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Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by 29athrowaway »

b3kart wrote: post #159
29athrowaway wrote: post #108

I think that one day, all of github will be slurped into a bot that will take over most engineer tasks, and while it will not replace engineers, it will make at least 60% of engineers redundant.

Are you an engineer? How is your time divided between building (i.e. coding) and deciding what to build (meetings, gathering requirements, understanding the problem, etc.)? First we will automate sooner or later. The latter will be rather more difficult.

Imagine you had 1 group of engineers tasked with 40% meetings, 60% programming tasks.

Now, you split that group 40/60 into 2 groups so that one group is allocated 100% to meetings, and the other group 100% to programming. Now replace the latter group with bots.

That is why I mean.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by aerovistae »

pesenti wrote: post #152
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #115

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Would FB possibly put some instances up for people to chat with? It's way too heavy/expensive to host as an individual.

We are evaluating the possibility. But this is really for research only. To go beyond that we need further improvements to the safety layer.

What does safety mean in this context? (I'm not an AI researcher.)

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Post by ashtonkem »

woutr_be wrote: post #170
procinct wrote: post #165

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The remaining 5% are the same jokes and memes repeated ad nauseam.

There are some nice communities out there, but they’re usually well hidden and relatively small. Once a community grows, it turns into the same shit show as the rest of Reddit.

Reddit is fantastic for learning a niche skill.

Want to learn how to make Kombucha, lock picking, or 3D printing? Then you probably want Reddit.

But anything approaching the popularity of a moderately successful video game turns into a shit show. One of the free to play games I use to play actually had two subreddits, after a community schism. Bonkers.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by ashtonkem »

alexbanks wrote: post #6
M2Ys4U wrote: post #3

> Numerous issues arose during longer conversations. Blender would sometimes respond with offensive language, and at other times it would make up facts altogether. I mean, to be fair, I've had many conversations like that...

So it's just your average Facebook exchange?

Facebook is worse. On Reddit you get insulted by an anonymous account with a novelty name. On Facebook you discover how crazy your former friends and relatives can be.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by toper-centage »

pesenti wrote: post #86
mindfulmonkey wrote: post #77

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How do you feel about this probably being most used by bad actors trying to screw with society and elections?

That's definitely a fair concern. We believe that open science and transparency are the right approach here. By releasing it, we ensure that everyone is on the same page with respect to abilities and defense.

Sounds like the arguments made by pro gun people.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by Jack000 »

dkdk8283 wrote: post #167
Cakez0r wrote: post #92

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I was really blown away by the results you achieved. Amazing work! My jaw hit the floor when I saw the witty farewell "fun guy" quip, and I was in stitches when I read the song about baking. I look forward to the day I can take the model for a spin - unfortunately I don't have the requisite $18,000 hardware ;) I have a few questions: Could this be used as a tool to get a feel for public sentiment? For example, could…

I think the GPU price you’re quoting is about 10k too high. $8500 for the V100/32gb

> The 9.4B parameter model requires at least two 32gb V100 GPUs to interact with

plus motherboard, cpu, ram etc.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by hesarenu »

ToFundorNot wrote: post #125
msla wrote: post #78

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Good food is good food. Some good food happens to be vegan. It isn't hugely "special" especially these days, when Indian food is reasonably popular; this, incidentally, debunks the notion that vegans all eat weird concoctions of soy meant to resemble meat. I'm sure some do, but a curry which happens to contain no animal products is much more appealing.

Perhaps I'm being pedantic, to the point, most Indian food is vegetarian, not vegan. They love their milk, cheese, and honey.

Milk is not main ingredient in South Indian dishes. Most might be vegan.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by rumanator »

phreeza wrote: post #110
robmccoll wrote: post #97

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> By releasing it, we ensure that everyone is on the same page with respect to abilities and defense. This seems like wishful thinking. Having knowledge and having the resources to do something with it are two very different things.

Defending against such an "attack" is much easier if the technology is widely available and many people can play around with it and explore the limits.

Performing the attack is only a possibility because the tech was made available.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by dwd »

pesenti wrote: post #71

Blog post: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-ch... Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13637.pdf Open Source: https://parl.ai/projects/recipes/ Ask us anything, the Facebook team behind it is happy to answer questions here.

Does it respond appropriately when presented with a potential "switcharoo"?

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by rumanator »

jerkstate wrote: post #154
mindfulmonkey wrote: post #77

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How do you feel about this probably being most used by bad actors trying to screw with society and elections?

On the other hand, what if this technology was used to influence society and elections in a good way?

Do you believe anyone is in a position to dictate the outcome of an election without the people having a say on the matter?
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