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Re: ChatGPT is now finding bugs in databases

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Post by LordAtlas »

paxys wrote: post #19
crazysim wrote: post #3

ChatGPT can't access the external internet. The example ChatGPT instruction where they "teach it" just has the user giving it a URL to their docs and ChatGPT is like "oh ok got it" (Figure 3). I'm not sure if the blog post writers are aware it's hallucinating what the JSON implementation is and hasn't actually read the documentation at all.

There's this internet phenomenon (common on Reddit and other such forums) where you find high-quality discussions on a variety of topics and everyone seems so clever and informative, until you come across a thread on a topic that you are actually an expert on and find that every top-voted comment is objectively incorrect. ChatGPT is essentially that but on steroids. Its primary ability is being able to sound extremel…

Reddit version of Gell-Man Amnesia: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/01/18/gell-mann-amnesia/

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Post by ilaksh »

ryanjshaw wrote: post #109
ilaksh wrote: post #72

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Well.. if we are doing ChatGPT anecdotes.. today I tried to "launch" the new version of https://aidev.codes . It integrates the ChatGPT API with Stability.ai (stable diffusion) for generating images and well as Eleven Labs text-to-speech and can create and immediately host an interactive web page on a custom subdomain. I need marketing help. Or I should just stop trying. I don't see how people are able to get posts o…

If you listen to the people who have done this before (e.g. read/listen to indie hackers), Reddit/HN is very hit/miss. Only thing seems to consistently work is Twitter - and then you should REALLY be building public if you have no audience so that you can build one. Have you tried this? If not, and you've been building in stealth mode, you've missed out on an opportunity but you can still start now. You are figuring…

OK thanks for the advice. Yeah I have about 600 followers on my @algonfts.art thing, but they only care about Algorand.

@aidevcodes has around 100 followers. I should post more routinely on there.

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Post by gsinclair »

kristopolous wrote: post #98
pfannkuchen wrote: post #88

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I’m no fan of Peterson, but I’m curious— how are intentionally altering the gene pool of a group and cleaning your room colinear?

Look at the table of contents of this book titled "Eugenics" https://archive.org/details/naturessecretsre00shan/page/6/mo... There were multiple points of interest for the Eugenicists. One of them was for the general public and how to get them to have a proscribed conduct and behavior. Maybe you've seen those diagrams where they have 2 life paths depicted from the Victorian era. That's from Eugenics. Example: https:/…

Awesome comment; thank you.

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Post by kragen »

zoklet-enjoyer wrote: post #94
kragen wrote: post #89

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This sounds interesting! What did you do?

Some of us from the forum totse emailed local news stations, schools, and police departments pretending to be concerned parents. I wrote my high school and local news and said that my child was using jenkem and linked to an article from a local news station from somewhere else in the country to kind of back up my claims. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jenkem/

Wow, so jenkem was largely a TOTSE creation? Do you have any idea how the original stories from Africa got started — were there TOTSE members in Zambia?

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crazysim wrote: post #3

ChatGPT can't access the external internet. The example ChatGPT instruction where they "teach it" just has the user giving it a URL to their docs and ChatGPT is like "oh ok got it" (Figure 3). I'm not sure if the blog post writers are aware it's hallucinating what the JSON implementation is and hasn't actually read the documentation at all.

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Post by avgcorrection »

kristopolous wrote: post #66
paxys wrote: post #19

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There's this internet phenomenon (common on Reddit and other such forums) where you find high-quality discussions on a variety of topics and everyone seems so clever and informative, until you come across a thread on a topic that you are actually an expert on and find that every top-voted comment is objectively incorrect. ChatGPT is essentially that but on steroids. Its primary ability is being able to sound extremel…

That's almost every reddit thread I've been involved in. Oratory prowess is way more important than accuracy. If you ever want to "lose a debate" on reddit, pick something that's counter-intuitive or widely misunderstood and use nuance and citations in your defense. You'll get cyberbullied every time - sometimes even banned from the sub.

It’s amazing to me in all my years on the internet how many communities I insert myself into, then in private feel like a pretender, and yet how relatively uncommon it is that people call me an idiot.

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Post by Groxx »

pazimzadeh wrote: post #63
crazysim wrote: post #3

ChatGPT can't access the external internet. The example ChatGPT instruction where they "teach it" just has the user giving it a URL to their docs and ChatGPT is like "oh ok got it" (Figure 3). I'm not sure if the blog post writers are aware it's hallucinating what the JSON implementation is and hasn't actually read the documentation at all.

How is it getting information partially correct, but not able to verify the correctness to at least be internally consistent with itself?

Because it has essentially no logic system whatsoever. It doesn't have any way to "know" something is correct because when it produces a word for word copy of a factual statement, it is internally identical to a completely made up (hallucinated) sentence... because both are hallucinated. The deriding "it's fancy autocomplete" remarks are, in a lot of ways, technically correct.

You can still do useful things with it, that much is extremely clear. But it doesn't think.

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Post by Godel_unicode »

colechristensen wrote: post #110
codebje wrote: post #77

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> I have noticed this when trying to get it to generate some code, it was clearly using considerably old versions. I have noticed the same thing when trying to use junior devs to generate some code, usually correlating with how old the most popular Stack Overflow question on the subject is.

This is how we decided to describe chatgpt’s programming ability the other day. A very fast but somewhat inadequate jr developer. Is amazing really but you also have to ask for the same thing a dozen times and still spend quite a while figuring out what’s wrong with it.

What I have been doing is asking it for code and then asking it to find bugs in that code. The bug finding works relatively well.

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Post by avgcorrection »

taberiand wrote: post #26
micromacrofoot wrote: post #6

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we’ve made the startling discovery that we’re rather predictable

My hypothesis is that we will soon see the emergence of a super-human artificial intelligence, not because of some astounding breakthroughs in our understanding of intelligence, but because of irrefutable proof that humans just aren't all that complicated to surpass.

Right. But that tech will be created by humans, somehow.

These misanthropist slogans run up to contradictions so easily.

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Post by californical »

ly3xqhl8g9 wrote: post #75
ramraj07 wrote: post #15

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People are always made unnecessary. The smart ones then find other ways in which they are. Not sure how this is any different.

This one is different because it will pass the threshold of "normality". Just as we woke up with DALL. E 2 one morning in April 2022 and with ChatGPT one morning in November 2022, one day in the future, perhaps in the next 3-5-10 years, we will wake up with some 5, 10, 100 terabytes of neural weights fully able to drive a car from a single camera under any circumstance, millions of times safer than a perfect human dr…

This is like saying in 1700 that the invention of farming automation will displace 90%+ of farmers, what ever will they do?

Automation is helpful, but it’s also scary. I guarantee that nobody 300 years ago thought that many of the 90%+ of displaced farmers would end up sitting in front of screens, moving data around. And I also guarantee that farmers in the 1700s were just as tired and sick as the driving industry today.

Yeah it’ll suck for the people who don’t/can’t adapt. But the world that is created by removing unnecessary labor ends up being better for everyone eventually. Should we deprive the people of the future from the technology of never needing to drive, just because the transition is scary?

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