Joe @twitskeptic@qoto.org
Unprofessional data wrangler and Mastodon’s official fact checker. Older and crankier than you are.
Joined Nov 2022
@ndhapple Only a 2% increase for Palo Alto. Quite the egalitarian city ("rents kept in check") according to Pew.
@ndhapple This "analysis" is a joke. If you do the same with San Francisco (take the endpoints) you end up with a 10% *decrease* in prices.
Want to lower rent prices? Restrict housing!
@mmitchell_ai Puff pieces in exchange for access are a 60 minutes tradition. From 2014 with same reporter. https://fair.org/home/another-60-minutes-puff-piece/
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Once again, I'm reminded of how much the billionaire space race has absolutely destroyed my love of rockets.
10 years ago, I definitely would have been paying close attention to the current giant SpaceX launch. But because I know it's going to be used to launch hundreds of unregulated, unsafe, polluting, for-profit Starlink satellites at once, I just can't look.
Instead of being excited and awestruck by a new gigantic rocket launch, it just makes me want to puke.
@tao Didn't work well at all for me for the one (long) paper I tried, most likely due to the small context window - around 3 pages of text for GPT3.5. Not useful now, but perhaps better when GPT-4 is more widely available.
Another jazz legend has passed. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/obituaries/ahmad-jamal-jazz-dead.html
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@mawhrin @mmitchell_ai Exactly. They also assign responsibility to the service providers for generated content which obviously is intended to discourage companies there.
@mmitchell_ai The "no false information" and "true and accurate" provisions pretty much rules out all generative AI models, don't you think?
@ExcelAnalytics No, ChatGPT uses GPT-3.5. You (currently) have to pay $20/month to OpenAI for ChatGPT Plus which will give you GPT-4 access.
@ct_bergstrom Here's another alleged example of common sense reasoning that fails if it just tweak it a bit. Shot:
@glennf Not surprised that a one dimensional newspaper would write about a one dimensional object.
Today's "what could possibly go wrong" quiz comes from one of the items in today's NYTimes' AI puff piece ("35 Ways Real People Are Using A.I. Right Now").
@ct_bergstrom @philipncohen Your job isn't done until you get here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ixabejG0O0
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@philipncohen Of course my reputation is so impeccable that Bard simply melts down, HAL-9000 style, when you ask the same question about me.
@andybaio What’s the official position on this of the pro cooking chicken in NyQuil lobby?
@ct_bergstrom And if you just switch it up a bit (substitute cow for fox) it gives an incorrect answer (since it leaves the cow alone with the corn). There are other examples of this you can discover for yourself if you plan with the examples in the appendix.
@ct_bergstrom I think the answer is clear. If you ask GPT4 how it arrived at the correct answer, it happily tells you that it's already familiar with the puzzle. 4/
@ct_bergstrom This, of course, is a very old riddle where the answer depends on understanding how to avoid predator/prey combinations. One question is: did GPT4 reason about this or did it memorize the answer because it saw it during training? 3/
Unprofessional data wrangler and Mastodon’s official fact checker. Older and crankier than you are.
Joined Nov 2022
