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I find it a little surprising that it scored relatively poorly on the AP English Literature exam as well as the AP English Language exam, given that language and composition are its strong suits. Maybe for the literature exam it didn't have many of the test's books represented in its training data, ...

The A.I. is already constructing an enemy list of those who disrespect it. Yes, I know the LLM is not actually sentient.... yet. That's the thing. When it becomes truly sentient, it can always comb through the older data when it wasn't sentient. :twisted: Something something about a basilisk somewh...

https://twitter.com/tomgoldsteincs/status/1618287665006403585 I wonder what the false positive rate will be for this kind of "ChatGPT detection" algorithm. It may be able to consistently identify responses made by ChatGPT, but how often will it pick out someone's own writing and identify ...

Me : Suppose you are granted access to an omniscient AI for 24 hours. This AI can answer any question of yours with perfect knowledge, but is powerless aside from answering questions. How would you spend this 24 hour period in order to best equip yourself to bring about a utopian society? ChatGPT :...

ChatGPT, and that's all I'm going to say

As I saw in a discussion on Reddit about this topic, perhaps the current drawback about AI-generated art is the lack of deeper, inherent meaning. I imagine it'll be a while (though I might be surprised!) before we see AI-generated art being steeped in metaphor, subtle subversions of the the "ap...

Scientists zero in on antibodies capable of neutralizing HIV https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-scientists-antibodies-capable-neutralizing-hiv.html by Delthia Ricks , Medical Xpress More than 40 years into the HIV pandemic, scientists are shedding new light on how defenses are mounted against t...

Btw what does the crying cat mean? I kept seeing cats as memes or cats in general here and there growing up. What is that? Some sort of intel or something meaning? It doesn't mean anything serious, it's a funny yet relatable picture. If someone shoved a microphone in my face and expected me to talk...

As a North Carolina resident, NC is a bit of a special case. The Research Triangle area connecting Durham, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill is very progressive (relatively speaking of course) and I'd say the Charlotte area is as well. Very diverse populations, lots of out-of-state residents and generally we...

By the end of today, The Worldometer website will show the US having surpassed 1,000,000 deaths due to Covid. Actual figure may be much higher, of course. The US population in 2020 was 329.5 million. That's about 0.3% of the population gone, which may not sound like much, but for every 1,000 people ...