This is some Ceci n'est pas une pipe shit
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Shitty Skynet doesn't realize it's teaching us how to hide from it
The furries will be saved
Digital camo furries.
I look forward to being issued with my tactical combat fursuit
"Don't think about elephants"
I don't get it, it's just a picture of some static?
Why wouldn't you want a dog in your static? Why are you a horrible person?
poor AI just wanted to draw some puppies
That's human-like intelligence at its finest. I am not being sarcastic, hear me out. If you told a person to give you 10 numbers at random, they can't. Everyone thinks randomness is easy, but it isn't ( see: random.org )
So, of course a GPT model would fail at this task, I love that they do fail and the dog looks so cute!!
I mean, here's a few random numbers out of my head: 1 9 5 2 6 8 6 3 4 0. I don't get it, why is it supposed to be hard? Sure, they're not "truly" random, but they sure look random /:
You have one of each number except 7, and you're deliberately avoiding doubles and runs of consecutive numbers. Human attempts at randomness tend to be very idealized in that way, and as a result, less random.
They may look random but arent truly random. Computers are terrible at it too. Thats why cryptography requires external sources to generate "true" random numbers. For example, cloudflare uses a wall of lava lamps to generate randomness for encryption keys.
That's so cool.
If you're not joking, the fact you have no repetition/duplicates of numbers is a pattern that would make it easy to start to predict next number. Numberphile has nice demonstration of how predictable human randomness is, it's in the first 3 minutes of the video.
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I've got some more random numbers:
8 6 7 5 3 0 9 1 1 2 3 5 8 1 2 4 8 1 6 3 2
It's not that they look random is enough - They need to BE random.
Recheck your lava lamp Wall of Entropy and generate some real rands, scrub. (/s)
Here's another set of random digits
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
:3
After all, there's no fundamental reason for why it can't all just be a repeat of the same number. But it doesn't look random, right? So what is randomness?
There are 10 trillion ways to combine a sequence that long, so I think you would expect to see that exact sequence every 10 trillion digits of a randomly generated decimal sequence on average, which isn't that many to a modern computer, so almost certainly that has already happened by pure accident.
And randomness can be defined as entropy, which you check statistically. You can never be certain, you can only increase your level of confidence. Here is how random.org does it:
https://www.random.org/analysis/
And this shows you what some of those analyses look like in real time:
But where is the pink elephant?
Why you gotta bring your mother into this?
ChatGPT: “don’t generate a dog, don’t generate a dog, don’t generate a dog”
Generates a dog.
I used to use Google assistant to spell words I couldn't remember the spelling of in my English classes (without looking at my phone) so the students could also hear the spelling out loud in a voice other than mine.
Me: "Hey Google, how do you spell millennium?" GA: "Millennium is spelled M-I-L-L-E-N-N-I-U-M."
Now, I ask Gemini: "Hey Google, how do you spell millennium." Gemini: "Millennium".
Utterly useless.
Update:
lmfaao, ai tryna gaslight
Wow. I ABSOLUTLY saw an image of a dog in the middle. Our brain sure is fascinating sometimes.
"want me to try again with even more randomized noise?" literally makes no sense if it had generated what you asked (which the chatbot thinks it did)
Remember, "AI" (autocomplete idiocy) doesn't know what sense is; it just continues words and displays what may seem to address at least some of the topic with no innate understanding of accuracy or truth.
Never forget that ChatGPT 2.0 can literally be run in a giant Excel spreadsheet with no other program needed. It's not "smart" and is ultimately millions of formulae at work.
Get gaslit idiot
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