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Originally Posted by pseudoreality
Was it any good? My experience with free versions in comparing things, like regulation/legislation across different provinces, has been very poor. It is like a Chinese Room, it can repeat words and generate reports, but it doesn't understand. It cannot point to key differences or do any real analysis/independent thinking.
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I thought it was great, but my use case is probably quite different from yours. I essentially wanted to dive into humanity's general response to new technologies... what can we learn about how we dealt with rail, cars, the printing press, the internet etc and apply it to AI today.
I've been looking for a book on this topic for some time and haven't found too much, so this was a good stopgap. What I ended up getting was something akin to a reasonably decent episode of Radio Lab. I thought it made some great points, but I would doubt any of them are "novel," just new to me.
When's the last time you tried a comparison example? I ask because one thing I've noticed with free versions vs what ChatGPT has done over the past couple months, is online search has vastly improved. I would assume something like this without that advancement would be very similar to what you're describing.
I've almost entirely replaced Googling with ChatGPT now. I realize there's an inherent stupidity to that, but I double check almost everything I look up, and I haven't come across a huge problem yet. Granted, what I'm looking up is extraordinarily low stakes, so even if it was feeding me constant lies, it wouldn't be world-ending. Not sure I'd be dosing medication with it just yet, but for "How much did Bates Battaglia make over the course of his career" it's gold.