Post AXNe6OmiIKFPH5n6lU by malmorrow@mastodon.africa
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 (DIR) Post #AXNaJxyAOFxyLWMW9Y by phillipdewet@mastodonapp.uk
       2023-07-05T07:04:44Z
       
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       I could spend 15 minutes brute-forcing out of the #Wordle hole I've dug for myself.Or I could spend the whole day pondering the moral and ethical implications of using #ChatGPT to solve it.Welp, time to cancel some meetings.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXNaJyrT4eCb72EgLo by phillipdewet@mastodonapp.uk
       2023-07-05T07:12:34Z
       
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       Hang on hang on hang on. Why am I doing the heavy lifting, when there is a perfectly capable robot servant to do my thinking for me?
       
 (DIR) Post #AXNaJzek7RcLZrI29g by phillipdewet@mastodonapp.uk
       2023-07-05T07:20:11Z
       
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       Going to need a human in the loop here, though, GPT sucks at making any kind of decision.UpWork, maybe? Always many under-employed liberal arts types hanging out there. But they'll want, like, $5 to cover transaction costs.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXNaK0OTNQCHrggYQy by phillipdewet@mastodonapp.uk
       2023-07-05T09:03:58Z
       
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       (a) #ChatGPT tries to brute-force a #Wordle problem – and likes showing its work. Which is poor. (b) I was 6 prompts deep before I convinced it to solve for X123X, rather than treating the final X as a variable.(c) It refused to be limited to supplied valid letters, yet ran through three dozen possible words before it found a single valid one. But we finally got there.Wordle 746 5/6⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
       
 (DIR) Post #AXNaK164lJ4k2v5NOi by phillipdewet@mastodonapp.uk
       2023-07-05T09:07:04Z
       
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       The surprise here is just how poor ChatGPT – a powerful language engine routinely used to solve programming problems – is at Wordle. I really wasn't expecting to have to re-engineer the prompt several times, not with three greens on the board.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXNaK1sdqjvKTXoA64 by wogan@mastodon.africa
       2023-07-05T09:07:24Z
       
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       @phillipdewet Ask it how many times the letter "n" appears in the word "mayonnaise"!
       
 (DIR) Post #AXNaQRR5kON3TLymPY by wogan@mastodon.africa
       2023-07-05T09:08:36Z
       
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       @phillipdewet Truly game-changing technology.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXNaSrwq9AtUHFzFiq by phillipdewet@mastodonapp.uk
       2023-07-05T09:09:02Z
       
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       @wogan 🤦‍♂️
       
 (DIR) Post #AXNe6OmiIKFPH5n6lU by malmorrow@mastodon.africa
       2023-07-05T09:49:46Z
       
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       @wogan @phillipdewet Be fair - it's a Large LANGUAGE Model, not a Large ARITHMETIC Model.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXNjxuomQRaNk8602q by phillipdewet@mastodonapp.uk
       2023-07-05T10:52:55Z
       
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       @malmorrow @wogan Aaahhhh, but is counting not a function of language, an expression of meaning through words, more than it is arithmetical, given that it lacks (all but the simplest) operation?*taps imaginary philosopher's pipe against teeth; goes off to ask ChatGPT*
       
 (DIR) Post #AXNjxveXK0zCKeJKiW by wogan@mastodon.africa
       2023-07-05T10:55:29Z
       
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       @phillipdewet @malmorrow I think the main thing I'm taking away from this exchange is that we've solved for all paradoxes.