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Problem was I lost interest half way because it lost my interest after the 2nd paragraph. For those that say it was good till the last few is really pretending to understand what it said. It really did not made much sense.
I'm finding with secret GPT-3 output that I often find it boring before realizing it's GPT-3. I might even be getting to recognize its wordy, dull, cliche-ridden, borderline-nonsensical style. It's remarkably good at passing as human writing of no value whatsoever.
OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
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Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
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> because it most likely is Is this not you making a prediction, the very sentence after saying one can not predict the future?
Saying an AI winter is coming isn't saying how long it will be for or what the magnitude will be.
Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
#223Mind successfully blow.
Now, which of the comments on this HN post were written by GPT-3? ;)
Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
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I read the beginning, went "what the fuck is this guy on about? Get to the point" and then came to check the comments to if this was anything interesting or worth reading, saw your comment, and skimmed the end bit. Overall I'm pleased with my process as its an efficient way to find out which articles are worth reading. But it was also clear to me that the author had difficulty making a clear point or had a goal in hi…
From your comment it's not clear to me if you realize the author of the article is GPT-3.
Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
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> I'm going to call this goalpost shifting. That's completely fair. On the other hand, without a theory of mind it can't really educate or inspire people, the only thing it can do is maybe trick them about the authorship of something. But once people learn the techniques for identifying this kind of writing, it can't even do that anymore. To me this is like the front end of something, but it still needs a back end. D…
On the other hand, without a theory of mind it can't really educate or inspire people I wouldn't agree with that, either. How often have we heard of someone gaining useful insights by considering ideas that were misapplied or just plain wrong? Entire branches of physics have evolved that way. As far as successful presidential campaigns are concerned... well, let's not even go there. If there's such a thing as a 'theo…
For example, I delayed in writing this comment because the cat was on my lap, and I couldn't fit the laptop and the cat both. You get that. I know you do, even if you don't own a cat, and even if you're reading this on a phone or a desktop.
GPT-3 does not understand about the cat. To GPT-3, they're just words and phrases that occur in the vicinity of each other with certain probability distributions. As a result, it can't write something and know that there's something there in your mind for it to connect to.
Cyc would handle the bit about the cat differently. It would ask "Did you mean cat-the-mammal, cat-the-Caterpillar-stock-symbol, or cat-the-ethernet-cable-classification?" It has categories, and some notion of which words fit in each category, but it still doesn't understand what's going on.
But you the human understand, because you have a lap, and you've at least seen a cat on a lap.
Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
#226As a whole, the article reads like someone who isn't very clear in what they want to say. Paragraph wise and section wise, the bot has generated a very clearly on topic text. No more 3 horned unicorns found on the flat hills of Norway style weird continuations. I can actually as a human try and interpret what was meant to be said in a paragraph. At most, I'd probably say "huh.. that's a weird thing to say". But I wouldn't think "huh... That sounds like a bot wrote that"
And it's the latter that is most interesting. I think a blog maintained secretly by this bot would eventually be considered as "eh, that's a lot of articles that say a lot of words and don't go very far". But it's unlikely that it would be considered as a bot maintained blog.
This has considerable implications with the combination of deep fakes to create giant controversy driving content farms. I don't think we are adjusting fast enough to deal with this future. Our education systems don't train us to critically evaluate beyond the headline and the bullet points. Our news cycles encourage us to churn through information, share, move on.
The ability to work through information slowly and critically is going to become a vital skill way sooner than anyone can imagine.
At least, as far as probabilities are concerned, it's not a certainty yet but the probability is very very high it goes this way.
Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
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One of the biggest issues is with cherry-picking. Generative ML results benefit greatly from humans sampling the best results. They are capable of producing astonishing results but don’t do this consistently this has a huge impact on any effort to productize. For example I’ve seen quite a few examples of text->design, text->code, with GPT-3 you could build a demo in a day, but the product will probably be useless if…
Yeah, I saw a text => UI generator. It’s cool, but it looked like very basic stuff - the type of UI that is very easy to create in a few minutes. (And really with what was setup behind the scenes - maybe just as fast to just write the code.) The hard part about software development is not those bits which are common, but the parts that are unique to our specific solution.
Search terms tweaked for your unique interests, and not a commercial entity's, for example.
Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
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> AI text-generation "Text generation" undersells it a little bit. What are humans except "text generation" machines? Language is the stuff of reason. GPT-3 has demonstrated capabilities that we believed were exclusive to humanity --- humor, logic, sarcasm, cultural references --- in an automatic and generalizable way. It's far more than a "text generation" system. I look forward to seeing what GPT-4 and GPT-5 can do…
> What are humans except "text generation" machines? The ability to grow and choose our own direction: to choose what our goals are, curiosity, self-awareness, desire. To imply that GPT-3 is anything close to strong AI is kind of ridiculous.
Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
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> What are humans except "text generation" machines? The ability to grow and choose our own direction: to choose what our goals are, curiosity, self-awareness, desire. To imply that GPT-3 is anything close to strong AI is kind of ridiculous.
And how do we indicate that any of these processes has occurred except through the medium of language? A sufficiently good text predictor is a sentient mind. I don't believe that there's any experience of consciousness distinct from the use of language.
What is the role of the body in consciousness, then?
Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
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Err, it seems very clear to me that he does realize GPT-3 is the author, and that it was easily caught by his bullshit filter. Which was my experience too -- but I am less dismissive. I regularly see human-produced bullshit get very far with less coherence than these examples from GPT-3. GPT-3 isn't AGI, but it's weapons-grade in a way that GPT-2 wasn't.
OK, but a weapons-grade BS generator is not what the world needs right now...