Comment by jazzyjackson

4 months ago

That's good. 1 800 chat gpt really let me down today, I like calling it to explain acronyms and define words since I travel with a flip phone without google, today I saw the word "littoral" and tried over and over to spell it out but the model could only give me the definition for "literal" (admittedly a homonym but hence spelling it out, Lima indigo tango tango oscar Romeo alpha Lima, to no avail)

I said "I know you're a robot and bad at spelling but listen..." And got cut off with a "sorry, my guidelines won't let me help with that request..."

Thankfully, the flip phone allows for some satisfaction when hanging up.

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ASalazarMX  4 months ago

> I said "I know you're a robot and bad at spelling but listen..." And got cut off with a "sorry, my guidelines won't let me help with that request..."

For some reason I like when they do that. My fondest memory was chatting with Copilot (when it was called Sydney), challenging it to a game of rock-paper-scissors, asking it to choose first, and winning every round to its increasing astonishment, until it suspected I was cheating and ended the conversation. So smart and so dumb.

BoorishBears  4 months ago

Did you try "literal but with an o"?

  • ASalazarMX  4 months ago

    Even search engines have trouble with that, they assume you're looking for the literal (letter) named "O".

    • BoorishBears  4 months ago

      Sure a search engine might, but this is what LLMs excel at

      I tried it and 1-800-ChatGPT got it immediately. "What's the word that sounds like literal, but then it's spelled with an O in it".

      It asked if I was thinking of littoral (spelled out), I confirmed, and it gave me the meaning

xwolfi  4 months ago

I know this word, it's French and it means coastline, coastal, something at the edge of the land and sea ! We use it in French a lot to describe positively a long coastline. I'm surprised it's used in an English context, but all French words can be used in English I guess if you're a bit "confiant" about it !