Comment by jsheard
2 years ago
Reminds me of that study which found that over a sample of 1000 sessions, asking ChatGPT to tell a joke would make it tell one of 25 stock jokes 90% of the time, with the four most common jokes accounting for about half of the results.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/resea...
So better than human performance? If you put me on the spot to tell a joke I can recall maybe 10 good ones, 2 of which are ok for work
But it's not replacing you, it's replacing everyone.
A million different people who needed a question answered or a task performed didn't all ask you, they all asked the million different other people near them. Now a million people all ask the same ai.
And it's performance is actually less than a single humans in the most important way, understanding.
If you ask a single human 1000 times to tell a joke, they will understand that telling the same few jokes they know 1000 times over is not sufficient. They will tell the few they know, and then tbey will find new ones. They are obviously allowed to consult books etc, since the ai was allowed to consult the whole internet.
I don't know why anyone tries to defend these shit ais.
Yeah but there probably aren't billions of dollars riding on your ability to replace the entire entertainment industry with a infinite spout of "original" content. We already have a perfectly good machine for rehashing the same few stories and jokes forever, it's called a dad.
The entertainment industry has been oversaturated and filled with abject garbage for many years now. It's not a loss.
The amount of quality content produced by amateurs as a hobby already exceeds a human's rate of consumption.