Could ChatGPT replace Google?

February 12, 2023, 07:53 PM

MelissaDallas

One of our college librarians stopped by a week or so ago because she wanted to tell our Dean about a ChatGPT demo she had just attended and how inaccurate and inconsistent responses had been. Also to discuss that we know students are already using it, and how eventually any use of it will need be disclosed in scholarly research publication disclosures. She was absolutely unimpressed at this stage.

February 12, 2023, 08:10 PM

Pipe Smoker

^^^^^^^
You have no idea how unimpressed I am with the current state of scholarly research, which is both inaccurate and inconsistent. Librarian jobs are endangered by ChatGPT and similar platforms.

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February 12, 2023, 10:04 PM

apprentice

Haven't tried any of it myself yet, honestly I'm paranoid it might get my data pregnant or something when I'm not looking. Could be tomorrow, could be in a decade. Who knows?

That said, these are obviously the early days of what is being called "prompt engineering", and I have a feeling that the tinkerers of today will be glad they didn't get left behind at this point.

Guess I need to figure out how to boil my laptop in a hurry if need be.

February 12, 2023, 10:11 PM

Pipe Smoker

How about this…

Query: C# function to mask the non-public digits of a social security number

public string MaskSSN(string ssn)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(ssn) || ssn.Length < 9)
    {
        return ssn;
    }

    return ssn.Substring(0, 3) + "***-**-" + ssn.Substring(ssn.Length - 4);
}

But I know a helluva lot more about SPITBOL, my ancient, but wonderful, everyday programming language, than ChatGPT does.

February 12, 2023, 11:26 PM

maladat

Nope, similar issue to the first example Bytes posted, has the first three digits plus a hyphen before the masked SSN.

E.g. 123-45-6789 -> 123-***-**-6789

That kind of thing is really outside the primary design goal of ChatGPT, it’s sort of astonishing it even gets that close.

February 13, 2023, 01:25 AM

Rey HRH

quote:
Originally posted by sigfreund:
Back when writers about what a future would be like were focusing on flying cars or even more extreme science fiction-type views, did any of them anticipate anything like the Internet, search engines, or even a glimmer of what AI holds for us?

I’m trying to remember the name of the sci-fi series set on a planet with different semi-warring factions, one of which was an organized military. One specific I recall was that they relied on a computer system to guide their operations until conditions and situations changed so much that it was no longer reliable. Then of course there was Hal in 2001 and the sentient robots in the Asimov stories, but I don’t recall anything exactly like what we have today and how AI could affect our actual future.

Comments? Refresh my memory.

I remember reading a sci fi short story on viruses on the internet except it wasn't called the internet. The viruses were called worms.

Years later, I saw that story referenced as the first story about malware.

Then there's 2001: a space odyssey in 1968 with HAL the computer who was named HAL to be one letter ahead of IBM. "I can't do that, Dave." It was sentient.

There's the Jetsons with a cleaning robot.

There's a movie where a computer was playing a game with a boy, at least, the boy thought it was a game. The computer was actually using actual military assets like ICBMs.

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

February 13, 2023, 10:10 AM

HRK

February 13, 2023, 10:12 AM

ensigmatic

quote:
Originally posted by Rey HRH:
There's a movie where a computer was playing a game with a boy, at least, the boy thought it was a game. The computer was actually using actual military assets like ICBMs.

War Games.

February 13, 2023, 11:26 AM

Johnny 3eagles

February 13, 2023, 12:58 PM

sigcrazy7

Today ChapGPT. Tomorrow we’ll all be worshiping Mr. Skippy Hasurmoney.

February 13, 2023, 05:32 PM

cyberiad

quote:
Originally posted by Skull Leader:
Microsoft is introducing AI to Bing searches.

Check out the below video. They start talking about it at about 33 minutes and start using it at about 40 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/live/A...np5yms?feature=share

I was impressed by it.

Don't be too impressed yet https://dkb.blog/p/bing-ai-cant-be-trusted

February 13, 2023, 06:39 PM

Skins2881

Tim Pool seems to be having fun with a jail broke version of chatgpt.

February 15, 2023, 05:38 PM

Skull Leader

I guess Bing Chat has started threatening people.

February 15, 2023, 05:51 PM

BB61

quote:
Originally posted by Skins2881:
There once was a man named Parabellum,
His aim was both quick and temerarious,
With a gun in his hand,
He'd make his stand,
And fire off rounds that were vigorous!

^^^^

This was pretty good and accurate.

However, there is a liberal bias in the matrix that is fairly well documented.