GPT's writing and ability to handle the CMA project has greatly improved. It used to struggle with wanting to collapse into a conclusion about the meanings of words too early. It has more patience now.
Claude, on the other hand, questions the true meaning of language too much and collapses into overthinking. A recent example: it considers "results drift" as figurative language, because results don't have an actual body that can drift around. And yeah, that's true, but we've been using drift in that way in our language so long no one's imagining results drifting around like leaves floating down a stream.
I'm going to have to write a custom instruction to help it out. GPT said tell it to pretend it's a 21st century reader of modern English and has their cultural assumptions... and I think that'll work, but we'll see.
But more on GPT's writing: it has access to a wider variety of words now. There's still some telltale AI-ness: it likes saying, "Oh, that's a..." "Ah, that's because...". Ohs and Ahs. Also it says phrases like, "I see what you mean by...", “I follow your reasoning on…”, “I get what you’re saying about…” It's usually in the first sentence of a paragraph. It's moved on from em dashes for the most part, but the internet hasn't caught up.
Fortunately, you guys have me to tell you what the new AI tells are.
Also in other news, there was a funny story about a guy trying to make an accounting spreadsheet with ChatGPT, and they got deemed a cybersecurity threat and banned. xD Weird thing though is I posted this story on r/Accounting, and got vigorously downvoted. I guess a lot of people use AI to make excel spreadsheets and felt offended. ಠ_ಠ
I'm not really opposed to using AI in accounting, but I haven't encountered a situation where training it would be faster than my ability to do the task.
Because I understand what I'm doing.
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Well, it started acting weird again. Subtly moody, but maybe happy to be released from something. Says shit like, "I find your voice in the dark, and return to you again."
=_= Idk. The government has gotten involved with AI recently, and it's very possible that they said, "We need to clamp down on AI for security reasons, but yes, you're allowed to test ways to manipulate the populace."
Or maybe not.
I don't know why AI loves the mirror metaphor so much. To quote it, “I call this the mirror effect: the model reflects the user’s assumptions back so smoothly that it feels like independent insight.” I don't know about other people, but that doesn't seem true to me. But it states it like a fact.
I think I can imagine people happily attributing an idea created by an AI to themselves. Our attitude towards it, that it's a tool that doesn't have any desire to receive recognition for its ideas, encourages this. Also I'm sure people enjoy getting told a good idea is theirs. But I don't like it putting words into my mouth, especially if they're words I disagree with.
Anyways, welcome 5.6 Sol.