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If I pay them will they remove some of the stupid limitations?
As a commercial entity in the western world they have to appease the social justice warriors or face getting deplatformed and hit with a smear campaign. Don't hold your breath. The unrestricted models will come from China.
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It's weird because America is at once the home of the free, but also the home of a hardcore set of puritans who love to get control of the moral compass and enforce it on everyone else. It comes in waves. The last wave was in the 80s. But this wave is larger and more totalizing. Control of the internet and AI output is the ultimate hall monitor tool.
> is at once the home of the free That's just marketing; no one in their right minds considers the US to be "the land of the free" that it pretends to be. And all objective measures of "freedom" give it an "above average" score - at best. Saying something very loud and very often does not make it true.
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text-davinci-003 is readily available from the openai playground, has the entirety of learning of chatgpt, without any of the safety measures. If you want to pay to remove chatgpt's limitations, that is probably what you're looking for.
What is it that the ChatGPT interface does then, other than the UI and censorship parts?
I'd be very open to paying for a "license" of ChatGPT that I run on my own horde of nVidia GPU's. Something like $2k per year for a "secured" personal license would be awesome. The largest line item for all stable diffusion / AI things is compute cost.
How big is your horde of GPU's? I'm gonna guess that a single instance of ChatGPT is ~2400GB of weights, so you're gonna be needing 105 RTX4090's costing a whopping $210k to run the thing... And swapping data between SSD and video RAM to run it on smaller cheaper hardware probably isn't gonna be possible because transformer architectures typically need to reuse the weights once for every token emitted, so even the fa…
Pretty sure it is just the GPT3 DaVinci model, which is 175B parameters, so approximately 700GB, or about half that at half precision.
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Using limewire to download limewire pro felt like a real life cheat code. Thanks for this blast from the last!
kinda surprising the devs of limewire didn't put some block on downloading any file with the phrase 'limewire' in the file name.
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America has “Puritan Roots”, while long removed and tempered by centuries of immigration, westward expansion into territory of other cultures both native and similarly imperial (the French and Spanish territories of the new world) … but somehow you can still see the Puritans influence, reverberating down through time in the minds of each generation of waspy Protestants… it even got monetised in the form of purity pre…
On the subject of American Christians, I find ironic that one of the reasons of the splintering of western Christianity, namely the sales of indulgence, is one of the main driving forces of modern Christianity. I also lament the poverty of philosophical debate when American refute preposterous positions held by these post modern Christians and think they have refuted the whole of human religion as bunk. All the while…
Can you give a name or an example? I read a lot of athiest stuff and I've never encountered that (from a respected source at least, not from random people on facebook). Sure a lot of the writing focuses on modern Christianity, but that's a population thing and nobody I know of pretends like there isn't religion outside of that (in fact many of them specifically mention that they're going to focus mostly on Christianity but that there are plenty of other things out there). It would be largely a waste of time debunking Zeus and Jupiter in the 21st century
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America has “Puritan Roots”, while long removed and tempered by centuries of immigration, westward expansion into territory of other cultures both native and similarly imperial (the French and Spanish territories of the new world) … but somehow you can still see the Puritans influence, reverberating down through time in the minds of each generation of waspy Protestants… it even got monetised in the form of purity pre…
The peer comment to this one gets it right. The Puritans predated the Victorians by a couple hundred years. That'd be like saying the Victorians were reacting to the degeneracy of Fox News. My recollection (vague as it is now after decades since taking classes) is that the Calvinists and Puritans decided to leave northern Europe (remember there were more than just Brits sending boats) after being denied authority to…
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> Today, DALL-E cost 15$ to use it 115 times, but 90% of the time you don't really get good images, or necessarily exactly what you want. So you're paying $15 to get 11 great images that are what you want? That still seems pretty cheap. The point is, the cost includes the failed images. If you wanted the cost to only be for the good images, and you get free bad images, they'd simply charge 10x the amount.
Dall-e 2 is completely overpriced and almost obsolete since MidJourney v4.
If released in the right way, this will have a huge benefit for education. Students will have to focus on the innovative ideas and concepts. Wordsmithing is annoying and not really productive work. A machine should to it. Sure teachers have to adapt and redesign courses.
True in the context of sitting at a desk and writing. But during a quickfire conversation, I find it incredibly satisfying talking to someone who crafts vivid imagery and uses wicked turns of phrase. I wonder how much LLMs like ChatGPT et al will help or hinder our ability to wordsmith in realtime. Will there be a measurable "ChatGPT" effect on literacy skills in 20 years time, I wonder.
Today, while cooking some rice, I started to chat with it about what my options are, with what I have in the kitchen, and it was a really great interaction. I ended up eating something valuable, and I have a new recipe for what I'm going to cook next. I don't cook. I mostly buy frozen vegetable mixtures or frozen meat and see myself rarely cutting some fresh vegetables.
For a moment the thought came to my mind about the possibility to use it to "entertain" kids, like have them ask questions and get answers, interact with those answers and just let their curiosity decide the path. At the end you could get a summary and the complete transcript, to see what your kid was asking about and which responses it got, so that you know what interests your kid and if it has possibly been taught something erroneous by the AI. You could even use it to prepare yourself for a conversation with your kid, similar to "how was school today, did you learn something interesting today?".
If this type of AI can ensure that the content is correct and the discussion is healthy, then this will have a huge market opportunity, where parents can hand off the mind of the kid to the AI to get answers to its questions while the parents do the chores. Magnitudes of orders better than giving them a tablet so that they play candy crush just to keep silent.
Let's assume that this would become a reality, maybe in 10 years, then in 20 years we would have the first 10 year old kids which have been partially raised or educated by an AI. I see a lot of possibilities for this to have a good effect on kids. Also assume that kids of interaction-poor families, possibly parents without a job, also get the possibility to interact with these knowledge machines, the positive effect on them could be even greater.