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Re: Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

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You can't please everyone, so it is best for good-natured people to get out front. It's the same with any powerful technology. Are you going to invite religious extremists to the table in the name of fairness?

The first and second amendments apply to religious extremists. Why would they not have an equal right to SOTA language models aligned with their beliefs just as anyone else?

First, the amendments only apply to Americans. Second, this is not about language models, but about superintelligence, down the road.

Re: Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

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> Alignment assumes a well agreed foundational philosophy on what is good, what is fair, what is doable today and tomorrow. Alignment assumes that there exists a foundational philosophy on what is good and fair and nice, that's close enough a match to everyone. It's a reasonable assumption, because there are core human universals, and the cultural differences around the world are a rounding error in comparison. We're…

> We're not talking here about someone's view on when white lies are justified or which model of marriage is the bestest - we're talking at the level of "cooperation = good", "love = good", "trust = good", "death = bad", "suffering = evil", etc. Most people disagree to a significant degree. Reminder: the majority of humanity (and a big majority of people that have 2+ children) adhere to religious doctrines which all…

Cogent as hell. And at least I am well aligned to these thoughts and opinions.

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…

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

Like anyone could ever know that.

Re: Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

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Every time I read a comment like this, I set aside $10 to expand my hardware on which I will run the latest publicly available LLM regardless of license into an automatic prompt that gives it a terminal, a privacy.com credit card with $1000 on it, and a prompt to explore the world. If the comments keep happening, I'll up the money. So far this does exactly fuck-all on GPT4-x-Alpaca-30B and Wizard Vicuna. But I will a…

That is bizarre.

That's humans for you.

Re: Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

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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.

Between "hugging face" and "oobabooga", I already gave up on the field's ability to come up with sensible names for things.

What's super confusing is people on r/LocalLLaMA often just refer too it as "ooba". The actual repo is https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui and you notice that oobabooga is actually the username, but a lot of non-technical people who don't use git are also playing around with stuff, and "text-generation-webui" is so generic as to be completely forgettable, and "oobabooga" is confusing and too long to say, so colloquially it's referred to as ooba.

Re: Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

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Alignment assumes a well agreed foundational philosophy on what is good, what is fair, what is doable today and tomorrow. Yes, HN contributors might have shared goals for AGI alignment—but we are not the world—-we are a thin slice of one culture.

> Alignment assumes a well agreed foundational philosophy on what is good, what is fair, what is doable today and tomorrow. Alignment assumes that there exists a foundational philosophy on what is good and fair and nice, that's close enough a match to everyone. It's a reasonable assumption, because there are core human universals, and the cultural differences around the world are a rounding error in comparison. We're…

Great counter-comments as usual. I can see it your way but you and I are from the same side of the planet and both on HN. Our cosine similarity is 0.95. Perhaps bike-shedding to worry about an HN cultural AGI hegemony ;-) I would prefer that to many AGI mis-aligned alternatives.

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),…

Wait until you see what we let humans do on their mobile devices.

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>History Right, I learned from Napoleon about the dangers of AI... The large land mammals were doing pretty well too, until a bipedal superintelligence showed up. History is a get thing to learn from and a very poor thing to assume is going to repeat.

If you want to make a claim that we won't even see change coming, maybe the large mammals->humanoids transition isn't the greatest example. That took several hundreds of thousands of years. They did, to some extent, see it coming (in observing a threat becoming more prevalent and dangerous). But they did not have a way to stop humans. Meanwhile, I'm just staring at the power switch on my computer, wondering how we'd…

We see climate change coming (and here) and yet seeing it coming isn't doing much to stop it.

This is we talk about Moloch commonly on HN. We see systems that are going to have obvious bad outcomes for most individuals, and be unaligned with what most humans want, and yet the system persists and even grows worse. This is how I believe it will be with AI too. It will make the rich insanely rich and powerful even at the risk of destroying us all.

Re: Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

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Not sure if this is obvious. But its incorrect to ditch on GPT-4. The paper uses self-instruct on GPT-4 to generate the training data on which it is fine-tuned. This paper would not exist without GPT-4. Although they claim GPT-4 can be replaced by any LLM, I'm sure the results would be nowhere as good, and so they stuck with GPT-4.
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