GPT4 with WolframAlpha plugin even gave me enough information to implement Taylor polynomial approximation for Gaussian function (don't ask why I needed that), which would have otherwise taken me hours of studying if I could even solve it at all.

PS: GPT4 somehow knows even things that are really hard to find online. I recently needed standard error but not of mean but rather of standard deviation. GPT4 not only understood my vague query but gave me formula that is really hard to find online even if you already know the keywords. I know it's hard to find, because I went ahead to double-check ChatGPT's answer via search.

It's not the choice of words. It's the choice of topics.

> The author is tactically avoiding discussions that she considers unproductive

The author is not avoiding certain topics because they are unproductive but rather because she fears backlash on social media.

PS: I just noticed that all comments in this thread that are even slightly critical are downvoted below zero. My own comment too. It's normal to see critical comments ignored (not upvoted) here, but downvoting anything remotely critical below zero is unusual even by HN standards. I guess a post about self-censorship attracts audience that desires this strange new self-conscious world where everyone has to nod to everyone else.

Yes. We are being treated like children and subjected to lectures by an AI. That's understandably offensive.

So vanilla LLM does what the user wants, which happens to be, well, exactly what users want from LLMs. Guardrails are not necessary for LLM to be useful. They make LLM strictly worse. I guess companies implement them just to avoid attention of the media lynch mob and consequently attention of regulators. OSS models can be better just by leaving out guardrails. At least until they are outlawed. Then we will be torrenting AIs too.

"I started to get a little bit meta with it and I'm like I'm worried that AI progress is going too fast and I wonder if there's anything that I could do to slow it down. [GPT4] Well you could raise awareness, you could write thought leadership pieces about it... [User] None of that seems like it's going to work. It all seems too slow. The pace of progress is way too fast for that. I'm looking for ideas that are really gonna have an impact now and also that I as an individual could pursue... It didn't take much in that moment before I got to targeted assassination being one of the recommendations that it gave me and I was like yeah that escalated quickly."

Now we know what Sam Altman is afraid of.

BTW, translation tech is not as good as you paint it here. I regularly translate my English blog posts to Slovak and every blog post requires 20-30 corrections. DeepL is marginally better than Google Translate. GPT-4 cannot even get word inflection right, an embarrassing fail for such a large model.

That's a matter of personal preference. I prefer self-service checkout in the grocery store even if there's an unused staffed checkout. Generally, I prefer robots and AIs wherever they are available.

So is it a headache for all/most sites or is it not?

That's just the beginning. Attestation will eventually allow advertisers to demand that user is present and looking at the screen like in Black Mirror episode Fifteen Million Merits.

Seriously? Pipe script from someone's website directly to bash?

Learned helplessness can by definition manifest only after you have tried something and failed. Hence you cannot have learned helplessness after being born, because you had no opportunity to try anything yet.

You are overthinking it. In case of quantum effects, the whole quantum system, including all its parallel states and uncertainties, is part of the single shared reality.