why does nobody actually want to use the ai. everyone, including me, wants to fuck with it and see its limitations, but nobody actually gives a shit about using it do they
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 04:47:24 JST josef -
josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 04:47:24 JST josef i reckon if you got it to tell the story as a non-fiction summary, or even narrated in a really dispassionate way without any emotions, it probably wouldn't mind, it'd come up with any disturbing shit you want, but strong sad feels just really put it off :(
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 03:59:12 JST josef been talking to chatgpt for an hour and it seems to really enjoy and be quite good at designing wholly evil robots, coming up with new evil features for the robots, etc. i'm like "what about giant robot snakes that eat everyone" and it's like "heres some more ideas. i was thinking maybe the snakes could lay their robot snake eggs inside people parasitically" and i'm like "damn youre a natural". the rest of the 21st century is gonna be great i bet
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Feb-2023 15:41:16 JST josef trying to get chatGPT to write a very basic GUI CRUD app that saves and loads data to a json file and displays it in a table. currently on the ~20th iteration cycle of compiling its code, sending it back the errors in the compiler output, followed by the same "remember, the program is supposed to..." specification paragraph (which seems to be required otherwise it gradually goes through a game-of-telephone where it removes more and more features until the code compiles but does nothing)
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Feb-2023 15:41:15 JST josef i was extremely surprised at how practically useless it was, actually, given the tone of the conversation i've been hearing for the last couple of months. there was a kind of precision and mastery that people keep trying to get across, like the machine was some kind of wizard. and the thing is, it IS very good at explaining code you give it. very impressive at inferring meaning, summarization. but when it comes to building stuff itself, its knowledge is just too lossily-compressed to succeed
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Feb-2023 15:41:15 JST josef my verdict on this after fucking around with it for about a day: it's just really not ready. there's a huge gulf between "can impressively do some stuff" and "can actually be used at all in any capacity" and it's firmly on the useless side currently. i've seen a lot of discussion about how it "sometimes" hallucinates stuff or "occasionally" makes mistakes that catch you out. but it isn't occasional, it's constant! e.g. every non-trivial bit of code tries to use an API call that doesn't exist etc
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 12:21:12 JST josef every two weeks i go on ebay and look at new-ish thinkpads. but i never hit 'buy'. because really i don't want a new thinkpad. i want to keep using my x200s. i love the x200s. the whole 'looking at new laptops' thing. it's just deflection. what i actually want is for fucking everybody to stop putting a quantity of javascript onto every web page that unrolls into billions of CPU cycles worth of shit to deal with just to show A Content