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Tag: ChatGPT
“Bard, tell me a joke about Max Weber”
Sure, here is a joke about Max Weber:Why did Max Weber become a sociologist?Because he was interested in the sociology of bureaucracy.I hope you found it funny! As a coda to a grey and mildly depressing Sunday, I checked in with Bard to see if it was any better than half a year ago. The…
Luhmann was a Large Language Model
The other day, I read an article about #ChatGPT simulating understanding by correlating words. Which brought on a painful flashback to that time when I took a course on Luhmann
ChatGPT is trying to replace me
Everyone is replaceable.So I asked the machine to write a paragraph in the style of me.
Thread by @dsmerdon on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
ChatGPT is very good at inventing credible-sounding research papers – stuff that could, at first glance, be real, but isn’t. Here is a long thread about what is probably/possibly going on behind the scenes. Long story short: don’t trust this machine. It’s the AI equivalent of a man that is both mediocre and overconfident.
An Ode to Maximum Likelihood Estimation, by ChatGPT. And a sonnet. And a haiku.
Artificial Intelligence is coming for us, so let’s hide behind Natural Stupidity
GPT and my own career trajectory
Food for thought here
An epic battle: Karl Marx vs Max Weber
ChatGPT. It’s a brand-new technology, so let’s do something silly: the Marx-Weber Rap
Top tip for academic recommendation letter writing: the machine can do it for you
Stop wasting your time. GPT 3.5 can write a plausible recommendation letter for your student.
I asked the AI chatbot to channel Ronald Inglehart, and the result is good enough to fool Google
In 2022,AI is good enough to write a paragraph in the style of Ronald Inglehart. This is disruptive, to say the least.