From: BPJ via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
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Cc: BPJ <bpj@melroch.se>
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] knuth
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 09:27:45 +0200 [thread overview]
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Den tors 1 juni 2023 11:48Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
skrev:
> Hi,
>
> Probably some on this list already checked how well chatgpt answers
> questions about domains one knows well and then probably noted that in
> spite of impressive wording, one can run into quite incorrect answers.
>
> One can get really stupid responses about tex and friends, but also can
> get impressive exmapled when asked for. (I'm still planning a wrap up of
> some.)
>
> That said, one should read:
>
> https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt
>
> and this makes a pretty nice new sample file:
>
> It's amazing how the confident tone lends credibility to all of that
> made-up nonsense. Almost impossible for anybody without knowledge
> of the book to believe that those "facts" aren't authorititative
> and well researched.
>
> (among some other remarks)
>
I wonder what Knuth would say about having ChatGPT write computer programs,
which I think can be outright dangerous. Either you get shitty code which
doesn't work, which is good, or you get shitty code which works which is
bad or Really Bad.
> Hans
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-02 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-01 9:44 Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-06-01 10:32 ` luigi scarso via ntg-context
2023-06-01 11:49 ` Floris van Manen via ntg-context
2023-06-02 7:27 ` BPJ via ntg-context [this message]
2023-06-02 7:58 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-06-02 21:07 ` Carlos via ntg-context
2023-06-04 21:57 ` Berend de Boer via ntg-context
2023-06-05 13:09 ` Alan Braslau via ntg-context
2023-06-05 14:20 ` Carlos via ntg-context
2023-06-05 14:50 ` luigi scarso via ntg-context
2023-06-05 15:22 ` Alan Braslau via ntg-context
2023-06-05 16:07 ` Carlos via ntg-context
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