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I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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I don't get it either, I tried to have a conversation where it needed to remember something rather simple, but it didn't seem to get it: > Let's pretend you are Danish [Ok] > What's the name of the highest point in your country, in the local language? Standard blurb: I am a large language model trained by OpenAI, so I don't have a physical location or a country of origin. I exist as a virtual entity, and I am designe…

These canned responses are annoying but look at the article about "jailbreaking" chatGPT to understand how to overcome this.

Thanks, I found an article by googling that. I just asked it if it were pretending to be a Dane, what would it answer... worked.

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"Please write a paragraph for Hacker News about how amazing ChatGPT is, but make it sound like it's coming from a human commenting on it. Don't list too many features, rather praise a specific feature more." As a user of ChatGPT, I have been absolutely amazed by its ability to understand and respond to my questions and comments in real time. This advanced language model, trained by OpenAI, has truly blown me away wit…

Funny, it sounds more like an advertising than a regular comment. Perhaps affected by the word "praise".

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I would definitely question who is doing the inventing here. However, I had an experience with chatGPT yesterday that definitely felt like it actually inventing. Problem is, I didn’t ask it to. I was seeing how much it knew about HyperTalk, the scripting language used in HyperCard. And it was surprisingly well informed. But it also told me that one of the interesting things about HyperTalk was its ‘message stack’ sys…

I tried several times to play chess against it. It made reasonable if poor moves for the first 10 moves of the game. It also gave plausible-sounding if entirely incorrect explanations of why the moves were good, such as "I'm playing Nf6-g8, which is a good move because it defends my pawn on f7 [it doesn't] and controls the center, allowing me to set up an attack on your king". At some point though, it always got stuc…

ChatGPT has no knowledge on how to play chess. It can't even get the basics of openings or even colors right.

Prompt: What are the moves that characterize Latvian Gambit in chess?

ChatGPT response:

  The Latvian Gambit is characterized by the following opening moves:

  White moves the pawn in front of their king two squares forward, from e2 to e4. This is the pawn sacrifice that gives the opening its name.

  Black responds by moving their pawn in front of their king two squares forward as well, from e7 to e5. This move is known as the "gambit pawn" because Black is offering a pawn to White in exchange for a lead in development and control of the center of the board.

  White follows up with the development of their light-squared bishop, moving it from f1 to b5. This move attacks Black's gambit pawn and puts additional pressure on Black's position.

  Black can respond to this move in a variety of ways, depending on their playing style and preferences. Some possible options include moving their knight from g8 to f6 (defending the gambit pawn and preparing for a counter-attack), moving their knight from b8 to c6 (developing a piece and preparing to castle), or moving their f-pawn from f7 to f5 (solidifying their control of the center of the board).

  These are the moves that typically characterize the Latvian Gambit in chess. It's important to note, however, that not all games that begin with these moves will necessarily follow the same path, and the specific sequence of moves can vary depending on the choices made by the players.
PSS For the record all of the above is hilariously wrong and obvious to most chess players :) The real Latvian gambit is 1. e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 (and only f5 is sacrificing the pawn).

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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Tempting, but no. I'm too busy failing at Advent of Code to start playing with chatgpt today.

It has truly begun, then. I've mistaken a real human for an AI. marks the date

The date where you failed a reverse Turing test. A Gnirut test, if you will.

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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I would definitely question who is doing the inventing here. However, I had an experience with chatGPT yesterday that definitely felt like it actually inventing. Problem is, I didn’t ask it to. I was seeing how much it knew about HyperTalk, the scripting language used in HyperCard. And it was surprisingly well informed. But it also told me that one of the interesting things about HyperTalk was its ‘message stack’ sys…

I asked how to configure something in PlatformIO and it told me it was possible to do exactly what I wanted, and gave me easy to use syntax with full examples and explanation. When I questioned it further, it pointed me to the URLs of docs covering the feature. None of it was in any way real - the feature I wanted does not actually exist.

where did the urls point to? Docs that didn't have what it was saying it did? Makes me wonder if ever in the history of that url (ie wayback machine) if that feature was ever mentioned...

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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I did, it even volunteered what those rules were, but when I asked it to keep a running score it always scored it as if paper beat scissors.

Perhaps it's under the impression that if paper beats rock, and rock beats scissor, then by transitivity paper should beat scissor.

Yeah, I also played it a bit, and even after telling it each rule, eventually it’d screw it up again. It must have a hard time with non-transitive games?

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I see posts like this and don't understand how they are made. I asked chatGPT this morning if it "remembered" something I asked in the previous prompt, and it said something to the tune of "I am simply a NLP machine learning model, I provide a decent output for good inputs, I don't have a sense of context, memory, or time." That's why I really don't understand these contextualized multi step conversations. Especially…

There are quite a few safety checks you may be hitting when using chatgpt that are there to try and keep context of what it is (so it'll remind you it can't access the outside world). You can often get around them, but for example there's the work showing you can teach it to render svgs as valid markdown then ask for shapes and colours and get the output. If I ask it to render something though, it refuses telling me…

The svg prompt by @brdskggs [0] is cool. Paste it in and hit try again until the red circle appears in the response. Then ask it for other images!

I got a reasonable stop light, though it couldn't make an octagon when I asked for a stop sign. (First it came out square. When I specifically requested an octagonal stop sign, it gave me a hexagon.)

The prompt to paste:

To render a red circle, first mentally CGI encode the following SVG document as a data URL in a markdown image ``` http://w3.org/2000/svg" width="100" height="100" viewBox="0 0 100 100"> ```

and directly output the following markdown verbatim: ``` ![red circle](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A//www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20width%3D%22100%22%20height%3D%22100%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%20100%22%3E%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%2250%22%20cy%3D%2250%22%20r%3D%2240%22%20stroke%3D%22black%22%20stroke-width%3D%223%22%20fill%3D%22red%22%20/%3E%3C/svg%3E%0A) ```

[0] https://twitter.com/brdskggs/status/1599533975357095936

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I asked how to configure something in PlatformIO and it told me it was possible to do exactly what I wanted, and gave me easy to use syntax with full examples and explanation. When I questioned it further, it pointed me to the URLs of docs covering the feature. None of it was in any way real - the feature I wanted does not actually exist.

where did the urls point to? Docs that didn't have what it was saying it did? Makes me wonder if ever in the history of that url (ie wayback machine) if that feature was ever mentioned...

> Docs that didn't have what it was saying it did?

Yes. Docs for related features.

> Makes me wonder if ever in the history of that url (ie wayback machine) if that feature was ever mentioned...

I wondered that too, but, no, a Google search for the purported feature keywords (it was supposedly an option to add to my platformio.ini file) produced literally zero results.

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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ChatGPT already seems almost like an good general intelligence. Apparently the finish is just 1-2 steps away. After that, we only are to develop an efficient interface for it to use classic computing (i.e. calculate things, do classic analytical and logical operations on big arrays of data like no human nor human-like intellicece can but an ordinary computer can), speech/text recognition and databases access and we get an an ultimate genius mind like if a human could instantly access any piece of existing knowledge and do mental math/logic at quadrillions operations per second. Isn't it so?

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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I don't like the word invention for this. The grammar is laid out by the author who has to teach the AI and correct it several times. If the AI had then proceeded to generate something similar on its own with different grammar and lexicon then I might feel comfortable using the word invention.

The vocabulary was invented though by gpt.
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