Neat. But I fail to see any useful use case for this. As a learning experience it’s greeat though
Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
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#12This is awesome, clear and concise explanation. I was talking to my wife and debating whether I should build a model of each of us and store it somewhere in case something tragic happens to either of us. But we decided not to because something about it felt wrong but maybe I’ll make it just in case I regret not doing later on.
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#13One wonders if eventually - historians will plug all the content from a person's personal notes, their diary, their chat logs, into an LLM, and perform research by talking to the AI about the person's life? If you trained an LLM against all the recorded discussions of Einstein - is it that different from talking to Einstein himself?
See Black Mirror S02E01 (it doesn't work out very well)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_(2006_film)
not quite the same but putting your self on auto pilot seems possible with something like this.
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#14One wonders if eventually - historians will plug all the content from a person's personal notes, their diary, their chat logs, into an LLM, and perform research by talking to the AI about the person's life? If you trained an LLM against all the recorded discussions of Einstein - is it that different from talking to Einstein himself?
Probably yes. But doesn't sound that different in principle from the memory room in Scalzi's Interdependency series.
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#15Highly recommend the TV show Black Mirror, which has an episode called “Be Right Back” where a character talks to her dead husband using an AI trained model in an app type setup.
Very interesting discussion piece on the real world impact and repercussions of these types of systems
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#16Very reminiscent of the Be Right Back episode of Black Mirror [1].
A family member recently died unexpectedly, and I have a small collection of texts, emails, and blog posts by them saved on my machine in the small (perhaps delusional) hope that they'll be a useful training set for a them-flavored chatbot. Perhaps even one that's trained to help me with the grief of their loss. Not a huge amount of training data, though. I suspect a training model would have to "fill in the holes" (a la Jurassic Park DNA), and that's where the fun begins.
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#17Wish I had friends who talked mild shit like this! All my friends are nerds who take everything seriously.
On the project, did you do anything about the time dimension? ChatGPT is strictly input -> output, but something like this needs time between messages to feel real (and not run constantly). I imagine adding "time since last message" to the training data + expected output would work.
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#18One wonders if eventually - historians will plug all the content from a person's personal notes, their diary, their chat logs, into an LLM, and perform research by talking to the AI about the person's life? If you trained an LLM against all the recorded discussions of Einstein - is it that different from talking to Einstein himself?
somebodies had to a have already tried this on here...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.innersloth...
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#19This is awesome, clear and concise explanation. I was talking to my wife and debating whether I should build a model of each of us and store it somewhere in case something tragic happens to either of us. But we decided not to because something about it felt wrong but maybe I’ll make it just in case I regret not doing later on.
You certainly won’t regret it. If you need to get information out of your wife and she won’t cooperate you can coerce the LLM of your wife into having it divulge private information that your wife won’t reveal. This can be very useful for something like a divorce case.
Best to find a way to keep the LLM regularly training on new data as well.
Edit: stop downvoting ideas you don’t like, that’s not what it’s for.
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#20Great write up, thanks for posting. I’ve been thinking of doing this for myself. One thought that’s haunting: how long before AI friends are more interesting and stimulating than any real person would be, leading people to prefer AI over humans to befriend… Super stimulus to end all super stimuluses?
record an old girlfriends texts but change them so they say what you want.