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by ulrikrasmussen 1264 days ago
I can't help but notice some similarities between GPT and fully self driving vehicles. Both technologies have come a long way and are quite impressive, but not quite there to actually be able to replace humans, and getting the last 10% of edge cases to work seems to require a monumental effort still.
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fckgnad 1264 days ago
Hmm I don't think it will be a monumental effort. chatGPT is simply GPT-3 with more refined training on top of it where it's trained on users hand selecting better answers. This training definitely improved the quality of the answers and truthfulness of the answer above the original.

There needs to be further training on it where users specifically focus on hand selecting truthful answers on questions where chatGPT tends to lie. With further training on this end it's possible to improve the quality of the answer.

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coffeeblack 1264 days ago
It didn’t lie, it got it wrong. That’s a very big difference.
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shusaku 1264 days ago
It's so fun to play with too, which I guess is like owning a self driving vehicle and taking it for a spin. On a practical level though, I think it will have a big impact. For example, I'm watching a movie and I want to know the name of the actor of one character. Usually I'd go to google, scroll through wikipedia, etc. But ChatGPT seems really good at this, and answering all my follow up questions like "what other films are in they in".
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jfk13 1264 days ago
And do you trust its answers to be accurate? I expect they often are, but how will you know when it comes up with a spurious one?
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shusaku 1263 days ago
That's a great question. Of course, the same could be said of random google search results, but I would definitely consider ChatGPT as more unreliable as a baseline.
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jfk13 1263 days ago
> the same could be said of random google search results

Yes, of course it could. But at least with the search results, you can see where they come from, and make a judgement about sources.

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walrus01 1264 days ago
Recently saw a Twitter post from someone whose "full self driving" beta Tesla wants to do 35 mph in the parking lot of their child's daycare facility. These things need a lot more work.
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coffeeblack 1264 days ago
How credible was that claim? Could you post a link to the tweet?
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