JP234

Marvin said:

JP234 said:

"GPT-4 also lacks knowledge of events after September 2021 and can't learn from its experiences. However, OpenAI has improved many of GPT-4's safety properties."

So, if it can't learn, and it's around a year and a half out of date, why is it better than a browser? Because it can write a term paper?

Humans don't get hired for jobs based on how good they are at using search engines but based on their ability to write term papers.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/chatgpt-passes-google-coding-interview-for-level-3-engineer-with-183k-salary

Search engines respond to requests with references/links/associations. AI models are knowledge engines that respond with direct responses to inputs.

There's much less of a need for a knowledge engine to be up-to-date because a lot of knowledge doesn't change over time like Mathematics, software development, scientific discoveries, laws of physics.

A few people are skeptical of AI just now because it's new and with new things, people immediately point to flaws and limitations and it gives an excuse to dismiss it. These models are in their infancy and are already able to do amazing things. They are currently consuming every piece of data that exists in the world.

It's fair to say that all they are doing is mirroring the knowledge, skill and creativity of humans and they will only ever be as good as what they are mirroring but when that's combined with a lot of processing power, it can recreate all of what humans do in seconds instead of days/weeks/years and that's good enough to be extremely useful.

jesusfreak said:

Goodness, I hope they do something, because Siri sucks in it's current form.  Half the time or more it just does a glorified Google search or your question and tells you to look at your web page.   Not very convenient when you are multi-tasking.   I want a computer "assistant" that is working on being more like the computer on a Star Ship, not a Google assistant.  ;-)