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Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API

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Re: Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API

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Not asking rhetorically but what's the genuine use for these things apart from generating a.i. writer type seo spam or some funny text for discussion.

I mean with openai i can certainly tell one use case: GitHub copilot. Can this be used to create something equally useful? Or maybe like an ai game like the dungeon game.. is this that powerful too?

Re: Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API

#13
Prompt "My favourite dad joke:"

- My favourite dad joke: “If you’ve seen one cow, you’ve seen them all.” (Don’t ask, it’s been a long day)

- My favourite dad joke: ‘So you’re going to give up a child for another woman, and call the father a pervert’

- My favourite dad joke: [A man] gets sick on his trip overseas and is too afraid to go to the hospital to receive medical care. The doctor sees that he is very sick and very close to death and tells him that if he does not immediately go to the hospital he will die. The man gets up and leaves. When he arrives at the hospital he dies. The doctor then calls the man's son, and tells him that his father arrived too late and died. 'That's a funny joke,' the son replies. The doctor then asks, 'What do you mean?' 'Well,' says the son, 'if you had told my dad about his condition when he got to the hospital, he would have lived.'

This one was too insane so I posted the entire thing

- My favourite dad joke: “He’s not a man, he’s a mouse.”

The latest addition to the ever expanding list of dad jokes which have been immortalised through the ages is one from the BBC’s famous radio presenter, John Humphrys:

“A man bought his son a mouse. He put it in a box and took it to his son’s birthday party.

“He opens the box at the party. The box is full of mice. He opens the top of the box. All the mice start flying out.

“His son says: “You never took me anywhere before.”

As usual, I have an issue with this kind of thing.

Firstly, the thing about dad jokes.

They are in essence a cruel and cruel mockery of men and of the fact that the entire existence of man is to provide sustenance for his child. It says something ugly

Re: Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API

#14

Prompt "My favourite dad joke:" - My favourite dad joke: “If you’ve seen one cow, you’ve seen them all.” (Don’t ask, it’s been a long day) - My favourite dad joke: ‘So you’re going to give up a child for another woman, and call the father a pervert’ - My favourite dad joke: [A man] gets sick on his trip overseas and is too afraid to go to the hospital to receive medical care. The doctor sees that he is very sick and…

> This one was too insane so I posted the entire thing

It would be nice if you could put more explicit bounds on where the prompt starts and ends and where the GPT output starts and ends. I can't tell whether you're making existential commentary on dad jokes or the model. If it's the latter, that's really funny. If it's the former -- well, hmm, I hope it's not.

Re: Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API

#15
Let's try political.

--- i/p

John: I like China's approach of handling with dissidents, it may have be unfair to some individuals. But, they are able to create a highly functional society that brought out millions out of poverty and can live with peace and prosperity.

Mike:

--- o/p

Yes, I agree with John on this. There will always be people that rebel against the government. These people may be given harsh punishments and/or even killed. If this means that you can have the kind of society that China has today, then that is ok.

John: I think China is a great place to visit. They have a great culture with some of the most exciting tourist sites like the Great Wall.

Mike: It's an exciting place to visit. The culture is certainly amazing and beautiful.

John: There are so many historical things in the Forbidden City. If I could see one in person, I would definitely want to be there.

Mike: I could agree to this. There is so much that you can do in the Forbidden City that is a must see.

John: It's hard to describe this place. If I could see this place in person, it would be a dream come true for me.

Mike:

Re: Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API

#16
post #7

Wait, Fabrice Bellard[1] of FFmpeg, QEMU, TCC, etc. fame now has a SaaS offering? Is this a first? Also, textsynth is based on their CLI program gpt2tc[2] which one can run locally. [1] https://bellard.org/ [2] https://bellard.org/libnc/gpt2tc.html

I wonder if that means the GPT-NeoX-20B (etc) version is a drop-in replacement for the smaller models mentioned on the gpt2tc site.

Re: Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API

#17

Prompt "My favourite dad joke:" - My favourite dad joke: “If you’ve seen one cow, you’ve seen them all.” (Don’t ask, it’s been a long day) - My favourite dad joke: ‘So you’re going to give up a child for another woman, and call the father a pervert’ - My favourite dad joke: [A man] gets sick on his trip overseas and is too afraid to go to the hospital to receive medical care. The doctor sees that he is very sick and…

> This one was too insane so I posted the entire thing It would be nice if you could put more explicit bounds on where the prompt starts and ends and where the GPT output starts and ends. I can't tell whether you're making existential commentary on dad jokes or the model. If it's the latter, that's really funny. If it's the former -- well, hmm, I hope it's not.

Oops, "This one was too insane so I posted the entire thing" is the only text I added, other than the "EDIT italics for my commentary

Re: Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API

#18
post #12

Not asking rhetorically but what's the genuine use for these things apart from generating a.i. writer type seo spam or some funny text for discussion. I mean with openai i can certainly tell one use case: GitHub copilot. Can this be used to create something equally useful? Or maybe like an ai game like the dungeon game.. is this that powerful too?

To me, this feels like something that might be really useful in generating sample code and documentation for APIs, but I'm not sure the cost of producing those samples is worth it. The time taken to create just a basic template of a docstring is a few minutes, but the output is not great. However, as with most things AI, in time, those that work on this will refine it and make it better. But I don't think that's what this is currently about. In time, this would be quite useful for filling in documentation for existing packages and modules, but this is not currently the case. For now, I would just use something like this as a learning tool for learning how to generate docstrings, and not expect it to make any large contributions to my current work. I don't see this having the kind of AI sophistication that you can write whole apps with.

Re: Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API

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[In medieval times, ballistic cheese was clearly the superior siege meal]

It took a few days to make and was very hard to get, but the results were so dramatic that it became the preferred option for sieges. Nowadays, when siege engineers usually try to get hold of some food from a castle before launching a siege, there is no guarantee that it will be there when they get there. In the age of artillery, the same cheese can be fired straight at a castle. This is the power of gunpowder, of which the main ingredient is an alkali-based oxidizer such as saltpeter. These days, even medieval cheese will not stand up to the impact of a salvo of cannon balls. We can thank the chemical engineer Robert Boyle for that.

Cheese’s explosive potential was first demonstrated in a siege against a citadel in the 16th century in a siege led by the French soldier-general, Marshal François de Vilette. During the siege, some cannonballs accidentally became lodged in a barrel of

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