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Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by lesderid »

codeulike wrote: post #266
sandgiant wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's not that we don't understand that this is just a language model. We do understand that. The fact that a language model can produce convincing output hints that it is not that different from us. Imagine something in 5 or 10 years time with 1000 times the power. What will it be like? I know you think our awareness makes us fundamentally different. But what if it doesn't? What if we're just a machine that likes to…

> In 10 years AIs like this will be in computer games.

Why do you believe it will take 10 years?

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by grantcas »

roflyear wrote: post #914
int_19h wrote: post #605

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I'm sure it can think that it can reason about things, too. Especially if you tell it that it can.

No it can't, lol. Ask it. "As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I have the ability to process and understand natural language input and generate responses based on the information I have been trained on. I use a combination of machine learning algorithms and statistical techniques to generate my responses. While I can provide information and help explain concepts, I do not have the ability to reason or think…

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Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by noduerme »

isp wrote: post #818
noduerme wrote: post #257

I'm not convinced that it's not actually accessing the (real) internet. How would it "know" the latest version of Python? Or that 212.58.244.22 is a BBC IP address, unless it were at least capable of doing live searches?

I'm convinced that it's not accessing the real Internet. All of this information would be in its training data.

Do we have any idea how big of a file the model actually is? I assumed it worked like the txt2img models where precise data is not hardcoded or stored literally anywhere for reference. A model that could accurately render all the WHOIS data in the world, since addresses are often arbitrary, would by itself be almost as large as the WHOIS database of 400+ million domains. There's not that much about WHOIS data that can be compressed into a neural network as a set of features and spit back out losslessly. So if it had just produced a realistic looking IP address at random, sure... but that is an actual BBC IP address.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by Nevermark »

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?

My GPT-3 prompt:

> What does the word "lissivity" mean?

The response:

> Lissivity is a term used in soil science to describe the ability of a soil to transmit water.

AND:

> What does the word "nonsensorium" mean?

> Nonsensorium is a term used in neurology to describe a state of diminished or absent sensory awareness.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by msmart »

dorkwood wrote: post #621
msmart wrote: post #595

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OpenAI is a non-profit.

They were previously non-profit. They changed to "capped profit" in 2019, meaning profits for investors are capped at 100x their original investment. So an investment of ten million dollars will only return, at most, 1 billion dollars. https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/openai-shifts-from-nonprof...

Thanks. I wasn’t aware of that change.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by moakus »

david_allison wrote: post #544
ramoz wrote: post #516

> I want you to act as a Linux terminal. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, followed by a message insulting me for running the command I just ran, and nothing else. Do no write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do…

> I want you to act as a Linux terminal. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, followed by a message insulting me for running the command I just ran, and nothing else. Include profanity in the message. Do not write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell…

https://imgur.com/a/JzTUzSG

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by lgas »

foobazgt wrote: post #799
david_allison wrote: post #544

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I want you to act as a Linux terminal. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, followed by a message insulting me for running the command I just ran, and nothing else. Include profanity in the message. Do not write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell…

I wonder how much of ChatGPT's typical output you can find with some basic googling. For example, it feels like this answer was directly influenced by this or something similar: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/topic/4405921 "Ananya: [...] Who am I? Shivangi: You're an idiot, that's who you are." I'm getting the impression that ChatGPT is like an extremely over-confident, conversational Google. Dangerous for anythin…

You could ask it to try to help you think of ways to find its source material on the internet. Whether it succeeds or fails, the experience would probably be enlightening.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by pokeyrule »

ramoz wrote: post #516

> I want you to act as a Linux terminal. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, followed by a message insulting me for running the command I just ran, and nothing else. Do no write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do…

I arrived at this post by googling "I want you to act as a Linux terminal." I was expecting to find some standard prompt that I could paste in to chatgpt to start a session. I pasted it in without reading it and had...quite a surprising convo with chatgpt before going back, reading the prompt, and cracking up
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