• flo@infosec.pub
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    1 month ago

    barely usable results

    Using chatgpt and copilot has been a huge productivity boost for me, so your comment surprised me. Perhaps its usefulness varies across fields. May I ask what kind of tasks you have tried chatgpt for, where it’s been unhelpful?

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      1 month ago

      Literally anything that requires knowing facts to inform writing. This is something LLMs are incapable of doing right now.

      Just look up how many R’s are in strawberry and see how chat gpt gets it wrong.

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        Okay what the hell is wrong with it

        It took me three times to convince it that there’s 3 r’s in strawberry…

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          Because that’s not how LLMs work.

          When you form a sentence you start with an intent.

          LLMs start with the meaning you gave it, and tries to express something similar to you.

          Notice how intent, and meaning aren’t the same. Fact checking has nothing to do with what a word means. So how can it understand what is true?

          All it did was take the meaning of looking for a number and strawberries and ran it’s best guess from that.