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Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by george_ciobanu »

timdaub wrote: post #168
bonney_io wrote: post #157

This is nuts. I asked it to create a simple form-style SwiftUI app, and it.... did it. Perfectly. Then I told it to implement a class to persist the data to disk using CoreData, and it.... did it. And explained why. And then showed how to implement that new class within the first class . Unreal.

It‘s not impressive at all. It strings words together that make sense and it is absolutely not aware of semantic versioning. Just try to generate code for a specific major version or a package not super mainstream.

It's quite incredible https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hfCiyjiotMZvtPlGN_0uqbK9...

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by george_ciobanu »

makestuff wrote: post #314

Yeah this is scary good. It works perfectly for generating code examples. Instead of wasting time googling for some stack overflow link on how to send a message to AWS SQS queue in go, I asked the AI and it generated working code in 10 seconds.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hfCiyjiotMZvtPlGN_0uqbK9...

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by aunetx »

weird-eye-issue wrote: post #759
DougBTX wrote: post #754

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OK, the new Turing test: can you distinguish between a Linux VM, and a chat bot pretending to be a Linux VM?

Easy, and my comment already says how. Give it the input "md5 hash 9723g49uod" and check the resulting hash. Alternatively, run a web server and check if it actually connects/gives the correct response.

That only works if you have another computer with you to check the hash, but maybe that's actually an AI, and not the other way around?

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by george_ciobanu »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #336
thepasswordis wrote: post #34

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Makes me wonder what they have that they haven't released.

Could a censored AI ever be as powerful as a uncensored one?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hfCiyjiotMZvtPlGN_0uqbK9...

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

aunetx wrote: post #763
weird-eye-issue wrote: post #759

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Easy, and my comment already says how. Give it the input "md5 hash 9723g49uod" and check the resulting hash. Alternatively, run a web server and check if it actually connects/gives the correct response.

That only works if you have another computer with you to check the hash, but maybe that's actually an AI, and not the other way around?

> The MD5 hash for the string "asdns" is "5a5a5ad63c5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5".

I don't need a computer to say that isn't correct ;)

Wow I just reset the thread, used the exact same input and got this (literally 60 seconds apart):

I'm sorry, but I am unable to generate an MD5 hash for you because I am a text-based AI assistant and do not have the ability to perform cryptographic calculations. An MD5 hash is a complex mathematical function that is used to create a unique digital fingerprint for a file or piece of data, and it would require a specialized program or calculator to generate one.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by atemerev »

omegabravo wrote: post #698
atemerev wrote: post #658

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

Very unlikely. I tested with curl ipconfig.co, and pings to targets close and far away with similar responses. It pings my IP, which doesn't respond to pings. It's just remarkable with it's responses.

OK, fair enough! But it would be interesting to add the link with the real Internet in the next release. Sadly, the model’s global state is not immediately updated, there are snapshots… but I think it would be interesting to watch it conversing in real here on Hacker News.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

DougBTX wrote: post #754
weird-eye-issue wrote: post #741

It isn't actually running any commands. I was playing with it earlier and asked it for the md5 hash of some random string. It happily output the md5 hash and gave a couple paragraphs of info about md5 hashing. Except, it wasn't the correct hash. It was just some random string that is a valid md5 hash for... something. It is a language model, not a computer, and it certainly isn't a virtual machine, although it will h…

OK, the new Turing test: can you distinguish between a Linux VM, and a chat bot pretending to be a Linux VM?

Now it is quite easy, just ask it "are you a linux vm?"

> No, I am not a Linux virtual machine. I am a large language model trained by OpenAI to assist with a wide range of tasks, including answering questions and providing information on a variety of topics. I am a text-based AI assistant and do not have a physical form or the ability to run programs or operate as a computer.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by kolinko »

alcover wrote: post #668
crucialfelix wrote: post #630

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I think I should plan to retire from the internet at some point. When I'm old there will be endless deep fake autonomous agents scamming everyone. Or worse, consensus reality will be impossible to define due to generated fake news.

I'm afraid people with schizoid disorder will literally be in danger when exposed to these 'agents'. Also, to a lesser extent, old people.

At least with chat-gpt, it seems it could bring people out of their paranoid mindset.

I tried to talk to it about conspiracies, deep state, denialism etc, and the bot kept telling me that those things are not real, explaining why, and so on.

It had way more patience than me, and explained things better than I do when talking to tinfoilers :)

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by pyinstallwoes »

nl wrote: post #326
narrator wrote: post #256

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The corpus is just so enormous that no person could fit that into their brain so it just appears to be synthesizing new information. Sure it might be worded differently from any corpus text, but it's roughly the same as things we already know in that there's probably a reverse tool you could build that would tell you what group of documents of the original corpus, perhaps thousands, most strongly influenced the answe…

So this shows you have a basic understanding of how CNNs represent data for classification tasks. This is excellent! However, you might not be aware of the current research into "Emergent Phenomena in Large Language Models"[1]. Work such as PaLM[2] show that language models evolve the ability to "reason" over the internal data representation. Minerva explicitly breaks down that ability by "comb[ining] several techniq…

You seem to know a lot. So where are we in terms of research and what is public? Is the state-of-the-art even more ahead? What's top of mind that is most interesting or what needs to happen next for the big wow? What's your favorite example so far of Large Language Models?

In an odd way, it kind of reminds me of the beginning of the Bible.

> In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Has a large language model feel to it, doesn't it? hah.

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