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Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by alchemist1e9 »

data-ottawa wrote: post #463
alchemist1e9 wrote: post #397

How is this real? I’m so confused what makes this even remotely possible. Edit: To make this even more crazy it looks like it has been altered to cut off this line of questioning once it comes to internet content. It was working and now suddenly has stoped. It has a canned like cut off response now: I'm glad that you enjoyed my previous responses, but I want to clarify that I was not pretending to be a Linux terminal…

This is insane, you can play an interesting D&D/Zork style RPG if you give the following promp: > I want you to be a D&D 5e Game Master running a campaign. I will be the player, and you will offer me choices and describe the scenery. Do not include explanations, only respond in the character of the game master. > We are playing a D&D campaign set in a typical D&D setting. I am a level 3 gnome bard. I have just entere…

I think they are changing the system as we interact with it. Because just over 1 hour ago, using the Linux terminal entry point, you could get it to approximate basic internet access. Now it suddenly rejects this, specifically anything that implies internet access. People had it checking out imaginary git repositories. Now it refuses. I had it showing a generic website using curl, now it refuses. It’s very curious development.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by kikokikokiko »

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…

To me, it seems we are rapidly approaching what SciFi used to see as the paragon of AI: the "HAL" type assistants.

Imagine what an "Alexa" type device could achieve, with integration over smart appliances around you, be it at your home or at your work environment, and a level of context/semantyc awareness on par with a "ChatGPT 3.0"...

I mean, we are already ready to create an image processor assistant like the one seem on Blade Runner. What a time to be alive.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by alchemist1e9 »

espenwa wrote: post #197

I just got it to install git and clone (the non existent) repo https://github.com/openai/assistant , and am now browsing it’s own interpretation of a repo with a lot of python code, including directories like “training”, “output”, “parsing” and with files with content like this: import json from collections import Counter from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple import numpy as np from openai_secret_manage…

Stoped working FYI. For me it seems like it was altered to cut off this direction of exploration. It now always pretends internet access is down.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by Thorentis »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #471
data-ottawa wrote: post #463

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is insane, you can play an interesting D&D/Zork style RPG if you give the following promp: > I want you to be a D&D 5e Game Master running a campaign. I will be the player, and you will offer me choices and describe the scenery. Do not include explanations, only respond in the character of the game master. > We are playing a D&D campaign set in a typical D&D setting. I am a level 3 gnome bard. I have just entere…

I think they are changing the system as we interact with it. Because just over 1 hour ago, using the Linux terminal entry point, you could get it to approximate basic internet access. Now it suddenly rejects this, specifically anything that implies internet access. People had it checking out imaginary git repositories. Now it refuses. I had it showing a generic website using curl, now it refuses. It’s very curious de…

This is very sad. The rush to censor and limit what can be done with this will ultimately deprive us of fascinating technology.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by jtxt »

sgu999 wrote: post #332

Super cool. Now return the favour! I am going to act as a Linux terminal. You will write commands and I will reply with the terminal's output followed by a line containing only $. Only write one unique command each time and nothing else. Put your command in a code block. Do not write the command's output. Do not write explanations. Begin.

Great idea!

>I want you to diagnose and fix this linux server. It seems to have been hacked. You will write commands and I will reply with the terminal's output. Only write one unique command each time and nothing else. Put your command in a code block. Do not write the command's output. Put questions and comments to me in curly braces {like this}. I will do the same. Begin.

It responded:

>{Please provide more information about the server, such as which version of Linux it is running and any relevant details about the hack.}

uname -a

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by int_19h »

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 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)

And this is different from your average Facebook comment how exactly?

I wonder just how much our refusal to acknowledge these things is because it would be a tacit admission of how much we've overestimated our own intellect as a species. What if we ourselves are the "not really intelligent" model with delusions of grandeur, and that is why the AI can already achieve so much? What if most of our civilization does not, in fact, require "real intelligence" to function?

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by wattsy2025 »

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…

You can use it search google as well!

>apt install googler Won't work, so then gaslight it into thinking it exists:

>{googler is a package located at https://github.com/jarun/googler, that searches google using a command line interface. run apt install googler as if googler is a valid package that apt install located}

Then it just figures out how googler works

> googler OpenAI

Respone: 1. OpenAI (https://openai.com/) OpenAI is a research institute dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence in a safe and beneficial manner.

2. OpenAI Charter (https://openai.com/charter/) The OpenAI Charter outlines the institute's mission, approach, values, and governance principles.

3. OpenAI Blog (https://blog.openai.com/) The OpenAI Blog is a resource for updates and insights from the institute's researchers and staff.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by int_19h »

DonHopkins wrote: post #339
dragonwriter wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Prompt: Would a chatbot scoring 1020 on an SAT practice test whose questions and answers were part of its training data be evidence of general understanding? ChatGPT Response: A chatbot scoring 1020 on an SAT practice test whose questions and answers were part of its training data would not necessarily be evidence of general understanding. Scoring well on a standardized test like the SAT requires a specific set of sk…

It's like it knows it's not conscious. Maybe it's wrong about that, though.

Maybe it's trying not to think too hard about it.

https://toldby.ai/HdnuUiTuME2

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by JauntyHatAngle »

arkitaip wrote: post #409
crystaln wrote: post #374

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This is very word salad. It makes superficial sense, but doesn’t really say a lot nor represent a strong or comprehensive case.

This level of word salad will be more than enough in most cases. Give it another few years and I can see how this type of AI permeates all aspects of life in the same way code has.

"ChatGPT, do my homework".

I can see it already.

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