ChatGPT Plus for the whole of UK

[bitchstewie]

This is interesting as an initiative.

Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister

[grumbledoak]

Dammit. Rick rolled again.

[ScotHill]

Sounds like it was just dropped into conversation and the government never really took it seriously. Not surprised at £2bn cost, what else could that money be spent on.

[JoshSm]

So Sam Altman tried to scam another idiot into bunging him a big pile of cash, but didn't manage to get it to go anywhere?

It all sounds plausible, but at least this particular bit of wild spending seems to have gone nowhere.

[JuanCarlosFandango]

I'm a bit of an Ai-sceptic anyway. It's very slick but ChatGTP seems more like a highly developed search engine than actually intelligent. It can't work stuff out or propose solutions. Just regurgitate information it finds elsewhere. It isn't even all that good at getting the right information unless you are so specific that you could have found it quite easily anyway.

You could fix a lot of potholes for £2bn.

[bitchstewie]

I can see the value for money side of it.

That said this stuff is coming to the point where if I weee you get and in certain jobs right now I think I’d be planning a career change.

We also need to plan for that and understand how to make the best use of these tools.

[Terminator X]

JuanCarlosFandango said:

I'm a bit of an Ai-sceptic anyway. It's very slick but ChatGTP seems more like a highly developed search engine than actually intelligent. It can't work stuff out or propose solutions. Just regurgitate information it finds elsewhere. It isn't even all that good at getting the right information unless you are so specific that you could have found it quite easily anyway.

You could fix a lot of potholes for £2bn.

It's copying and pasting what it sees on the entire internet. No where near intelligent.

Still the rich getting richer and the poor losing their jobs so it's all good.

TX.

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

Terminator X said:

It's copying and pasting what it sees on the entire internet. No where near intelligent.

Still the rich getting richer and the poor losing their jobs so it's all good.

TX.

I used it for the first time ever after people at work were raving about it. It initially looked impressive, but after going through it's response I realised it had made half of it up.

Thing is the rich believe it can do anything, so poor people will be losing their jobs even through it is rubbish.

I think it is utter rubbish, I am glad I will be retired in 8 years.

[JuanCarlosFandango]

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

I used it for the first time ever after people at work were raving about it. It initially looked impressive, but after going through it's response I realised it had made half of it up.

Thing is the rich believe it can do anything, so poor people will be losing their jobs even through it is rubbish.

I think it is utter rubbish, I am glad I will be retired in 8 years.

Or they want us to think it can do anything.

[glazbagun]

JuanCarlosFandango said:

I'm a bit of an Ai-sceptic anyway. It's very slick but ChatGTP seems more like a highly developed search engine than actually intelligent. It can't work stuff out or propose solutions. Just regurgitate information it finds elsewhere. It isn't even all that good at getting the right information unless you are so specific that you could have found it quite easily anyway.

You could fix a lot of potholes for £2bn.

Yeah I make a game out of making it contradict itself, sometimes it can be shockingly bad.

It's pretty concerning how it's overtaking search & being used in schools, etc. It doesn't really direct you to sources as opposed to giving you a summary which means the sites it's scraped don't even get advertising revenue or even the kudos of being a good information source. It feels to me like the internet has been bottled and the best vintages of the net are all in the past.

[lancslad58]

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

Terminator X said:

It's copying and pasting what it sees on the entire internet. No where near intelligent.

Still the rich getting richer and the poor losing their jobs so it's all good.

TX.

I used it for the first time ever after people at work were raving about it. It initially looked impressive, but after going through it's response I realised it had made half of it up.

Thing is the rich believe it can do anything, so poor people will be losing their jobs even through it is rubbish.

I think it is utter rubbish, I am glad I will be retired in 8 years.

Agree.
You could just go and copy text from Wikipedia.
I once has the "pleasure" of working with one of the UK's biggest banks who outsourced some of there IT to an off shore Indian company and they used to copy large sections of text from Wkikipedia into their documents

[bitchstewie]

Terminator X said:

It's copying and pasting what it sees on the entire internet. No where near intelligent.

Still the rich getting richer and the poor losing their jobs so it's all good.

TX.

I take the point but there are areas I'm interested in where I wouldn't trust it fully but it has saved me massive amounts of time reading or watching.

You only have to look forward to see where that could lead as the technology advances to see the impact it could and probably will have on certain careers or grades of job.

Then you're back to whether you try to get ahead of it or not.

[grumbledoak]

Terminator X said:

It's copying and pasting what it sees on the entire internet. No where near intelligent.

Still the rich getting richer and the poor losing their jobs so it's all good.

TX.

Yeah, ^^^ that. It's the next new thing. Some are making billions. Or they hope to. Altman being one of them.

It is certainly useful as a tool. It's good at natural language search. Search for concepts if you like. But it is often more convincing than correct.

More interesting is how close a "highest probability combination of question and answer words" sounds to a real person. It is said that true creativity is very rare, humans are at best innovating and mostly copying. But now we have to question how much real intelligence is out there.

[OutInTheShed]

Tying the whole country to one brand of AI would be mental.

[119]

Another fking idiotic Illthought out idea by the current shower of bell ends.

I hiess they are looking forward to the inevitable donations once signed up.

Although I suoildnt be surprised.

[DeejRC]

grumbledoak said:

Dammit. Rick rolled again.

This made me laugh

[ScotHill]

119 said:

Another fking idiotic Illthought out idea by the current shower of bell ends.

I hiess they are looking forward to the inevitable donations once signed up.

Although I suoildnt be surprised.

You really have no clue.

[JuanCarlosFandango]

glazbagun said:

Yeah I make a game out of making it contradict itself, sometimes it can be shockingly bad.

It's pretty concerning how it's overtaking search & being used in schools, etc. It doesn't really direct you to sources as opposed to giving you a summary which means the sites it's scraped don't even get advertising revenue or even the kudos of being a good information source. It feels to me like the internet has been bottled and the best vintages of the net are all in the past.

I bet it will be used as a great cover for bad decisions. An advanced AI model told us to raise taxes. Impose lockdowns. Drive into the red light district.

[bitchstewie]

I swear man some of you see plots in your own reflections.

[Diderot]

bhstewie said:

I swear man some of you see plots in your own reflections.

Own up Stewie, you’ve been using ChatGTP to generate your posts since Nov 22.