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by shusaku 1252 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 1252 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 1251 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 1251 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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