ChatGPT with Rob Miles - Computerphile

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters send it to people confused about ChatGPT's quirks, explaining how human-feedback training makes it a pleasing yes-man that bullshits.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Computerphile

Topic

chatgpt and alignment

Format

interview

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

• This video[1] cleared up a lot of questions for me as to the issues I've seen with ChatGPT. My current operating theory goes thusly: Think back to "This Person does not Exist" [2], a site which generates a simulated human face. This works by randomly …

• It might help quite a bit to watch this overview of how ChatGPT works, and especially how it was trained .[1] Human attention was too expensive for the training, so they made another AI to simulate the trainers. Unfortunately, the trainer simulator training didn't have …

• It depends on your definition of cheating, but this is definitely not "using humans to answer all questions one could ask". Rather it's a way to tune language models to be more like assistants rather than "most likely continuation machines". For context I recommend watching …