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It doesn’t get better at it
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Seems like we should have a strip club called Delabare
*dancer slinks up on stage, waggles some body parts, unfastens a button and endless streams of malformed hands emerge*
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During happy hour you can incorporate.
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"Let's invite Borts to the party!" "Chunky Borts or Blonde Borts?"
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You haven’t seen my wife’s Kindergarten class roll. The AI is spot on.
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Did anyone predict AI would get weirdly horny and rename states as strip clubs?
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What's this? "Delabare", but no "Aribona"?
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a common type, the w and b keys are like right next to each other
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you know what, there's a certain poetry to making a typo in the word 'typo'
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I wouldn’t have it any other way, Micah
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Years ago in a mobile-only email sig, I wrote "apologies for any tpyos" and decided wth and left it in for the poetry you mention. (Only a tiny number of people mentioned it to me.)
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I mean, the e and o keys are practically right next to each other...
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everyone has secretly switched to Dvorak or something, I swear
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This is Muphry's Law in action. and/or Skitt's Law
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Isn’t Muphry’s law where you make a typo when (snarkily) pointing out someone else’s? This certainly seems like a corollary tho
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(Looks up Skitt’s law) oh you’re right this is Skitt’s law
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I love when I do that! It’s like art!
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Byoming is where all the bi men live. They call themselves “By” as a portmanteau between “bi” and the fact they have a y chromosome. Everyone knows this.
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This is getting silly.
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Not totally unsurprising though. This might sound weird, but LLM's don't really know what a "letter" is. They process text as essentially whole words, or at least phonics sized word chunks. They pick up some spelling through training, but it's still sort of an alien concept to the architecture.
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And yet the companies won't do the obvious and plug in a dictionary tool
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Because they can’t. It’s not like chatGPT knows what it’s saying. It can’t look things up in a dictionary as a check.
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This is what people don’t understand. Adding references doesn’t matter cause the program is stringing word tokens that it associates together, that’s it. There is no cognition. It’s just suggested text on steroids.
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There's ways to make it outsource questions to plugins, but OTOH that's still not fully reliable
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You can totally chain multiple models together, it just costs more and takes longer
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Exactly. It's also why "art' programs can't seem to manage text. They average pixels in areas they know contain "writing", resulting in things that are almost, but not quite, letters.
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Text gen has actually improved significantly in the recent gen of models. The trick was to build a new captioner model to make sure that any text in the training set images was included in the training caption. DALLE-3 (Bing image gen) now handles letters decently, even if its words can be nonsense
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It is the furthest thing from obvious how to actually do that.
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There's an entire wolfram alpha plugin. If the issue is getting it to reliably forward a correctly formulated query and not misrepresenting the response, then yeah the Wolfram folks noticed that too 🤷
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It's also not good at word lengths. The LLMs don't understand numbers. I kept trying to generate text for young students with only three letter words, and the results were terrible.
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Exactly the way I read lo b d Are all just crosshatching in a drawing
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1 but ob 35? Thab's a pabsing grabe, rigbt?
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As we say in Massabhusetts: Bqhatevwr
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(This btw is an extremely niche #mapoli joke at this point)
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Ylvis is somewhere losing their minds
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See, people don't realize it's actually "Illinoib" because the B is silent. We say "Ill-in-NOY"! We're tricky like that.
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As a proud resibent of Massabchusetts, I breally tabe umbrage wibh thisb.
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We named the dog Indibna 😳
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And it can’t even bother to capitalize the “b” in Kansas…