Except this isn’t one mistake. Writing buggy code is a mistake. Not catching it in testing, QA, dogfooding or incremental rollouts is a complete institutional failure

I agree 100% with your last point, even as someone who is relatively more skeptical of GPT than the average person.

I think a lot of the concern though is coming from the way the average person is reacting to GPT and the way they’re using it. The issue isn’t that GPT makes mistakes, it’s that people (by their own fault, not GPT necessarily) get a false sense of security from GPT, and since the answers are provided in a concise, well-written format don’t apply the same skepticism they do when searching for something. That’s my experience at least.

Maybe people will just get better at using this, the tools will improve, and it won’t be as big an issue, but it feels like a trend from Facebook to TikTok of people opting for more easily digestible content at the expense of disinformation

Interesting points.

- I wonder what proportion of people who are getting a false sense of security with GPT also were getting that same false sense from human systems. Will this shift entail a net increase in gullibility, or is this just 'laundering' foolishness?

- I think the average tiktok user generally has much better media literacy than average facebook user. But probably depends a lot on your filter bubble.

That’s a good point. I don’t think anyone is denying that GPT will be useful though. I’m more worried that because of commercial reasons and public laziness / ignorance, it’s going to get shoehorned into use cases it’s not meant for and create a lot of misinformation. So a similar problem to search, but amplified

There are some real concerns for a technology like ChatGPT or Bing's version or whatever AI. However, a lot of the criticisms are about the inaccuracy of the model's results. Saying "ChatGPT got this simple math wrong" isn't as useful or meaningful of a criticism when the product isn't being marketed as a calculator or some oracle of truth. It's being marketed as an LLM that you can chat with.

If the majority of criticism was about how it could be abused to spread misinformation or enable manipulation of people at scale, or similar, the pushback on criticism would be less.

It's nonsensical to say that ChatGPT doesn't have value because it gets things wrong. What makes much more sense is to say is that it could be leveraged to harm people, or manipulate them in ways they cannot prevent. Personally, it's more concerning that MS can embed high-value ad spots in responses through this integration, while farming very high-value data from the users, wrt advertising and digital surveillance.

> It's being marketed as an LLM that you can chat with.

... clearly not, right? It isn't just being marketed to those of us who understand what an "LLM" is. It is being marketed to a mainstream audience as "an artificial intelligence that can answer your questions". And often it can! But it also "hallucinates" totally made up BS, and people who are asking it arbitrary questions largely aren't going to have the discernment to tell when that is happening.

When did they say it’s garbage? They gave their opinions on its shortcomings and praised some of the things it excels at. You’re calling the critics too emotional but this reply is incredibly defensive.

Your anecdotes are really cool and a great example of what GPT can do really well. But as a technical person, you’re much more aware of its limitations and what is and isn’t a good prompt for it. But as it is more and more marketed to the public, and with people already clamoring to replace traditional search engines with it, relying on the user to filter out disinformation well and not use it for prompts it struggles with isn’t good enough.

The worst part is the official app, at least on iOS, is a horrible experience. Apollo is so much better even though I don’t love the UI

Interesting, I’ve had the opposite experience, although it was a few years back last time I really tried to get Bluetooth working on Linux.

FWIW my work MacBook has occasional issues with audio cutting out while my personal MacBook almost never has issues.

It's been some time since I have had issues on Linux. I regularly use headphones, mouse, and keyboard with bluetooth, and just today got a bluetooth Wacom tablet. All of it was just pair and go, and if things turn off and back on, they reconnect, sound gets redirected to the most recently connected thing, etc.

I remember it used to be pretty terrible and would break if you looked at it funny. Those days have gone, for me at least.

I’m not sure if VR is or isn’t the future but a lot of people seem to view it as more inevitable than it really is. Just because smartphones took off doesn’t mean VR will.