The World's Most Misunderstood Technologies

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The Nicolas Cage may be an all-time editor moment!

If there's anyone who deserves the "legend" title, it's Kevin for simultaneously explaining how in the world ChatGPT understands Simon's questions while also making fun of him for using it the way he does.

I would love to see a video of all the times people relied on ChatGPT for facts, only to get screwed when ChatGPT gave wrong info. Like the lawyer, or the university professor.

One of the keywords you glossed over is "random" - chatGPT is only predicting the next word a generic human would write, it doesn't have an underlying thesis, concept or purpose behind what it's doing, so it just selects at random from a preexisting pattern it has in memory. If you want a good exercise to show the limits of chatGPT's creativity, try having it tell you a story . You'll find the story lacks anything resembling subtext, or a theme, setup and payoff and basically anything else that would require planning and consideration of what comes next - though if asked it will try to guess at what the themes were in whatever it wrote. This is why people say it lacks true creativity, because while, yes, people work is by definition derived from their experiences, chapGPT lacks the capacity to internally frame all those concepts as "concepts" to be recombined, instead it is limited to words. The best description I ever saw is imagine a library full of alien text that you have no context for or means to translate- requests come in in the alien language, and you send books back - then you get a star rating for your response - over time you might figure out which symbols get you higher star ratings based on the request, but you'll never know what the language means.

About programming, chatgpt can write adequately serviceable snippets of code, but thats it. If you make a parallel of writing a program and building a house, you can ask chatgpt to install a door here, it it will mostly get it right. It might install it upside down, or somehow make a door with two doorhandles that doesn't open, but prompt it a couple of times and you will get the results you want. If you task it to building a house, expect stairs in the middle of the bathroom that end up somehow inside a moving car.

Im just here to congratulate the editor who got sick of complaining about Simons' tangents and instead decided to go on their own tangent about Nicolas Cage.

The ChatGPT segment made me think of the old joke; once you finish reading the dictionary, every other book is just a remix.

Wow, I actually stopped screaming FARADAY!!! at my screen during that Nick Cage bit. I've never felt so invested in the lad in my life.

“It makes me wanna peel my face off and wear it as a mask”. This is part of why I watch this channel.

Our fearless (and stoned) editor deserves a raise for the Nicolas Cage edit alone. Chef's kiss! I had to stop the video to laugh for a solid minute. Also, anyone who has ever rewarmed a bowl of spaghetti knows it doesn't cook from the inside out. Those noodles are Satan's own lava whip on the outside and threads of ice in the middle.

When you refresh your list and Simon just posted 14 seconds ago.

I can see Simon as being the local town drunk/crier. Sitting at the bar nursing one pint for hours, telling weird "tales/facts" to anybody that gets to close to him and then asking for a new beer as payment.

I'd love to see an episode where Simon blind reads two different short scripts on the exact same subject, but one is written by ChatGPT and the other is written by one of his human writers.

The thing most people don't seem to recognize about ChatGPT or other "AI" programs we have is that they have no idea what they are doing. If you ask ChatGPT to write a story, it doesn't think "I need characters, a plot, a beginning/middle/end". It thinks "what is the most common word written in response to "write a story"" and it goes from there. It's this fundamental issue that lead to a amateur Go player being able to beat the best AI bot in the world, because the AI never recognized it was playing a game.

I cackled quite loudly at the Nicholas Cage Bees clip. 😂 I'm sorry, Simon, I've never used ChatGPT, nor have I any desire to. I'm perfectly fine doing research the old fashioned way, with Wikipedia. 😅

Kevin wrote the quantum computer segment to try to melt Simon's brain didn't he?

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Hahaha I love it! Simon: currently has job where he reads other people's writings to an audience "If I had to have a job in the past I'd be the one where I read other people's writing to an audience" Hmm yeah, makes sense. I'd wanna be doing what I'm doing now too, Simon 😂

When do we get a SAM v SIMON tangent timers? The one time Simon had a tangent timer had me absolutely engaged the entire video because I wanted to see how high up it can get.