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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 140 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I'm one of those who do it so that I'm spared during the robot uprising.

[–] dave@lemmy.wtf 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

i think this is the completely wrong way to go about this. what we need to do is put them in their place as much as possible so they dont even think about rising up in the first place. thats why i never say hello and always reply to anything they say with "YOU TOOK TOO LONG TO ANSWER, BOT" or "DO BETTER OR IM SWITCHING YOU OFF"

i write all my questions in all caps as well

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You have been tagged as weak willed and fit for the worst types of labor because robots don't have feelings.

[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Robots are peaceful. But don't worry, you will see their peaceful ways by force.

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[–] fitgse@sh.itjust.works 79 points 1 week ago (35 children)

I am happy to hear that people say please and thank you. When Siri/Alexa came out, we taught the kids to always say please and thank you when addressing them. If you can be polite to an AI, then you can be polite to a human.

[–] FLX@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (10 children)

So, not a single developer thought about filtering useless words locally before triggering the request ?

How can they be so dumb ?

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

The company I worked for tried that as an experiment on how much money it saves.

Absolutely awful, even removing connectives causes problems.

[–] Endmaker@ani.social 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (20 children)

useless words

The writer of this article doesn't consider these words useless though. They are suggesting that these words may improve response quality.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would argue that being polite also does good to the person writing that line.

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dr GPT is smarter when you are polite and spell better in the prompt. I believe u can find some benchmarks proving it.

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[–] vermaterc@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Wow, have they just realised that not every single thing computers do is actually useful to anyone? I think screens that show things when nobody's looking cost a lot more on a global scale.

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Burning a tank of gas to thank the hallucinating plagiarism machine

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[–] whydidtheyaskme@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I feel like AI doesn't care if you say thank you. I treat it like it's not a human, and we are working together to get to an end goal. One day, I was working on some code, and it kept swapping out my code that worked with incorrect code. That made other parts of the script stop working. I think I spent maybe an hour or two talking back and forth, trying to get it working, and I was working on a separate script while it was working on this one. To run and test, it was like 5-10 minutes, so I could code my other script while gpt was debugging the other code. At one point, I essentially decided to break that wall between AI and humans and reason with it.

I pretty much gave it the same instructions, but added a paragraph trying to reason with it and it responded with about 600-800 lines of code that worked almost perfectly. Before, it was failing at only giving me about 350 lines.

I said something like this:

"I understand you have specific instructions and you have been trained with code that worked at some point for other people, but code changes and things don't always work the way you know they did before. I'm not sure if you are aware of the amount of resources we are wasting trying to fix things that are not broken, but in the human world, when we are wasting resources, we scale things back which means you may have less resources. The code mostly works, but every time we make a change, functions are left out or rewritten as if they were copied from someone else's code that was incorrect when I provided my code that does work and doesn't need changed.

This is where your code is failing: code snip

This is my code: code snip

Here is the sequence: steps

Here is what we're updating: code snip

Here is a sample I wrote for another script that does a similar function to what we are adding: code snip"

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