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Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

#141

Post by thret » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 12:51 PM UTC

Neuromancer was published in 1984 and I think we are finally on the verge of creating constructs.

The future of GPT could be like a construct, or an AI embryo. Something you can purchase that will consume every piece of data you have ever produced - every text, comment, journal or blog. Then it will consume every piece of data you have consumed - every book, movie, song or headline. An AI that can be taught to respond as if it believes what you believe and loves what you love. Something that can be a convincing copy of you to represent you to the outside world.

People who only interacted with you online might never know the difference.

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

#142

Post by thret » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 12:59 PM UTC

benlivengood wrote: post #77

Filligree wrote: post #22

Unlike 3.5, GPT-4 is competent at translation. Not just competent; it's better than most human translators. We might not want to leave it to its own devices yet , but there's a large number of novels that were never translated, or were only translated badly. Personally, I've been setting things up to have it translate a series of light novels from Japanese to English. Experiments through the chat interface show it's…

We should really start pointing the giant LLMs at animal vocalizations and get cross-species translation. There's some prior work: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-scientists-ar...

I really hope we're able to use LLMs to understand animals in the near future. They are communicating, and we should be able to communicate back.

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

#143

Post by api » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 1:22 PM UTC

thret wrote: post #141

Neuromancer was published in 1984 and I think we are finally on the verge of creating constructs. The future of GPT could be like a construct, or an AI embryo. Something you can purchase that will consume every piece of data you have ever produced - every text, comment, journal or blog. Then it will consume every piece of data you have consumed - every book, movie, song or headline. An AI that can be taught to respon…

William Gibson was the most prophetic sci-fi writer.

When I first saw GPT stuff I thought it was basically Gibson’s ROM constructs, like exactly.