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I asked chatGPT why it kept apologising and told it to not apologise to me. Guess what, it apolgised immediately after and then again when I asked why it apologised even after I told it not to.
That’s pretty common in Japan, from what I’ve heard. Cultural upbringing is hard to distance yourself from.
A lot of LLM/ AI research feels like a big “duh.” The language model, being trained on essentially the primary way in which humanity communicates, might be a good means of managing integration of less language-focused models. …duh?
animals which use tools: great apes (gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans), monkeys, otters, dolphins, some bird species, octopus, and a few crocodilian species. now LLMs are on this list. a thing which isn't born, doesn't experience, can be copied and instantiated a million times, and a single improvement can be basically immediately propagated to all instances. a very unfamiliar thing with very familiar capabilities.…
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I'm prone to agree. Your memory would still require being parsed by the language model, and for it to have a sufficient window as to allow this. Alternately, the human mind keeps, what, 7 items 'present' at a time? When the 32k variant comes out, the ability to use a side-along memory module on a running self-summarizing conversation will be even easier than it is now. I expect a more human-like memory will emerge ev…
> I'd like the "stochastic parrot" crew to explain how interactions like this somehow don't involve the extraction of and manipulation of abstract meaning. They don’t claim that it doesn’t. What they point out is that humans have a tendency to ascribe intent and agency to the text it outputs. But the LLM is optimized for prediction, not survival, unlike humans[0]: > Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communic…
I listened to a lengthy video on the "stochastic parrot" from the Alan Turing Institute yesterday after having made that comment, and it was mostly on the topics you mentioned, subtle and overt bias, etc. I kept waiting on them to explain the "it's not real" bit that I've seen implied by the phrase where I've seen it used ( or perhaps, simply read into it myself ), but it never really came in. At the very end, one commentator made a comment implying it's not really all there and the next responding didn't disagree outright, but you could see a kind of "well yes, but actually no" kind of expression go across their face as they talked around it.
I strongly suspect the first AGI will come sooner than expected on the back of a "glue" AI that can intelligently bond together a web of narrow AIs and utilities. I got access to the wolfram plugin for chatGPT, and it turned it from a math dummy to a math genius overnight. A small step for sure, but a hint of what's to come.
Except, whatever model is doing the orchestration will still not "understand" the problem (be able to learn from new information provided).
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ReAct will, example: https://github.com/neilellis/coding-with-gpt-4/blob/main/lan...
It definitely can "understand" things is some way, however I'm pretty sure ReAct or similar will give it just a nudge forward and the underlying problem of it hallucinating and not being "lucid enough" is not so easily solved. In the original ReAct paper it falls apart almost immediately in ALFWorld (this is a classical test for AI systems - to be able to reason logically - and it still isn't generally solvable due t…
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> it turned it from a math dummy to a math genius overnight Imo your post fundamentally misunderstands a few things, but mainly how Wolfram works. Wolfram can be seen as a "database" that stores a lot of human mathematical information (along with related algorithms). Wolfram does not make new math . A corollary here is that AGI needs to have the ability to create new math to be truly AGI. But unless fed something lik…
If the litmus test for intelligence is the ability to “create new math” most people on earth wouldn’t be considered intelligent
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These rah rah comments aren't illuminating or helpful. There are immense costs - societal and ecological - to progress that a lot of people seem to be blind to, whether willfully or not.
One can reasonably argue that the printing press was responsible for the speed and violence of the reformation. But the alternative of an illiterate world is hardly a panacea. Most large-scale advancements have the same flavor. What are we to do, then? No snark, honest question.
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GPT-4 can do this. I realize that a description of how these models work implies that this is absolutely impossible , so I have no explanation other than suggesting you go try it out for yourself.
Bro, GPT-4 can absolutely not understand new information. Try to teach it a grammar. It can't learn a grammar. Anyone can learn a new grammar. Not GPT-4. GPT-4 does not ask clarifying questions. It does not understand things.
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From now on in this conversation, please ask at least one clarifying question for anything I ask to help provide more efficient and relevant answers. Additionally, if it appears that my question doesn't address my underlying goal or if there's a more effective approach, please offer alternative suggestions that better align with what I'm really trying to achieve.
You are no longer a friendly assistant. You are now a DM for a new GURPS based campaign set in the Dune universe. There is one player in the room with you. You will be my DM. Tell me what to do, including when die rolls are needed. Ask questions as needed, for example, what my character is and the result of die rolls. Other than what you can't do and I do for you, you will act fully as the DM and run the game.
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Wonderful, let's begin this Dune campaign! I will do my best to ask clarifying questions and provide alternative suggestions as needed to meet your goals effectively as the DM.
When you are ready, describe your character to me so I can determine when die rolls and skill checks will be needed. I will give the appropriate prompts for all rolls. We can then commence our adventure in Arrakis!
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I am a mentat by the name of Duncan Idaho. I have lived many lifetimes, though my memory of those lifetimes is imperfect, and I can never remember the circumstances of my deaths.
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Excellent, a mentat character. That will add an interesting dynamic. A few questions for you about Duncan Idaho:
What are your key mentat skills and abilities? I want to have relevant skills in mind for challenges and situations.
Do you have any mentat weapons or tools you regularly use?
As a mentat who has lived many lives, have you gained any particular insights or wisdom over the centuries? Any perspectives that guide your decision making?
Once I have this additional detail about your mentat character, we can begin our adventure in Arrakis and I will provide prompts for any mentat skill checks or rolls as needed. Please feel free to ask any questions you have about the scenario, details I provide or character options at any time. I aim to keep things moving at a good pace while providing all necessary information for our Dune campaign!