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You asked a generic machine a generic question and it gave you an extremely generic response. What did you expect? There was no context. It should have asked you more questions about what you’ll be doing.

TIL ChatGPT is taking notes off my ex.

If I narrow down the scope, or ask the same question a different way, there's a good chance I reach the answer I'm looking for.

https://chatgpt.com/share/ca367284-2e67-40bd-bff5-2e1e629fd3c0

I could have said anything, and then it would have agreed with me

Nope, I've had it argue with me, and I kept arguing my point but it kept disagreeing, then I realized I was wrong. I felt stupid but I learned from it.

It doesn't "know" anything but that doesn't mean that it can't be right.

(To be fair, I did manage to run Half Life: Alyx and Beat Saber on a 1060)

I think some of the issue is that the bulk of its knowledge is from a few years back and it relies on searching the internet to fill the gap. But it prefers the older database it was trained against.

Those first set of specs it quoted are actually the original min specs that Oculus and Valve promoted for the Rift and Vive when they were new.

Ever since then there have not been new “official” min specs. But it’s true that higher spec if better and that newer headsets are higher res and could use higher spec stuff.

Also, a “well actually” on this would be that those are the revised min specs that were put out a few years after the initial specs. It use to be a GTX 970 was min spec. But they changed that to the 1060.

What is failing here is the model actually being smart. If it was smart it would have reasoned that time moves on and it would have considered better mins pecs for current hardware. But instead it just regurgitated the min specs that were once commonly quoted by Oculus/Meta and Valve.

"Converted what I said into the truth"

Now I'm not against the point you're making in any way, I think the bots are hardcore yes men.

Buut... I have a 1060 and I got it around when No Man's Sky came out, and I did try it on my 4k LED TV. It did run, but it also stuttered quite a bit.

Now I'm currently thinking of updating my card, as I've updated the rest of the PC last year. A 3070 is basically what I'm considering, unless I can find a nice 4000 series with good VRAM.

My point here being that this isn't the best example you could have given, as I've basically had that conversation several times in real life, exactly like that, as "it runs" is somewhat subjective.

LLM's obviously have trouble with subjective things, as we humans do too.

But again, I agree with the point you're trying to make. You can get these bots to say anything. It amused me that the blocks are much more easily circumvented just by telling them to ignore something or by talking hypothetically. Idk but at least very strong text based erotica was easy to get out of them last year, which I think should not have been the case, probably.

I find they all act like yes men. Some do seem to do another search but eliminate results I find suspect and some just keep replying with the same thing.

I learned early on you can't rely on them for factual information for reasons you stated.

I use them for creative writing tasks (drafting up emails, letters, etc), generating ideas, for creating excel formulas, basic python, vba functions, etc.

Imagine text gen AI as just a big hat filled with slips of paper and when you ask it for something, it's just grabbing random shit out of the hat and arranging it so it looks like a normal sentence.

Even if you filled it with only good information, it will still cross those things together to form an entirely new and novel response, which would invariably be wrong as it mixes info about multiple subjects together even if all the information individually was technically accurate.

They are not intelligent. They aren't even better than similar systems that existed before LLMs!