ChatGPT

I'm interested in talking about it because it's here now, it's already having an impact, and the impact of all AI is going to have a massive impact in the near future. My favourite was of dealing with it is to discuss it and think about it to figure out what life will be like, the pros and cons, and how we can best adapt.

It's not inherently evil. Not that you were saying it was. It's more like a knife. An incredibly useful, versatile tool that can be used for harm. Sometimes unwittingly.

I hear ya. And I can see why this would be far more personal for you.

I think they're on a quest to build something useful for humanity. I'm sure they also hate when people use what they've created for nefarious ends. I sure would. But like my knife analogy, it's such a broad tool it's not surprising it could be used for.. less than noble pursuits.

And it has infinite benevolent purposes. Sure, you can use it to plagiarize someone's work, but that's immoral as if you had done it yourself by hand. Since it came out I've used it to learn a new programming language, help me debug code, think up tavern names for a roleplaying game, entertained by daughter, analyzed great works of fiction I haven't found the time to read yet and asked it a hundred specific and inane follow up questions to get a better understanding of it, and I've barely scratched the surface.

I agree that the morality of training it on such a wide swath of work, especially without permission, is a concern.

That's what we do as humans. We take in everything we can find. We read, we watch, we look at images, we listen, and from that we create something new, all heavily coloured by what we've experienced in our lives. I bet the people who created ChatGPT feel like that's what they're doing. Training something to learn like we do, by experiencing the world.

And, to be honest, proof of the lack of moral ethic of people using ChatGPT. It has been trained on this musician's lyrics without his consent. It's an insult to art AND it's outright theft. Even massive artists can't protect their IP. What hope do the rest of us have? Please stop using this bot. It doesn't even have the means to detect if copyrighted information is poured into it 

Oh my no. It writes mostly terrible stories;)

If it never got any better, the creative writers of the world wouldn't have to give it a second thought.

It gets more interesting when you realize how fast it's evolved, and it's accelerating.

And it's main purpose isn't to write stories. In fact, I'm not even sure it has a main purpose.

My wife is watching British baking shows and asked why the British always seem to use self-rising flour. I had no idea so we googled it. No real answer in the top 20 links. ChatGTP, because it has a sense of understanding, knew the answer: it's mostly tradition.

I found that interesting.

taaaylor wrote: This is a really cool* example of ChatGPT being confidently dead wrong. Try using quotes around a word to preserve the spelling so Google doesn't return "self-raising" and "self-rising" as interchangeable spelling variations as they are different types of flour. It's self-raising flour in the UK, and it's used because it contains a very specific ratio of baking soda to flour: https://topwithcinnamon.com/how-to-make-self-raising-flour/ Self-raising flour (a.k.a. self-rising flour in the US) is a common ingredient in English baking recipes, typically used for scones, pancakes and Victoria sponge cakes. It is simply a pre-mixed combination of raising agents and flour so that you don’t need to add baking powder or bicarbonate of soda to your recipe *by cool, I mean not even remotely cool. Don't trust the robot.

Edited by copperdogma - 17 Jan 2023 at 3:49pm