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

John-Reed Maffeo jrmaffeo at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 18:51:39 UTC 2023


+1

On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 1:09 PM Craig Latta <craig at blackpagedigital.com>
wrote:

>
>       Tim writes:
>
>  > 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.
>
>       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:
>
>       https://overcast.fm/+oiPWgxJVM
>
>
> -C
>
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>
>

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John-Reed Maffeo
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