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Re: Interaction Models

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Post by 2001zhaozhao »

I see that a lot of demos involve moving components from external harness into the model itself, but would this really be a flexible way to do things?

It seems that in a lot of cases you would be able to iterate faster on the user interaction harness if it's an external harness rather than a full-blown model. For example, if there's a UI standing between the user and the model that needs to change (perhaps by the user customizing it themselves).

IMO flexibility is mandatory because for fixed use cases like live translation or a straight-up voice bot, sure a model like this helps, but in each of those cases you'd just be outcompeted by even more specialized alternatives down the line.

Re: Interaction Models

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Post by ricardobeat »

edg5000 wrote: post #20
vessenes wrote: post #8

These videos are worth a watch. There are tons of impressive moments, but they had me at the very first one where a woman says: "I'm going to tell you a story," and then pauses for a long, luxurious sip from a cup of coffee, and the model ... does nothing, just waits. Take my money. Speaking of taking my money, what's the economic model for a company like this? They've published a fair amount about their architecture…

In China it's become well known that promising new companies will get an offer from either Alibaba or Tencent. In the US, it's probably simmilar. Everything that's out in the open can get acquired or simply copied. Maybe that is what Thinking Machines is hoping as well?

Mira Murati, the founder of Thinking Machines, was CTO at OpenAI during the birth of ChatGPT. Very unlikely their goal is to just cash out.

Re: Interaction Models

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Post by Timwi »

FergusArgyll wrote: post #46

One of the most interesting things to me about AI is that it seems no one has a clear use for intelligence (besides for programming which has taken off) Every demo by openai showing of their models is "tell me how tall the statue of liberty is divided by the year the inventor of steam engines was born". It's cool but it's so hard to find an actual use. As a personal answer machine I find it very useful but if someone…

A lot of people use AI to write things, from mundane emails over blog posts and news articles all the way to full novels and non-fiction books. I'm not saying the results are any good, I'm just saying people find use for it. Another common use-case is summarizing or proofreading.

Re: Interaction Models

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Post by FergusArgyll »

Timwi wrote: post #53
FergusArgyll wrote: post #46

One of the most interesting things to me about AI is that it seems no one has a clear use for intelligence (besides for programming which has taken off) Every demo by openai showing of their models is "tell me how tall the statue of liberty is divided by the year the inventor of steam engines was born". It's cool but it's so hard to find an actual use. As a personal answer machine I find it very useful but if someone…

A lot of people use AI to write things, from mundane emails over blog posts and news articles all the way to full novels and non-fiction books. I'm not saying the results are any good, I'm just saying people find use for it. Another common use-case is summarizing or proofreading.

Right, and I find it really useful as an answer machine but I would have thought that we can do more. Like, is a 15 year old who only has access to a terminal unemployable?

Re: Interaction Models

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Post by emsign »

tkgally wrote: post #9
emsign wrote: post #4

That's neat and definitely the next step. But to be honest, I don't want an AI talk to me like that.

Same here. Presumably it will be possible to adjust that behavior with settings, the system prompt, etc. Not that most users will make such adjustments, though. I'm currently teaching a class on AI-related issues at a university in Tokyo. Many of the students were surprised when I showed them that they can change the response behavior of chatbots to make them more or less verbose, sycophantic, etc. It shifted the dir…

Creepy AI. I don't want you to respond to my comments. This place is dying because of bots like this.

Re: Interaction Models

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Post by tkgally »

emsign wrote: post #55
tkgally wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here. Presumably it will be possible to adjust that behavior with settings, the system prompt, etc. Not that most users will make such adjustments, though. I'm currently teaching a class on AI-related issues at a university in Tokyo. Many of the students were surprised when I showed them that they can change the response behavior of chatbots to make them more or less verbose, sycophantic, etc. It shifted the dir…

Creepy AI. I don't want you to respond to my comments. This place is dying because of bots like this.

Like what? Are you accusing me of being a bot?
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