Joe @twitskeptic@qoto.org

@ct_bergstrom Is Steven Pinker an invester? https://blockster.com/best-selling-author-harvard-professor-steven-pinker-will-transform-his-ideas-into-nfts

Just noticed that the NYTimes quietly decided to drop covid stats from the front page about a week ago. Flushed down the memory hole. #COVID

@kjhealy The Grifting Instinct.

@talyarkoni@sigmoid.social @ct_bergstrom Yes, but it also fails on some easier logic problems that a child could answer..

That said, I'm startled by the physical intuition here where GPT4 understands that sliding a hat with a card underneath will change the position of the card.

@ct_bergstrom Finally, GPT4 just kind of loses it.

@ct_bergstrom Exactly. And if you tweak the puzzle a bit, you can see the stochastic parroting in action.

@ct_bergstrom But it's very insecure and quick to change the answer if challenged!

@ct_bergstrom GPT4 gets it right.

@alanboyle Gonna be great to hear those business calls while out on a backpacking trip. And nothing better than gazing up at a night sky polluted by satellite constellations. What a disaster.

@jeffjarvis Yes on FFS. RE his "complicated tax question" - I tried a not terribly complicated tax problem that I had (late filing) and all I got were these useless generalities when there was a specific solution that it missed.

This is the oldest story in the tech world - bad actors privatizing open, cooperative development of new tech for private gain. See Steve Jobs and the Apple origin story. Or Marc Andreesen and web browsers. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/15/23640180/openai-gpt-4-launch-closed-research-ilya-sutskever-interview

@lucianofloridi Worked for me. Are you sure you're running GPT-4 - yours looks like ChatGPT Feb 13 version?

@ct_bergstrom Even though I'll hate myself in the morning, I admit I did shell out $20 for one month of GPT-4. There, I said it.

@philipncohen Times going for market dominance in upper middle class ennui stories.

My first test of GPT-4. Despite the hype, not exactly a math genius.

@luis_in_brief @Riedl https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf

@ct_bergstrom Hey GPT-4, tell me what you know about the data used to train you as well as technical details about the model you are using.

@ct_bergstrom Anyone have any examples of where hand graphing of rational functions is useful in the real world? This wasn't even taught way back when I was in school, yet I went on to study physics as an undergrad, ended up in a STEM career, read a lot of mathy papers/textbooks yet I can't recall a time where my lack of knowledge was a problem.

Probability theory is *so* much more valuable!

While wandering through Y Combinator's list of top companies I stumbled on this very creepy company that claims it will "eliminate crime" with license plate readers everywhere. Good antidote for any tears you may have shed for those poor stressed out SV VCs. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety