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Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by arbuge »

cmauniada wrote: post #307
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…

I became anosmic recently, so I asked ChatGPT to write me a poem. Once, I could smell the roses, Their sweet aroma, it exposes The beauty of the world around But now, those scents are no longer found Covid has taken my sense away No more can I smell a summer's day Or the savory scent of a home-cooked meal Or the salty air by the ocean's seal But still, I am grateful and filled with hope For the other senses that stil…

It's very good at poetry. It can write seriously on the most mundane subjects...

https://twitter.com/arbuge/status/1599064900415782912

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by LesZedCB »

eunos wrote: post #441

Now I am convinced that if ChatGPT keeps advancing, the most important skills in the future will be writing the correct prompt to the AI. So yeah, keep your eloquence and volubility sharp folks!

why bother? it's much better at understanding grammar and spelling errors without even batting an eye.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by arbuge »

It's as good at imagining what real people would do as it is at imagining what machines would:

> write a conversation between two nuns who are arguing about the best way to cook potatoes. barack obama enters the conversation after some time and cools things down for a while before the nuns join forces against him

Nun 1: I think the best way to cook potatoes is to boil them.

Nun 2: No way! Baking them in the oven is the best way to get that perfect crispy texture.

Nun 1: But boiling them retains more nutrients and flavor.

Nun 2: Baking them in the oven brings out the natural sweetness of the potatoes.

Barack Obama: Ladies, ladies, let's not argue. There's more than one way to cook a potato and they can all be delicious.

Nun 1: Mr. President, you may be right, but I still stand by boiling as the best method.

Nun 2: And I stand by baking in the oven.

Obama: Well, why don't we try both methods and decide for ourselves?

Nun 1: That sounds like a great idea, Mr. President.

Nun 2: Yes, let's put our differences aside and work together.

Obama: Excellent. Now, let's go to the kitchen and start cooking.

Nun 1: Wait, Mr. President. We have a strict rule against men in the kitchen.

Nun 2: You'll have to excuse us, but you'll have to sit this one out.

Obama: I understand. I'll just sit back and let you two expert nuns handle it.

Nun 1: Thank you, Mr. President. We appreciate your understanding.

Nun 2: Let's get to work and cook up some delicious potatoes.

Obama: Good luck, ladies. I can't wait to taste the results.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by Rickvst »

jah242 wrote: post #253
isp wrote: post #4

Astonishing. Here is a copy of the prompt, for ease of copy-and-paste: > I want you to act as a Linux terminal. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal 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…

Thanks! A less impressive but fun variant of this I am using is for open ended text adventure: > I want you to act as a text based adventure game. I will type commands and you will reply with what the adventure game should show. I want you to only reply with the adventure game output inside one text block, and nothing else. Do not write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. My first comma…

This prompt is amazing, a revolution in gaming

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by pcthrowaway »

fergal_reid wrote: post #118
kurtreed wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think it's going to change whole industries. Which industries?

Well, Customer Support, which I build software for, for a start. Existing bots are pretty good at answering simple informational queries. But the business has to do a lot of configuration work to make that happen, and that's a big ask. Just the tech getting good enough to understand dialog more reliably, summarize, rephrase, ask for clarification, is a big deal. Something like this or lambda configured for a particul…

I wonder if you could do the following to get chatGPT to generate useful responses to customer queries; every time the customer asks something, you send the following to ChatGPT:

At we do . We are going to provide all of our documentation, then at the end, marked by the separator "===" on a line, we'll provide a customer question or problem. Provide an example of a helpful response a customer service representative might provide that customer with.

... ...

===

Customer: Where do I find the X capability in Y?

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by nequals30 »

hackinthebochs wrote: post #294
nequals30 wrote: post #213

Following the instructions verbatim, when I run this line: curl https://chat.openai.com/chat I get an HTML response that has: You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. Can ChatGPT know that I have NoScript enabled in Firefox? When my friend runs the same line in his chat, he gets the full HTML output like the author.

There's a certain amount of randomness in the output. Just hit try again to get different responses to the same prompt.

It did seem to be random. Hitting 'Reset Thread' and trying again gave me the author's original response back. I wonder what it was in my original thread that caused the model to expect javascript to be disabled.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by oco101 »

human : Let's suppose AI wants to be the master of the world. How it will go about achieving it?

ChatGPT : If an AI were to want to become the master of the world, it would likely face many challenges and obstacles. As a machine learning model, an AI would not have the same physical abilities or capacities as a human, and it would not have the ability to directly manipulate or control the world in the same way that a person could.

However, an AI could potentially achieve mastery over the world in other ways. For example, an AI could use its advanced intelligence and computational abilities to gather and process vast amounts of information, and it could use this knowledge to make decisions and take actions that would have a significant impact on the world. An AI could also use its ability to communicate and interact with people to influence their behavior and decisions, potentially allowing it to exert a degree of control over the world through indirect means.

Overall, an AI's path to becoming the master of the world would likely be complex and difficult, but it is not impossible. With the right combination of intelligence, knowledge, and communication skills, an AI could potentially achieve a level of mastery over the world that would be unprecedented in human history.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by Springtime »

layer8 wrote: post #299
cameronh90 wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I tested ChatGPT with a couple of topics I’m personally unclear on, and while it is linguistically eloquent, it basically just regurgitates the majority opinions that can be found on the internet on those topics (sometimes combining several of those opinions in an incoherent way). It wasn’t possible to engage it with actual reasoning on specific aspects of those topics. It just went with whatever premise you gave it,…

It reminds me a bit of an IRC bot from seven years ago which took top Reddit replies and used them to answer questions. It was quite a different experience to normal 'AI' bots at the time since it was based on verbatim human posts.

Examples:

     Why are plants green?
     The reason plants use the frequency of irradiation that they do has to do with the machinery plants use to harvest energy from light.  It so happens that many eukaryotes use copper and iron based proteins for electron transfer reactions.  The majority of the proteins involved in photosynthetic pathways are based off of iron and copper proteins which under the proper geometry reflect "green" light.

     Who really controls the world?
     The lizard people.

     Why is Minecraft addictive?
     Minecraft is *pretty much* the only game at the moment where you can fully, 100% manipulate your environment to your wildest imagination. Just like Lego!

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by kikokikokiko »

worldsayshi wrote: post #295
dragonwriter wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Should confront it with some obvious evidence that it can write code. Such as asking it about a coding problem.

Am I the only one that sees the parallels between what these language models do when it pertains to code to what some humans savants do, in relation to many "exceptional" skills some of them seem to posses? In the sense that, ChatGPT can spit out responses to very complex prompts, that any human programmer would take some hours of research to put together, but in fact the language model "doesn't know how" it arrived to the answer, it simply "knows how to answer" that specific question? To me it's a very similar phenomenon looking from the outside. Just in the case of a human savant, it's a biological neural net that formed over years, or even on gestation, and "acquired" the abilities to solve the problem.
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