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Lucky Luciano

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29. Maximum likelihood estimation perhaps.

Sun May 28, 2023, 02:05 AM

May 2023

It might be giving answers that have the highest likelihood of being correct, but the confidence of those guesses is hard to ascertain…hence some rubbish answers that have a wee bit of plausibility.

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College professor had students grade ChatGPT-generated essays. All 63 essays had hallucinated errors [View all] highplainsdem May 2023 OP

They're everywhere. marble falls May 2023 #1

" I'm much more worried about the possibility of us reverting to where AI is." WestMichRad May 2023 #2

In grad school (UCLA), I tutored math in Beverly Hills... Lucky Luciano May 2023 #7

As a fellow math tutor, I commend your technique. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2023 #9

Good Job ProfessorGAC May 2023 #10

I think the difficulty for most of us is in "context switching". When we're interacting with a tool erronis May 2023 #12

The best way to explain the productivity destruction of context switching! Lucky Luciano May 2023 #24

Very nice depiction of the tangled mess we weave. I think a lot of current software erronis May 2023 #32

Did the Wendy's drive-thru, I handed $20 on an $18.60 order and got $7.40 back. Returned it. TheBlackAdder May 2023 #30

The correct change is $1.40. You got $7.40 back. Could the cashier have calculated it on a progree May 2023 #31

The Wendys kid probably thought Danascot May 2023 #34

Hardly surprising. plimsoll May 2023 #3

Kind of reminds me of the old chess computers...... essaynnc May 2023 #11

I think you are right - Garry Kasparov was the Grand Master. And he is now knows a lot about AI. erronis May 2023 #13

prognosticating... oioioi May 2023 #17

The question is: Will be best at what? plimsoll May 2023 #18

ChatGPT is trained on the content of the entire internet. Yavin4 May 2023 #4

Not really. Only linked pages. There's a lot of content that isn't accessed without erronis May 2023 #14

The future of Chat bots won't be trained on available datasets like the internet. Yavin4 May 2023 #19

Agree. And am sure we don't know where this will be going. erronis May 2023 #21

I believe you are correct intrepidity May 2023 #23

Agree, AI has important uses as you describe, radius777 May 2023 #33

The question we need to ask is what GPT will be like thre years from now. speak easy May 2023 #5

They will go proprietary. Yavin4 May 2023 #20

We can regulate proprietary entities speak easy May 2023 #26

You could ask that question on most message boards now. n/t Yavin4 May 2023 #28

OK. Well how about the easiest and most effective way to build a bomb, speak easy May 2023 #39

You can find that information out as well right now. Yavin4 May 2023 #44

Ai can save you time speak easy May 2023 #45

It probably will get better, but it could also stall out on improving accuracy... Silent3 May 2023 #35

AI is useful as a data dump, a starting point bucolic_frolic May 2023 #6

But the other search engines don't know what they haven't been fed either. erronis May 2023 #16

That was a great exercise by that professor Warpy May 2023 #8

Sounds like me. In the 1970s we knew how to generate reasonable gibberish. erronis May 2023 #15

There's a radio station near me where women call in their "mom fails". milestogo May 2023 #22

This level of AI is basically brand new Takket May 2023 #25

Maximum likelihood estimation perhaps. Lucky Luciano May 2023 #29

Children think it is okay just to make things up. speak easy May 2023 #36

This is a machine, not a child. highplainsdem May 2023 #38

It is a model of intelligence that mimics a child. speak easy May 2023 #40

I'm not entirely opposed to AI. But LLM AI by design are likely to highplainsdem May 2023 #41

"LLM AI by design are likely to hallucinate" speak easy May 2023 #43

See this: highplainsdem May 2023 #46

Right. OK - I think we are on the same page. speak easy May 2023 #47

Google highplainsdem May 2023 #37

His students are impressively thoughtful. Thanks for this, HPD Hekate May 2023 #27

You're welcome! I hope his experiment gets a lot of attention. highplainsdem May 2023 #42