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Old 02-23-2025, 19:57   #19
GratefulCitizen
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Using grok for statistical analysis about anything serious probably wouldn’t be a good idea.
I was just playing with it to see how well it understood instructions.

Convenient, but not reliable.
Grok3 is supposedly a different animal.

Spreadsheets can be used as a convenient way to program for some simple tasks.
The input/output is limited, they’re inefficient, but they are technically Turing complete.

Grok2 is well along that continuum in terms of convenience.
But if you ask grok, it will say it isn’t Turing complete, it just imitates human speech.

(Insert logical contradiction joke here.)

Quantum computing opens some interesting possibilities, particularly in encryption breaking.
I’m still not a believer in “the singularity”.

Digital computing has limitations which are probably asymptotic.

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Turns out I’ve been using grok3, at least as of today.
Grok3 does not appear to be a different animal.
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