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Is it just me, or are Github Copilot and ChatGPT getting dumber? I'm quite underwhelmed lately.
Maybe the more copilot is used, the more code on github is ai garbage, ths more copilot trains on github, the worse it gets.
Probably quite a lot of other things too, but I haven't used it so I don't know if it has got worse.
garbage in garbage out - sounds like a reasonable take
Novelty weared off
Yeah I remember the hype floating in the air when someone showed the magic AI writing a scan all files and folders recursively code in python. The result was like of a first year student, which is kind of incredible in itself to be fair, but it's also just the result like of a first year student so...
could be, maybe expectations went up too
It's been reported the latest model has been optimized for reduced power use, and abilities got reduced somewhat in the streamlining.
I guess enshittification has been moved off the backlog then..
Dont knows for these two but the enterprise version of copilot for office workers is so damn awefull its embarrassing.
It literally suggests to do stuff that it is incapable of doing.
I tried to get some doc as a flowchart using mermaid script, i know for a fact other llms have no problems with that:
After 3 attempts of it trying to code but resulting in an actual error it gives me,
Do you want me to provide this flowchart in visio format instead.
Generates a powerpoint about the topic.
Tries to generate an image of a flowchart with not a single word spelled correctly and arrows going nowhere.
Sorry, if you want i can provide a flowchart in viso file format instead.
Generates a brand new bad PowerPoint.
I copy pasted the entire conversation to claude and it instantly gave me what i asked.
On par for Microsoft software in general. Seems like every week I discover new bugs in outlook.com..
Expertly explained. Thank you! It's pretty rad what you can get out of a quantized model on home hardware, but I still can't understand why people are trying to use it for anything resembling productivity.
It sounds like the typical tech industry:
"Look how amazing this is!" (Full power)
"Uh...uh oh, that's unsustainable. Let's quietly drop it." (Way reduced power)
"People are saying it's not as good, we can offer them LLM+ plus for better accuracy!" (3/4 power with subscription)
But if that's how you're going to run it, why not also train it in that mode?
That is a thing, and it's called quantization aware training. Some open weight models like Gemma do it.
The problem is that you need to re-train the whole model for that, and if you also want a full-quality version you need to train a lot more.
It is still less precise, so it'll still be worse quality than full precision, but it does reduce the effect.
Your response reeks of AI slop
4/10 bait
Is it, or is it not, AI slop? Why are you using so heavily markdown formatting? That is a telltale sign of an LLM being involved
They used one formatting mark, and it's the most common. What are you smoking, and may I have some?
I am not using an llm but holy bait
Hop off the reddit voice
...You do know what platform you're on? It's a REDDIT alternative
ChatGPT has its moments but generally it creates more problems than it solves.