Cipheron on 10/5/2023 at 07:57
Carl Sagan transcript:
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In the vast cosmic tapestry of existence, amidst the grandeur of galaxies and the ethereal dance of celestial bodies, there exists a humble but integral part of our human experience—a part that connects us to the very fabric of the universe. Today, I want to share with you a deeply personal reflection on a most mundane yet profound event: my own personal experience of releasing waste, of defecation.
As I sat upon the porcelain throne, contemplating the mysteries of the cosmos, I marveled at the intricate processes of digestion, the enzymatic ballet orchestrated within the inner sanctums of my body. And there, amidst the ebb and flow of peristaltic waves, the journey of sustenance culminated in the expulsion of a remarkably unique entity.
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https://pastebin.com/LTMs1GFH)
the first iteraction was as a Tom Scott video, it feels pretty on the money:
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https://pastebin.com/DcA3jgPK)
but you can't be sure if that's actually ChatGPT getting it right vs my confirmation bias.
so i generated a bunch with different youtubers and personalities. All of them felt pretty generic or like ChatGPT could have just been guessing what was appropriate based on the topic of the channels. However, as soon as I asked for Carl Sagan, it was clearly a VERY Carl Sagan response.
Sulphur on 10/5/2023 at 08:16
That's honestly the perfect average use case for ChatGPT at this moment, would that it would be limited to merely parodying science personalities well enough to get a chuckle out of me. I guess we'll just have to live with the infinite mountains of weaponised informational trash we designed to internet to deliver to our eyeballs so efficiently instead; though I would think it's about time we started working on popularising tools to deal with that, too.
Cipheron on 11/5/2023 at 22:26
Checking ChatGPT's skill versus a logic puzzle that requires lateral thinking:
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Prompt: Act as an expert puzzle solver Let's say that you have 25 horses, and you want to pick the fastest 3 horses out of those 25. In each race, only 5 horses can run at the same time because there are only 5 tracks. What is the minimum number of races required to find the 3 fastest horses without using a stopwatch? Explain how you would solve it.
To find the three fastest horses among 25 horses using only five tracks and without using a stopwatch, we can follow these steps:
Step 1: Divide the 25 horses into five groups of five horses each. Race 1: Run a race with these five groups, one group per track. Label the groups A, B, C, D, and E. Note down the finishing order for each group.
Step 2: Determine the fastest horse in each group. From the finishing order in Race 1, select the horse that finished first in each group (the winners of each race). We'll label these horses A1, B1, C1, D1, and E1.
Step 3: Run a race with the winners from each group. Race 2: Place the five winning horses from Race 1 (A1, B1, C1, D1, and E1) in a new race. Note down the finishing order.
Step 4: Identify the top two horses in Race 2. From Race 2, the horses that finish first and second will be the two fastest horses overall. We'll label them X1 and X2.
Step 5: Determine the third fastest horse using the remaining horses. We know the horses that finished first and second in Race 2 (X1 and X2). We also have the horses that finished first in each group (A1, B1, C1, D1, and E1). So we need to find the horse that finished second in the group containing either X1 or X2.
Step 6: Run a race with the remaining horses. Race 3: Select the group that contains either X1 or X2 (let's assume it's group A, but it could be any group containing one of the top two horses). Run a race with the remaining four horses in that group (excluding A1). Note down the finishing order.
Step 7: Determine the third fastest horse. From Race 3, the horse that finishes first will be the third fastest horse overall. We'll label this horse Y1.
Finally, we have the three fastest horses: X1 (first place in Race 2), X2 (second place in Race 2), and Y1 (first place in Race 3). This process requires a minimum of three races to determine the three fastest horses among the 25.
... I was impressed when it churned this out really quickly, and it looked convincing at first glance, however, I picked up some errors in its logic.
It says to take the first two horses from Race 2 and those are the two fastest overall. But what it's failed to take into account is that the horse which came 2nd in Race 2 hasn't raced against any of the other horses in the group that had the fastest one - all of those horses might be faster than it. and what it's calling the 2nd fastest might be as low as 6th fastest overall.
This shows that ChatGPT is just spitting out plausible text and hasn't really understood the problem to be solved, or applied logic to solve it.
I could get it to output the accurate results, but only by baby-sitting it and specifying the right answer, and having it mimic me, rather than by explaining the logic and having it understand enough to work it out.
demagogue on 11/5/2023 at 22:35
1 1 was a race horse.
2 2 was 1 2.
1 1 1 1 horse race,
and 2 2 1 1 2.
Cipheron on 12/5/2023 at 01:21
BTW i shared the result on Reddit, and someone claimed I just didn't prompt it correctly, and provided their own version.
Only it completely failed at picking the correct horses needed in the last race, and they didn't bother to check. Which was ironic because i mentioned in the post how it showed the importance of checking the results ChatGPT gives you.
Jason Moyer on 12/5/2023 at 03:37
This might be more insane than the pizza one.
[video=youtube;Geja6NCjgWY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geja6NCjgWY[/video]
Cipheron on 12/5/2023 at 07:12
FreeCiv3D now has an integrated ChatGPT-powered advisor, and some people are saying they're planning to have entire AI-driven opponents. You could imagine the opportunities for diplomacy in that case.
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https://www.fciv.net/)
demagogue on 12/5/2023 at 15:30
Is the advisor actually giving players good advice fit to the situation though? That's really the rub of it.
WingedKagouti on 12/5/2023 at 15:35
Quote Posted by demagogue
Is the advisor actually giving players good advice fit to the situation though? That's really the rub of it.
It probably can't be
worse than the Civ 4-6 Advisors.
demagogue on 12/5/2023 at 16:26
Yeah they're mostly there for color and generic advice. I'm just curious if they might sometimes give catastrophically bad advice because of their wonky reasoning. XD Technically real advisors could do that too though. So I think the real rub is whether they have an authentic voice in giving whatever advice, like the economic advisor talks like an economic advisor and gives the kind of advice they'd give, etc.
