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by LoSboccacc 2159 days ago
gp3 is an impressive technical feat and the pinnacle of the current line of research

however, if you remove the technical colored glasses and boil down what it is and what it does, it's a regurgitation of existing data that it had been fed, it has no understanding of the data itself beyond linguistic patterns.

it's not going to find correlations where there were none, it's not going to actually discover new data, it will find unexpected correlations between data but there's zero indication whether these correlation bear any significance until a human goes validate the prompt, and it can generate infinite of these, making the discovery of significant new ideas pretty slim.

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And precisely none of what you just said addresses my point.
> The point is that we are getting unintuitive and unexpected results.

> it will find unexpected correlations between data but there's zero indication whether these correlation bear any significance until a human goes validate the prompt, and it can generate infinite of these, making the discovery of significant new ideas pretty slim

seems a pretty direct response tbh