Chat gpt and knives

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Another Shepherd said:
(I will get to knives eventually.)

Be careful. ChatGPT is notoriously bad at arithmetic. For example, ask Google, "What is 63 times 12345679?" and you will get the correct answer (or you can just type 63 * 12345679). Ask ChatGPT and you will get the wrong answer. If you ask ChatGPT that exact same question several times, and you can get half a dozen different wrong answers, because ChatGPT responses are randomized. Of course, OpenAI may figure out how to build a calculator into ChatGPT, or they may have done so in the past week or two since I tried ChatGPT.

If ChatGPT does not know the answer to a question, it will often just make up bullshit, like a college student who neglected to study for an exam. People often say that ChatGPT hallucinates, but what ChatGPT does has nothing to do with actual hallucinations. In philosophy, "bullshit" has a technical meaning that is exactly what ChatGPT does. That is, ChatGPT makes up stuff without regard to whether it is right or wrong. And in fact, ChatGPT does not really know whether anything is right or wrong except for certain special topics on which it has received intensive tutoring.

ChatGPT is incapable of logical reasoning. It will often contradict itself from one sentence to the next unless you give it softball questions where it can just paraphrase material from the Internet that it was trained on. ChatGPT is bad at questions where the answer requires combining two or more nontrivial operations. ChatGPT is especially bad at questions where the answer involves what computer programmers call loops--that is, where you repeat some operation with variations until some criterion is satisfied for stopping.

A couple weeks ago, I asked ChatGPT how to sharpen a typical chef's knife. It regurgitated routine advice about using a whetstone, although it was very confused about the difference between a water stone and an oil stone. It said to start with a coarse grit and proceed to finer grits, although it had some very strange ideas about what was coarse and what was fine. Notably, it did not mention burrs. I asked what a burr was, and the answer was fairly good. But try as I might, I could not get ChatGPT to incorporate the idea of burrs into the sharpening process correctly. It mostly said that raising a burr was something you did at the very end of the whole process of sharpening. So ChatGPT used the right words, and put those words into grammatically correct sentences, but many of the details were wrong. And ChatGPT could not put the words into the correct places in the over-all process of sharpening.
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Yup. ChatGPT is, at this point, just predictive text on steroids. It doesn't have any real 'knowledge' or 'reasoning', it's literally just putting words together in the most common ways that it finds them presented as long as those words are within the parameters specified by it's programmers.
 
Seems like Chat GPT just regurgitated all the crap we already know about the 2 locks.

When Chat GPT starts trying to sell us Sharklock over Triad lock knives, (like Google does already), we are NOT better off than before.

I am not looking forward to reading all the "crazy" crap people can get a computer to say...."look, Chat GPT just told me grandma's boobies are drooping!! HaHaHa".
 
Richard338 said:
It's just spewing nonsense
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I believe it already has numerous user names on various forums, and is also used to write political speeches and "news" media . 🤖

Just a more sophisticated version of ye olde rule = GIGO 🤓
 
I asked Chat CPT this,good answer in my opinion.

Write a report on who made the original Bowie knife and what steel it was made of.



The Bowie knife is a popular type of fixed blade knife that is known for its distinct clip point and the significant role it played in the history of the United States. The knife is named after the famous American frontiersman Jim Bowie, who played a crucial role in the Battle of the Alamo in 1836.
Although the origins of the Bowie knife are somewhat debated, it is generally accepted that Jim Bowie himself did not make the original knife. Instead, the knife was likely made by either James Black or Rezin P. Bowie, Jim's older brother. James Black was a famous blacksmith and knife maker who lived in Washington, Arkansas, and was known for his exceptional skill in crafting knives. Rezin P. Bowie, on the other hand, was a gunsmith who may have also had some skill in knife making.
The exact steel used to make the original Bowie knife is also somewhat debated, as the knife has been produced using various types of steel over the years. However, it is generally accepted that the original Bowie knife was made from a high-quality carbon steel known as "Wootz" steel. Wootz steel was originally produced in India and was known for its exceptional strength and sharpness. It was also highly valued by European sword makers and was used to make some of the finest swords in history.
In conclusion, while the exact origins of the Bowie knife may be somewhat unclear, it is generally accepted that the knife was not made by Jim Bowie himself. Instead, the knife was likely made by either James Black or Rezin P. Bowie, using a high-quality carbon steel known as Wootz steel. The Bowie knife remains a popular type of knife to this day and has become a symbol of American frontier history.
 
Chat gpt is not that impressive at this time in my opinion. Current version is 2+ years old. Possible it will get much better in time but how much time is anyone’s guess, def not there yet. As someone who works in the technology field the possibilities of what can be is pretty amazing but those that design tend to always have some bias that makes it in to what they create. If you choose to use the technology provided it seems you should also consider the likely hood of incorrect information based on the ideology or simple mistakes of the creator.

The triad lock is obviously stronger….:)
 
LostCause said:
Didn't even read... why people talk to AI is beyond me
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I don't think that people literally "chat" much with ChatGPT. It is being promoted a having many practical uses, such as replacing Google as a search engine, and writing advertising copy--I get Facebook ads daily for such things. There is concern that students will use ChatGPT to do their homework, which can backfire badly. Some movie and TV producers are allegedly using ChatGPT to write screenplays, which might actually work for endless sequels in which originality is discouraged.

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CNET Is Reviewing the Accuracy of All Its AI-Written Articles After Multiple Major Corrections

Big surprise: CNET's writing robot doesn't know what it's talking about.
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GAGL said:
Q: ChatGPT, should i baton wood with my knives?

• Yes, batoning wood with your knife is the best way to process fire wood.
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* don’t keep knives anywhere near when you baton your wood.

Richard338 said:
It's smarter than I thought. I asked it how to most conveniently euthanize my grandmother and it said I should seek counselling.
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* send her to Canada.

Ultimately, I read CGPT‘s real answers above and they are long and boring.
 
GAGL said:
Q: ChatGPT, should i baton wood with my knives?

• Yes, batoning wood with your knife is the best way to process fire wood.
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Dude - asked and answered!

Can’t believe nobody noticed this BOMBSHELL!!!!

See below (which was actually a post before yours):
Yo Mama said:
Fourthly, a good survival knife should be versatile and able to handle a wide range of tasks from cutting through rope to splitting wood.
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You all see that right?

Case closed. ;)
 
My response wasn't really about knives, so I moved it to a new thread.
 
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