Months into a relationship and asking chatgpt “where should we go for dinner tonight?” and going to top result could be fun. Maybe Chinese maybe Italian maybe Mongolian… Who knows, let’s find out!
I’m sorry but that doesn’t sound fun to me. Fun would be a name out of a hat, not a name that some program a soulless corporation auto generated based on an algorithm gave me. 2 types of people, I guess.
Instead, a better idea would be, especially in an established relationship is to write your partner’s favorite things, activities, food places down on a piece of paper…Associate them with a number and do some dice rolls with them present! That would be fun, show that you actually care and pay attention. Instead of leaving it to a fucking soulless slop engine that might serve misinformation as an answer, to spit out an unconsidered choice.
If you want true random you need the dice and ditch the LLM; like another commenter pointed out LLMs are pseudorandom with varying degrees of randomness, that can be set by the one who created the tool in question. It’s never going to be as random as basic, unaltered dice can be. A bit of human curated randomness has a lot more warmth and meaning than the coldness of a fancy autocomplete warped in it’s basic function. Which a person who thinks and talks to their partner could put some thoughtful surprises in the mix easily enough. Meh, to each their own.
The dice aren’t going to be meaningfully random either. The number will be random, sure. But … the choices the dice are rolling against will have to come from somewhere.
Agreed it’s not random. But do you really want random? Do you want to be told to go to Gary’s apartment for a manwich? The point is not randomness, it’s being random with a heavy bias towards pretty good. Same idea as a movie wining a award, may not be amazing but probably better than your 5 year old and 3 of his friends making a Sci fi movie
Ultimately, I am leaning towards human curated activities that dice rolls will decide for the date night in question (just a few so it is achievable). Otherwise, it would be fucking weird and make you seem particularly unsafe to be around. I am also advising against LLM reliance as…Even for seemingly harmless things because the way these models are set up, it’s designed to get people TOO invested in them and validate their worst ideas. Given we’re on Fuck AI (really they are warped LLMs), this should be a sane default recommendation to avoid using those sloppy things.
Ok, i mean I see it no different than picking randomly… What made you think I would be “particularly unsafe to be around?”
I wouldn’t use llm for my job or anything important but what’s the harm in this? Worse case it recommends a restaurant that doesn’t exist, fine laugh and see another local place.
Same idea as a dice roll but with all options instead of a few
LLMs (and most computer applications) don’t operate with true random number generators, mostly pseudorandom generators of varying degrees of strength of randomness.
Physical dice are more likely to be actually random than most computer stuff. Unless they’re loaded or otherwise biased.
LLM output is also not an unbiased PRNG; it will give you a result based on the probabilities of the next word according to the model, which will likely be heavily biased towards more common values.
I don’t know… Maybe not a first date but
Months into a relationship and asking chatgpt “where should we go for dinner tonight?” and going to top result could be fun. Maybe Chinese maybe Italian maybe Mongolian… Who knows, let’s find out!
Just having preferences and a personality would be even better!
True depends on “I want you to feel special” or “let’s have fun” type of night…
I’m sorry but that doesn’t sound fun to me. Fun would be a name out of a hat, not a name that some program a soulless corporation auto generated based on an algorithm gave me. 2 types of people, I guess.
Fuck Ai for important stuff, I wouldn’t trust my job to it or trust it for medical advice but something just to pick a dinner place, why not?
I actually was curious so I checked “where should I get dinner. Give one option” it responded to try “Kenny’s wood fire grill”.
No idea if they are good or will give me some horrible illness. But I’ll find out just for fun, wish me luck that I’m not in the hospital tomorrow…
Instead, a better idea would be, especially in an established relationship is to write your partner’s favorite things, activities, food places down on a piece of paper…Associate them with a number and do some dice rolls with them present! That would be fun, show that you actually care and pay attention. Instead of leaving it to a fucking soulless slop engine that might serve misinformation as an answer, to spit out an unconsidered choice.
True, but actually random could be fun. Like yeah you like south east Asian food but tonight… Let’s try Greek!
True, but actually random could be fun. Like yeah you like south east Asian food but tonight… Let’s try Greek!
If you want true random you need the dice and ditch the LLM; like another commenter pointed out LLMs are pseudorandom with varying degrees of randomness, that can be set by the one who created the tool in question. It’s never going to be as random as basic, unaltered dice can be. A bit of human curated randomness has a lot more warmth and meaning than the coldness of a fancy autocomplete warped in it’s basic function. Which a person who thinks and talks to their partner could put some thoughtful surprises in the mix easily enough. Meh, to each their own.
The dice aren’t going to be meaningfully random either. The number will be random, sure. But … the choices the dice are rolling against will have to come from somewhere.
Agreed it’s not random. But do you really want random? Do you want to be told to go to Gary’s apartment for a manwich? The point is not randomness, it’s being random with a heavy bias towards pretty good. Same idea as a movie wining a award, may not be amazing but probably better than your 5 year old and 3 of his friends making a Sci fi movie
Ultimately, I am leaning towards human curated activities that dice rolls will decide for the date night in question (just a few so it is achievable). Otherwise, it would be fucking weird and make you seem particularly unsafe to be around. I am also advising against LLM reliance as…Even for seemingly harmless things because the way these models are set up, it’s designed to get people TOO invested in them and validate their worst ideas. Given we’re on Fuck AI (really they are warped LLMs), this should be a sane default recommendation to avoid using those sloppy things.
Ok, i mean I see it no different than picking randomly… What made you think I would be “particularly unsafe to be around?”
I wouldn’t use llm for my job or anything important but what’s the harm in this? Worse case it recommends a restaurant that doesn’t exist, fine laugh and see another local place.
Same idea as a dice roll but with all options instead of a few
LLMs (and most computer applications) don’t operate with true random number generators, mostly pseudorandom generators of varying degrees of strength of randomness.
Physical dice are more likely to be actually random than most computer stuff. Unless they’re loaded or otherwise biased.
LLM output is also not an unbiased PRNG; it will give you a result based on the probabilities of the next word according to the model, which will likely be heavily biased towards more common values.
Granted they don’t, but can you run a 2x10^500 die? I wouldn’t trust it with my login but choice of dinner tonight…