ChatGPT – The Revolutionary Bullshit Parrot
I thought it was a post to hacker news of someone&#x27;s hilariously bad and outdated take on GPT as a way to cyberbully them, but no it&#x27;s from only a couple of days ago. Probably it will be deleted from their blog or in any case age so bad when the next GPT comes, given their list of things the GPT wouldn&#x27;t be able to do (&quot;What it can and what cannot: There are, of course, applications that it would be useful in, but not as many as the overhype would indicate.&quot;)<p>&gt; Actually understand the task at hand<p>&gt; Do simple maths<p>&gt; Perform common sense reasoning about the world<p>&gt; Induce Logical Structure<p>&gt; Interpret poetry<p>&gt; Understand dad jokes<p>My theory is that the blog writer has a worse than normal impression of GPT because much of their conversation with GPT is in some other language maybe Polish. This isn&#x27;t such a huge problem because GPT can still do its input and output in Polish, but I think it&#x27;s commonly accepted that every language other than English adds some cognitive burden to the GPT that makes it dumber. The more obscure the language (or even encoding like morse code or rot13 or base64) the dumber the GPT gets. So the blog writer has a more outdated effective experience with GPT than ones who use it in languages more familiar to it than Polish.