[squeak-dev] reviewing ChatGPT's understanding of Smalltalk

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Mon Jan 9 20:46:29 UTC 2023


Hey, maybe I should ask it about my limits problem :-)

> On 2023-01-09, at 12:09 PM, Craig Latta <craig at blackpagedigital.com> wrote:
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>     Tim writes:
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> > Unfortunately I suspect we are going to see a lot of 'content'
> > produced by this system that will be treated as Serious Information To
> > Base Policy On, whilst actually being as valuable as "this bloke down
> > the pub told me..."
> 
>     I think there's a huge market opportunity for signing content and verifying its provenance, in ways which are usable and well-known. We haven't been able to trust mediated experiences for a very long time; now that more is digital, we can use tools to identify those who will vouch for it.
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>     Also, the current stuff being passed off as "AI" is far from it. There's no comprehension or understanding, only glorified brute-force auto-completion, and social engineering via human-written code (backpedaling caveats, mostly). I enjoyed Ezra Klein's recent interview with Gary Marcus about it:
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>     https://overcast.fm/+oiPWgxJVM
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> -C
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tim
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