I finally found a way to live in the presence of the Lord
Posted on 12/21/2024 7:19:41 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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Dude, you do know that it’s not actually an intelligence right?
You’re not actually talking to anything.
It’s just a computer program that synthesizes info from database along a pre-programmed method of analyzing the prompts to maximize the satisfaction from its results.
(Or something like that)
You do realize GPT answers questions by scanning webpages at very high speed and then presenting what it finds?
This is not intelligence and it’s not even opinion (other than those of the webpages read). It is doing what you could do yourself if you wanted to devote the time to it, which I suppose you do not.
Do you use it?
You're so smart. I wish you had told me before.
Good point
Hey...catch up. It’s called “machine learning”. Don’t be an idiot.
The point is wasting bandwidth.
GPT is best used to answer questions like “what is the load factor on airlines today and should I always expect full flights”?
Or “how many stars are there within 5 light years of Earth”.
You do realize reddit has sub-reddits devoted to organizing participants to create webpage entries that are explicitly wrong, so that GPT will yield wrong answers?
You’re safe from their efforts asking for star counts or the ferry transit time from Juneau to Glacier Bay National Park. Religious questions? Prime targets.
“You’re not actually talking to anything.”
Hey...I talk to the TV and radio a lot.
“Dude, you do know that it’s not actually an intelligence right?”
Ok, maybe that applies.
I’d argue that greatly trivializes what it is doing. It’s simulating individual neurons in our brain and their weights and biases (synapses) between them and the neurotransmission between trillions of other simulated neurons.
The neural network is ‘trained’ with data sets from billions of sources. The result is something that has vast ‘knowledge’ and is unpredictable in how it will cross reference the information and respond to prompts. So it is a form of intelligence. Is it self aware? No. Is it simulating some brain functions? Yes. Is it an ‘if then else’ type program just referencing a database for responses? No.
While the ‘training’ can be biased by providing subjective materials that lean in one direction vs. another, there is no ‘pre-programmed’ response. It is highly unpredictable, even for the creators. It’s output can be ‘shaped’ by prior prompts and context - which makes it an insanely capable tool, especially for technical topics that are less subjective (like politics or religion).
I use it almost every day to assist in various technical tasks, especially those that require written information - processes, specifications, etc., even to challenge technical ideas. It will tell you how you may be wrong. Yes, everything requires human review and validation but it creates content and does analysis faster than any human.
...the technology is accelerating at a frightening pace, going beyond any individual understanding - this is the warning Elon has been arguing, but it is like the race to the A-Bomb....you don’t want to be 2nd - and similarly, nobody knows what the actual outcome will be.
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I didn’t see where the OP claimed it was ‘intelligent’. He/she just seems interested in how it responds and functions.
What is ‘wasting bandwidth’?
I thought we left that behind a long time ago...
Perhaps you are afraid of wasting bandwidth.
That is an interesting exchange. WHile it doesn’t have the capacity to understand what it has presented, I do find it interesting how it could pull all those data points together and create answers like that.
Since God is GOD, can he NOT use this instrument as a tool to inspire people to look more deeply into the word of God?
Well said. That's where I come out.
Though I know it's just a large language model, I am still surprised at times that its responses seem insightful (despite the lack of any intelligence or insight).
Thank you.
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