Just Conmen selling their snake oil
ChatGPT in its PhD thesis defense: “Oh, I’m sorry for the misinformation, let me try this again…”
How many ChatGPhDs will it take to do the math on how long it is until this bubble pops?
Ph.Deez nutz.
I have friends who actually have a Ph.D. It takes many years to get one and an attempt to actually better a field. People tend to trust your opinion on a subject when you have a doctorate in that field.
I can’t even trust ChatGPT to answer a basic question without fucking up and apologizing to me, only to fuck up again.
Maybe stop treating language models like AGI? They’re awesome at recognizing semantic similarities between words and phrases (embeddings) as well as generating arbitrary but reasonable looking output that matches an expected output (structured outputs). That’s cool enough. Stop pretending like it isn’t and falsely advertising it as being able to cure cancer and world hunger, especially when you wouldn’t even be happy if it did.
AI as it sits is a tool that has specific use cases. It is absolutely not intelligence, as it’s commonly marketed. It may seem intelligent to the uninformed, but boy howdy is that a mistake.
It’s a sad reflection of our current state when being able to string together coherent sentences is impressive enough to many as to be confused with truth and/or intelligence.
I could power a data center with the rolling of my eyes after reading this headline.
If I asked a PhD, “How many Bs are there in the word ‘blueberry’?” They’d call an ambulance for my obvious, severe concussion. They wouldn’t answer, “There are three Bs in the word blueberry! I know, it’s super tricky!”
LLMs are fundamentally unsuitable for character counting on account of how they ‘see’ the world - as a sequence of tokens, which can split words in non-intuitive ways.
Regular programs already excel at counting characters in words, and LLMs can be used to generate such programs with ease.
I mean, that doesn’t really mean much, given that you don’t have to be very intelligent to get one. It’s mostly an endurance exercise and often a test how much frustration and uncertainty you can take in your life.
