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Daniel Feldman Profile picture
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May 27 • 9 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
A lawyer used ChatGPT to do "legal research" and cited a number of nonexistent cases in a filing, and is now in a lot of trouble with the judge 🤣 Image
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Ken White (Popehat) has been posting about this on bluesky, I'm sure he'll do a blog post soon
Yay fragmentation of the internet into multiple sites that can't link to each other
In the lawyer's defense, he submitted screenshots FROM CHATGPT claiming that the nonexistent cases exist Image
This is a federal appeals court case. Not, like, parking court 😂
From the defense attorneys:
"The authenticity of many of these cases is questionable" 🤣🤣🤣 Image
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May 27
I wanted to try an experiment: writing a real program using ChatGPT *alone*

I used AIder, a script around ChatGPT that uses it to make edits directly to files on your system, no copying/pasting

Anyway: it worked! Image
It's a game called Operation Conundrum

You get presented a series of small integers, and you have to fill in the operations to make it a valid equation

Just a simple, fun nerd game

(I've heard people sometimes play this with playing cards)

GPT did ALL the editing (I did none)
You can play it right now here: dfeldman.github.io/operation-conu…

A couple of observations:

1) It took quite a few iterations to get this far. I saved the chat history, and I prompted it 77 times (some were repeats and mistakes). The chat is here: github.com/dfeldman/opera…
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May 25
So there's this site shlinkedin.com

It's a parody of LinkedIn -- it's actually very funny

But what's more interesting is that they implemented NEARLY ALL LinkedIn functionality in a TINY amount of Elixir code: github.com/cbh123/shlinked
Maybe we're just doing everything wrong in web development and should switch to more sensible languages that do much of the work for you
The big difference is that there's very little JavaScript -- instead page elements are rendered on the server as HTML but fetched as needed

This saves a TON of code
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Mar 18
On the left is GPT-3.5. On the right is GPT-4.

If you think the answer on the left indicates that GPT-3.5 does not have a world-model....

Then you have to agree that the answer on the right indicates GPT-4 does.
I completely made up this question btw, so I don't think it's in any training data.
It's pretty evident to me that we're no longer in "stochastic parrot" territory. GPT-4 is capable of genuinely reasoning about the world. It's pretty dumb sometimes, and makes odd mistakes. But it does seem to have some emergent simple world-model.
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Mar 18
People like to say GPT-4 isn’t intelligent because it doesn’t have a “world model.” What is a question I can ask it to prove it doesn’t have a world model?
Like I tried stuff like “I’m in New York, I fly a Cessna for three hours west, jump out with a parachute, and catch a freight train south, where am I ” and it follows along and has reasonable guesses
This is a specific question Gary Marcus cited as indicating there is no “world model.” BUT GPT-4 gets it right!!!
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Mar 17
Democrats: let’s have free school lunch!

Republicans: but some families are wealthy and can afford to pay!

Democrats: oh you’re right, let’s tax the wealthy families!

Republicans: oh bother
Seriously, Minnesota is one of the wealthiest states, without having any oil/gas or much tech or finance. Housing is relatively cheap and basic government services are overall pretty good. We can afford to do much more
we’ve pretty consistently had state budget surpluses, it is now over $9 billion per year
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Mar 17
Only one person ever has tasted plutonium. It got on his face during an experiment gone wrong at Los Alamos, he had his stomach pumped and his breath tested as slightly radioactive for the rest of his life. He also was forbidden from working in a lab again. But he died at 87.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ma…
He eventually did a physics PhD, had a family and started an interior landscape company that was extremely successful, and died of natural causes. All while having a few micrograms of plutonium in his body.
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