bitofhope

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Oh absolutely, though among the others listed it doesn't particularly stand out.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 19 points 2 years ago (9 children)

What's going on with the header image? You've got Google Chrome, YouTube and Xitter in one hand, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Brave browser in the other and you're bridging the gap by fusing your index fingers together?

Were it not for the illustrator credit I'd assume it was generated. (No shade intended to Alexandra Francis, I wouldn't want to bring my A-game either if I had to work for this kind of bullshit.)

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

Most email providers already have this feature it's called automatic out-of-office reply.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 30 points 2 years ago

Reading and listening to fans of AI has actually managed to convince me that machine learning algorithms really are better at reasoning than some humans.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 16 points 2 years ago

But I don't want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Took me like five minutes of reading to realize this was neant to be a hit piece and not praise.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 22 points 2 years ago

The phrasing "a bit less racist" suggests a nonzero level of racism in the output, yet the participants also complain about the censorship making the bot refuse to discuss sensitive topics. Sounds like these LLMs can only be boringly racist.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I thought the point of posting your ideas on a public forum was to have people read them.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago

Dunno what you want me to say. Define the vague concept of "good writing"?

The linked study finds that ChatGPT 3.5 and Bard suck at writing comedy. You claim in so many words that this should be obvious (along with a really dubious claim that machines can't tickle people for some reason). I'm also not surprised that these models are terrible at writing comedy, because even at best of times I find their output bland, trite and crudely stripped of anything potentially divisive.

However, lots of people seem to think that LLMs are good at writing related tasks, so I don't think it's inherently obvious that these tools suck at writing comedy in particular.

All these words make this reply much less fun to write.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Define “good at writing”.

I don't want to.

Good comedy is very difficult to attain and none of the models are anywhere near it, including the more recent ones.

I concur.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago (14 children)

I mean they come up to ChatGPT on v3.5 (or Bard lmao) and expect it to write comedy?

Yeah, these things are supposed to be good at writing, aren't they?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago

Any of… what?

Yea I don't think the Turing test is that great for establishing genuine artificial intelligence, but I also maintain that current state of the art doesn't even pass the Turing test to an intellectually honest standard and certainly didn't in the 60s.

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