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I'm glad you like it! /r/bestof was one of my favorite subreddits for a long time (then it went to shit). I hope we can build a high-quality community here.

The problem is that they "see" the text at the token level instead of the level of characters. That's why they are bad at reversing strings or counting characters, for example. They perceive tokens as the atomic units of text instead of characters. For example, see how this comment gets tokenized:

With the token IDs shown:

The current ChatGPTs got pretty good at these tasks but they are still hard for them.

Here is an example of a (admittedly more complicated) character-level task failing:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11z9tuk/chatgpt_vs_reversed_text/ (It's from the devil's website, so don't open it)

Related tweet by @karpathy:

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1657949234535211009

Text reversing example from a tweet by @npew:

EDIT: sorry for the infodump, I just find these topics fascinating.

Just posted this to Best of Lemmy: https://programming.dev/post/117487

Sounds really interesting, can you post the images?

I tried to run a similar experiment using Midjourney with equally fascinating results:

• Experiment 1 - in the post body
• Experiment 2 - in the comment

And here is another experiment where I tried to use invented words in the prompt.

I typed in more of the weird text from the logos with the following results:

Prompt:

FROTIE FIOLE --q 2

Output:

Prompt:

NOTE MAMESE --q 2

Output:

Conclusion:

While these are all beautiful images, they have nothing to do with either the original fitness prompt or the logos. Though the first prompt seems to consistently mean "frog", and the second one "a girl playing music".

For both of these prompts, I received a warning from Midjourney:

Action needed to continue

Sorry! Our AI moderators feel your prompt might be against our community standards.

If you think this is a mistake, please press the "Appeal" button below and we will send it to a more sophisticated AI to double-check the result. /imagine NOTE MAMESE --q 2

And I had to appeal. I won't do any more of these experiments because I don't want them to ban me :D

I'm not a native English speaker so I have a hard time coming up with nonsense words that have a certain "feel", so I asked ChatGPT to generate some for me:

https://chat.openai.com/share/c1d553dd-a517-4a17-8473-72afaddd0e87

Here is what happened when I fed them into Midjourney:

Sereneity and sonderance

ChatGPT definitions:

• Sereneity: A feeling of tranquility that encompasses not only inner peace but also a deep connection with the surrounding environment. This word is inspired by the feeling of sitting alone in a serene location, soaking in the beauty, and attaining a sense of balance within oneself.
• Sonderance: The sudden overwhelming sensation that every person around you has a life as complex and intricate as your own. It builds on the concept of 'sonder' and adds 'resonance', symbolizing the emotional impact of this realization.

Midjourney prompt:

Sereneity and sonderance --q 2

Midjourney output:

Dystaust retrofrisson

ChatGPT definitions:

• Dystaust: The feeling of unease and dissatisfaction that comes from living in a time you feel doesn't fit your values or desires. This is a mix of 'dystopia' and 'disgust' representing a conceptual disconnect with the present time.
• Retrofrisson: The nostalgia-tinged chills one gets when encountering an artifact, sound, smell, or taste from one's past. Formed from 'retro' (old or in the past) and 'frisson' (a moment of intense excitement).

Midjourney prompt:

Dystaust retrofrisson as a symbolic image --q 2

(I needed to add some actual words because it stopped with an error without them.)

Midjourney output:

Conclusion

The images are amazing and they pretty accurately represent what ChatGPT meant!

Then you're officially one of The Weird Ones™.

Nice to meet you fellow nerd! 👋

Unfortunately the tutorials out there are mostly terrible. I've learnt it by experimenting a lot and seeing what worked for me. Some general advice:

• Subscribe to both Copilot and ChatGPT Plus and try using them as much as possible for at least a month. Some people prefer the former, others the latter, and you can't know in advance which.
• Always use the GPT-4 model in ChatGPT but keep in mind that there is a 25 answers/3 hours rate limit. So try to squeeze as many questions and information into your messages as possible. GPT-4 is miles ahead of any other publicly available LLM, including GPT-3.5.
• Tips for ChatGPT:
  • Give detailed, well-written prompts. Try to describe the problem the same way you would to a coworker.
  • After describing the problem, ask ChatGPT if it needs any additional information to implement the code well. It usually asks very insightful questions.
  • Answer the questions and then ask it to break down the problem into individual functions and then, in separate messages, ask it to implement them one by one.
  • Remember that the context window is limited, after some time it won't remember the beginning of the conversation so it's worth repeating parts of the specification later.
• Tips for Copilot:
  • Write the method signature and have Copilot implement it for you
  • Write a comment and have Copilot implement the corresponding code
  • Paste the code as a comment in a different language, write "the same logic in $lang2" in a comment, and it will translate it from $lang1 into $lang2.

• “You just don’t care enough about it”
• “Just use a planner, what’s so hard about it?”
• “Write a to-do list”
• “You have to actively want to remember. If you don’t give a shit, of course you will forget it!”
• "You just need to try harder."
• "Stop getting distracted so easily."
• "You're just lazy."
• "Can't you just sit still for once?"
• "Everyone procrastinates, you're not special."
• "You need to stop being so impulsive."
• "Why can't you just focus?"
• "Your problem is a lack of discipline."

And my absolute favorite which someone actually said to me:

“All of your problems stem from not living your life in a rational way.”

These people live life on easy mode and look down on us who never had a chance to practice and were thrown into insane mode right from the start.

Here I asked it to explain the Fediverse in an ADHD-friendly way. The explanation is a bit too simplified for my taste but it covers all important aspects:

1. What's Fediverse? 🌐 It's a big, friendly neighborhood of social networks. Think of it as many houses (sites) on the same street.

2. Different sites, but connected: 🔄 Like sending an Instagram message to a Twitter user. Different sites in the Fediverse can chat, post, and share with each other!

3. You're in Control: 🕹️ You pick your site, you control your data. If you don't like one, you can switch but still keep your friends.

4. Open Source: 📝 The software is open source. Think of it like a recipe anyone can use or modify. So new cool features can pop up from anywhere!

5. Variety of Platforms: 🎨 There's Mastodon for tweets, PeerTube for videos, Pixelfed for photos, and more. Choose your own adventure!

Remember: The Fediverse is like a big party 🎉 where everyone's invited, and you get to pick which room you hang out in!

ChatGPT (especially GPT-4) is the best for this. You can ask whatever you want without being judged, and it helps you think through the details. You can even ask it to make its answers ADHD-friendly by formatting them as bullet points and using emojis, bold and italics.

GPT-4 is much better at summarizing (and everything else):

Moderators from r/blind and other communities had a meeting with Reddit representatives on June 16, 2023, to discuss accessibility issues on the platform. The moderators expressed concerns that Reddit's current focus is on improving accessibility for users, not moderators, and lacks clear timelines for accessibility improvements in moderation tools. They also noted that Reddit seemed unaware of the reliance on third-party apps due to Reddit's own tools' lack of accessibility.

Moreover, concerns were raised about Reddit's unwillingness to share details about the qualifications of their employees tasked with accessibility, the specifics of their previously performed accessibility audit, and the definition of their term “accessibility-focused app.” Reddit's lack of full-time employees working on accessibility was another worry.

Although Reddit seems to be acknowledging and planning to fix known accessibility issues, the lack of knowledge about what they aren't aware of was disheartening for the moderators. They expressed their frustration over unanswered questions, and emphasized the need for accessible tools to effectively moderate their communities. They remain open to continued dialogue with Reddit to promote a more accessible platform.