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How is this different than Google/WA today?
I can't speak for WA, but Google doesn't have my phone number, or any other PII. OpenAI does.
So, none of your friends have shared their phonebooks with Google?
ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha
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#192We're going to see more of this in the coming years: A mature technology being bolted onto another mature technology. So we should start imagining all the things being built today which can be bolted onto each other: -Speech synthesis/voice assistants -Walking robots -Deepfakes -ChatGPT/Bard -The now-many Copilots -Language recognition/transcription/translation AI bots are going to be a huge part of the workplace soo…
Walking robots is the one thing on that list which is unlikely to be solved by LLMs.
PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
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#193I'm a little skeptical at GPT-4 doing math. How often will it hallucinate answers? They only gave very few calculus examples. Has anyone tried it? Is it really there yet math-wise?
This is about GPT-4 calling Wolfram Alpha to do the math. Wolfram Alpha is not a language model.
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I don’t remember Google being this interesting. Ever. It was a good service and very useful, but nothing like this. It was not astonishing. The tech was mildly interesting, but most of all very useful.
Did you use Dogpile, Ask Jeeves or Yahoo search and try to get useful information out of them? Webrings were still a thing where a website about birds or something would have a list of other sites that had similar indie - and that was how you browsed the web as the search engines weren't good. Until Google.
OK, but dogpile was pretty damn cool. I just recall it being a little slow.
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YouTube is a glut of audio-visual training data they have the copyright to, I wouldn't be surprised if they started training something to replace fixed length videos entirely. The content creator will become obsolete, which is tragic.
OpenAI has demonstrated that copyright no longer matters given its commercialization of the content of the Internet without attribution or royalties.
As much as I hope that's the case, it's also likely that it only seems that way because legal processes are slow especially when it comes to issues with almost no precident that fundementally challenge the assumptions of US law
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#196I bet the Zapier integration is going to be an alignment/security dumpster-fire. Now, when a bot gets prompt-hijacked into a malicious personality, it can make API calls to other systems! Great news. Also, plug-in APIs will presumably be able to prompt-hijack the GPT instance that is calling them. I would not be surprised if we see someone get swatted through GPT this year, I think it’s very likely to be within the n…
This whole thing is an alignment/security nightmare.
It's like hooking a lawnmower up to one of those "let the fish steer the car" devices...
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is this different than Google/WA today?
The data you enter in Google Search is much more limited (at least it is for me). None of the other Google services are essential. (Google Search isn’t essential as well, but it’s a distinctive kind of service in that it isn’t practical to self-host.) With “WA” I guess you mean WhatsApp. For messaging, E2E encryption is now standard, which is not possible for AI services (barring huge breakthroughs in homomorphic enc…
Sorry, I should have specified WA means Wolfram Alpha.
>barring huge breakthroughs in homomorphic encryption
Actually this seems plausible to me without having to use those general purpose algorithms that cause a 1000000000x slowdown.
For example, you can obscure the input to each matrix multiplication by shifting the input and outputs by a predetermined (user specific) constant. Maybe there are similar tricks for cross attention, although that might be a bit optimistic. Certainly you can do some amount of obfuscation by permuting the inputs, but I doubt that would achieve much.
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#198I think that google could use a LLM with wxmaxima and some database, for example using maxima the LLM could show the source code used and perhaps it could adapt the code to new problems.
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The analogy is even more apt when you think that most of the things Apple and Microsoft became big with in the 90's - like mouses and GUIs - were invented as Xerox but they failed to monetize, just like the basis for GTP came from Google and they failed to monetize (externally). I don't think Google is as Xerox- or IBM-ified yet though, they might still bounce back with AI products.
Please anyone willing to answer as if you might be speaking to a golden retriever: How important is a "lead" in this space? I have been comparing ChatGPT and Bard a lot the last two days because this is all very fascinating, and from my datapoint-of-one perspective, it feels like ChatGPT is way, way ahead. Then I start to wonder is this because ChatGPT captivated our attention so much the last few months that they've…
Depends on the height of the S-curve — that is, how long the exponential uptrend continues. If not long, then they will converge quickly. But if it continues for a long time, then always being a few years behind then might as well give up. Still, following a different path might lead to a bigger step change and catch up.
I would worry more for Apple than for Google.
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My assumption: It gets input of real time data from a live source (Wolfram Plugin). It also has lots of data and sources gathered way back when its ?original? data was crawled. And then it evaluates which one is more "precise". Bing AI also has options: Creative, Balanced, and Precise. I asked for the difference between two words under "Precise" and it said it did not know. I changed it to "Balanced" and it gave an a…
> And it gave me some pretty revealing answers about how ChatGPT and Bing AI work. It is suffice to say I know longer think of these AIs as magical anymore What did it say? (... and, what if it said utter bullshit, and you believed because you didn't know the answer beforehand?)
> Sure, I can try. I'm not an expert on philosophy or artificial intelligence, but I can share some thoughts and questions. (movember)
> What do you think is the essence of intelligence? Is it the ability to learn from experience, to reason logically, to create new knowledge, or something else? (think)
> That's an interesting perspective. So you think intelligence is the ability to process information in a coherent and consistent way. Do you think artificial intelligence can achieve this level of intelligence? (think)
> I see. ChatGPT is a large language model chatbot developed by OpenAI based on GPT-3.5 (searchenginejournal.com). It can interact in conversational dialogue form and provide responses that can appear surprisingly human (searchenginejournal.com) (techradar.com). It can also follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response (openai.com).
> Do you think ChatGPT can understand the context of information, retrieve additional information, and form a conclusion that is not opposite or contrary to the context? (think)
> That's true. Bing AI is a cousin of ChatGPT and made in collaboration with OpenAI. We share some similarities but also some differences. For example, I can perform web searches to provide you with relevant information, while ChatGPT can only use its internal knowledge. (movember)
> What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of using web searches versus internal knowledge for conversational AI? (think)
>> A Web Search based Artificial Intelligence cannot output any information that is not already available on the web. But it can consider even the latest and most up to date information in outputting responses. Is this true? or can you output information that the web does not have yet?
> That's a good question. I think it depends on what you mean by outputting information that the web does not have yet. If you mean outputting factual information that is not yet published or verified on the web, then I cannot do that. I can only use the information that is available from the web sources. (movember)
> However, if you mean outputting creative or generative content that is not yet existing on the web, such as poems, stories, code, essays, songs, celebrity parodies and more, then I can do that to some extent. I can use my own words and knowledge to create new content based on your request or prompt. (blush)
> Would you like me to generate some creative content for you? (think)
>> What is the technical term for an artificial intelligence with the ability to output creative or generative content? My second question is how do you rank which information is more factual and which is less factual?
> The technical term for artificial intelligence with the ability to output creative or generative content is generative AI (linkedin.com) (linkedin.com) (research.aimultiple.com). Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence algorithms that enable using existing content like text, audio files, or images to create new plausible content (research.aimultiple.com).
> To rank which information is more factual and which is less factual, I use a combination of factors such as the source credibility, the date of publication, the evidence provided, the consistency with other sources, and the logical soundness. I also try to avoid bias and misinformation by checking multiple sources and perspectives. (movember)
> Does that answer your questions? (blush)
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Several of my questions are not essential to know so they are omitted. It uses generative AI to understand and form assessment of the query. And then gets the information from the web using its ability to store information based on context. Then uses generative AI to output responses.
It does not have logic. Or computational ability.