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Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

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Re: Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

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post #9

can people stop using animal names for their models and methods? At least with LlaMA, the name was an acronym, but Gorilla is clearly just marketing. flagged.

Why should they, and it seems very silly to flag a post for their preference of name. Are users on Twitter birds? Or is Mastodon filled with elephants? Name is merely a symbol in today's world Google is synonymous to search but Google is not just search anymore. I'm honestly curious about your gripe with it.

Re: Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

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Don't worry folks, the years and years of "of course we'd never connect experimental AI systems to the open internet" assurances were never necessary for safe development and deployment.

This reassessment was founded on the last several months that showed us these systems are close to 100% dependable, they never deceive humans, they are entirely aligned with human morals (you know, all those morals we all agree on), they are advancing at a totally predictable rate, and we never see unexpected behaviors from them. Besides, they can only be wielded by people who we trust have good intentions.

No, this re-assessment has nothing to do with market dynamics incentivizing people to deploy experimental systems further into the infrastructure we depend on.

Re: Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

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Plug: I’ve built something vaguely similar, but of course a trillion times less brilliant and powerful, yet nonetheless useful for some straightforward cases where really you just want GPT et al. to call your API at just the right moment of the conversation, with JSON that is guaranteed to be valid:

https://github.com/manuelkiessling/php-ai-tool-bridge

Re: Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

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Don't worry folks, the years and years of "of course we'd never connect experimental AI systems to the open internet" assurances were never necessary for safe development and deployment. This reassessment was founded on the last several months that showed us these systems are close to 100% dependable, they never deceive humans, they are entirely aligned with human morals (you know, all those morals we all agree on),…

Many of us have not been persuaded by the pervasive, kneejerk fear of AI that floods social media.

If social media had been around in the past, we'd have never developed trains or electricity or cars because of the crippling fear that something bad might happen along the way.

Re: Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

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post #9

can people stop using animal names for their models and methods? At least with LlaMA, the name was an acronym, but Gorilla is clearly just marketing. flagged.

Why should they, and it seems very silly to flag a post for their preference of name. Are users on Twitter birds? Or is Mastodon filled with elephants? Name is merely a symbol in today's world Google is synonymous to search but Google is not just search anymore. I'm honestly curious about your gripe with it.

Some people confuse research with production. Imagine if Einstein named his theory the Theory of Chimps, just to get attention.

Re: Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

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post #10

Note: if you read the paper carefully, this is LlaMA-derived, so suffers from the same use restrictions. We really need the open LLMs to catch up!

Realistically you can assume there’ll be one soon and develop with these models and switch over

Re: Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

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Don't worry folks, the years and years of "of course we'd never connect experimental AI systems to the open internet" assurances were never necessary for safe development and deployment. This reassessment was founded on the last several months that showed us these systems are close to 100% dependable, they never deceive humans, they are entirely aligned with human morals (you know, all those morals we all agree on),…

Other than snark, do you have a good argument? We know that technology can be error-prone, and LLMs fail in a great plethora of ways, but you are trying to sell an AI Doom narrative. I have never bought the idea that AI will be airgapped, because the whole paradigm of Yudkowsky at al. is ludicrous and even within it airgapping was a strawman of a technique (they argue that a truly dangerous AI will get itself out regardless).

> they are entirely aligned with human morals (you know, all those morals we all agree on)

Maybe this is a good cause to reassess the premise of alignment as a valuable goal? I know that at least some alignist fanatics admit [1] it's a religious project to bring humanity under the rule of a common ideologically monolithic governance to forever banish the evils of competition etc., and it's intellectually coherent, but evil from my point of view. Naturally this is the exact sort of disagreement about morals that precludes the possibility of alignment of a single AI both to my and to your values.

> they are advancing at a totally predictable rate, and we never see unexpected behaviors from them.

Since when is this a requirement for technology to be allowed?

> Besides, they can only be wielded by people who we trust have good intentions.

What, other than status quo bias, makes you tolerate, I dunno, the existence of cryptography?

1. https://twitter.com/RokoMijic/status/1660450229043249154

Re: Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

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Don't worry folks, the years and years of "of course we'd never connect experimental AI systems to the open internet" assurances were never necessary for safe development and deployment. This reassessment was founded on the last several months that showed us these systems are close to 100% dependable, they never deceive humans, they are entirely aligned with human morals (you know, all those morals we all agree on),…

If AI becomes harmful we will likely see it in motion and be able to respond and adapt to it.

We will live in a world where the humans on the internet are far far far more dangerous than any of these machines. The harms here are relatively small.

The only thing AI has is scale, but what's running at a higher scale than humanity? Every site already runs scam filters and handles misinformation. AI won't likely move the needle much because it's going to be less powerful than humans.

The potential benefits, meanwhile, are plentiful and massive.

I do not believe we need to wait for a solution to the nebulous and badly defined "control problem" to be solved to match forward here.

If we refused to advance out of fear, that fear will have done far more harm than access to AI will ever do.

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