How much of AI's recent success is due to the Forer Effect?(shkspr.mobi)
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How much of AI's recent success is due to the Forer Effect?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/how-much-of-ais-recent-success-is-due-to-the-forer-effect/
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I doubt ChatGPT would say "Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic." about me as there isn't much online to support that and I would consider it more false than true. Comparing GPT to a psychic swindler doesn't advance understanding or discussion in an enlightening way, unless we mean to say that the providers of said AIs are the psychics.
I've asked chatgpt to write several poems and songs, and there are definitely a lot of general lines included. However, the content of those poems and songs is not what's most interesting to me. What's more interesting is that chatgpt can produce coherent rhymes, reproduce the 'style' of Eminem, or stick to the rigid structure of a haiku while giving even general lines. That's honestly still better than most people who write poems or songs can do. Also, if we move away from artistic content generation and into code generation, then it's harder to say that working code is just a Forer statement.
I'm happy to explain again what makes me so tremendously excited:
It's the first time ever I talk to a system and it does something useful.
If it's able to understand in German and English that I want x and y it's the first time we will have something normal people can use.
It's the perfect working interface.
You know I loved the idea of a chatbot but it was way to stupid. But I only wanted it to do basic things.chatgpt already can do more than the basic system I need.
I'm totally fine of writing good and extensible documentation with good examples and stuff (what I already do anyway) and if chatgpt now can do 90% of basic support queries it will already change a lot.
I'm NOT necessary exited because it can answer random questions in a way that it feels like an agi.
It's the first time ever I talk to a system and it does something useful.
If it's able to understand in German and English that I want x and y it's the first time we will have something normal people can use.
It's the perfect working interface.
You know I loved the idea of a chatbot but it was way to stupid. But I only wanted it to do basic things.chatgpt already can do more than the basic system I need.
I'm totally fine of writing good and extensible documentation with good examples and stuff (what I already do anyway) and if chatgpt now can do 90% of basic support queries it will already change a lot.
I'm NOT necessary exited because it can answer random questions in a way that it feels like an agi.