Altman should release his chat logs

An LLM cannot be anything other than a bullshit machine. It just guesses at what the next word would likely be. And because it’s trained on source data that contains truths as well as non truths, by chance sometimes what comes out is true. But it doesn’t “know” what is true and what isn’t.

No matter what they try to do, this won’t change. And is one of the main reasons the LLM path will never lead to AGI, although parts of what makes up an LLM could possibly be used inside something that gets to the AGI level.

I keep wondering how AI is going to handle being fed poor data from other AI or its own output. It will be like a photocopy of a photocopy. The end result is an unreadable mess.

wtf, I checked out the claim about states with R in their name and it was pretty ridiculous how badly it answered it. It answers like someone running through their thoughts in front of you.

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list all of the US states with R in their name

ChatGPT said: Here’s the full list of U.S. states that have the letter R in their name:

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Illinois

Maryland

Massachusetts

Missouri

Nebraska

North Carolina

North Dakota

Oregon

South Carolina

Texas – (wait… nope, no R here! ❌)

Vermont

Virginia

Washington – (nope, no R either ❌)

West Virginia

Wisconsin – (no R ❌)

Wyoming – (no R ❌)

Let me clean that up so only correct ones remain:

Final Correct List (22 states):

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Maryland

Missouri

Nebraska

North Carolina

North Dakota

Oregon

Vermont

Virginia

West Virginia

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New York

Massachusetts

Connecticut – (wait, no R ❌)

Minnesota – (no R ❌)

Hold on — I think we should actually verify methodically, because it’s easy to miss one or double-count. Do you want me to go alphabetically through all 50 states and pick only the ones with “R” so we’re 100% sure? That way we won’t miss any.

Copilot is free so I tried it out

I use it to write scripts and debug error messages. It takes a good number of cycles though for it to arrive at a working result though. The scripts almost always fail on the first try and require numerous cycles to get through debugging. Once I have a working version though it becomes easier to ask for enhancements to it.

Go ahead and use the tool that works for you. But don’t forget to test your tools on things you know every once in a while.

Ok boomer.