An underwhelming conversation with ChatGPT

[lindseykuper]

New blog post, in which ChatGPT pisses me off.

Comments

[graydon2]

Yeah I've been using it to teach me stuff and the mode of interaction that seems to emerge is one in which it says somewhat interesting and almost right stuff mixed with nonsense and then I learn by working my way through all the logical inconsistencies and factual errors and correct it. It's like having a weird platonic dialogue where with a well-read person who didn't really get the meaning of what they were reading, and then teaching myself what I wanted to know via interrogation of their remarks and contrast with other material? Idk. It's weird.

[joshua0]

Wait so what *is* choreographic programming? Is there a foundational paper I should read? ChatGPT's description makes it sound suspiciously close to, say, the digital logic programming model of "everything is happening everywhere at once"... and that has piqued my interest.

[ikeepaleopard]

One thing I've had a really hard time understanding, probably because it's kind of arbitrary, is what stuff it knows about—even vaguely or incorrectly. Like, I know it read the entire internet, but presumably part of being a model is dimensionality reduction and e.g. it doesn't know who I am. In particular, I'm surprised that it knows about this area that has some papers about it, but, and correct me if I'm wrong, isn't a big thing