How is ChatGPT so entertaining?

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I asked it to create a step by step visual guide to making a cup of British tea.
How is it so funny? How does its ‘mind’ work? Why doesn’t it understand sequential steps? Why does it think British tea is in the 1950s? Why is the kettle so gigantic? What happened to her head and arm? Why the head of a teaspoon glitching in and out? Why did it think it had finished then added a couple more steps of pouring in milk and then slightly improve the biscuit? 😆

Surely the use of the internet in terms of energy must be offset against all the journeys that no longer take place due to the use of email and teams meetings or similar. Paperless offices wouldn't exist without it. Thousands of hours saved in commuting etc now we can work from home.

I agree it's great for any professional development form filling stuff which apparently is essential but no one ever checks other than to see it's complete.

How does it compare to humans though?

(I know the training is resource intensive, like humans, but I mean on an overall train & run basis).

Good question - I know someone (Thompson?) has done research on this but honestly I can't remember what the outcome was.

Remembered overnight - IIRC if you take the average human footprint including all the people w a very low footprint in Africa, Asia etc then LLMs come out worse.

I’ll say something for chatgpt, it’s better than my actual GP at diagnosing stuff. It diagnosed dh’s rare autoimmune disease in 5 seconds after the GP fucked about for six months and got it wrong consistently. It’s also diagnosed me (now confirmed) with an unusual condition. Again my GP was useless.

im currently ill again and have put my symptoms into chatgpt and it reckons I have another autoimmune condition. Funnily enough I’ve had my genome mapped recently and do have the gene for it so am off to see the GP next week to tell him again that the AI reckons I’ve got x and see what he says! 😁