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Yggdrasill on scored.co
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Yeah I’ve seen the same thing. It also is dependent on the data sets it has access to, so if you’re asking it about something where it has a ton of code repos to look through, it will probably get you a decent answer. But if you’re asking about something that’s new and there’s not much documentation on, or something where it doesn’t have access to any of that product’s info in its data sets, it often just spits out nonsense - like I find that it will give you syntax for different programming languages sometimes when working with technologies that it probably doesn’t have much data on.
And in that sense, yeah it’s basically just a big talker, it’s a more efficient search engine, and it gives you some decent examples if it has data on the thing you’re asking about. But yeah, the idea of “sentience” or even intelligence, is kind of moot in my mind if something isn't capable of “retaining” a history, like a working memory of what it knows. Like is something “intelligent” if it knows something one second and forgets it the next? It’s more akin to the Greek “poesis” to me than intelligence - poesis is the root of “poetry”, “the process of emergence of something that did not previously exist.” But I would say that’s more like “inspiration” than “intelligence”.
And in that sense, yeah it’s basically just a big talker, it’s a more efficient search engine, and it gives you some decent examples if it has data on the thing you’re asking about. But yeah, the idea of “sentience” or even intelligence, is kind of moot in my mind if something isn't capable of “retaining” a history, like a working memory of what it knows. Like is something “intelligent” if it knows something one second and forgets it the next? It’s more akin to the Greek “poesis” to me than intelligence - poesis is the root of “poetry”, “the process of emergence of something that did not previously exist.” But I would say that’s more like “inspiration” than “intelligence”.