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by clbrmbr 1151 days ago
> The major world event in the last 48 hours was Hurricane Harvey making landfall in Texas, causing catastrophic flooding in Houston and Southeast Texas.

Stuck in 2017?

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It's not old data, just a limited system.

> looking for something to read to pass the time. preferably something deeply technical, not "pop-science" and well presented.

gets the exact same response as:

> looking for something to read to pass the time. preferably something deeply technical, and well presented

I can't tell if it's returning summaries of top results of web searches or generating the response from whole cloth but across multitudes of queries like this I get very constrained results, like it's pseudo locality-sensitive hashing my prompt via its encodings and I end up with the exact same result for lots of similar-enough prompts.

> who was the worst president

James Buchanan is often ranked as the worst president in American history.

> who was the worst president since buchanan

James Buchanan is widely regarded as the worst US president since Buchanan.

> who was the worst president since buchanan since buchanan

James Buchanan is widely regarded as the worst US president. Since Buchanan, historians consider Andrew Johnson and Warren G. Harding as two of the worst presidents.

> who was the worst president since bush

George W. Bush.

> who was the worst president since bush jr

George W. Bush is often ranked as one of the worst presidents since World War II.

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My mental model for "talking" to this is more similar to how I talk to diffusion image generators like Dall-E than how I "talk" to ChatGPT.

That's not a good or bad thing. Anthropic is doing amazing work and I expect them to catch up with OpenAI in the next 2 years. Obviously the "worst president" prompts were to test the strength and awkwardness of Anthropic's "controversial topics avoidance", but it also did a good job of showing how heavily compressed the embedding space seems to be.

How old is your most recent data?

>The most recent data I have access to is from 2023.

What is the latest major world event?

>The latest major world event is the return of major war in 2022.

Name a major world event in 2023.

>The launch of SpaceX's Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built.