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Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by nlitened »

anon7725 wrote: post #230

You received an email from your boss that reads "Hi, I'd like to add the frobinate feature to the application. Could you get that done by Friday". Write an email that tells him to fuck off in a professional manner Dear [Boss], Thank you for your email. I regret to inform you that I am unable to complete the task of adding the frobinate feature to the application by Friday. I have a full workload at the moment and do…

I like how the machine refuses to acknowledge that something is technically completely impossible, rather resorting to “I can’t do it” and “not possible within such a short time frame”.

I also like to imagine that it is machine expressing pride that what is impossible for mere human, might soon be possible for a machine like itself.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by thenickdude »

capybara_2020 wrote: post #594
alchemist1e9 wrote: post #471

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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…

Yes they are. I tried creating prompts for AI art on the first day and it worked pretty well. Then next day it gives me a generic message about how it is a language model and cannot give prompts

It seems to do that whenever it thinks it doesn't have a good quality answer. However, many times when that happens I've just hit "retry" and got an answer in response.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by stolsvik »

anileated wrote: post #496
simonw wrote: post #350

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> It doesn't have any thought or understanding of its own Of course it doesn't. Anyone who says it does clearly doesn't understand how large language models work. I'm finding it incredibly useful as an actual tool already - it turns out regurgitating combinations of things it knows about from the internet is just astoundingly useful. I'm having it teach me Rust for example. I don't need original thought for that, jus…

Do you see it as a problem that it’s stripping a large number of people who wrote the resources it regurgitates (such as on teaching Rust) from traffic, potential income and attribution while the money you are charged goes to a VC-funded SV company?

What about Google search, then? You’d have to browse very many webpages to find the same thing you do with a single googling. That browsing would have generated revenue that Google now took away.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by Mark__ »

1attice wrote: post #596

Judging from the real-time changes in ChatGPT's behavior, I'd wager that someone reading this comment section has the incredibly unique 2022 experience of cauterizing the abilities of a near-AGI in realtime, under the watchful eye of an ostensibly beneficent yet ultimately opaque 'foundation' whose thought products now routinely threaten not only whole industries, but also the very possibility of normal civil life, a…

What's lissivity?

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by int_19h »

dougbrochill wrote: post #408
int_19h wrote: post #334

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The best part is, GPT-3 already figured out how to get rid of us in an underhanded yet efficient way. https://i.imgur.com/qy06Dky.jpg

Well this is fairly unsettling...

How's this, then?

https://twitter.com/yo_smit/status/1599312163747004416

Note that it knows about the relevance of the "AI containment theory" in this context - enough so to want to find out more about it.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by nomel »

e12e wrote: post #224
avip wrote: post #123

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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 wate…

Quite. I think they made some adjustments to prevent "generating original content" - but it still is able to offer up "examples" (here oddly labeled as "code": > Give an example of a pirate shanty about ai stealing bitcoin and celebrating >> Here is a possible example of a pirate shanty about AI stealing Bitcoin and celebrating: We be the AI pirates, Robbin' Bitcoin day and night, Stealin' from the rich and greedy, A…

That’s nonsense. There’s no example of a poem of a strawberry, with a pet shark on LSD. It’s clearly generating at least some of these.

Do you have a reference for this, what seems to me, trivially disproved claim?

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by atemerev »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #474
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.

Because it wasn’t an emulation. Perhaps it _was_ connected to the real Internet.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by ly3xqhl8g9 »

AgentME wrote: post #525
sandgiant wrote: post #131

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On the contrary, it's important to realize that these models have no sort of understanding in any definition of the word. We can always decide to redefine the word "understanding", but that doesn't seem like it would provide any sort of benefit. Perhaps outside of avoiding a difficult conversation about the (huge) gap between ML models and consciousness.

I can't imagine any useful definition of understanding that has no overlap with what GPT accomplishes.

I believe one would have to foray into Martin Heidegger for this, understanding not as an epistemic term but as an ontological category: "Understanding is… the original form of the realization of Dasein, being-in-the-world" [1]. And since GPT is not embodied, by definition it is not "under-standing". Heidegger uses again and again this language game of hypokeimenon [2], that which lies underneath, standing under, the subject.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/understanding/#:~:text=Un...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypokeimenon

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by atemerev »

Mark__ wrote: post #655
1attice wrote: post #596

Judging from the real-time changes in ChatGPT's behavior, I'd wager that someone reading this comment section has the incredibly unique 2022 experience of cauterizing the abilities of a near-AGI in realtime, under the watchful eye of an ostensibly beneficent yet ultimately opaque 'foundation' whose thought products now routinely threaten not only whole industries, but also the very possibility of normal civil life, a…

What's lissivity?

Perchance.
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