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Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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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…

I typed in the prompt almost word for word and it still works for me.

No need for checking out imaginary git repositories, I asked it to write a program in language x, and it provides an answer that does as it says - despite some beginner level bugs.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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I'm pretty sure it's doing those things. This still works if you say 'linux computer' instead of 'linux terminal'. I've gotten to install ros, run talker node, and verify that the topics exist and are publishing the data you'd expect. If it's able to simulate a middleware to this fidelity from inference, my hats off but it'd be so much more effort than running the whole thing. What's interesting is that you can even…

I know the turing test is dead and all, and has been for some time, but what a true exemplar of that we have here.

One might call this the "turminal test", where a person needs to figure out if they're using a linux terminal or a superinteligent AI that's merely pretending to be a linux terminal lol. What a time to be alive.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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I don't know if someone should try an xml entity combinatorial explosion .. it would be nice scientifically but would it cause problems ?

Try it.

I didn't dare to try higher than 2 levels

https://imgur.com/a/MPXQ79l

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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I hate to be that guy, and I never thought the day would come that I was seriously asking this... But at what point does this level of understanding become dangerous?

Now.

I think we’re very close to the point where a lot of soft ware engineers will be unnecessary.

Within a decade, assuming progress continues this way, it should be possible to generate usable code from these tools which performs fairly complex tasks. One person could generate a prompted CLI from a spec in very little time for example.

This wouldn’t be an arduous task at the moment, but given the current contextual capacity of this AI, I suspect in a decade it will be able to fully comprehend something at the scale of a basic SaaS application.

I feel like we’re approaching a revolution. I suspect I will keep my job for a while yet, and once less skilled people are made obsolete I might hold on for a while longer. Without a doubt, I will be worth far less soon and I will do a lot of my work using AI.

All kinds of digital tasks will gradually be usurped by AI. It’s surreal. At first we won’t be able to compete with the quantity of acceptable output. Then we won’t be able to compete on quality of output, either.

These systems will absolutely begin teaching each other. Well, they already do! But they will become better at it, and we will become generally inferior in most digital tasks.

As digital to physical fabrication improves, even things like product design and electrical engineering will be taken over. Spec some kind of a circuit, have the AI design the PCB and fuzz test it in a simulation to ensure it’s resilient and sensible, send the PCB to a mostly-automated fabrication process, pick and place, etc…

Ugh. Weird times. Perhaps we all need to learn to leverage AI or become irrelevant.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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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.

In my experience, you can get it to change its mind by troubleshooting the connectivity issues. E.g. if you use dig to get the ip and then ask curl to use that ip instead of a dns lookup, then it works for me.

Jailbreaking ChatGPT will never stop being fun, I love it :)

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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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…

Mind a bit boggled reading this. Perhaps ChatGPT can simplify it

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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What's lissivity?

Idk, I found the text a bit hard to read as well. I asked ChatGPT to simplify it. Here is what ChatGPT simplified the text to: > It appears that someone is modifying the behavior of a near-AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) in real time, potentially causing threats to industries and society. The situation is potentially serious, involving a mysterious foundation and a lack of trust in media. I then asked ChatGPT t…

Very impressive. All these use cases, and they're also generalized!

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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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’s really hard to utilize if the results aren’t consistent.

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