I’ve been using Chat GPT for quite a while now, and I’ve been a GPT Plus user since GPT-4 was released. Over the past few days, it seems like GPT-4 is struggling to do things it did well previously. I use GPT-4 to augment long-form content analysis and creation, and in the past, it seemed to under…

Are you sure it varies by time of day? (I’m not challenging; just confirming.) If so, when is it smartest? (Please report timezone or GMT) FWIW, I haven’t been using ChatGPT since I posted originally, but I have been exploring BARD. Bard is not as smart as ChatGPT, but is much, much more self-awa…

I can’t speak to the issue of what ‘A lot of this “self-awareness”’ might be, since I don’t know what data or reports you are referencing. I can only speak to what I’ve seen in my own interactions with Bard. It might be worthwhile to consider the differences between Bard and ChatGPT. C-GPT has a f…

[image] anon10827405: Bard only has an identity because Google is not properly aligning their model. This is not a feature. It’s a very scary bug. OK. Clearly I’m at a disadvantage, because I have no technical understanding of how AI ‘works’ or is ‘programmed’. But it’s not clear to me why …

[image] anon10827405: Why does an AI system need a personality? As noted earlier, “personality” lacks a consensus definition. But thinks I mean by “personality” are necessary for a fully functional natural language AI system. Such as: Short term recall of prior conversations and data. The a…

Can absolutely confirm this by time of day, I would say around sort of 10am-2pm Melbourne time it is terrible. Just had this problem, I have been using it to help me craft a cover letter for jobs, I start off by telling it I want it to craft a cover letter and give it my CV. It will say thank you pl…

[image] anon10827405: But, I think here is a fundamental flaw in understand how an LLM like GPT works. It doesn’t read text like we do, it doesn’t process it like we do. It doesn’t even write it like we do. I’m not sure that’s true. “Personality” is not well-defined, but is one of those ‘you…

That seems odd. That time interval is 1am - 5am London time; 6pm - 10 pm New York time; and 5 pm to 9pm LA time. I wouldn’t have thought that was a peak use interval. But, maybe I’m thinking about it wrong. Maybe OpenAI is running a lot of development work during that period because it’s otherwis…

It’s a bit weird, it is a specific use case as the prompts are incredibly large. I just tried again now (about 6pm) and it is able to handle it. Earlier I would give it my CV it would ask for the PD, then when I gave the PD it would ask for the CV and go around in a loop. Would be interesting to see…

I can’t help there. Even though I’m ‘retired’, I have plenty of work that I need to be doing . . . and messing around with AI is not part of that. So systematically working out when C-GPT is or is not fully functional is more than I can handle. If YOU figure it out though, I hope you’ll post to …

A great boost to this kind of discussion wd be sample dialogs with the LLM, i.e., requests for a program and the results.

Has There Been A Recent Decrease In GPT-4 Quality?

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gordonwestbroek July 13, 2023, 6:02am 40

Has there been any official addressing of this issue? As a paying customer it went from being a great assistant sous chef to dishwasher. Would love to get an official response.

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Has There Been A Recent Decrease In GPT-4 Quality?

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