Technology

It's a shit ouroboros, Randy!

I find those prompts bizarre. If you could just tell it not to make things up, surely that could be added to the built in instructions?

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Like a year ago adding “and don’t be racist” actually made the output less racist 🤷.

In hindsight, I'm really glad that the first time I ever used an LLM it gave me demonstrably false info. That demolished the veneer of trustworthiness pretty quickly.

Idk how anyone searches the internet anymore. Search engines all turn up so I ask an AI. Maybe one out of 20 times it turns up what I'm asking for better than a search engine. The rest of the time it runs me in circles that don't work and wastes hours. So then I go back to the search engine and find what I need buried 20 pages deep.

I legitimately don't understand how someone can interact with an LLM for more than 30 minutes and come away from it thinking that it's some kind of super intelligence or that it can be trusted as a means of gaining knowledge without external verification. Do they just not even consider the possibility that it might not be fully accurate and don't bother to test it out? I asked it all kinds of tough and ambiguous questions the day I got access to ChatGPT and very quickly found inaccuracies, common misconceptions, and popular but ideologically motivated answers. For example, I don't know if this is still like this but if you ask ChatGPT questions about who wrote various books of the Bible, it will give not only the traditional view, but specifically the evangelical Christian view on most versions of these questions. This makes sense because they're extremely prolific writers, but it's simply wrong to reply "Scholars generally believe that the Gospel of Mark was written by a companion of Peter named John Mark" because this view hasn't been favored in academic biblical studies for over 100 years, even though it is traditional. Similarly, asking it questions about early Islamic history gets you the religious views of Ash'ari Sunni Muslims and not the general scholarly consensus.

I have a friend who constantly sends me videos that get her all riled up. Half the time I patiently explain to her why a video is likely AI or faked some other way. "Notice how it never says where it is taking place? Notice how they never give any specific names?" Fortunately she eventually agrees with me but I feel like I'm teaching critical thinking 101. I then think of the really stupid people out there who refuse to listen to reason.

I swear, librarians are the only thing standing between humanity and true greatness!

Am librarian. Here you go

This one is on you. MY copy of the necronomicon firmly sits in my library in the west wing...

Are you sure that's not pre-Python? Maybe one of David Frost's shows like At Last the 1948 Show or The Frost Report.

Marty Feldman (the customer) wasn't one of the Pythons, and the comments on the video suggest that Graham Chapman took on the customer role when the Pythons performed it. (Which, if they did, suggests that Cleese may have written it, in order for him to have been allowed to take it with him.)

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2501:_Average_Familiarity

People who understand the technology forget that normies don't understand the technology.

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Albert Einstein (supposedly)