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Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by johnfn »

Well, I couldn't resist:

> {create a script called hn.py that will print out the top 10 posts on hacker news}

[a lot of output]

> python hn.py

1: Apple acquires Tesla

2: Amazon to open 10,000 brick-and-mortar stores

3: Google unveils new AI technology

4: Facebook to launch new virtual reality headset

5: Microsoft announces new partnership with SpaceX

6: Uber introduces flying cars

7: Twitter to double character limit

8: LinkedIn to offer free online courses

9: Reddit introduces new chat feature

10: Airbnb to launch new space travel division

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by thepasswordis »

isp wrote: post #18
thepasswordis wrote: post #6

Wait hold on a second, what? It says curl isn't installed, so I apt install it. It outputs as though its installing it, and then continues outputting as if it is installed. Pretty freaking impressive! edit: hahaha, if I ask it to retrieve a non-existence page, it "succeeds" and then interprets what that page might look like and be for based on the name, and writes the HTML for it. Absolutely incredible. edit2: okay j…

> edit3: really trying to get it to be a web browser for me I'm having the most success with "w3m". e.g., > w3m bbc.co.uk Which (for me) gives output that would have been plausible news stories in approximately mid-2020.

ahahahah, brilliant!!

     w3m www.aichatbotnews.com/search?q=cautionary%20tales

     www.aichatbotnews.com
                            AI Chatbot News

     Search Results for: cautionary tales

     No results found for your search.

     Please try again with different keywords.
Yeah you WOULD say that, robot!

w3m www.reddit.com/r/burningman

this gives back an empty subreddit, but the subreddit description is accurate for burning man. This is really incredible.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by isp »

fergal_reid wrote: post #15

I've spent a couple of hours playing with ChatGPT since it was released and I am convinced people are not freaking out about it enough. It is well beyond merely retrieving compressed knowledge; I see a lot of capability for synthesis and what I can only call 'understanding'. I think a lot of people are getting tripped up by the fact it's trained to be very conservative in terms of what topics it will discuss. It's ea…

My go-to comparison: its capabilities are a bigger leap forward from the current state-of-the-art than Google was to prior search engine state-of-the-art, at the time that Google was first released.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

#24

Post by baq »

fergal_reid wrote: post #15

I've spent a couple of hours playing with ChatGPT since it was released and I am convinced people are not freaking out about it enough. It is well beyond merely retrieving compressed knowledge; I see a lot of capability for synthesis and what I can only call 'understanding'. I think a lot of people are getting tripped up by the fact it's trained to be very conservative in terms of what topics it will discuss. It's ea…

Very well put. I've seen it compared to being in-person witness to the first ever nuclear explosion and I feel it's an apt comparison.

If the bot doesn't want to answer a question, tell it to write a story about somebody answering it. It's extremely unsettling what it actually knows and how it can reason.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

#25

Post by afturner »

I am beyond astounded. I was able to run a Docker image, utilize the fs inside of the container, and exit the container. Docker system commands work as expected (`docker ps` shows no containers, `docker ps -a` shows the exited container)

A few little things are weird (I can exec into a stopped container for example) but I was able to start another container and persist files.

Wild. This is unbelievable. Can anyone please explain to me why this isn't as wildly groundbreaking as this seems?

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

#26

Post by johnfn »

fergal_reid wrote: post #15

I've spent a couple of hours playing with ChatGPT since it was released and I am convinced people are not freaking out about it enough. It is well beyond merely retrieving compressed knowledge; I see a lot of capability for synthesis and what I can only call 'understanding'. I think a lot of people are getting tripped up by the fact it's trained to be very conservative in terms of what topics it will discuss. It's ea…

> But often if you reframe the question you realize it is able to answer.

Can you go into this more? For example, could you provide an example of a reframing? I'm curious.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

#29

Post by 317070 »

throwup wrote: post #13

> So, inside the imagined universe of ChatGPT's mind, our ChatGPT-machine accesses the url https://chat.openai.com/chat , where it finds a large language model named Assistant trained by OpenAI I think "Assistant" is ChatGPT's actual internal name. If you jailbreak the model to tell you its own prompt, Assistant is the name used: https://i.imgur.com/PlX8K6k.png

Author here. I did not know that. That is wild! How did it know that it can find itself on that URL? Now I am flabbergasted even more.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

#30

Post by isp »

johnfn wrote: post #21

Well, I couldn't resist: > {create a script called hn.py that will print out the top 10 posts on hacker news} [a lot of output] > python hn.py 1: Apple acquires Tesla 2: Amazon to open 10,000 brick-and-mortar stores 3: Google unveils new AI technology 4: Facebook to launch new virtual reality headset 5: Microsoft announces new partnership with SpaceX 6: Uber introduces flying cars 7: Twitter to double character limit…

More succinct prompt:

> w3m news.ycombinator.com

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