[LINK] ChatGPT

[Harry McNally]

On 6/2/23 14:05, hamish at moffatt.email wrote:

> On 6/2/23 16:31, David wrote:
>> It seems its' most significant component (and probably OpenAI's major 
>> I.Property investment) is a novel natural-language model and 
>> implementation.  Presumably a front-end component parses a query in an 
>> attempt to locate its linguistic elements and uses that to search the 'net, 
>> and then a back-end converts the results to natural language again for 
>> presentation to the enquirer..
>
> It doesn't access the internet. Everything it knows is from training on an 
> enormous amount of data.
>
I read most, but rarely unlurk, on link and it is set to not return my own posts.

If my post got past filters or moderators yesterday and it offended anyone, I 
apologise.

My attempted point was: It's the dataset, stupid.

AI is already demonstrably poor at facial recognition:

https://www.eff.org/event/facial-recognition-and-coded-bias-online-conversation-eff-coded-bias-team

A woman pushing a bicycle recognition

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54175359

due to incomplete or biased datasets.

Australia hasn't resourced any of our organisations like 
https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/

This morning I tried a different experiment, I:

- navigated to Jimmy Wales' dataset, curated by humans dedicated to excluding 
or driving back the inhumanity from the dataset (thank you, humans)

- entered "Bravais pendulum" because I knew the question I wanted answered 
(thank you, B R-D).

- saw a small number of entries for lattice which I could immediately discount 
as unrelated. But on the right a reference to other sources:

Text from Wikisource
Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) / Systems of the Universe
A conical pendulum was set in motion by Bravais in the same meridian room of 
the observatory and in the same year as the vertical pendulum of Foucault ..
See all results

A donation to the volunteers would be money better spent if we want meaningful 
answers.

But the second point I was attempting was: will new creative ideas come from 
this ? To be fair, I wasn't being original, just borrowing a theme from a 
hugely creative mind that might have written:

Person A: Is my p***s big enough ? Pic attached.

Marvin: <sigh> Brain the size of a planet and they ask me questions about 
life's minutiae.

I will re-lurk now ..

Harry