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I feel ChatGPT "understands" the vast majority of things better than me, which is very worrying. It's only going to get better too.


While it's true that ChatGPT gives amazing explanations in many context, this one is not particularly good.

The point is not that CuLitho is similar to "culo" (ass), as the similarity is not that obvious.

The point is that it's practically identical to "culito" (little ass, where "little" is typically not literally about size, but more of an endearing term - another translation could be cute ass).

The similarity is large enough that, at least in places where we use that term (not sure if it's used in the whole Spanish-speaking world, but e.g. in Spain it is) there's no way to read that name with a straight face.


Thanks for clearing this up. Great example of how drinking from the fountain of machine generated content is a watered down experience.

I'm less interested in an AI trained on the droves of mediocre crap out there on the web, but would be super excited if there were one trained on curated material consisting of carefully crafted and authoritative answers like this. Or at least a way to lend greater weight to such inputs.


Sure, but what does "culito de envidia" mean, other than "little butt of envy"?


That's not how languages work. ChatGPT was wrong about it.


GPT "understanding"[0] more things better than me has never been a worry for me, for the same reason that libraries "knowing"[0] more than me hasn't worried me.

It's the possibility of it understanding what I'm best at, better than I do, that makes me concerned.

What will our John Henry moment look like?[1]

[0] for whatever definition you want to use for these words; I like them in these contexts, but it doesn't matter if this submarine is swimming or not

[1] I'm not sure if this was in a carton I saw as a young child, but I mainly remember a variation of the tale from Civilisation Beyond Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)


It's worrying for you




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