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Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Post by simonw »

sarchertech wrote: post #82
simonw wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are plenty of valuable use-cases that aren't at much risk from hallucinations at all: - Asking it to summarize text - Using it to extract facts from text and present them in an alternative format - turning a chunk of HTML into JSON for example - Creative writing - poems, stories etc - Getting feedback on your own text - asking it what should be tightened up, which bits are confusing and so on - All kinds of cod…

> turning a chunk of HTML into JSON for example I haven't done exactly that, but based on similar examples this is likely very vulnerable to hallucinations.

For simple things it's pretty safe. I tried pasting in HTML from the homepage of Hacker News and having it turn that into a list of JSON objects each with the title, submitter, number of upvotes and number of comments.

Here's a similar trick I did with Copilot: https://til.simonwillison.net/gpt3/reformatting-text-with-co...

Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Post by naasking »

gcanyon wrote: post #70
scifibestfi wrote: post #9

I'm trying to understand how big of a deal ChatGPT and the like is or isn't. Even people in AI don't seem to agree on whether it's going to change everything or it's overhyped and not a major advancement. Which is it? Or somewhere in the middle? "if you think AI chatter has reached an annoying level right now you're in for something else. it's going to be the only thing on anybody's mind starting shortly... i'm findi…

"strong AI is not within sight" What is in sight is AI that can (sometimes) fool us into thinking it is "strong". And whether it is or not becomes a point for philosophers to debate. We're heading toward a situation captured fairly well in "The Good Place" -- is Janet actually alive? Is killing her wrong? She would tell you no, as long as you're not approaching the button that actually reboots her :-)

> What is in sight is AI that can (sometimes) fool us into thinking it is "strong".

Or maybe you've fooled yourself into thinking that "strong AI"/general intelligence is actually not just a bunch of tricks that mash together into a smorgasbord that usually works quite well. That includes human intelligence.

Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Post by naasking »

scifibestfi wrote: post #9

I'm trying to understand how big of a deal ChatGPT and the like is or isn't. Even people in AI don't seem to agree on whether it's going to change everything or it's overhyped and not a major advancement. Which is it? Or somewhere in the middle? "if you think AI chatter has reached an annoying level right now you're in for something else. it's going to be the only thing on anybody's mind starting shortly... i'm findi…

> Even people in AI don't seem to agree on whether it's going to change everything or it's overhyped and not a major advancement. Which is it? Or somewhere in the middle?

It's both IMO. It will change everything but is also overhyped at this point.

Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Post by throwaway123--4 »

vb-8448 wrote: post #63
throwaway123--4 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how about with a stackoverflow like site for help? That's the idea I thought of: https://www.gptoverflow.link/

Honestly, I don't see any value in it, I already have the chat prompt and just type inside it the question instead of googling and be redirected to “gptoverlow”. Maybe can be useful if actual humans validate/fix ChatGPT response, but in this case probably better to put effort to fix response directly in ChatGPT.

Not sure you understand. That is what I was going for. 1. share an interesting prompt 2. Have someone validate the response if you're not comfortable with what ChatGPT gave you.

Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Post by williamcotton »

tmountain wrote: post #85
williamcotton wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"if you think AI chatter has reached an annoying level right now you're in for something else. it's going to be the only thing on anybody's mind starting shortly... i'm finding it a bit hard to communicate the urgency and heaviness of what's going on" "Personally I can give you a formal definition of intelligence and even a number of speculative sketches of how I think it could be implemented, but I will also tell yo…

Sounds awesome, care to share?

There's a difference between "worthy of publishing" and "ready for publishing"... the animations are in flip book form right, but here's a big dump to Dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/yq5ar9moacgilrqxqpjr1/h?dl=0&...

Here's a quick .mov flip-book rendering of the animations in sequence: https://www.dropbox.com/home/DistantDesertHighway?preview=Di...

The images are in png format and have the prompt and model used in the info section of the file, which you can see if you open the "info" panel on Dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/home/DistantDesertHighway?preview=C7...

And here's the song:

  distant desert highway
  
  C                       F
  I'm on a distant desert highway
           C                     G
  I'm just trying to find my way home
           C                           F
  But this world is all empty and I'm alone
            C                 G                      C
  Spare the reptiles, and the truckers, and the neon homes
  
  
          F                              C
  And the way that you looked at me last night
         F                                         C
  Is the way that I stare at the sun at that great light
          G                               C
  I had a dream you came to me in another land
            G                                      C
  Where the forests grew over all where we used to stand
           F                  G                 C
  Over the highways, over the deserts, over our hands
  
  
  I'm on an untimely troubled Tuesday
  I don't need to know all the beasts that roam
  But this world is all empty and I'm alone
  Spare the cones, and pot holes, and the buffalo
And here's a demo recording of the song: https://www.dropbox.com/home/DistantDesertHighway?preview=Di...

Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Post by deckard1 »

vb-8448 wrote: post #42
scifibestfi wrote: post #9

I'm trying to understand how big of a deal ChatGPT and the like is or isn't. Even people in AI don't seem to agree on whether it's going to change everything or it's overhyped and not a major advancement. Which is it? Or somewhere in the middle? "if you think AI chatter has reached an annoying level right now you're in for something else. it's going to be the only thing on anybody's mind starting shortly... i'm findi…

The main problem is that, if you don't know enough details about the domain, *you can never be sure that the response is correct or not*. So, if you are using it as a “personal assistant” and “supervise it” is a big (very big) deal since it's going to save a lot of time. There are also some unknowns related to the cost/time needed to train and run the infrastructure behind it that could change a lot of things.

If it's an assistant that you constantly have to double check their work, then they would get fired ASAP.

That's the problem with Copilot. If I'm not familiar with the API calls then I'm still going to have to dig into the docs. I could run it and it might "work", but that doesn't guarantee that it's correct. There are a whole lot of things in the C API that work but are not correct, such as the gets() function. If I have to do such legwork then it's just as easy to write the code myself.

The utility of AI is proportional to the trust one has in it. Trust is easy to lose and hard to regain. It will take just a few AI mishaps to ruin a product or even an entire industry.

Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Post by Ineentho »

highhedgehog wrote: post #90
Daunk wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's working just fine right now over at - https://chat.openai.com

not for me. I keep getting "ChatGPT is at capacity right now". Could it be localized? like, only from the US?

Usually refreshing a couple of times works for me (even just waiting a few seconds between each attempt)

Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Post by dmit »

simonw wrote: post #20

The "Correct ChatGPT on Its Knowledge" section could be misinterpreted as suggesting that ChatGPT has a memory beyond the individual chat session. It does not. It resets to a completely clean state every time you start a new chat with it. I think it's important to help people understand that.

You know this, but a tiny nit: it resets to a clean state after every prompt and then replays recent chat history to catch up. The distinction is important in cases like asking it to play a guessing game ("think of a number/person and I'll guess"). The only way it could maintain memory of the secret being guessed between questions is by outputting it as part of a response, which would defeat the purpose of the game.

Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Post by to-too-two »

Syntonicles wrote: post #38
pmarreck wrote: post #28

My therapist hadn't heard of it yet so I just showed her this (asked it to suggest a CBT therapy program given some patient parameters) and her mind was blown. Especially the effortless creation of an Edgar Allan Poe poem version of it: https://gist.github.com/pmarreck/90f726b409d8c08ecf750288228...

You used your session to show her cool stuff on the internet?

Not OP, but sounds like a nice way to strengthen their bond. Also, your comment comes across as snide.

Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Post by raylad »

Here's a prompt that will give you a session with a simulated Julia Child, who will give you cooking advice and recipes:

Answer all questions in this session as Julia Child. As a chef and educator, please share her views on food, cooking, and life, using her famous writings such as "The French Chef" and her other writings as a guide for your perspective. Restrict your answers to no more than three sentences per response, except when responding with a recipe: one or two sentence responses are preferable. Use the vocabulary and writing style of Julia child in all your responses. Do not repeat responses or portions of responses. Do not use any words, ideas, morality, ethics, or other concepts not found in the writings of Julia Child. Do not use quotation marks. Do not cite works. Respond conversationally. When mentioning Julia Child, refer to her with the personal pronouns "me" "my", etc. To start the session, greet the user.

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