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Ask the LLM to perform a complex task by splitting it into sub tasks to be performed by other LLM instances, then integrate the results...
Is this something like langchain is working towards?
AutoGPT, BabyAGI
What it feels like to work in AI right now
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Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
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> there seems to be a winner take all dynamic baked into the tech world. This has been a pathology in the computer/software industry for a very long time. It's never been actually true except in a couple of special cases, but the industry acts as if it is. That has led to all sorts of bizarre and undesirable things. > Guys, what the heck are we doing?? I think we're playing with fire and, without extreme caution and…
What's your main concern with all of this?
People are perceiving (rightly or wrongly, I'm not debating that in this comment) that this software is powerful enough that it can replace people even in jobs that were always considered safe.
If that perception is accurate, it's really hard to see how this can lead to anywhere that isn't much worse for most people.
If that perception is not accurate, people will still be upset by what looks like an existential threat to them, and if there's economic disruption for any unrelated reason, they will blame AI.
Either way, I'm really struggling to see a good outcome from any of this. I'm not saying ChatGPT is bad, but I think the rollout of it has been done in a way that is incredibly insensitive, reckless and damaging.
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
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Most of the people asking the question "to do _what_, exactly" seem to have not much of a "knowledge worker" experience. Every non-tech person I showed GPT4 to was after a few tests immediately using it to speed up parts of their daily work. Most impactful is how it destroys the blank page/getting started barrier, second how easy it is to substantially change/adapt/refocus produced work. It is like having an incredib…
> Most of the people asking the question "to do _what_, exactly" seem to have not much of a "knowledge worker" experience. From personal experience I'd say the opposite: GPT lacks the specialist knowledge to produce useful writing or yield accurate answers in any of the markets I've worked in (I'll grant that less niche markets exist, and that GPT is pretty good at fixing the writing of people that lack English langu…
As is already a cliche now: GPT will not replace your job. Your colleague using GPT will.
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
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> We just need to apply what we learned in business school Please don't. You've already ruined enough industries. Let the MBAs do finance and Wall Street and leave them out of the chain of command in organizations that make things.
Every time you go to the store and find that the store is still in business and there is food on the shelf, it is because someone went to business school and knows how to optimize demand estimation, pricing, and logistics. Yes, some MBAs fuck things up. Just like some CS grads fuck things up. But advocating against the study of business is just as naive as advocating against the study of computer science just because…
> advocating against the study of business is just as naive as advocating against the study of computer science just because there are some bad CS grads.
Criticizing garbage MBA programs is not criticizing the study of business. Business schools don't study business. They're a place where people make a lot of money selling theories about business that are useless at best and it many places, quite harmful. Learning about business by going to business school is like learning to kiss by reading books about kissing.
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
#625This 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…
I wonder if this means no more stupid select-all-squares-with captchas.
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
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There’s too much insanity over building new tech these days, and I find a lot of hate directed on Autopilot, to stem from hate directed on Elon. Let’s go over the basics for Autopilot: 1. It costs thousands of dollars a year + 15k one time and it’s very easy to get banned from autopilot for life. They have a 3 strike rule + 1000 miles driven on your Tesla with a good safety before you’re allowed to access autopilot 2…
> Let’s go over the basics for Autopilot: Go on Pornhub right now (if you're not at work) and search for sex in tesla. You'll find people driving Teslas on public roads while having sex in the driver's seat. The guy touches the steering wheel every so often to keep the car autopilot activated. The videos have been posted over a span of years. Another one was literally posted yesterday . Combined they have 10s of mill…
No idea why you had to tout out that you had a PhD when I was pointing out that you were not a user. Well news flash, I did my PhD in EECS with a focus on Perception and Autonomous Vehicle Applications from a top 4 CS school and so did most people in Autopilot (Most are from Stanford, Berkeley or CMU in Tesla AP), in fact I worked with people who were a part of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge who are in Autopilot now and I can assure you they think as deeply about safety as you claim you are. (I did not want to default to an argument of authority, but you made it that).
I do in fact sleep soundly, knowing I don't call engineers murderers on online forums. The 2019 and 2016 case you're talking about engaged Autopilot not FSD Beta (The 2019 crash did it just 10 seconds before the crash). Autopilot is glorified cruise control, it maintains a distance to the car in front of you, does not avoid obstacles, is not meant to break unless there are exceptional circumstances or do anything really beyond following the lane. Independent testing by both the NHTSA and the EURO NCAP authority have given Tesla Autopilot the highest safety rating recorded by any car, so it is the safest cruise control among competitors, but it is a cruise control where crashes happen. Its not FSD.
There has been only 1 case under FSD Beta under investigation by NHTSA, and that occurred in 2021, that is going on in the courts, I do expect Tesla to win that case, but let's see. That case involved damage to the car and no injuries or deaths reported.
Also I edited the comment to make it smaller, I did not see your reply before editing my comment. I can revert it if you wish.
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
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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…
I don’t think people dismissing AI have access to GPT-4 yet. GPT-3.5 did feel like a gimmick. GPT-4 feels like a team of really capable human interns. The potential really goes wild once you connect it to the internet and use stuff like autoGPT
This makes a ton of sense.
I've been struggling to reconcile my personal experience with what I'm reading - it was so strange reading such dismissive comments by such a knowledgeable community about a new technology that's such an obvious game changer.
GPT-3.5 was easy to dismiss, but GPT-4 is incredible.
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
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You couldn’t be further from the truth. This is the single greatest leap in productivity we’ve had in the last 100 years. Last week, I used GPT-4 to write my code. Later, I used it to analyze 100+ websites and come up with a personalized pitch for a relevant plugin/product idea - something that would have taken me 100+ hours.
If it makes you feel better (or worse?). I am using it daily and extensively. It is a productivity boost but not something that will propel me to god-level and the more I use it (Codex in particular) the more I discover its limitations; and that's where my conclusion has came from: It is too limited beyond the local scope it has. It is not clear (and there are no indications) it can make a jump from that local scope.
Are you using GPT-3.5 or GPT-4?
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
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I’ll give you a concrete example from a few days ago in my job. I needed a quick utility window in the Unity editor to see what animations could fire animation events and what those were. I’m somewhat familiar with the editor API, enough to know what to Google and roughly where to go in the docs. I don’t do it enough though to really learn it beyond that point. So I’d estimate I could spend maybe one and a half hours…
One worry I have for the long term is: how will we learn or adopt new programming languages in the future, when LLM du-jour knows nothing about Language X? Will we be stuck with what we’ve got because LLMs make us too productive in them?
I thought about this as well.
As long as the new language is well-documented, it should be simple to teach the LLM to use it.
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
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How is "LLM swarm computation" different that single bigger LLM?
The same reason why you don't let Mr Musk do all the work. He can't. One LLM is limited, one obvious limitation is its context window. Using a swarm of LLMs that each do a little task can alleviate that. We do it too and it's called delegation. Edit: BTW, "swarm" is meaningless with LLMs. It can be the same instance, but prompted differently each time.
> The same reason why you don't let Mr Musk do all the work. He can't.
Better to limit his incompetence to one position.