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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re conflating “intelligence” with “being smart”.

  Intelligence is more about taking in information and being able to make a decision based on that information. So yeah, automatic traffic lights are “intelligent” because they use a sensor to check for the presence of cars and “decide” when to switch the light.

  Acting like some GPT is on the same level as a traffic light is silly though. On a base level, yes, it “reads” a text prompt (along with any messaging history) and decides what to write next. But that decision it’s making is much more complex than “stop or go”.

  I don’t know if this is an ADHD thing, but when I’m talking to people, sometimes I finish their sentences in my head as they’re talking. Sometimes I nail it, sometimes I don’t. That’s essentially what chatGPT is, a sentence finisher that happened to read a huge amount of text content on the web, so it’s got context for a bunch of things. It doesn’t care if it’s right and it doesn’t look things up before it says something.

  But to have a computer be able to do that at all?? That’s incredible, and it took over 50 years of AI research to hit that point (yes, it’s been a field in universities for a very long time, with most that time people saying it’s impossible), and we only hit it because our computers got powerful enough to do it at scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gonna be a whole generation of artists and musicians who think their art isn't good because of the way algorithms work online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine this commercial/personal art dichotomy has existed ever since the first time someone paid for art. Like how there’s always been folk music played around campfires in contrast to the operas and orchestras where the local lord’s funding goes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, I’m playing DOS2, since that’s been sitting in my steam library for way too long!

  THEN maybe I’ll BG3. If my laptop can handle it…