Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

I turned this thread into a blog post: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/

Thread continues here: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/109869401190959051

"AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/ai-powered-bing-chat-loses-its-mind-when-fed-ars-technica-article/

Language is a form of virtual reality. If you can manipulate language, you can render worlds inside people’s heads

That’s why large language models are so powerful…they tap into our native programming language

Major news outlets are now being mirrored to the #fediverse by press.coop https://press.coop/directory (see 🧵 for easy to follow list)

Don't have access to Bing+AI, but examples shown seem to indicate that's just Galactica+

Lets see how long it will take till MS has to shut it down (or “modify” it)

Zu den wiederholten Plagiatsfällen in der Causa #Koppetsch gesellt sich eine merkwürdige Fügung. Nicht nur die Professorin selbst scheint offenbar Plagiieren als „alternative“ wissenschaftliche Methode zu sehen. Es gibt Anlass für die Vermutung, dass sie das sogar lehrt. Kleiner Thread, den ich gestern so auch auf der Vogelapp gepostet habe:

Ivory v1.1 is now out on the App Store!

Release Notes:
- Edit Posts
- Report Users and Posts
- Support for Mastodon server language translation services (if your server has them).

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

Write-up by reddit user /u/BlackHatCowboy_ on how to learn about and use filters and custom writers:
http://chulsky.com/pandoc/

After a packed week of #Microsoft and #Google making big releases on the heels of #ChatGPT, Melissa Heikkilä just said out loud what a few people didn't want to hear:

"Technology is not ready to be used like this at this scale. #AI #LanguageModels are notorious bullshitters, often presenting falsehoods as facts. That makes it incredibly dangerous to combine them with #search, where it’s crucial to get the #facts straight."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/14/1068498/why-you-shouldnt-trust-ai-search-engines/

#ArtificialIntelligence via @technologyreview

Microsoft: lol yeah this thing lies or makes stuff up all the damn time but we decided to go live with it anyway, don't trust it, it's a trickster when it's not a dumbass

Right there in the faq, that's... certainly a decision

"Are Bing's AI-generated responses always factual?

Bing aims to base all its responses on reliable sources - but AI can make mistakes, and third party content on the internet may not always be accurate or reliable. Bing will sometimes misrepresent the information it finds, and you may see responses that sound convincing but are incomplete, inaccurate, or inappropriate. Use your own judgment and double check the facts before making decisions or taking action based on Bing's responses."

Wer ist durch den Wegfall der bislang kostenlosen Scientific API von Twitter betroffen?
Ich suche Beispiele für Bericht im DLF, wo dies Einfluss auf die Forschung hat.
#FediCampus #ScienceMastodon

the first lemmatizre for greek inscriptions:

https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.571/

85% accuracy

Bundesräte sollen nur noch am Wochenende beobachten

Bald ist #Fasnacht – und die 163. #Idiotikon-Wortgeschichte handelt saisongerecht von Gebäcken namens Chrapfe, Chruchtela, Öörli und Chnüüblätz (leider hat der Autor aus Platzgründen nicht auch die Rezepte mitliefern können ...):
https://www.idiotikon.ch/wortgeschichten/chruchtele-oerli-chnueblaetz

If the first non-whitespace non-comment thing in an #Inform7 source file is a double-quoted string, the story title is set to that string. If, on the same line as the closing quote, there's a " by " then the story author is set to whatever follows it. The story author may be double-quoted, but doesn't have to be. (If it's single-quoted then literal double-quote characters will be part of the story author value.) There may be a period immediately after the story author.

If anyone is wondering if Bing+GPT is somehow going to be better than Google Bard, remember that both LLM systems will be dependent on the underlying search algorithms.

Here is Bing (prior to GPT integration) doing the wrong thing. Bing search is retrieving articles about how Google summary boxes are wrong and then giving the wrong answer.

Both will have the same failure modes. The only difference is that Google stepped in it first.

Source: https://twitter.com/stilgherrian/status/1623576572015050753