Arrives like a wet turd hitting the bottom of the bowl at HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40576324
there are some promptfondlers trying valiantly to defend it but most correctly identify the author as a kid who doesn’t know shit.
That was a Calvin and Hobbes comic long before it was a meme.
I’m reading Feynman’s lectures on electromagnetism right now, and GPT-4o can answer questions and help me with the math. I doubt that even a smart high school would be able to do it.
Ten bucks this guy hasn’t double-checked anything his chatbot told him but accepted it as truth because it used big words in grammatically coherent ways.
Electromagnetism is a standard subject covered in a bajillion books, so the training set is probably full of repeated explanations of the basic examples. That sounds like an excellent recipe for “AI” bilge-water that is just coherent enough for a student to miss where it goes wrong.
@dgerard “From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs” wait this dude is wetting his knickers about Out Of Memory errors?
Counterpoint: in Afrikaans (and likely Dutch I guess? Haven’t checked) “oom” is “uncle”
You may now proceed to enjoying this little diversion as much as I do
How people expect AGI before self-driving cars is just ridiculous.
Given the all-consuming desire of Silicon Valley to accelerate us into a mad max style dystopia, the most foreshadowing thing about SF has gotta be all the (human) poop on the sidewalk.
@> By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent
… don’t worry guys AI will totally save us from climate change! /s