Sam Altman Says It'll Take Another Year Before ChatGPT Can Start a Timer
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  • tonyn@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    ChatGPT and other LLMs need access to tools for things like this just like you and I do. If you ask me how many seconds have elapsed since I started typing this, I would give you a convincing estimate. I would need a Casio watch to give you an exact answer.

    • DacoTaco@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      This is correct. LLM’s are just the knowledge and information processing bit of our brain. To actually do things we need access to things like our limbs, eyes, ears, watch, computer,…
      Which is why my comment in this thread spoke of an mcp tool and a webhook, which is all thats needed. So a year for that? Fuck off, thats absurdly long for 2 things that already exist and just need to br plugged in the source…

    • All Ice In Chains@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      C’mon bro, just one more trillion, that’s all. Then we’ll have a paradise with a new Epstein island and everything.

  • Tangentism@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    There’s a guy on tiktok called Huskistaken (yes, i know) that demonstrates repeatedly just how useless chatgpt is.

    The first video of his I saw was him playing a clip of altman stating that it doesn’t have a timer and chat gpt countering that it does.

    He then gets it to start a timer to time his long it takes him to run a mile and almost instantly tells it to stop. It tells him it was +7 minutes!

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    So, ChatGPT can’t match any function of a Casio wristwatch. I’m concerned that when it can, it will consume the power of microwaving a turkey just to tell a user what time it is.

    • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 days ago

      a better comparison: if you ask siri to time you like this 10 years ago, it would correctly start the timer app

  • DacoTaco@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    A year? To make a mcp tool that starts a timer and a website hook that listens for it?
    Alright, thats kinda fucked lol

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Okay, but just to be clear, the problem is not that it can’t do a timer. The problem is that it claims to be able to and even produces a result which looks plausible. It means, you cannot trust it to do anything that you can’t easily verify. If they could fix that overconfidence in a year, it would be much better.