Good post by David Golumbia on ChatGPT and how miserable it all is :rat-salute-2:

  • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    No it isn’t connected to the internet any longer and it creates novel code for requests in plain English that are extremely specific and niche

    • mittens [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's not connected to the internet but the model was trained (and is constantly re-trained) with shit scrapped from the internet, which makes the distinction meaningless.

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The more specific you get the more wrong it tends to get though, it really starts messing up on the small details.

      • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        And this time last year it was much worse and couldn’t even do the more generic requests. It will continue to refine.

        Remember, automation doesn’t need to be better than humans at coding. It just needs to be good enough to function, and then it will take over because it’s basically free