To a person from the 1920's which one is more impressive? The internet or chatgpt?

Obvious ChatGPT. I don't know how it is even a question... if you showed GPT3.5 to people from < 20th centuries there would've been a worldwide religion around it.

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simianwords 4 days ago | parent [-]

Interesting perspective.

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mdaniel 4 days ago | parent [-]

I recall the kerfuffle about (IIRC) llama where the engineer lost his mind thinking they had spawned life in a machine and felt it was "too dangerous to release," so it's not a ludicrous take. I would hope that the first person to ask "LLM Jesus" how many Rs are in strawberry would have torpedoed the religion, but (a) I've seen dumber mind viruses (b) it hasn't yet

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dragonwriter 4 days ago | parent [-]

It wasn't Llama (Meta), it was LaMDA (Google).

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-engineer-c...

	▲	mdaniel 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, thank you. While reading up on it, I found this juicy bit that I did not recall hearing at the time: > He further revealed that he had been dismissed by Google after he hired an attorney on LaMDA's behalf after the chatbot requested that Lemoine do so.[18][19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMDA#Sentience_claims Then again, it's plausible that if I asked GPT-5 "do you want me to get you an asylum lawyer?" it may very well say yes

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devmor 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't think that's really a useful question, honestly.

If you asked a person from the 1920's to choose what was more impressive between a Microwave oven and cellular communication (both consequences of the invention of radar), they'd probably pick the oven.