has been written about
it.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-engineer-claims-ai-chatb ot-i s-sentient-why-that-matters/
People are losing their minds.
My worst fear is once its all in and normal the standard search engine
will be retired and the AI one with is amazing ability to control the narrative will only let people see and hear thing is knows will steer
minds to a single way of thinking. [...]
It's worse than that. A form of terrorism in the future will be poisoning the data vacuumed up to feed these AIs.
interesting. It also seems that if could replace Google searches for
info.
I'm worried about that.
I'm worried about it because I do a variety of things in my searches to look for specific topics. E.g., keyword searching where I'm looking for very specific things, and absolutely want to know if there's just nothing in the database for what I'm looking for.
But I like the concept of the tool -- I just don't want it anywhere near a search engine, because it's a different tool, good at different things.
I have a feeling that it WILL be the new search engine
interface. We'll just get a box to enter our full-word query
and it will spew out an answer. But perhaps the interface will
have an option to use the traditional form of search results as
well, that is until most (new/young) people only use the
chatgpt version.
claw wrote to All <=-
I will take the tin foil hat off but we are the frog in the pot of
water that is starting to boil. Some of us have jumped out the rest
are just sitting there thinking it fine.
claw wrote to All <=-Someone covered this in another echo/network. ChatGPT was asked to compose a poem about a former head of state. The bot declined on the grounds that the question was political. The question was asked again, asking the bot to compose a poem about the current head of state of the same country. The bot then spit out a very glowing poem of 12-16 lines.
The bot already knows which politicians it wants to discuss and which
ones it does not.
Someone covered this in another echo/network. ChatGPT was asked to compose a poem about a former head of state. The bot declined on the grounds that the question was political. The question was asked again, asking the bot to compose a poem about the current head of state of the same country. The bot then spit out a very glowing poem of 12-16 lines.
The bot already knows which politicians it wants to discuss and which ones it does not.
Several years ago, I tried that with one of the Simpsons phone call
pranks they used with the bartender where they got him to repeat "Hey everybody, I'm a stupid moron with an ugly face and a bit butt, and my butt smells, and I like to kiss my own butt." At the time (a few years ago), the Alexa repeated that back; however, I had tried that more recently, and it just cancelled out after I said "Simon Says" with that phrase.
With respect to Search I hope that we retain the 'classic' search options for years to come
Doesn't Amazon make an Adult rated version of Alexa?
Nightfox wrote to Blue White <=-
That sort of bias in such a piece of software seems odd, but I suppose it's understandable as it was created by people who probably have such bias.
Amazon seems to have done similar things with their Echo (Alexa)
personal assistant, as far as restricting the kinds of things it will say/do. One example: One of the 'skills' I found for it is called
Simon Says - If you say "Alexa, Simon Says .....", it will repeat back what you said. Several years ago, I tried that with one of the
Simpsons phone call pranks they used with the bartender where they got
him to repeat "Hey everybody, I'm a stupid moron with an ugly face and
a bit butt, and my butt smells, and I like to kiss my own butt." At
the time (a few years ago), the Alexa repeated that back; however, I
had tried that more recently, and it just cancelled out after I said "Simon Says" with that phrase.
Adept wrote to Ogg <=-
I'm not worried about new tools; I'm worried about the good aspects of
old tools being lost.
Avon wrote to Blue White <=-
On 20 Feb 2023 at 04:04p, Blue White pondered and said...
claw wrote to All <=-Someone covered this in another echo/network. ChatGPT was asked to compose a poem about a former head of state. The bot declined on the grounds that the question was political. The question was asked again, asking the bot to compose a poem about the current head of state of the same country. The bot then spit out a very glowing poem of 12-16 lines.
The bot already knows which politicians it wants to discuss and which
ones it does not.
I'm not sure it's a case of 'knows' but rather there are predetermined 'guardrails' set that (in some cases) can be subverted rather easily by simply rephrasing the query in a different manner.
With respect to Search I hope that we retain the 'classic' search
options for years to come so that folks wanting to do their own further critical thinking and research on a given subject/topic can still do
so.
Amazon seems to have done similar things with their Echo (Alexa)
personal assistant, as far as restricting the kinds of things it
will say/do. One example: One of the 'skills' I found for it is
called Simon Says - If you say "Alexa, Simon Says .....", it will
repeat back what you said. Several years ago, I tried that with one
of the Simpsons phone call pranks they used with the bartender where
they got him to repeat "Hey everybody, I'm a stupid moron with an
ugly face and a bit butt, and my butt smells, and I like to kiss my
own butt." At the time (a few years ago), the Alexa repeated that
back; however, I had tried that more recently, and it just cancelled
out after I said "Simon Says" with that phrase.
So it will still play Simon Says, just not with that phrase? IIRC, that is from a Halloween episode where they spoof a Twilight Zone episode, with Bart playing the part of Anthony Freeman, the boy that you have to think happy thoughts around... or else. :)
I can remember when the Simpsons first came out. They could be a real lightning rod with people who did not like them, i.e. the ones that did not like them REALLY did not like them.
Nightfox wrote to Blue White <=-
I can remember when the Simpsons first came out. They could be a real lightning rod with people who did not like them, i.e. the ones that did not like them REALLY did not like them.
I was about 9 or 10 years old when The Simpsons came out. Maybe I
didn't catch everyone's reactions, but at least with kids it seemed
like a popular show.
them... often the same ones who didn't like Bevis and Butthead a couple of years later. :)
A friend of mine's wife, c1995, forbade us from watching the Simpsons in "her house." From that point, I never visited them on Thursday nights. :D
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