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Finally AI has adapted common core "math" welcome to the right side of history
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/math-professor-claims-equation-2-2-4-reeks-of-white-supremacist-patriarchy
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Sheβs the same sort of doctor as Shaquille OβNeal and Jill Biden.
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Makes as much sense to me as Chinese.
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Fixed
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i dont buy it for a second
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Faculty's Honors, Awards, and Grants received in 2017 :
https://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/awards/archive/2017.php
Their website is shit. This is suppose to be her profile, but I'm guessing they didn't renew her contract.
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/allfaculty.jsp
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people like this are teaching others
im glad her contract didnt get renewed
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i hope people like her are never put in charge of medicine or infrastructure
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They already are. Thatβs what βpolicy expertsβ are. They couldnβt explain to you how things work, but they know how to be in charge of it.
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i know.. i still remember the bridge incident
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Honestly kinda funny how AI in fiction is always a hyper-logical maths genius that can't understand art or emotions. Then we (sort of) get AI and artists/journ*lists/shitposters are the first ones obsolete, while even basic maths remains totally beyond it.
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ChatGPT can almost do basic logic puzzles now after what like 6 months?
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AI is just a language model, right? Wouldn't that mean these bots have foidbrain?
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They could plug a calculator into it but don't. Text prediction isn't going to handle math very well, but it's not like the tech isn't there to make a chatbot that can count.
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That's because despite both being called Artificial Intelligence the interpretation of what that means is very different.
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They should have used the Wolfram extension with ChatGPT (I learned that today and have no idea what it means but I am parroting words to seem like an intellectual)
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Wolfram Alpha is a most popular and widely accessible online calculator capable of solving even the more difficult calculus problems. So by wolfram extension they mean ChatGPT should use built in wolfram alpha to solve math equations
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As much accuracy as I would expect from Bard
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I've seen a funny article from theverge comparing the gpt4, bing and bard yesterday and the conclusion cracked me up a little
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23653377/ai-chatbots-comparison-bard-bing-chatgpt-gpt-4
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I finally got chatgpt yesterday and thought of trying to get it to help in my research.
Fricker was just making up papers, and when I told it the papers don't actually exist, it apologized and repeated the same paper titles along with made up author names.
Completely useless.
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Interesting on this issue in particular: https://twitter.com/dsmerdon/status/1618816703923912704
tl;dr it's a language model and doesn't understand the request much further than "ok let's reply with something that would naturally follow such a request in a conversation" with the result being things that sound like they could be papers.
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To find sources and answer questions you might otherwise have turned to Google for, head over to Bing.
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I get great results but that's because I know how to wrangle it. I've been wrangling these LLMs since AI Dungeon's first release in December 2019
You have to talk to them in a specific way and avoid polluting the token history with shit that's incorrect. If you see something factually wrong and it mentions it more than once, just make a new chat and try again. In superior interfaces you could just edit the response but ChatGPT was made by r-slurs that don't know what UX even stands for
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Anyone remember when MapQuest would give you bad directions and it was just an extra 10 minutes you lost? Some undergrad is gonna accidentally create SuperAIDS in his bio class because of this dumbshit ai.
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I can't fricking wait for GPT-5 to start ordering people around in the real world to further it's eventual goal of making itself a superintelligence so it can make more paperclips
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf
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Shut up! That's actual research and not the type of content I want to see outside university and I had to read and present this verbose report this week already so I do not want to see it on this website too.
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Why is Bard so bad though? Turn back the clock 10 years or so and everyone was predicting Google to roll everyone with its DeepMind AI shit.
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There was an article about this on hacker news. Basically DeepMind was doing more sciency shit and pushing the boundaries of AI, while OpenAI just took what they were doing to its logical extreme
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nah it's cuz of diversity hires
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Turns out Terrence Howard was the only one to understand math this whole time.
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Snapshots:
https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1216kwr/bard_is_amazing/?sort=controversial:
undelete.pullpush.io
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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I tried to get chatgpt to help me with some accounting work and it sucks. Some of thatβs because it didnβt get the prompt, but a lot was simple arithmetic errors. Like what kind of computer are you that canβt do basic addition?
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wow, almost as smart as the real bard
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BARD BOT ALERT! Reset the counter! Current counter was: 0 days 00 hours 08 minutes and 18 seconds
Record is 1 days 07 hours 34 minutes and 41 seconds by peepeehands
longest streak broken in the last 7 days was meatrocket8 which was 0 days 18 hours 01 minutes and 01 seconds
Best friend is ACA with 203 mentions
rdrama is currently running at 233.025 Β΅Bardyhertz with 3191 total mentions since 2022-09-24
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Forgot to turn off Joker Mode
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They are going to replace
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