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Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages

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Re: Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages

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Post by chasd00 »

lapetitejort wrote: post #142
barathr wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And another called "Hang the DJ"

And yet another in the 2014 Special, where the police make AI "clones" of a suspect, then interrogate them in a simulation.

i was thinking of this exact scenario here. Training an LLM on all the information available about a suspect and then questioning the AI. If you had a mountain of information it would be very easy to miss details and connect the dots manually but if you could prompt an AI that has been trained on the data you could get answers much faster.

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mabbo wrote: post #49

While I love all these stories of turning your friends and loved ones into chat bots so you can talk to them forever, my brain immediately took a much darker turn because of course it did. How many emails, text messages, hangouts/gchat messages, etc, does Google have of you right now? And as part of their agreement, they can do pretty much whatever they like with those, can't they? Could Google, or any other company…

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Post by hooverd »

chasd00 wrote: post #92

This has to be one of hte most fascinating discussions i've seen on HN. Imagine the FBI training an AI on all the information they have about a suspect. Files and files of statements, social media history, phone taps, etc and then interrogating the AI to get enough information to convince a judge to issue a warrant. idk the LLMs being turned loose and the possibilities feels different than past major shifts in tech.…

That seems like a great way to do parallel construction. "Computer said so", very convenient.

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Post by izzymiller »

sdwr wrote: post #17

Wish 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.

That's an interesting point! I didn't do much clever here, other than sessionizing the conversations (there's a code sample in the project) to try and capture full conversations rather than disjointed snippets.

My group chat was pretty asynchronous at times, and very fast at others, and the character of conversation is very different in a fast-paced chat versus an asynchronous one so I think this actually would lead to improvements. That's a great idea.

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Post by Zetice »

mabbo wrote: post #49

While I love all these stories of turning your friends and loved ones into chat bots so you can talk to them forever, my brain immediately took a much darker turn because of course it did. How many emails, text messages, hangouts/gchat messages, etc, does Google have of you right now? And as part of their agreement, they can do pretty much whatever they like with those, can't they? Could Google, or any other company…

> And as part of their agreement, they can do pretty much whatever they like with those, can't they?

What? No haha, they aren't able to read your emails or use them as training data for an LLM.

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Post by izzymiller »

obblekk wrote: post #10

Great 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?

Something i found fascinating about this project was that me and my friends would be using the AI group chat, but constantly taking screenshots and sending them to the REAL group chat and laughing about how funny it was.

Basically, the generated "fake" chats were made 10x funnier by the ability to laugh about them with the "real" chat— and we did this most often when the outputs were most accurate— so I do think there is a Je ne sais quoi to the knowledge that something is "real" that makes you behave differently and get different value out of it.

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Post by chasd00 »

29athrowaway wrote: post #112
mabbo wrote: post #49

While I love all these stories of turning your friends and loved ones into chat bots so you can talk to them forever, my brain immediately took a much darker turn because of course it did. How many emails, text messages, hangouts/gchat messages, etc, does Google have of you right now? And as part of their agreement, they can do pretty much whatever they like with those, can't they? Could Google, or any other company…

Wait until you head about mind uploading and transhumanism.

heh take the turing test one step further. If you can't tell the difference between the real person and the LLM of that real person then which one is real?

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Post by prpl »

izzymiller wrote: post #90
gibspaulding wrote: post #63

Reminds me of the bit in Silicon Valley where Gilfoyle makes a bot of himself to respond to slack messages. Actually the whole final season is pretty relevant to current events. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1gFSENorEY

This scene was the seed of inspiration for me to make this project! No joke. I thought about doing it but didn't trust the 7B model to not make me look stupid ^_^

Just wait until it’s a Slack feature.

… -> Build Bot from Coworker

@pm-bot, what do you think about a feature that does XYZ?

@intern-bot, implement said feature.

@sre-bot, …

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