Chatgpt and the coming downfall
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- drgs19
- Lol!HijoDMaite
- "they take their pixels real seriously"skinny_puppy
- "I love you, but you're not serious pixels."Continuity
- I don't call this a downfall. This shit is on point!milfhunter
- Here we go... I can spot a lame a mile away. chatgpt is a JAR.jonny_quest_lives
- 'a lame'? AI algo ^spotted!Nairn
- Fuck You CANDY!utopian
- OK, I’m finally sold on chatgpt.Krassy
- Krasse, ChatGPT knows:
https://www.qbn.com/…uan - Krassy getting some love...finally!utopian
- Digital Drama fo surefaxion
- on a side note, what's with the ridiculously low-res, horribly anti-aliased type from the 1990s going on here?monospaced
- anyway, it doesn't really seem very cholo style to say "ain't" and "they got all them" or "heck"monospaced
- the complete absence of spanglish slang is an overwhelming omission, and this is coming from someone who grew up in Southern California with cholos as neighborsmonospaced
- lol! i'm deep in the matrix simulationKrassy
- Maybe you're a simulation, but not aware of it yourself? When I talk to you, am I really chatting with ChatGPT?drgs
- sounds like skweezy loldoesnotexist
- SimonFFM18
What ChatGPT told me about QBN:
QBN, short for "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog Network", is a unique platform where designers from all around the world meet, share their work, and engage in casual conversations. However, what makes QBN stand out is the humorous and playful tone that dominates the discussions on the platform.
Designers on QBN often engage in banter and make fun of each other, which may seem strange to those outside the design community. However, this culture of playfulness and friendly teasing is an integral part of the QBN experience. It helps to create a sense of community and fosters relationships between designers that may otherwise be difficult to develop.
- #niceweekpalimpsest
- lol okgrafician
- So, it was supposed to be QBFJOTLDN but this seemed too long and QBN sounded easier.SimonFFM
- +1canoe
- This is not far-fetched.utopian
- Anyone got an invite for this QBFJOTLDN?Continuity
- lolmaquito
- a better tomorrow achievedKrassy
- actually a million x better than the actual Quorporation Broadcast Network._niko
- ^ lol @nikoOBBTKN
- FBT is bullshit, FJOTLD is the real qbn headline :Dsted
- actually all the users on QBN are just personalities inside the head of one deranged maniac living in his mom's basement.sarahfailin
- feel11
I've just used it successfully to write a fairly complicated script for After Effects, it was a lot of back and forward, we changed many processes and functions and ended up on a version that works with keyframes on the text source
But I really had to use a lot of knowledge I had to describe the errors and the routes we should take, its first try didn't really worked
So it's a shift to knowing the right questions instead of knowing the right answers, the thing searches the human knowledge for answers, it only needs the right question.
Even for teaching, it's a shift to have students come up with the right questions and have AI help it dissert a nice answer
I really think it's like the invention of the calculator, and people would get mad if you use a calculator in class, I think it's the same thing happening here but with language and semantics
Really useful, try using it as an all knowing assistant!
- <big ass thumbs up for this, especially for the 2nd and 3rd paragraph.
I can't emphasize enough that the essence lies in how we ask.sted - makes sense when living in the information age... technical and poetic know how and what gives u a aesthetic superiorityneverscared
- We're teaching our students how to use chat gpt. It is frustrating that the training data is so dated, half the inaccuracies I've had in response are due tokingsteven
- outdated information, any time I've used it for code I have to update it on 3 years of versioning. So teaching medical students to use it actually helps themkingsteven
- to learn to sniff out the outdated information from the correct sources.kingsteven
- Calculators are trending again!
: )palimpsest - @ks - do you have any resources that you use for your students, or are you just going through it with them 'mano a mano'?Nairn
- @kingsteven since you're into this here is an advice: build student profiles, train openai with these profiles, you will get results that students will love.sted
- profiles require recorded interviews with the students but i think you're going to figure it out. we're doing this in the past few months, results arested
- exceeding expectations on both sides.sted
- I fundamentally don't understand this if you know the right questions just cut out the middle man and get your answers what is gpt bringing to the table?jonny_quest_lives
- Your burning tokens and the think can hallucinate and just make shit up. It's predictive text generator not search engine.jonny_quest_lives
- Congrats on your script but you sort of admit it was mostly u and not chatgpt. So +1 for humans ;)jonny_quest_lives
- i asked it to write a script what extracts your name from this text, and it was done in a few seconds:
https://i.imgur.com/…sted - cheers sted, i'll look in to that. @Nairn, I the designer pleb am trying to complete pharmacy masters coursework with it ATM and we're taking it from there...kingsteven
- all out attempt to address potential 'cheating' (not a huge concern) and digital literacy requirements. simple stuff like giving the students case studies tokingsteven
- complete where we know chat gpt doesn't have the info (covid19 is an obvious one), writing excel equations to obtain relevant drug trial data from spreadsheetskingsteven
- <big ass thumbs up for this, especially for the 2nd and 3rd paragraph.
- scarabin13
- _niko4
Not sure how it works but it doesn’t seem to scour the internet, it tries to use logic but not super well it seems:
My test for it:
A farmer, a chicken, a dog and a bag of grain are trying to cross a river on a small boat, the farmer only had room for himself and one of either the dog, the chicken or the grain to take with him. He must bring all three across to the other side safely. However he can’t leave the dog alone with the chicken because the dog will eat it and he can’t leave the chicken alone with the grain because the chicken will eat it, what’s the solution?
Chatgpt’s wrong answer:
One solution would be for the farmer to take the chicken across the river first. He can then leave the chicken on the other side of the river and go back to pick up the dog. The farmer can then bring the dog across the river and leave it with the chicken. Finally, the farmer can go back one more time to pick up the bag of grain and bring it across the river to join the chicken and the dog. This way, the chicken is never left alone with the grain and the dog is never left alone with the chicken, so both the chicken and the grain will remain safe.
- I kept asking I to ry again and told it why it was getting it wrong but it could never come to the right conclusion_niko
- What's the answer?shapesalad
- the hint is drop one off pick one up_niko
- yes, but if you take grain across first - you leave he dog with the chicken. If you take the dog, you leave chicken with grain.shapesalad
- if you take chicken.ok, dog and grain left is ok. But, next you got to either take dog or grain and leave it with chicken, so back to no solution.shapesalad
- the trick is drop one and bring one back for a return journey_niko
- amazed shape has never encountered this riddlekingsteven
- ^ to be fair, he may not have a chicken, dog, grain, and/or a river to traverseGnash
- ^lol same. This is 7 year old stuff. The only reason GPT got it wrong is because children that young aren't playing around with it yet.garbage
- In grade school I got in trouble for the solution: "Dog and rice in the boat, and I swim behind the boat with the chicken".garbage
- the drop one, bring one back, still doesn't work. So I take the chicken firstly... now I take the grain, and bring back the chicken. Now i take grain...shapesalad
- ... but fox has eaten my chicken and Putin has torpedo'd my boat. So I'm f*ck any way I go about it.shapesalad
- C'mon shape...Take chicken. Come back for dog. Drop dog bring chicken back. Take grain, leave chicken. Drop grain with dog, go back bring chicken for last trip.ETM
- rzu-rzu4
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- HeheNBQ00
- So, did your go ahead and try it out?palimpsest
- first time in my life I regret I have no kids :(rzu-rzu
- F L O Lpalimpsest
- Sadly, it's really hard to get hold of any asbestos or uranium in the UKIanbolton
- *cough
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- milfhunter2
- usual goggle kiss of death, nothing to see herehans_glib
- Still up more than 20% off it's lows. This is barely a blip.formed
- a blip? they fired thousands of people to cut costs basically for nothing, while losing $144B on a demo errorgrafician
- @formed What grafician is saying. For such a minor mistake its a lot. If Google fucks this up again they might be in bigger troublemilfhunter
- With all the garbage results seen from all AI so far, this kind of failure will be seen as a bump in the road in the long run.CyBrainX
- AI is a tool of convenience and most people will sacrifice any amount of quality to get quicker results.CyBrainX
- mg334
My favorite thing about AI is that now at work we don't have to talk about VR anymore and waste time thinking about content solutions for the Quest or Meta. That stuff is a beating.
- jagara1
I used to write English text for a friend of mine. He has a music studio, and small record label. And whenever he needed liner notes, website content, press releases and so on, I would help him write it, as his English isn't great.
He just launched a new website for the company. The text is written by ChatGPT. Like, all of it. And I don't think anyone will notice.
I mean, I understand. It's convenient. It's free (I never charged him money anyways).
But I can't help but feeling a tiny bit hurt and sad for being unceremoniously replaced by a chat bot. It was an activity I did with my friend, that apparently isn't a thing anymore :)
- yep a client did the same. i tried to get them to use a copywriter, they said "no, we've run our copy through chatgpt and we're fine with it."hans_glib
- most of it was generically ok, tho in places it degenerated into nonsense, so i had to clean it up as best i could for them (not being a writer....)hans_glib
- I gotta say, CGPT did a pretty great job on his site. Sadly :)jagara
- This is the thing about AI, it's taken what we once believed was our sacred flame. And I welcome it for it.palimpsest
- Why do you welcome that?jagara
- Because it can give us insight into how our brains work by taking away the layer of mysticism. It can only help us move forward.palimpsest
- I see your point. I guess I'm sad that I feel replaced and unneeded by a friend.jagara
- Communication patterns are by no means a sacred flame. English by default is an inelegant amalgamation of borrowed phrases through centuries of reductionjonny_quest_lives
- The only thing generative ai has taught me so far is people A) don't want to pay for shit. B) want to sell shit that costs nothing to make . C) A trumps Bjonny_quest_lives
- What language isn't an amalgamation of borrowed phrases through centuries of reduction? North Sentinelese?jagara
- I wasn't the one comparing human communication to a sacred flame...jonny_quest_lives
- Not sure the og poster even believes that... but an LLM fed 5 terabytes of training data won't suddenly spark consciousness.jonny_quest_lives
- Fax_Benson2
- oops, wrong threadFax_Benson
- still a great tune though :-)Ianbolton
- yeah real nice.
stereolab-gaze!woowahesque
- autoflavour2
best use I have seen so far is taking a job application, feeding it into GPT and asking it to write you an application and cover letter using their criteria..
super useful tool considering this tech is about to make everyone unemployed..
also been seeing a lot of tiktoks from neurodivergent people rejoicing as they are used to asking very specific and detailed questions..
- And the more you use it, the less it needs you, and the less your employer needs you. I still don't understand how people don't get this concept.garbage
- But again, people didn't leave Facebook a decade ago when it was an obvious data mine. "You are the product".garbage
- I can't give away too much, but college applications are currently being flooded with GPT generated submissions. There is a counter-test..garbage
- ..that admissions are using, and hi-AI stink will be added to an applicants overall score in the future. Too bad that adding a typo or two..garbage
- ..sentence restructure, or maybe a random hyphen will take a 90% doubt score to a plausible applicant range. Fun stuff.garbage
- I get the concept of it replacing us all.. I guess from my perspective its coming anyway, so lean into it and slack off while you canautoflavour
- also my office is so tech un-savvy, it will take a while before anyone really noticesautoflavour
- By all means, replace us. I only ever chose to do art/design because I need to work to generate money. If I didn't have to I would be experiencing life.ShenanigansTV
- You can't eliminate consumers from the equation. Disney can replace some manual labor, but will still need people to have money to fund them. Capitalism will beShenanigansTV
- replaced with something new. We will get paid a certain $$ and will vote with the $$ and this is what will drive the trajectory of what is importantShenanigansTV
- autoflavour3
literally used it this morning for 1 hour to write 23 different scripts for short videos for work..
normally it would be a day at least to get one script as im no copywriter and it just is the most painful part of what I do
sure they aren't perfect, but 80% there is easy enough to tweak it across the line.
- I think as a tool for organizing thoughts or getting started it's a game-changer. especially for someone with ADHD._niko
- not even that.. write a 1 minute video script in a conversational tone on the benefits of recycling.. BAM.. script doneautoflavour
- It builds the structure and the scaffolding for all the tedious writing tasks and allows you to tweak and fill in the gaps_niko
- Salarrue2
Why Google Missed ChatGPT
The tech giant believes the future of search is conversational. How did it let OpenAI’s ChatGPT take the lead?
- pablo283
ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak - https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-…
- colab3
I spent hours upon hours trying to write a simple shell script that would rename files after converting them to a different format. I wanted it to handle the renaming in a very specific way. Was not having much success searching through google. Now I wish I had gone straight to chatGPT.
I explained in simple terms what the script needed to do, and lo and behold, it worked.
- hans_glib0
just in from a client:
"In my humble opinion. I think the text is up to par and may not require a copywriter. I did run it through the AI."
- Nairn1
Does anyone hav an idiot's guide to starting up ChatGPT?
I'm going to give my partner a nudge whilst she's on holiday for a couple of weeks and get her to check if there are any aspects of her job that this thing might aid her in / replace her in the near future. She's not very tech (at all), so the dumberer, the betterer.
- Starting up? It's not Windows95NBQ00
- really just get a login and star talking to it, you can even ask it for help on how to use it lolfeel
- https://chat.openai.…feel
- Mm, I've played with it a little (I'm not terribly interested in it personally, tbh) - I was just wondering if there was a 'ChatGPT for idiots' sorta guide.Nairn
- K, fuckit, I've just sent her my login. I'm sure I'll get an earful from her later on...Nairn
- Beeswax2
- https://www.qbn.com/…
This comment was made by an AI.palimpsest - lolYakuZoku
- https://www.qbn.com/…
- NBQ001
Thanks for making me feel small, ChatGPT
...Therefore, the time it would take to travel from Earth to Andromeda at 100 km/h is:
2.36 x 10^20 hours / 8,766 hours/year ≈ 2.69 x 10^16 years
This is an extremely long time - over 26 quadrillion years! For comparison, the age of the universe is estimated to be around 13.8 billion years, which is only about 0.000051% of the time it would take to travel from Earth to Andromeda at 100 km/h. It's difficult to even comprehend how long this is on a human timescale.
- Considering the fact that the average life expectancy for the human population in the year 2022 was only 73 years of age.utopian
- Even living for a few thousand years would open the stars for us, we could colonize many local systems in that timegrafician
- I went to Andromeda and with delays it took over 4 seconds. I was very upset. They refunded me 7 things.robthelad
