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rntz | 2 years ago
For instance:
1. The description it gives of how to generate a Shepard tone is wrong; to make a Shepard tone, you need to modulate _frequency_, not (or not only) amplitude.
2. The Shepard tone it generates is also wrong, but in a different way. For instance, there's no bass at the end matching the bass at the beginning, so it can't be looped to create the illusion of infinite ascending motion.
3. The "Game of Life QR code" isn't actually playing the Game of Life in a way that results in a QR code. It looks like it's starting with a QR code and playing the game of life, then time-reversing the result; so you see the Game of Life running "backward" until you get to the QR code as an initial state. I say "seems like" because I can't be confident it hasn't made any mistakes. This _may_ be what the author intended by "working backwards"? But I took that to mean that it should "work backwards" by first finding a state S that stepped to the QR code, then finding a state S' which stepped to S, etc; so that you'd have a run of the game of life ending in a QR code. This would involve actual search, and there are patterns which simply cannot be achieved this way (have no predecessors).
4. The planet orbit simulation seems to have all planets in circular orbits, rather than elliptical. For Earth this is probably unnoticeable, but Mars' orbit varies from 1.38 AU to 1.67 AU - quite noticeably elliptic - but appears circular in the "simulation".
etcetera, etcetera. There are also plenty of "obvious" glitches in the graphics simulations, but those concern me less - precisely because they're obvious.
jasonm23|2 years ago
You cannot even be correct with GPT, once it's in an error state you must start a new session. The chance of hallucinations rises rapidly.
It feels like it's trying to cover itself. Pretty weird stuff.