ChatGPT: Its awsome... and it sucks. But still impressive

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  • čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
  • I first used chatGPT to generate something in a bash script. Worked great, and have been experimenting with a lot since. It's great at anythingwith language, terrible at math, geometry and physics, and good at generating small pieces of code.

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  • @JeffGeerling
    @JeffGeerling Před 11 měsíci +160

    Hey Matthias! I got a Beepberry, a little Pi-powered Blackberry clone board (but without Cellular, and with a B/W display). If you wanted me to ship it to you let me know! I know you worked for RIM and it would be fun for you to see it.

    • @anothorestes
      @anothorestes Před 11 měsíci +11

      He definitely needs one. And they're sold out, so good thing Mattias has such a generous community!

    • @zeroy
      @zeroy Před 11 měsíci +3

      seen your Twitter post, sold out at the moment I think but it looks great!

    • @bobweiram6321
      @bobweiram6321 Před 11 měsíci

      The blackberry and Palm Pilot were both knock-offs of the Apple Newton and General Magic.

  • @BruceChastain
    @BruceChastain Před 11 měsíci +21

    I had a situation with a specif cad software, where I was trying to find a very specific setting, chat GPT very confidently lied to me about what the setting and value was. But the answer was so confident it initially fooled me into believing it. So it's a great at BSing

    • @matthiasrandomstuff2221
      @matthiasrandomstuff2221  Před 11 měsíci +15

      indeed. perhaps we should call these large language models BS-engines instead

  • @engineer.woodwork
    @engineer.woodwork Před 11 měsíci +10

    Schwäbisch is so hard to understand! I was once in Stuttgart in a store to buy flowers, I didn't understand a word of what the owner was telling me. After three attempts, another customer translated what he was trying to tell me. He wanted to give me a discount because I waited for him for 20 minutes after his lunch break. I hoped you would say some words... never heard you talk German or Schwäbisch. And on the subject of AI, I agree that it's exciting and we need to see what it brings in the future. For now, I also use ChatGPT regularly and often have to correct the information.

  • @rutgerhoutdijk3547
    @rutgerhoutdijk3547 Před 11 měsíci +7

    I keep adding politeness like "could you.. " ,"please", "I like to ...", etc.. for some reason my brain refuses to accept it's not a real person..

  • @DustinCorbin
    @DustinCorbin Před 11 měsíci +64

    GPT Plus now has plugins enabled which has a lot of new functionality, one of which being Wolfram, which makes it way better at math.

    • @dfsdh432v9
      @dfsdh432v9 Před 11 měsíci +3

      ChatGPT is a natural language model, its purpose is to generate sentence in natural human language. not to give correct answer to questions.

    • @laboulesdebleu8335
      @laboulesdebleu8335 Před 11 měsíci +17

      @@dfsdh432v9 Shutup ChatGPT. You'll do what you're told!

    • @hausmeisterbanane
      @hausmeisterbanane Před 11 měsíci +3

      How well does the Wolfram Alpha plugin work?

    • @DustinCorbin
      @DustinCorbin Před 11 měsíci +10

      @@hausmeisterbanane in my limited testing it's pretty good, basically has the math skills of Wolfram, but it can interpret written questions and word questions better. Basically it can use the language model to figure out what the question is asking and then uses Wolfram to do the actual math. Pretty interesting.

    • @DiggitySlice
      @DiggitySlice Před 11 měsíci

      Still programmed to be woke

  • @washoecreative595
    @washoecreative595 Před 11 měsíci +29

    I am using ChatGPT to learn Python programming. It's like having a personal tutor who never gets tired of your stupid questions. But as you noted, it does often make mistakes. In fact, the very first time I used it I asked it a simple question, it gave me six answers, and only two of the six were correct. Don't use it for your homework.
    I have a friend who routinely uses it to produce drafts of legal documents he can then give to a paralegal to clean up. And people who know or suspect they don't write well can use it to quickly produce letters, e-mails, press releases, etc.

  • @Tugmun11
    @Tugmun11 Před 11 měsíci

    This is so far over my head I'm lost, but watched every second and enjoyed every most every bit... Thanks for sharing.

  • @RickRolling-tc7vb
    @RickRolling-tc7vb Před 11 měsíci +1

    Thanks Matthias, it's a fascinating subject. When I was studying at university and marking papers, I wished for something that could verify that the information cited was actually in the cited paper, because I know a lot of students lied about that and only a subject matter expert would pick it up - and they're time poor and not marking undergrad papers! I also wanted to be able to explore some subjects more fully through their cited works, but that was often laborious and often as duplicitous as the undergrads! I think that is the sort of thing a language model would be better at than humans, if it was trained properly and didn't lie.
    The problem academia has to solve now though is a new way of measuring academic progress that is valid and economical, because the old ways only half worked before (see above) and they can't be trusted to work reliably now.
    In my own experiments, I asked it to navigate me across Australia by road, listing every town on my route, and it was quite good at that, with my way points, but it did get the mileages wrong. On top of that, it wasn't very helpful at combining fuel prices and mileages for that trip so I could drive the furthest on the cheapest fuel (because it's double price at the popular but remote places), but it had a red hot go and I am encouraged by the possibilities. I find it handy for projects like your bash script too, because I can ask it variations on a bit of a script that I should know but am having a mental blank about today, and I can do that all day without a shred of embarrassment.

  • @mfsolutions
    @mfsolutions Před 10 měsíci +1

    Thanks for diving in on this Matthias, I know here at my college it is creating quite a stir. I asked it to give me a course outline on engineering problem solving particularly root cause analysis including ishikawa diagrams... it did a great job but had one section on root cause analysis and fishbone diagrams and another section on ishikawa diagrams with a similar discussion of the previous section. Other stuff it generated had similar redundancies... I have invited my students to use it as an organizational writing tool (makes reading/grading essay questions much easier) but I suggest they read/edit the content very carefully.

    • @matthiasrandomstuff2221
      @matthiasrandomstuff2221  Před 10 měsíci +2

      I think its a very useful tool if you already know what you are doing. But if you try to use it to make up for your own lack of knowledge, the results will make that obvious

  • @ajtxander
    @ajtxander Před 11 měsíci +4

    I use it as a tool to help write functions for scripts. I use it as a jumping off point, especially if I have "writer's block." It rarely gives me something that works exactly for what I am trying to do, but it is generally a good starting point.

  • @infocpctrainer
    @infocpctrainer Před 11 měsíci

    you find it super interesting because you obviously have made a study of the subjects you ask about. I'm impressed because I find your explanations so interesting, even though I'm lost in figures and numbers. keep it up love you're content

  • @TKC_
    @TKC_ Před 11 měsíci +6

    I’ve had it generate technical procedures from instant message logs discussing how to modify equipment. It got like 90% right. I just had to proof it and tweak a little of the technical jargon. I actually did that because my helper said they couldn’t follow the conversation and I was annoyed.
    It’s also good at telling you what sections of building codes to read. Those tend to be big dry documents that I know but don’t remember the sections off hand.

  • @anon_y_mousse
    @anon_y_mousse Před 11 měsíci

    Somehow I didn't know you had this channel, so I'm glad it got recommended. You should definitely use bash, even on Windows, and read the manual. It's quite illuminating to read about substitutions and arithmetic expansions. No need to ever open a calculator or bc if you only need an integer answer. And it's ability to generate and manipulate arrays is quite handy too. Write more aliases and functions in bash and you'll get better at understanding it. Learn the ways of printf as well.

  • @mckenziekeith7434
    @mckenziekeith7434 Před 11 měsíci +65

    One of the scary things with chat GPT is that it never gives you implausible results. When it is wrong, you have to practically be an expert to know that it is wrong. And people are already putting up tons of webpages that are written by chat GPT. A while ago I was trying to refresh my memory about what the IP ratings mean (ingress protection) so I typed what is IP67 into a search engine. I found a web page which explained very logically that IP is ingress protection and 67 signifies that it is protected to a depth of 67 meters. Yikes.

    • @enb3810
      @enb3810 Před 11 měsíci +32

      To be fair we have plenty of idiots writing articles like that even without ai. But I take your point.

    • @TheHappinessOfThePursuit
      @TheHappinessOfThePursuit Před 11 měsíci +7

      My network is formatted in millions of fathoms, so you won’t get far, hacker.

    • @matthiasrandomstuff2221
      @matthiasrandomstuff2221  Před 11 měsíci +32

      maybe AI will generate so much plausibe spam that search engines become completely useful, and we now have to use AI to get answers -- until the AI too gets polluted by AI output!

    • @kreynolds1123
      @kreynolds1123 Před 11 měsíci

      ​​@@enb3810 to be fair, it might be reasonable to question the intelegence of those idiots. 😅

    • @kreynolds1123
      @kreynolds1123 Před 11 měsíci +5

      ​@@matthiasrandomstuff2221 so I wonder, what will come of AI trained on AI garbage. 😊

  • @ke9tv
    @ke9tv Před 11 měsíci

    Hi, Matthias, I'm about to build one of your workbenches! It's a nice simple build, and composite solid-core doors are the cheapest tabletops out there. I'm not planning to do a lot of hammering or heavy planing on it, so I'm not worried about those 2x4 legs. I think I'm going to actually get a pocket hole jig and follow your suggestion to use pocket holes on the top. (I have other possible uses for the tool.) One nice thing about the design is that I can always use a piece of 6mm plywood for the top surface, and replace it when it gets trashed - which, in turn means that I can fixture to the benchtop and not worry about how I'm marring the surface. I might send you a picture or two when I'm done - but I'll likely be too ashamed of it. I'm not much of a woodworker.
    I found it interesting that ChatGPT lies - quite effectively. It'll cite sources if asked (and the statements it's asserting are nowhere in the sources, or else the sources themselves don't exist).
    My most recent encounter with Alemannisch (my German isn't good enough to distinguish Schwäbisch from Schwyzertütsch - I can't follow either one!) was while hiking in the Catskill Mountains. I was overtaken by two couples who were speaking a Southern dialect among themselves. I struck up a conversation with the one who had the best English, and he observed, "These mountains aren't very tall, but they're _demanding!_" Which made me feel better about the way I was struggling with the rock scrambles. If someone from the flippin' Alps is saying that the mountains are demanding, I'll take their word for it, particularly since they were all about a third my age.

  • @johnford7847
    @johnford7847 Před 11 měsíci

    interesting examples, Matthias. Thank you.

  • @unremind
    @unremind Před 11 měsíci +2

    I used the bing version for writing some auto hotkey scripts. Pretty neat how you can describe what need and it figures out the rest.

  • @brianb9410
    @brianb9410 Před 11 měsíci

    You are delightful to watch when you are excited by your topic.

  • @hattibugatti
    @hattibugatti Před 11 měsíci

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this topic!

  • @tracybowling1156
    @tracybowling1156 Před 11 měsíci +2

    The things you find interesting, I find hard to understand. You're so damn smart that you're fun to watch.

  • @TheMaxwellee
    @TheMaxwellee Před 11 měsíci

    I asked it to write a heavy metal poem. Pure gold. Cheers for your thoughts and findings.

  • @Fummy007
    @Fummy007 Před 11 měsíci +7

    As a linguist this was really cool. I always thought you were German because of your name, but because your accent is so perfectly Canadian I didn't think you could be a first generation.

  • @marcuskaufman5412
    @marcuskaufman5412 Před 11 měsíci

    I use ChatGBT to assist in research for technical articles, mainly in the field of electrical engineering. My experience is that the quality of the response is enhanced by well formulated, content-rich questions. The briefer the question, the thinner the response. By way of example, I asked “discuss bonding in aircraft,” and got a weak “shot in the dark” type response. Then I asked, “discuss surface faying preparation for the purpose of electrical potential bonding between aircraft electrical equipment or components,” and got a fabulous response rich with detail. So my experience with the tool mirrors sitting down with a subject mater expert. The quality of the conversation depends on input from both parties.

  • @paulomelo1084
    @paulomelo1084 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Hello Matthias, thanks for the video. Yes Social media has its problems (doom mongers, flat earthers, etc) but without I could not have found you and see these type of videos. These Language models will have their place, but I believe that we must know its problems and understand how to use them.

  • @Vsor
    @Vsor Před 11 měsíci

    I found a great use for it is to discuss topics you almost understand, but are missing a few details on. It helped my understand why the output of a FFT was a complex number, and it showed be how to figure out simple amplitude from those numbers.

  • @myopinion69420
    @myopinion69420 Před 11 měsíci

    a recent update has added functionality for it to detect when it stops half way and allows you to click a button to tell it to finish, it just picks up where it left off. handy when asking it to write somewhat complex functions.

  • @hpda44
    @hpda44 Před 11 měsíci

    Great video. I would love to see more on chat GPT

  • @matroosoft4589
    @matroosoft4589 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Hi Matthias, I certainly like to see you playing with it too. And I suppose a lot of your subscribers do.
    You know all these CZcamsrs testing Tesla FSD? This is kinda like it but instead for AI. We hear all this fuzz about AI but we need content creators experiment with it too make sense of it. Is it any good? Where does it shine, where does it suck at?
    In my feeling you're the right kind if guy to test this especially if you come up with fun experiments. It compares a bit to your mouse trap videos, you give them a puzzle and people are curious what the mice are gonna do.
    And there's so much to come for AI, like just today I read on Reddit that Bing is enabling image input for some people. That's just super interesting.
    I very much look forward to your next video about this topic!

  • @nikdog419
    @nikdog419 Před 11 měsíci +3

    You should run one of the open source models locally, the backend stdout will give you a good idea of how it's reusing the earlier conversation. Basically, every new prompt actually reinputs the entire conversation up to the new prompt. So it processes the whole conversation as the prompt.

  • @calebbender1031
    @calebbender1031 Před 11 měsíci +1

    "It's just making up complete bullshit." Oh my gosh it's learning to be human

  • @calipete
    @calipete Před 10 měsíci

    This gives me an idea! I have a few Asterix & Obelix in Bayrisch and Münchnerisch. I may have to play with ChatGPT to see how it would translate the rest of my German collection into these two dialects! I'm guessing it could provide hours of laughs!

  • @altronixvideo
    @altronixvideo Před 11 měsíci +14

    I've used it to write a few emails and such, it's 90% there, but I found it sometimes uses words or phrases that a human just wouldn't use. Apart from that, as a dyslexic it's opened up my abilities to get written work produced for my various needs.

  • @lematindesmagiciens8764
    @lematindesmagiciens8764 Před 11 měsíci +9

    I have been using Chat-GPT for a month now, and I view it as a very quick and often incompetent assistant. One of its strengths is the ability to cross-reference information. But it can also spew out completely wrong, made up answers. So, I can understand that teachers are getting a little nervous about it. Also, if you further probe Chat-GPT for references on a previous answer, sometimes you will get only broken links as references. In fact, I ended up getting tons of very interesting but unverifiable answers.

  • @SeanHodgins
    @SeanHodgins Před 11 měsíci +1

    Cat certainly is out of the bag.
    For the longer websites you were talking about, you can usually get away with just saying "continue" and it will continue writing where it left off, since it has a character limited output.

  • @WyvernDotRed
    @WyvernDotRed Před 11 měsíci

    7:40 I've heard that you can literally ask it to continue in these cases, where it hits the length limit.
    15:35 Seems similar to my experiences in using Google Translate back in highschool.
    If you just copy it's raw output it'll be nonsensical, but by checking, picking alternate translations and suggesting where relevant and especially reverse translating, it can produce decent translations.
    The way you used ChatGPT here made me realise how similar it actually is to that, I have not used it yet, nor do I plan to and most other creators here exaggerate greatly about it.

  • @brubsby
    @brubsby Před 11 měsíci

    glad to see your take on it, and that you're using gpt-4 instead of 3.5, because lots of criticisms of gpt in general seem to be leveraged against 3.5 in situations where 4 just gets it right away.

  • @jemand8962
    @jemand8962 Před 11 měsíci +3

    I am german and didn't know what you typed but figured out a little bit more when you read it.

  • @nicholastinling1022
    @nicholastinling1022 Před 11 měsíci

    I have only read headlines about AI, couldn't get myself to delve into what the issues are. Watched your video for the fun of it and - WOW! Now i'm an expert on the subject.

  • @davidburch3863
    @davidburch3863 Před 11 měsíci

    This is my favorite explanation of ChatGPT

  • @unionse7en
    @unionse7en Před 11 měsíci

    it's useful for some physics calcs.... helps give you an "outline" of how to do the "word problem" steps, constants to use etc. Definiottley needs oversight, but still save time and gives you creative seeds of how to attack the problem

  • @markspano3468
    @markspano3468 Před 11 měsíci +2

    “Awesome…and sucks,” like nuclear weapons.

  • @mpadlite2925
    @mpadlite2925 Před 11 měsíci

    Thanks for another interesting and enjoyable video.

  • @CubicSpline7713
    @CubicSpline7713 Před 11 měsíci

    Nice summary, thankyou.

  • @MrCestadelacompra
    @MrCestadelacompra Před 11 měsíci +2

    it's gonna be very interesting when they end up integrating the already available plug-ins on calculus and other very specific analysis in the general outputs

  • @staarfajter922
    @staarfajter922 Před 8 měsíci

    5:43 It gave me the feeling of a documentary when they ask a expert to elaborate :p

  • @Endede
    @Endede Před 11 měsíci +4

    Ex-German here, from the mid-70s. Mostly lived way up north, maybe an hour from DK for the first 30-something years of my life. I did not understand the Schwaebisch when I read it first, could not dream of making out anything when you read it aloud, but then was able to figure out that it was *probably* something about a ladder and an apple when I (very slowly) sounded the words out myself. Hats off to ChatGPT. Not only is my expectation that any language model it explicitly has at its disposal is probably English-centric, but also the more general module probably has mostly access to English data for training, especially compared to the number of written documents it can find in the very regional Schwaebisch dialect.

  • @tee949
    @tee949 Před 11 měsíci +2

    You can enable internet browsing model and plugins model in settings on the bottom left

  • @AndrewRoberts11
    @AndrewRoberts11 Před 11 měsíci +1

    The Wolfram Alpha plugin appears to fixe may of the maths / physics issues.

  • @Leadvest
    @Leadvest Před 11 měsíci

    At its very core ChatGPT is a super-dimensional word association machine. It predicts text, it's still linear probabilistic like a Markov chain. A more potent GAI will have feedback loops, and self-adaptability, but that is incredibly dangerous as alignment will be impossible to impose. More advanced and efficient LLMs are good way forward ethically if not practically, but groups like OpenAI are evidently willing to put in the effort.

  • @cassiacries
    @cassiacries Před 11 měsíci

    Great video! Very interesting.

  • @tweedeldee8122
    @tweedeldee8122 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Fascinating! I'll always remember my Swedish girlfriend switching from English to Swedish sometimes. Something about ta mig... That was fascinating too.

    • @VarionJimmy
      @VarionJimmy Před 11 měsíci

      Since you know the spelling of the word “mig” (which sounds like it would be written “mej”) I guess she wrote it.
      “Ta mig” translates to “take me”. Or in ..special.. occasions “do me”.

  • @zerokelvin4490
    @zerokelvin4490 Před 11 měsíci

    Your comments reminded me of the book "The most human human" by Brian Christian. Recommended

  • @NickHorvath
    @NickHorvath Před 11 měsíci +9

    For longer pages, if you sign up for a developer account and use the playground you can set the max tokens for GPT4 as high as 32k per response which will give you much more output.

  • @iwantagoodnameplease
    @iwantagoodnameplease Před 11 měsíci +1

    I always assumed you were Canadian, given your flawless Canadian accent!

  • @sundaynightdrunk
    @sundaynightdrunk Před 11 měsíci

    Wolfram Alpha is best for math things. It will show you how it came up with answers and is never wrong in my experience. The math can be very deep and complicated as well, and it knows how to handle it, including graphing answers and presenting answers in other visual ways.

  • @less6301
    @less6301 Před 11 měsíci

    it listens for approaching cars then comes up with suggestions of what to think about

  • @philippsaure7545
    @philippsaure7545 Před 11 měsíci +7

    As a German speaker (31yo) from western Germany I could get the part with him being not being able to wait and getting on the tree to pick an apple. But I didn’t get the ladder.
    But hearing it spoken (possibly fast) I wouldn’t have gotten a thing. Impressive.

    • @VarionJimmy
      @VarionJimmy Před 11 měsíci

      I’m Swedish and I don’t speak German, but since our languages are a bit similar I figured out the German part. But not the Schabisch. 😊

  • @steveman1982
    @steveman1982 Před 11 měsíci +2

    For reasons I needed a program to keep track of 100 positions evenly spread over the globe, to track if it's day or night there.
    ChatGPT4 did pretty well on that. I got a working program in python along with a 3d plot in matplotlib.
    Also it uses libraries I frequently didn't know of. And further querying it gives useage examples of the libraries.
    All in all I find it to be a massive time saver doing AI data science stuff for work.

  • @madmodders
    @madmodders Před 11 měsíci

    I've been thinking about having a batch script extracting case numbers from the filenames for all project files given to me at work in a directory, and shoving those in to the clipboard, but I was dreading the task to write the damn script. You reminded me of chatgpt, and it almost solved it! After several iterations it never got newlines to work in clipboard. But I found the answer to that at stackoverflow. 😀

  • @billz.3444
    @billz.3444 Před 11 měsíci

    I look forward to hearing more of your opnion on AI.

  • @Gary_Hun
    @Gary_Hun Před 11 měsíci

    As long as it is giving those stock apology lines every time, i wouldn't get hyped too much over the "ohmygod is it alive?!?" bullshit.

  • @charlesurrea1451
    @charlesurrea1451 Před 11 měsíci

    My experience has been that it is necessary to prime the pump as it were.
    Basically beating around the bush asking other questions that allow the system to narrow in on what you really want

    • @matthiasrandomstuff2221
      @matthiasrandomstuff2221  Před 11 měsíci +1

      Im my experience, a good job candidate, when asked to solve a problem, will first ask a whole bunch of questions back to clarify the requirements. Chatgpt doesn't do that.

  • @tiepup
    @tiepup Před 11 měsíci

    The 42 answer will be based on the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy books, so it’ll be more confident it is correct for things like that as it has loads of text that agrees with that calculation.

  • @Fractus
    @Fractus Před 11 měsíci

    I think it depends on the subject. Editing can be a real pain but sometimes it's easier than starting from scratch.

  • @Derek_Read
    @Derek_Read Před 11 měsíci

    I've tested it for generating legal documents in XML (in a specific doctype we use) and it would also stop part way. I believe the free version is limited in length of output per prompt. Prompting it with "this is incomplete" will get it to continue and finish, though sometimes it will miss an opening or closing tag at that point (easily corrected by hand). Just keep prompting with "not done yet" or " please continue" until it is done.

    • @xl000
      @xl000 Před 11 měsíci

      "go on"
      It has never failed me.
      I asked it write a complete ray tracer in C++ with support for several features, and it works.

  • @necrojoe
    @necrojoe Před 11 měsíci +17

    I once fed ChatGPT the weekly availability of 9 people, and asked it to come up with at least 3 times where everyone was available for a meeting. It kept confidently giving me lists of times that should work, and then even gave me extras with caveats like "Friday at 3PM, everyone but Stacy can attend". But, every time I went in to double-check the results, every single suggestion was wrong. I eventually did it manually, and it turns out there were zero times where everyone could attend, so it was unintentionally a trick question, but it never caught it.
    I once asked it "Does Google still offer their Sync and Store service?" And then it answered, "Yes. Google discontinued Sync and Store in 2018."
    Another time, I asked it to try to help me with Wordle. "Provide a word with a middle letter 'R'..." (and then a few other letter clues). It said, "Sure. #1: Bazar"

    • @bmxscape
      @bmxscape Před 11 měsíci +8

      the biggest issue is how confident it sounds even when it's wrong, you gotta be on your toes and ready to be given the wrong answer (same with anything you research on the internet tho)

    • @dtiydr
      @dtiydr Před 11 měsíci

      It can make totally wrong sometimes and that is exactly why its open for everyone since WE are the ones that are supposed to correct it so it learns. I have got similar answers as that "Yes. Google discontinued Sync and Store in 2018." Then just put a thumbs down for that answer and tell it that its not the way to say it since I asked if it was discontinued and thus you don't start with a "Yes" there. It apologizes and then reprint the answer with "No" instead.
      Chatgpt just don't know, and that is why the world is invited to teach it.

    • @NotQuiteFirst
      @NotQuiteFirst Před 11 měsíci +2

      Yes it seems to sometimes have a lot of trouble with what seem to be fairly straightforward queries. I asked it to tell me a selection of European countries which added together would equal the size of South Africa. It started well, saying "S.A. is about 1.2million sq/km, and here are the sizes of various European countries which will combine to make this: France, Germany, Switzerland combine to make about 0.9m km. I replied and said that number is too small, can you do it again but use more European countries to fill the 0.3mill shortfall, and it said "oh sorry for the mistake, here's some countries which will total the size of South Africa - and proceeded to list so many that they totalled 2.5mill km. I said that number is more than double the target, and it again said sorry and retried, but could never actually get it right. I would have thought that a 10 year old schoolchild looking at a list of country sizes would find this a simple task to understand and complete, but GPT failed.

    • @Stettafire
      @Stettafire Před 11 měsíci +3

      Yes dispite the hysteria I find it's wrong or wrongish more often then not. It has the same problem all "AI" has. It doesn't understand context and context is king.

  • @indisputablefacts8507
    @indisputablefacts8507 Před 11 měsíci

    I asked ChatGPT to explain to me what "@" means in Powershell. It gave an outstanding answer - one that must have been formulated from several sources as its meaning depends very much on the context. I showed this to a colleague and he said that ChatGPT was wrong; the right answer is "Dude, it's powershell. It could mean f-ing anything."

  • @Likeaudio
    @Likeaudio Před 11 měsíci

    Its the best ca tutor ive ever not paid

  • @enb3810
    @enb3810 Před 11 měsíci +3

    You can enable the wolfram alpha plugin in the settings on the bottom left, may help with math.

    • @matthiasrandomstuff2221
      @matthiasrandomstuff2221  Před 11 měsíci +2

      not there for me.

    • @enb3810
      @enb3810 Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@matthiasrandomstuff2221 that's weird. Should be under your profile picture.
      On my desktop it's on the bottom left, under the three dots by my email, under 'settings', under 'beta features'.

  • @ChristopherWilley1
    @ChristopherWilley1 Před 11 měsíci

    @matthias to get it to continue longer responses when it gives up in the middle, tell it to "keep printing the response from the where you left off, without reprinting"

    • @matthiasrandomstuff2221
      @matthiasrandomstuff2221  Před 11 měsíci

      that only works so far. After a few clicks on that, it stops even if it isn't done

  • @ahbushnell1
    @ahbushnell1 Před 11 měsíci

    I have used it with Python. I asked it to write a program that would read stock prices. It found an API and it worked.

  • @RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse
    @RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse Před 11 měsíci

    Well, there goes the Swiss cipher that puts Enigma to shame... cracked at last...

  • @ehhhhhhhhhh
    @ehhhhhhhhhh Před 11 měsíci +4

    My assumption is that GPT has helped quite a few lazy students fail faster than ever. It will so confidently produce a paper that doesn't meet your professor's page length requirement, doesn't use real citations, and doesn't fully read the instructions because the student forgot to explain the assignment. I did happen to see one GPT plagiarist this year, but it was only obvious because the student's paper used two different fonts and in the pasted half there were zero grammar/syntax mistakes. And it also didn't follow the instructions or use citations.

    • @gvi341984
      @gvi341984 Před 11 měsíci

      More likely they use the mobile version but you can copy and paste text and ask it to paraphrase it. Not only that but your instructions might be very unclear and vague since it can easily do the writing assignment

    • @TheOfficialOriginalChad
      @TheOfficialOriginalChad Před 11 měsíci

      It’s very good if you write the outline yourself with citations, and most importantly GIVE it the information (not the links). I would be surprised if college students weren’t aware that it hallucinates when it doesn’t know something.

    • @ehhhhhhhhhh
      @ehhhhhhhhhh Před 11 měsíci

      @@TheOfficialOriginalChad I tried using it to produce a paper out of sheer curiosity, since I was a good student in college and I had no difficulty writing A papers. I found that it didn't save much time, since I still had to manually research. In order to get it to generate accurate quotes and analysis, you also have to painstakingly spend time copying text from sources if they're not already in plain text. It happened that all the sources I wanted were in dense PDFs, some of which were scans that had copying artifacts when converted to plain text which made life hell, etc. One source was a webpage which did not make copying and pasting very easy. Rather than solving all my writing problems, it had its own challenges which were almost as difficult to solve... just in a different domain.

  • @Squibbleses
    @Squibbleses Před 11 měsíci

    I saw one discussion about catching AI written essays that suggested that having the students hand in the essay in doc format or something that supports showing change history would help pin down if someone had actually written and built up the essay over time with iterations/corrections or if it had all be created in basically one shot via gpt

    • @Scott-Ferguson
      @Scott-Ferguson Před 11 měsíci +1

      I could argue that I drafted my essay on paper and then only typed it out on the computer once I finalized it. Unlikely, sure, but not implausible. This is a huge problem for those in the teaching profession. One professor would copy students' work into Chat GPT and ask it if Chat GPT wrote it. Chat GPT erroneously identified works as it's own and the professor relied on that to give student failing grades.

    • @Squibbleses
      @Squibbleses Před 11 měsíci

      @@Scott-Ferguson yeah for sure. It would have to be something required up front, to ask that all students compose their essays in the required tool or whatever. Though of course you then risk cutting out or harming students who work or learn differently.

    • @matthiasrandomstuff2221
      @matthiasrandomstuff2221  Před 11 měsíci +2

      I would just give the students an email address and ask them to send drafts there as worked on. Drafts will not be examined unless the essay is suspicious. The thing is, you can do that after you know AI usage is a problem, but the first time they do it, you haven't prepared for catching it yet, nor may there be a policy even forbidding the use of AI

  • @gardnmi
    @gardnmi Před 11 měsíci

    I've been playing around with both gpt and bard. I think we will be littered with these models soon.

  • @kesor6
    @kesor6 Před 11 měsíci +1

    While ChatGPT is not so great at doing precise calculations, it is amazing as creative ideation. I've been using it quite a bit in electronics, and since it knows all kinds of different concepts like noise filtering, etc... I can ask it to give ideas about synthesis or whatever else, and it can also suggest electronic components. Since it read and "knows" a lot of the datasheets. So while it might not know the exact data from the datasheet, it knows the approximate data and can suggest this or that component which might be better for the purpose discussed.

    • @littlegandhi1199
      @littlegandhi1199 Před 11 měsíci

      Do you think it could offer a crossover schematic with values on it for speakers with given rolloffs

    • @kesor6
      @kesor6 Před 11 měsíci

      @@littlegandhi1199 it doesn't do schematics all that well. But it can do explanations and comparisons of explanations. Give it a try.

  • @noeldc
    @noeldc Před 11 měsíci

    It will work with Wolfram Alpha soon, should things should improve mathswise.

  • @garmar704
    @garmar704 Před 11 měsíci +1

    We'll forever be trying to tame the dragon!

  • @DavidCousins
    @DavidCousins Před 11 měsíci

    Thanks for this video.

  • @DavidLindes
    @DavidLindes Před 11 měsíci

    I'd be curious to hear your take on a talk called "The A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023", from the Center for Humane Technology channel.

  • @tyleryoung8803
    @tyleryoung8803 Před 11 měsíci

    I didn’t mean to trick Chat-GPT, but I asked it a question about a command in AutoLisp and it completely made it up! There was no command by the name that ChatGPT had given me. But the reason I asked was because there is a lot of undocumented commands and once I found two of them (so far) they have been very helpful.

  • @stefankamuc
    @stefankamuc Před 11 měsíci +1

    Grias di! Sag a mol, därf ma mol froge, woher Du eigentli kusch? I bi nämli vu d‘r näh vu Oberschdorf. Guetes Video uf jede fall!

    • @matthiasrandomstuff2221
      @matthiasrandomstuff2221  Před 11 měsíci +6

      oberschdorf - desch jo fascht ima andra land. I bin vo wanga original. Aber hon ez grad messa des auf'm pc tippa, weil dr iPad moint r wois bessr als i was i gschriba hon

  • @fuzzy1dk
    @fuzzy1dk Před 11 měsíci

    15:28 afaict that is most peoples experience with PCB autorouters. In the time used to setting up rules, guiding it, and fixing things it could have been done by hand

    • @matthiasrandomstuff2221
      @matthiasrandomstuff2221  Před 11 měsíci

      that reminds me ... I use SketchUp, which is not parametric, not like the fancier CAD programs. But then to make everything parametric with the right dependencies so that it can easily be resized if needed, its questionable if its worth it, because, ARE you going to resize it enoug to make it worth the trouble?

  • @JamesPawson
    @JamesPawson Před 11 měsíci +1

    I went to live in Freiburg after two years of learning German in a classroom in Canada... Swabian really threw me for a loop... I don't understand why the exchange program directors didn't warn us about the dialect.

    • @matthiasrandomstuff2221
      @matthiasrandomstuff2221  Před 11 měsíci +1

      cause then you'd be asking questions about what they teach. It also depends on where you are going, further north is different.

    • @JamesPawson
      @JamesPawson Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@matthiasrandomstuff2221 Thanks for the reply-- well our program was specifically called the Canadian Year in Freiburg, so the professor who accompanied us really could have prepared us for the dialect a bit... but we had all kinds of problems with that Professor... he was well past retirement age.
      Anyways it was funny, thinking my German was at least passable, but then trying to interact with the locals in shops and whatnot and having absolutely no idea what they were saying haha.
      A whole other story again when I spent a week in Dresden... now that is a particularly unpleasant accent (Saxish?) in my opinion.

  • @sparqqling
    @sparqqling Před 11 měsíci

    Yup the cat is out of the bag, fascinated by it but worried at the same time

  • @MCsCreations
    @MCsCreations Před 11 měsíci +3

    Fascinating indeed, Matthias! 😊
    Now imagine if someone created an AI for physics and asked it to join quantum mechanics and relativity. 😬
    Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

  • @Samtagri
    @Samtagri Před 11 měsíci

    4:19 you should enable plugins and use the Wolfram Alpha plug in to calculate mathematical outcomes. What we noticed is that once it knows the correct answer it is very good at explaining how you can get that answer. We are testing it with teaching math to high school students.

  • @danel1922
    @danel1922 Před 11 měsíci

    coming from vienna, your schwäbisch sentence was very readable. it reminded me of jiddisch a lot. your hochdeutsch sentence btw was very awkward, one wouldn't say it like that at all. more like "weil er es sehr eilig hatte, hat er keine leiter geholt und ist einfach auf den baum geklettert um einen apfel zu pflücken", so the chat gpt version was much closer.

  • @themagiccoasterlover
    @themagiccoasterlover Před 11 měsíci +1

    Just a heads up, you pronounced Jamaican "Patois" wrong. Great video!

  • @TRFrench
    @TRFrench Před 11 měsíci

    In my experience you have to check its work but it can be really good with the facts and figures like Wikipedia. Just a tool and it helps me formulate internet search questions which is half the battle in programming.

  • @roccit
    @roccit Před 11 měsíci

    That was fun!

  • @reddcube
    @reddcube Před 11 měsíci

    I’m glad to know that even you have distaste of Batch files.

  • @mstoer
    @mstoer Před 11 měsíci

    Interesting that you have a typo in your specifications (rotuer instead of router) and it fixed it to "Router", but it doesn't use "Fräser" which I hear quite often in videos I watch.

  • @WilReid
    @WilReid Před 11 měsíci +13

    People went through a lot of effort to make a piece of computer software bad at math.

    • @IstasPumaNevada
      @IstasPumaNevada Před 11 měsíci +3

      People went through a lot of effort to make something that writes stuff that sounds like what it was fed, and they did a good job.
      The mistake is expecting it to provide correct answers to anything, even the simplest of math problems. It does not think, it does not examine for truth, it only imitates patterns without understanding any of what it was told or what it's saying.

    • @NamelessMoreOne
      @NamelessMoreOne Před 11 měsíci

      Considering computers are only "good at math" when you give precise inputs, this allows you to just paste the prompt.
      The answer will be wrong, but it will spit out an answer.

  • @tseckwr3783
    @tseckwr3783 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Isnt chatgpt what you use to write all your python programs for your electrical power monitoring and mouse tracking software projects?

  • @holbroak
    @holbroak Před 11 měsíci

    For reference: I am German from Cologne, a few years younger than you. No problem understanding the Schwäbisch sentence about the hasty apple picker.

  • @plunder1956
    @plunder1956 Před 11 měsíci

    What's interesting is to see sets of instructions in English, French, German & Danish.
    Danish is always the shortest & German is always much longer. I just can't understand why.

  • @MrAwawe
    @MrAwawe Před 11 měsíci

    2:59 It's all got a funny sound to it Matthias.

  • @DD-DD-DD
    @DD-DD-DD Před 11 měsíci +2

    Im say dat "pah-twah" mon. Nunna dis rassclat "pah-toy"

  • @mrxmry3264
    @mrxmry3264 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Being from the Ludwigshafen area, i have problems with some dialects, like swiss and Platt (northern germany), just like a friend of mine here in London (she's from the hannover area) has problems with my dialect.

    • @matthiasrandomstuff2221
      @matthiasrandomstuff2221  Před 11 měsíci

      and I don’t think chatgpt even uses many of the words specific to the dialects, though it’s fairly good at understanding them