Hi Raymo,
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Originally Posted by raymo
I wonder where the original thread went.
raymo
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Originally Posted by glend (Glen)
Over the past few months, since the release of Open AI with CHAT GPT, I have watched countless examples of Python code generating art work, composing music, writing stories, and making the big leap into the provision of answers, outputs, and findings, which are significant jumps over what now seems like rudimentary software of now obsolete applications, including Google Et al.
The question I want to pose to the community here is:
Where is amateur astronomy going, in a new world order where AI is capable of finding anything in the sky, capturing it, rendering it, and displaying it, almost instantly compared to techniques which we might be using today?
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I think it is important to instill into the mind's of interested readers
exactly where the state-of-the-art is at, otherwise the levels of
expectation they may set for themselves may exceed the actual
capabilities of this current run of tools.
The old adage, "Right tool for the right job", rings true.
Even one of the biggest corporations spectacularly screwed this up the
other day with Google's Twitter feed of a demo of their response
to ChatGPT, a language model named Bard.
When asked, "What new discoveries from the James Webb Space
Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?", Bard responded with several
bullet points including the incorrect factoid that it took the very first
images of exoplanets.
In that instant, the share price of Google's parent company, Alphabet
plummeted and USD 100 billion in the company's market value was
lost, just like that.
In a rush to get it out there that Google was in the game too, the
corporation no doubt made that age old mistake. They left it to marketing.
Now a better, more factual announcement would have been to explain what
Bard is. An interactive chatbot.
Then using the best phrasing one could muster, put it to the market,
"Well we all know how great Google is. And we all know that Google
itself doesn't write the content. There is some great stuff on the web.
Then there is the stuff that is wrong. Wading through that can be quite
a challenge. Though our new ChatBot is not an oracle of knowledge and
it will say things that are incorrect, it can provide you with another valuable
tool to perform a search with".
With uncurated or only partially curated content, the desirable goal of
having systems that are factually correct every time is a highly desirable goal.
For the time being, the great achievement is that we have created machines that
are highly conversant in written language.