• bomberesque1@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I just asked it (3.5) to list counties by what side of the road they drive on and by population

    It got Bangladesh, India and Indonesia wrong and put Pakistan on both lists

    I do think it could be the future of search but it’s obviously got a way to go with regards to error checking if it wants to be

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      1 year ago

      GPT-4 is usually much, much better.

      Also, you have to keep in mind that asking it this way relies on its information storage mechanism inside its neural net, which is really not optimal. For many things, it is better to try get it to generate a program that does the task rather than extract information from it.

      Unfortunately they removed for now its ability to access web page, but at that moment, asking it to check on wikipedia which side of the road you drive in each country would have worked much better.

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      1 year ago

      It’s much more impressive as a tool when you ask it to synthesize new text rather than awnser facts. It can produce a lot of text, either prose or code, that has a useful shape to edit for a final result. It can shift tasks from a generative problem to a editorial one.