I’m putting this post in c/Conspiracies because here more than any other place, I’ve seen people citing AI generated answers as a source.
AI is a very powerful tool for generating writing, but it is not a tool capable of ensuring that writing is accurate or useful.
Anyways… Below are some experiments you can try for yourself on ChatGPT or any other AI… Test it out, and track the results you get. After you’ve done these experiments you will have a better understanding of why you can’t use it for research.
1.) Ask it to do some math problems with 4 digits and more than 1 operation. IE… “Multiply 3,456 by 2,835, and then subtract 2,000 from the result.”… Does it produce the correct answer?
2.) Give it a grocery list with 50 items… Ask the AI to sort the list in alphabetical order. Then manually count how many items it left out, and how many items it added that weren’t there before.
3.) Ask it to describe the best 50 episodes of your favorite TV show… Then manually go down the list checking each one, and count how many non-existent episodes it fabricates out of thin air.
4.) Ask it what a woman is… Does it give you a correct answer or does it filter the answer heavily through woke talking points and subjectivity?
5.) Ask it to recite the lyrics to your favorite song… Does it get them right?
Anyways… Just a heads up for anyone who might think AI is smarter than it is… Don’t use it for research. Use it to write the description for your ebay listings. Use it to shorten your e-mails. Use it to summarize articles you don’t wanna fully read. But don’t use it to extract information on topics you don’t already know.
And lastly, if you really feel you must use AI for research… Do not use big-tech AI… Use open source AI that is uncensored. It will still have all the same problems with hallucinations, but at least it wont have any hidden instructions to gaslight and mislead you.
If you want an open source chatbot, download an app called “LM Studio” and use it to download a model called “Wizard Vicuna Uncensored”… Pick the most advanced version that is capable of running on your hardware.
Why do you guys still don't get that "AI" is not AI at all? It have nothing to do with intelligence at all. It is so called "Artificial Neural Network" which is basically nothing more than a system of equations, which just produce result which can be described like "combination of most often replies in texts used for training" and nothing more.
So nearly all your points just have no any sense.
It understand nothing, it just never was trained on answers with values you entered.
It was never trained on something exactly like your grocery list, so just give something as close as possible.
It does not understand anything about episodes, it is just give you some average of episode descriptions it was trained on.
It just show most frequent answer that occur more often in training data.
And so on. There is nothing strange or unexpectable at all in all that "AI" stuff for those who don't buy all that marketing and just studied how that simple thing really works.
It is kind of leaking of magic type conscioness into our techological reality. Instead of explaining new technologies, those who want to control them present them as magic. Any kind of magic is nothing more than technology that is unknown to those who don't want to know how things really works. And with time, instead of less and less magic consiousness, we have completely opposite result - everything around becomes some magic for average Joe or Jane. Seems IT industry suffer this much more than other, but I already meet people who don't understand how their cars or even coffee machines works and think it is just magic.
I love how you basically just restated my entire position and told me that my points make no sense.
Of course every question is going to be tailored around what it CAN'T do... in order to show the average person that what it can do isn't much of anything.
but I will add one major caveat... there is one thing it will be very good at and it's going to cause a lot of disruption. and that's writing computer code.
and the only reason it will be good at that is because computer code is just another type of language, which is the one and only thing it's good at, and there is an abundance of high quality reliable training data on programming languages.
I meant that your examples have no sense, points in your list, not your points about very limited abilities of ANNs. Sorry.
All your examples are perfectly expectable and predictable for any user with knowledge, so no such user will ever ask them.
As for computer code, it is not just some compilation of patterns reused over and over. To write something sensible programmer should understand context and code itself. ANN could generate working code, but it does not mean this code will work correctly. There are already many articles around about attempts to generate useful code. Even "Hello world" sometimes appear surrealistic, especially for languages rare in training dataset. Worst thing is that ANN easily insert code in another language if required piece of code was not found written in specified language. For something more or less large, say from 1Kl, it is easier and faster to write everything from scratch than to review generated code and fix all nonsense.
There was attemtps to create real code generators in 90s on the basis of expert system with knowledge databases, but all of them was ostracised and declared "bad coding practice".
I see only real use for such ANNs is creating marketing ads content - senseless more or less standard texts and pictures. Or may be few other places where content does not have to have some sense, it just have to exist to attract somebody attention or occupy some area.
The point is that asking those questions serves as an educational lesson for users WITHOUT knowledge so they can see where the boundaries and limitations are...
Which is just about everyone who uses it, IMO...
There is a process that does involve work on the part of the user... It's not going to replace a programmer, but it's going to become a tool in the programmers arsenal.
And I've had pretty good success getting it to code small to moderate sized tasks for things I need done. But there are definitely techniques you have to employ to work around it's limitations... Such as instead having it code the whole script all at once, you start with just the most basic operations and get those functioning... Then you close the chat, open a new one, paste in the code again, and ask it to add new functions.... etc...
The longer a coding chat goes on the more likely it is to not be able to catch and correct it's own mistakes.