| I disagree entirely. The hype is based entirely on the fact that I can talk (in text) to a machine and it responds like a human. It might sometimes make up stuff, but so do humans. I therefore don't consider that a significant downside, or problem. In the end chatgpt is still ... a baby. The hype builds around the fact that I can run a language model that fits into my graphics cards and responds at faster-than-typing speed, which is sufficient. The hype builds around the fact that it can create and govern whole text based games for me, if I just properly ask it to do so. The hype builds around the fact that I can have this everywhere with me, all day long, whenever I want. It never grows tired, it never stops answering, it never scoffs at me, it never hates me, it never tells me that I'm stupid, it never tells me that I'm not capable of doing something. It always teaches me, always offers me more to learn, it always is willingly helping me, it never intentionally tries to hide the fact that it doesn't know something and never intentionally tries to impress me just to get something from me. Can it get things wrong? Sure! Happens! Happens to everyone. Me, you, your neighbour, parents, teachers, plumbers. Not a single minute did I, or dozens of millions of others, give a single flying fuck about test scores. |