Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

Post by roflyear » Sun, Dec 04, 2022, 1:31 AM UTC

baq wrote: post #24

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.

Post by quickthrower2 » Sun, Dec 04, 2022, 1:32 AM UTC

isp wrote: post #142

quickthrower2 wrote: post #139

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This could be the tech that dislodges Google from its monopoly! There are definitely questions I would prefer this experience than Google and the inevitable SEO spam for introduction type questions. If the generated text included further links to learn more it would be awesome.

In time, this tech is also likely to spark a new arms race, as happened with Google vs SEO spam. Generated content as the new blogspam, in turn needing to be filtered out for training the next generation of models.

Post by worldsayshi » Sun, Dec 04, 2022, 1:34 AM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #264

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"general intelligence" means so many things to different people. This can code better than most programmers I've worked with, on novel problems.

ChatGPT seems to disagree with this assessment. Prompt: Can you code better than most programmers? Response: As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I don’t have the ability to write or execute code. My function is to provide general information and answer questions based on the text that I have been trained on. I do not have the same capabilities as a human programmer and am not able to perform complex tasks su…

Post by rifty » Sun, Dec 04, 2022, 1:36 AM UTC

6gvONxR4sf7o wrote: post #112

With all this discussion about whether LLMs are “intelligent” or “really understand” it’s getting really obvious that the words “intelligent” and “really understand” aren’t very useful words any more (in this context). Like, most of us agree about what LLMs can and can’t do and how they do it. So we’re just having fun arguing about how we’d prefer to define “understand?”

Post by layer8 » Sun, Dec 04, 2022, 1:36 AM UTC

cameronh90 wrote: post #159

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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'm surprised that anyone could be so skeptical over what is clearly an incredible technological breakthrough. It's not perfect - in particular the making up nonsense problem needs to be solved before it can be relied on - but the difference between this and the "state of the art" just 4 years ago is off the chart. GitHub CoPilot has already changed my day to day life, and I'm frequently astounded by the level of app…