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Re: Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process

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Post by graderjs »

jackblemming wrote: post #23
simonw wrote: post #19

"hitting 100 million monthly active users 2 months after its launch". I'm deeply suspicious of that number. It came from Similarweb, who track these things through analytics gathered from browser extensions. I trust this article more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai... "But two months after its debut, ChatGPT has more than 30 million users and gets roughly five million visits a day, two p…

Can someone tell me what the hell they use ChatGPT for? I tried it a few times and it always confidently gave me wrong results to basic things. What is this thing supposedly “disrupting”? Is it really just marketing cranking out metric tons of spam blogs?

GPT is not just about text it’s about language, that fundamentally human thing. It’s not AGI but it’s moderately close for a whole huge range of use cases. So it’s a great product, but it’s not a new being.. in the sense we are—sorry ChatGPT! no offense to your brilliance, just sayin’.

Can you give examples about what and how you asked and what it said?

BTW How you ask is the lion’s share of making it useful to you

Re: Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process

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Post by dicknuckle »

jackblemming wrote: post #23
simonw wrote: post #19

"hitting 100 million monthly active users 2 months after its launch". I'm deeply suspicious of that number. It came from Similarweb, who track these things through analytics gathered from browser extensions. I trust this article more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai... "But two months after its debut, ChatGPT has more than 30 million users and gets roughly five million visits a day, two p…

Can someone tell me what the hell they use ChatGPT for? I tried it a few times and it always confidently gave me wrong results to basic things. What is this thing supposedly “disrupting”? Is it really just marketing cranking out metric tons of spam blogs?

I've had it figure out what I was trying to do with a JMESpath query for some data from AWS. It happily filled in the blanks in my knowledge.

It also simplified a JQ thing I had built, and it also told me how to structure the data how I wanted, within that filter.

Re: Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process

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Post by Izkata »

mrtranscendence wrote: post #55
anonymouskimmer wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_... From the graph (above) linked by the top comment in your [2], I'm wondering whether this demonstrates more anti-conservative bias than liberal bias, or whether the alternative meanings of conventionally conservative versus conventionally liberal words dictate the frequency of a flag. For instance, "Republican" means a variety of things around the world,…

> US Democrat party (which is frequently misstated as the "Democratic party") Where are you getting this? The proper term is indeed "Democratic party", and this is almost universal outside of the conservative bubble. You might personally think it's not small-d democratic, but that doesn't make "Democrat party" correct.

Independents and foreigners also use it, to distinguish the description from the political party. Using the official term I think much more indicates a US liberal bubble.

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Post by kk__ »

jackblemming wrote: post #23
simonw wrote: post #19

"hitting 100 million monthly active users 2 months after its launch". I'm deeply suspicious of that number. It came from Similarweb, who track these things through analytics gathered from browser extensions. I trust this article more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai... "But two months after its debut, ChatGPT has more than 30 million users and gets roughly five million visits a day, two p…

Can someone tell me what the hell they use ChatGPT for? I tried it a few times and it always confidently gave me wrong results to basic things. What is this thing supposedly “disrupting”? Is it really just marketing cranking out metric tons of spam blogs?

It's a writing tool.

It can summarise (covert freeform text to json etc), it can expand (convert these bullet points in to content) and it can transpose (rewrite this python as java).

It's a starting prompt for fiction and a research time saver for non fiction. It's a multipurpose tool. Functionally it's also a UI if you write it as hardcoded reply formats.

Re: Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process

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Post by NoToP »

jackblemming wrote: post #23
simonw wrote: post #19

"hitting 100 million monthly active users 2 months after its launch". I'm deeply suspicious of that number. It came from Similarweb, who track these things through analytics gathered from browser extensions. I trust this article more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai... "But two months after its debut, ChatGPT has more than 30 million users and gets roughly five million visits a day, two p…

Can someone tell me what the hell they use ChatGPT for? I tried it a few times and it always confidently gave me wrong results to basic things. What is this thing supposedly “disrupting”? Is it really just marketing cranking out metric tons of spam blogs?

There's a huge market for bullshit. It's a trillion dollar industry.

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Post by stevenhuang »

jackblemming wrote: post #23
simonw wrote: post #19

"hitting 100 million monthly active users 2 months after its launch". I'm deeply suspicious of that number. It came from Similarweb, who track these things through analytics gathered from browser extensions. I trust this article more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai... "But two months after its debut, ChatGPT has more than 30 million users and gets roughly five million visits a day, two p…

Can someone tell me what the hell they use ChatGPT for? I tried it a few times and it always confidently gave me wrong results to basic things. What is this thing supposedly “disrupting”? Is it really just marketing cranking out metric tons of spam blogs?

Another example: it's really good at identifying idioms/turn of phrases.

You just ask it: provide a list of idioms/turn of phrases equivalent to

And it will give you everything it knows about. It's great for exactly these types of queries which are hard to google (if you try, you just get blogspam)

Re: Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process

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Post by garyfirestorm »

jackblemming wrote: post #23
simonw wrote: post #19

"hitting 100 million monthly active users 2 months after its launch". I'm deeply suspicious of that number. It came from Similarweb, who track these things through analytics gathered from browser extensions. I trust this article more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai... "But two months after its debut, ChatGPT has more than 30 million users and gets roughly five million visits a day, two p…

Can someone tell me what the hell they use ChatGPT for? I tried it a few times and it always confidently gave me wrong results to basic things. What is this thing supposedly “disrupting”? Is it really just marketing cranking out metric tons of spam blogs?

There’s a community plugin for obsidian note taking which takes openai api key and let’s you write notes with help of chatgpt

For eg, I like to scribble things And then ask gpt model to generate an outline, summarize something, make it more impactful, sound authoritative etc. this does help me sound better since English is my second language but I do verify the output.

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Post by danuker »

jackblemming wrote: post #23
simonw wrote: post #19

"hitting 100 million monthly active users 2 months after its launch". I'm deeply suspicious of that number. It came from Similarweb, who track these things through analytics gathered from browser extensions. I trust this article more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai... "But two months after its debut, ChatGPT has more than 30 million users and gets roughly five million visits a day, two p…

Can someone tell me what the hell they use ChatGPT for? I tried it a few times and it always confidently gave me wrong results to basic things. What is this thing supposedly “disrupting”? Is it really just marketing cranking out metric tons of spam blogs?

Straight from the horse's mouth:

> Can someone tell me what the hell they use ChatGPT for?

    Yes, I can help explain what ChatGPT is used for. ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI that can generate human-like responses to text-based prompts. It has been trained on a vast amount of text data to understand the nuances of language and can be used for a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, such as:

    1. Text generation: ChatGPT can generate new text in response to a prompt, such as writing a story, composing a poem, or generating product descriptions.
    2. Language translation: ChatGPT can translate text from one language to another, making it a useful tool for language learning or communication between people who speak different languages.
    3. Chatbot development: ChatGPT can be used to create chatbots that can engage in conversations with humans and provide helpful responses to their inquiries.
    4. Text classification: ChatGPT can be used to classify text into categories, such as sentiment analysis, topic modeling, or identifying spam emails.
    5. Question-answering: ChatGPT can be used to answer questions posed in natural language, such as providing information on a topic or answering customer support inquiries.

    These are just a few examples of the many use cases for ChatGPT. It has the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with technology and make it easier for people to communicate with each other across language barriers.

Re: Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process

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Post by xbmcuser »

jackblemming wrote: post #23
simonw wrote: post #19

"hitting 100 million monthly active users 2 months after its launch". I'm deeply suspicious of that number. It came from Similarweb, who track these things through analytics gathered from browser extensions. I trust this article more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai... "But two months after its debut, ChatGPT has more than 30 million users and gets roughly five million visits a day, two p…

Can someone tell me what the hell they use ChatGPT for? I tried it a few times and it always confidently gave me wrong results to basic things. What is this thing supposedly “disrupting”? Is it really just marketing cranking out metric tons of spam blogs?

Using Jobs famous words you are using it wrong. ChatGpt is more of a writing tool rather than an information tool. It helps you to write stuff the information it writes does not need to be accurate

Re: Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process

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Post by rnosov »

jacooper wrote: post #47

Im not deep into the AI space, but who would I use this? Do I just run it and speak to it in terminal? Or what is the next step to make it useful for search or more?

TFA claims that they managed to replicate "RLHF" type thing that would allow you to bark orders at the raw GPT-3 model and get palatable results back (as opposed to often repetitive nonsense output of the raw model). You won't be able to run this in your terminal as GPT-3 alone consumes nearly 400GB of RAM plus whatever post processing you do with it. At the moment, there is no obvious use case for it apart from running a ChatGPT competitor. On the other hand, there was no obvious use case for electricity for nearly a century. But one can speculate that we're getting closer and closer to a "lightbulb" moment for AI.
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