All that money that could be spent improving the lives of poor people in need.
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Stop it. Get some help.
That's pathetic
Just a few more bucks bro! I swear then it will be the revolutionary "AI" we promised it to be.
A round of .308 costs like a dollar.
Nah, it's good that they ripped off that bandaid. Parasocial AI relationships are terrible.
Happy cake day!
we definitely need to eradicate tech ceos from existence
You misspelled billionaires.
But not all tech CEO's are billionaires...
Pathetic
It annoys me that Chat GPT flat out lies to you when it doesn’t know the answer, and doesn’t have any system in place to admit it isn’t sure about something. It just makes it up and tells you like it’s fact.
That’s actually one thing that got significantly improved with GPT-5, fewer hallucinations. Still not perfect of course
LLMs don't have any awareness of their internal state, so there's no way for them to see something as a gap of knowledge.
Took me ages to understand this. I'd thought "If an AI doesn't know something, why not just say so?“
The answer is: that wouldn't make sense because an LLM doesn't know ANYTHING
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It doesn‘t know that it doesn‘t know because it doesn‘t actually know anything. Most models are trained on posts from the internet like this one where people rarely ever just chime in to admit they don‘t have an answer anyway. If you don‘t know something you either silently search the web for an answer or ask.
So since users are the ones asking ChatGPT, the LLM mimics the role of a person that knows the answer. It only makes sense AI is a „confidently wrong“ powerhouse.
It's a feature. Not a bug of LLMs.
It doesn't admit anything, it's a language machine
Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting.
It's literally a guess machine ..
It wouldnt finish a lyric for me yesterday because it was copyrighted. I sid it was public domain and it said "You are absolutely right, given its release date it is under copyright protection"
Wtf
yeah, there are guardrails but for copyright, not for bullshit. ig they think copyrighted content is worse than bullshit.
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Eh. Your load of money made a oopsie. Another load of money will surely fix it.
“I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit
It was meant to be satirical at the time, but maybe Futurama wasn't entirely off the mark. That Redditor isn't quite at that level, but it's still probably not healthy to form an emotional attachment to the Markov chain equivalent of a sycophantic yes-man.
Markov chain equivalent of a sycophantic yes-man.
not only that, but one that is fully owned and operated by a business that could change it any time they want, or even cease to exist completely.
This isn’t like a game where you could run your own server if you’re a big enough fan. if chatgpt stops existing in its current form that’s it.
sure but you can absolutely run c.ai instances locally. 4o and it's cross chat memory was probably more useful to these individuals though.
After reading about the ELIZA effect, I both learned how people are super susceptible to this, and just need to remember the core tenants of it to avoid getting affected:
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How about your responsibility for the damaging and lethal product of yours, OpenAI?
"we fucked up our massive new generation product launch.. oh well lets invest trillions in new data centers" How do investors keep falling for this shit.
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Altman also said that he thinks we’re in an AI “bubble.”
No shit, Sherlock.
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Well one thing's for sure, data centers are going to be insanely cheap in the near future.
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