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bortvern t1_j9orlhe wrote

People are deriding ChatGPT now saying, "it answers Physics questions like a C- student." Which actually means it answers Physics questions in a way that might earn a human a degree. Something completely unthinkable just a few years ago. And this is February 2023. This is the first of many iterations that will improve and inevitably surpass human abilities in a general way. Remember search in the 90s? It wasn't anywhere near where it is today, and AI is ramping up a lot faster than search did.

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AnakinRagnarsson66 OP t1_j9oyni2 wrote

It’s not impressive tbh. If I google a physics question, I can also get the answer

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bortvern t1_j9qlgx0 wrote

It may not be impressive, unless you consider "how" the answer is derived. When you search Google, you'll receive information that pertains to the question you have asked. Google searches an index of some kind and provides links to the most relevant sites it can find.

When you ask ChatGPT a question, it generates a response by referencing the model that was used to train the algorithm. It is true that it's predicting the next tokens in the sequence, but it also demonstrates at an understanding of the world that search engines do not exhibit. This is why, at this point, large language models are subject to fantasy, they get math wrong a lot of the time, and only get a "C" on some university level physics questions. It is also why, in the near future, they will improve and surpass human abilities on most tasks.

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Nano-Brain t1_j9rc6zf wrote

Not only this, but Google's algorithms rely heavily on humans fixing up their web pages with various tags to help it's algorithm navigate and sort the information into its indice.

ChatGPT works off semantics alone, unlike Google.

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