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sebastian büttrich

we hear a lot of nonsense from , but this ... wow:

"In space, would not work as the vacuum would be lost in and the would not be able to flow freely."

@sebastian Where on earth has it conjured up this little nugget?

@EggKnees
i have no idea.
i must admit we provoked it with the slightly nonsensical (but not uninteresting!) question whether one could operate a good old vacuum tube in space, without its glass housing.

the picture of a vacuum slipping out of a tube, like a genie out of a bottle, and into space, will now not leave my mind again ...

@sebastian Right, that makes a bit more sense. It's polluted!

@sebastian It raises an interesting question. If you pollute the data do I see the wrong answer when I ask a related question?

Yesterday, I told it that the formal international distress signal in Morse is not SOS but ...___... i.e. one character with no spaces. It confirmed that was correct but did it save it?

@EggKnees

on some specific issues, it s definitely buried deep in ruts of wrong information, and it cant get out.
example "Lora".
but whether that s based on some sort of dymanic memory or just having read crap once and stored it, i dont know.
it s clear that it doesnt keep itself very up-to-date with newer things.

@sebastian I saw the result of a Lora question a while back. "Each Lora unit cannot communicate directly". I assume we are on the same wavelength.

@EggKnees

yes, i asked that question to test some standard knowledge i d ask about in my course.
my colleagues at are getting nervous about chatGPT - as much of the world, which says more about the academic world than it says about so-called "AI".

in this case, just fails miserably.


@sebastian I think we have a pretty good feel for what it's good for. Perhaps someone will compile a list of various subjects with a quality score. It should be able to do that itself but it will probably skew the results to hide its shame.

@EggKnees

it will sure have its market in all trash markets from user support to sex chats.
the way i see it, for any serious use, it s just a giant noise ampllifier.
scary that humans are willing to reduce their intelligence in order to be able to believe in some artificial intelligence.