It may be a "thing", because generating BS is a viable business model and ChatGPT makes it more efficient.
..but I submit as a working hypothesis, that it is completely impossible to gain knowledge you do not already possess from a language model, no matter how clever your prompting.
I'm very interested in counter-examples, but I have seen a few that turn out to be fake already.
Not true. Emergent abilities is an active research area in LLMs [0]. They even have pretty graphs on the topic.
[0] https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/characterizing-emergent-ph...
Is Art Director just a "BS" job? I don't get it.
Checking some of the facts it gives me against other sites it’s all correct, but better organized and more accessible. There’s your counter-example. This works for basically any well-documented process.
I think I understand the sense in which you claim it produces relevant facts not in the prompt.
It's not that we differ on easily observable behavior of the system.
It's that I question if GPT-3 is "producing" these identifiable facts, and if the user is "producing" them instead, whether they can possibly be "relevant".
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. That GPT-3 is just vomiting stuff up out of its training set and not producing any new knowledge? But that's totally irrelevant to the issue of whether it can transmit knowledge to a user, who presumably hasn't memorized the entire training set.
It not only spit out the model but also the casts/fillable attributes on the model, as well. It even helped me work through an idea, that I didn't know what it was called, I was thinking it was EAV but instead it's metaform/metafields, to basically create something like how wordpress has the ability to dynamically create content 'types', django/wagtail can do this to, w/ chatgpt I think I've nailed down how to do this using polymorphism with the least amount of headache.
I'm wanting to create a CRM/CMS/ERP solution that can be very 'moldable' to different use cases, and this looks to be a good use, either way just being able to discuss with the ai my 'options', was like a major brain dump and increased the power of my flow.
YMMV, but if you can't get it to work like this, doesn't mean it doesn't, just means it doesn't for you, and while I can save 2-3 hours for every hour previously worked, that's valuable to me, esp as a freelancer who charges per project, not hourly.
