Paleonet: Mucking about with ChatGPT

[Bruce Runnegar]

Could someone ask ChatGPT to do something useful? Such as translating the U.S.G.S. quadrangle grid reference system into decimal latitudes and longitudes using the WGS84 standard? For example, translate: NE1/4, NW1/4, SE1/4, sec. 16, T7S, R35E, Blanco Mountain Quadrangle, California into decimal latitudes and longitudes using WGS84.

Thanks,
Bruce Runnegar

> On Oct 11, 2023, at 12:42 PM, Jere H. Lipps <jlipps at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 
> From Nature:
> "Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, could become regular assistants for writing manuscripts, peer-review reports and grant applications. These artificial-intelligence (AI) tools could change how scientists interrogate and summarize results <https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=cfe46567db&e=69bb79007c>, producing ‘papers on demand’ from experimental data and vastly expanding the scope of meta-analyses and reviews. But publishers worry that LLMs’ propensity to make up information might lead to a flood of error-strewn manuscripts — and possibly AI-assisted fakes. And because LLMs trawl Internet content without concern for bias, consent or copyright, their use is “automated plagiarism by design”, suggests cognitive scientist Iris van Rooij."
> 
> I'm not certain that it's plagiarism.  AI does not always copy material but mixes it up with paraphrased stuff.  Stealing the material to begin with is another issue.
> 
> Jere
> Jere H. Lipps
> jlipps at berkeley.edu <mailto:jlipps at berkeley.edu>
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