I have been interacting intensively with GPT3, 3.5 and ChatGPT for about 6 months. It has been an exhilarating, bewildering experience. It has been an experience which has made me re-evaluate what it means to be human, what it means to be intelligent.
synesthesia - is when you hear music, but you see shapes. Or you hear a word or a name and instantly see a color. Synesthesia is a fancy name for when you experience one of your senses through another.
That's been my understanding of ChatGPT, colored from what I understand from both Tesla and Stable Diffusion.
ChatGPT feels like a gnome in a box, a partially intelligent creature, extremely limited, without a super solid understanding of the outside world, but weirdly competent and creative at some tasks.
It is excellent at style transfer, best illustrated visually.
Except it can do
scientific paper -> rap song
newspaper article. -> sonnet
legal document -> explanation to a 5 year old
code comments -> code
python code -> rust code
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