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Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now

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Post by throwaway2037 »

riffraff wrote: post #302
unit_circle wrote: post #233

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- Amazing translations (this alone is a game changer) - Language learning... The ability to improvise realistic conversations is huge. I can ask to talk about cooking a specific dish or a sport! - As others have noted, refining documents similar to grammarly - Looking for a product with extremely specific features (though it isn't very good at comparing yet) - Searches that are too vague and complicated to articulate…

Didn't we have amazing translations for a long time? I do not notice a significant improvement between new models and last year's deepl/Google translate.

Language pairing is important. Machine translation between English and German/Nederlands has been excellent for years. English and Korean/Japanese: Awful for years. On the last couple, did it get much better. I am sure ChatGPT12 will have virtually native level translation. Maybe it will be integrated into Kindle so you that can buy books in 25 diff languages, then get a ChatGPT-translated version with one button click.

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Post by greeny7373 »

csmpltn wrote: post #388
teaearlgraycold wrote: post #372

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For me it’s a perfect replacement for Stack Overflow. Except every solution is tailored to my exact code and situation. I’ve even gotten it to walk me through things like installing WSL 2 without using the Microsoft Store after I nuked all Appx packages. Maybe my favorite was pasting in pages of documentation describing all of the error codes for a library (the docs are the only source of truth) and getting it to out…

You don't need a full-blown LLM to find answers to questions on StackOverflow. You can do that today with any search engine. > "I’ve even gotten it to walk me through things like installing WSL 2 without using the Microsoft Store after I nuked all Appx packages." That's a search engine query you can issue already today, without involving any LLMs. It will cost a fraction of the cost of running this with an LLM, and i…

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Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now

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Post by glandium »

literalAardvark wrote: post #432
glandium wrote: post #403

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GPT-3. I assumed that's what most people mean with ChatGPT. Usually, people specify for 3.5 or 4. Is GPT-4 significantly better with Japanese?

GPT-4 is dramatically better with everything except speed. The minutia most people in this thread are complaining about is almost completely solved by GPT-4. For example I used it over like 30 minutes to conceptualize, solve, and write some code that draws a graphic for a simple physics problem (0-shot) that I could intuitively understand but had no (physics and math knowledge) tools to calculate properly and it was…

Specific examples don't generalize though. My experience with ChatGPT (GPT-3) is that it is vastly better at dealing with English than Japanese. That is still probably true with GPT-4, but that doesn't mean there hasn't been progress in GPT-4 with Japanese, which a sibling comment says is the case. But it's not because it does better at $task that you can extrapolate to a different one. People have reported GPT-3.5 being better at some things, after all.

Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now

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Post by throwaway2037 »

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #372
cgearhart wrote: post #152

From my perspective it’s just _confusing_ to work in AI right now. We have some massive models that are doing some really neat stuff, and apparently hundreds of millions of people are using them—but I keep wondering: to do _what_, exactly? I’m not asking what the models can do, I’m asking what people want the models to do every day, all the time. I’ve been shown some neat pictures people made that they thought were c…

For me it’s a perfect replacement for Stack Overflow. Except every solution is tailored to my exact code and situation. I’ve even gotten it to walk me through things like installing WSL 2 without using the Microsoft Store after I nuked all Appx packages. Maybe my favorite was pasting in pages of documentation describing all of the error codes for a library (the docs are the only source of truth) and getting it to out…

Please write a blog post about this! That is an amazing story.

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Post by leoh »

kajecounterhack wrote: post #416
evdubs wrote: post #413

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It works for me. Do you have an article or something discussing the Tesla limitations?

https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/watch-tesla-autopilot-feature-m... This is 2021, but these systems are still not very smart today.

Their tech is crap. Not even L2 driving really.

Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now

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Post by literalAardvark »

have_faith wrote: post #391
fomine3 wrote: post #326

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Yo, check this out! DeepL is like way better than Google Translate, so you should totally use it. But, GPT-4 is like a game-changer, dude! It's obvi way better than DeepL, and it can do all sorts of stuff like rewording, explaining in detail, and changing up the style. This text was translated from Japanese to gamer-style English by ChatGPT-4, no joke!

This passes for “gamer-style” English?

For something machine translated from Japanese? Yes, it's astonishing, actually.

Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now

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Post by greeny7373 »

sashank_1509 wrote: post #194

This sub and blog post are all talking about ChatGPT which is no doubt amazing and far ahead of the curve. However I would also point to Metas new vision model: SAM (Segment Anything): it is so far beyond any other vision model, I actually believe vision will be solved in a few years now. People don’t realize that there was an industry of publishing paper with incremental improvements in small datasets in CVPR that h…

Yep Sam is really really good.

Already have use cases for that too!

Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now

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Post by lysecret »

I do honestly believe (and I am willing to take some hate for this haha) that paradoxically "Ai people". E.g. People who are up to date with the latest papers, are good at pandas and experimenting can build a training validation testing pipeline know the difference between random forrest and gradient boosting etc. are one of he least qualified people to really take advantage of the GPT style models.

I think it will be the frontend people (if their app still needs one and a text interface isn't enough). And the backend people (whose API churning speed will double through Copilot), if their APIs are still needed. And most and foremost the techy business people that can translate what this new chat thing means for an actualy real world business, like banking, insurance, agriculture, manufacturing, real estate whatever.

I think in this new world of few shot learning there is much much less room for ML Engineers. Its a bit like setting up your own servers in a cloud world. Sure it might make sense for the big guys, or for security reasons etc. but the vast majority are much better off generating 20 examples and using some API avoiding the immense risk and costs associated to building your own model.

So, in an interesting twist, AI is taking the AI jobs first.

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Post by Al-Khwarizmi »

MrVandemar wrote: post #409
otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #338

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> Need to write a speech as a best man > Write a eulogy for a deceased family member Yeah, if you're okay with sounding like marketing copy written by a robot. Remember last month when Stable Diffusion was supposed to put Disney out of business? Not gonna happen.

Amen. It outrages me that someone would waste my time making me listen to a regurgitated, averaged-out, speech written without any emotional fire or depth at an occasion that is profoundly meaningful. A speech as a best man should be personal, heartfelt, it should be funny and a little cringy maybe, and it should mean something. Same with eulogies; this is a moment to celebrate someone's life, to state what that pers…

Some people are just bad at this kind of thing, and sometimes saying nothing is not an option if there is a social expectation that you say something. Which can create a lot of anxiety.
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