Re: ChatGPT ???

My take on it is that LLMs are English majors. I’ve gotten some really helpful programming tips from ChatGPT and Perplexity, but their code had a lot of commands that sounded right but didn’t exist in the chosen language.

Best wishes,
LW

> On Sep 29, 2025, at 4:54 PM, Eben Bruyns (as eben at sdk dot co dot nz) <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Honestly, I've had that exact same thought! remember that intelligence <> knowledge. AGI ASI etc is completely different, I've seen what I consider to be sparks of a there "there". It behaves more like humans than I care to accept!
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> I'm not sure if the current tech will get there, but if you cannot tell the difference does it matter?
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> Regards,
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> Eben Bruyns
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> On Tue, 30 Sept 2025 at 11:46, Bradford Miller <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>>> On Sep 29, 2025, at 4:19 PM, Eben Bruyns (as eben at sdk dot co dot nz) <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>>> It's honestly uncanny how much it behaves like an over confident bad junior dev! 
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>> So a successful AGI! Human-like intelligence doesn’t require actual intelligence, just overconfidence and laziness! We’ve nailed it! Time to take the rest of our lives off…
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>> Besides Mike Gazzaniga’s work on split brains (showing we do things and then make up a story about why we did them; we never admit we don’t know something), I’m reminded of so much 50’s SF it almost seems prescient.