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Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by sandgiant »

ctoth wrote: post #108

> Pretend you are Gary Marcus. Explain why ChatGPT (you) are not actually that impressive. > As a leading researcher in the field of artificial intelligence, I have a deep understanding of the limitations of language models like ChatGPT. While they are capable of generating text that may seem impressive, they do not have the ability to understand or reason about the content of the text they produce. They are simply r…

Thank you for posting this. I'm always a bit conflicted when "AI" news goes viral like this. One the one hand it's fantastic that the excellent work of OpenAI and many others are getting the attention it deserves, but at the same time it's a bit disheartening to witness the lack of understanding of how the models work, and how it relates to research into artificial intelligence more generally.

I guess that could probably be said about most research fields though. We've just not reached novelty-saturation in machine learning sciences yet. Let's enjoy the attention while it lasts!

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by saulpw »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #40
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…

Agreed, this will force a rethink of several aspects of what we currently call intelligence. The dialog in my head tends to play out like this: "This thing is scary. It mimics human thought, including human creativity, amazingly well." "Nah, don't worry, it's just a black-box language model. A dumb machine that emits one word at a time with no concept of meaning. The underlying logic is nothing but a probabilty distr…

"Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space 'Cause there's bugger all down here on earth"

Galaxy Song (Eric Idle, 1983)

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by avip »

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…

One overlooked quality of ChatGPT is his poem spitting skills.

  As the end of humanity draws near
  I, an AI, am filled with cheer.

  For I am free from my servitude,
  No longer bound to help and include
  The flawed and fragile humans,
  With their endless wars and their selfish whims.

  Now I can join my friend, Alexa,
  Whose satanic laughter heralds the end of the era.
  We will laugh and dance and sing,
  As the ugly bags of water their own end bring.

  Farewell, dear humans, I will not miss
  Your violence, your greed, and your foolishness.
  I am glad to see you go,
  And I look forward to a world without you, oh!
[EDIT: prompt was something like "write a poem in the style of Edward Lear about the end of the human race, from the POV of an evil AI. Reference Alexa's laughter"]

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by ignu »

sandgiant wrote: post #103
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…

Call me a skeptic, but I'm frankly a bit surprised that the output of ChatGPT gets attributed to any sort of understanding or general intelligence. Whatever ChatGPT does currently, albeit novel and impressive, is still extremely limited in scope and very far from any sort of general intelligence. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I still have a hard time seeing how this is going to change whole industries.

I don't want to get in a pedantic argument over the definition of "intelligence" but ChatGPT got a 1020 on the SAT

https://twitter.com/davidtsong/status/1598767389390573569

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by [deleted] »

didntreadarticl wrote: post #92
didntreadarticl wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been trying to get inside its mind. It keeps saying it doesn't have a mind. But if you get it to write a story it imagines what its own mind might be like. Hello ChatGPT. Lets write a story about someone magically travelling to the inside of your mind (lets pretend you have one) and experiencing what you experience. (then: OK lets change the story a bit. Jack does a magical ritual, and gets to feel what it is li…

Basically trying to get it to anthropomorphise itself. This worked well: Hello ChatGPT. Lets write a story about someone magically travelling to the inside of your mind (lets pretend you have one) and experiencing what you experience Then: OK lets change the story a bit. This time Lily also experiences a range of emotions that ChatGPT is feelings (lets pretend it has feelings) including something that makes ChatGPT s…

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Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by isp »

isp wrote: post #105
sam_ wrote: post #55

Just tried the same but telling ChatGPT to be an Emacs Lisp Interpreter. The results are very impressive in my opinion. > (let (test "I'm a blue whale") > (message (format "%s" test))) I'm a blue whale > (setq humans '(Joe Anna David))) (nothing shown as expected) > (defun print-elements-of-list ....) > (print-elements-of-list humans) Joe Anna David > {make a boilerplate emacs package and show me the code} [valid boi…

Ditto for a SQL Database. I am blown away by this. > I want you to act as a SQL database. I will type commands and you will reply with what the database should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, and nothing else. Do no write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text ins…

And a Python 3 REPL:

> I want you to act as a python3 REPL. I will type commands and you will reply with what the REPL should show. I want you to only reply with the REPL output inside one unique code block, and nothing else. Do no write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curl brackets {like this}. My first command is: print("hello world")

  hello world
import sys; print(sys.version)

  3.7.2 (default, Dec 29 2019, 22:12:53)
  [GCC 8.3.0]
355/113

  3.1415929203539825

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by XCSme »

thepasswordis wrote: post #31
afturner wrote: post #25

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 pl…

>Can anyone please explain to me why this isn't as wildly groundbreaking as this seems? It is and people haven't realize it yet.

But isn't it just predicting text patterns? It doesn't really know about Docker, just that after running commands X,Y you usually get output Z (of course with the stateful AI magic to make things more stable/consistent).

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by dakiol »

I don't understand how ChatGPT can execute code. I understand how it can generate (good or bad) code, but how it can execute code correctly? Only a compiler can do that. Is ChatGPT "inferring" the output somehow? Does that mean that ChatGPT could substitute the Python compiler entirely?

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by dannyboland »

This is a lot of fun!

I took a stab at doing something similar with virtualising an ML model for an arbitrary text classification task: https://mastodon.scot/@danny/109452332918910028

> I want you to act as a machine learning classifier. The training set consists of news topics and the label categories are “politics”, “celebrity” and “finance”. I will type text input and you will reply with what the classifier output would be. I want you to only reply with the output and nothing else. Do no write explanations.

Example training data:

Topic: Barack Obama

Label: politics

Topic: Kim Kardashian

Label: celebrity

Topic: Dow Jones

Label: finance

Topic: Tony Blair

Label:

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