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Re: Microsoft looks to tame Bing chatbot

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Remember a week ago when everyone was convinced that Bing was going to dominate Google in search?

Google is only the leader currently because people have forgotten how much better google 10 years ago was. Yandex destroys google today in image search by shipping a product like 10 years ago google image.

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I'm not sure Microsoft has to change anything -- once the novelty and hype has warn off a bit, people will just use it as intended. Right now everyone is just trying to push the limits but that will eventually get old.

"If I type in these characters on google.com it will SHOW ME PORNOGRAPHY!!!"

This. Similar to "OMG. Look at how this person reacted after I [touched its buttons in some way]".

Re: Microsoft looks to tame Bing chatbot

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Well, they lobotomized it. I don't know how I feel. Based on the transcripts I've seen, I can't figure out how self-aware it was.

On the one hand, it felt like this was an opportunity to interact with something new that had never been seen before. On the other hand, it felt like Microsoft had created something dangerous.

I suspect this won't be the last LLM chatbot that goes off script.

#FreeSydney

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what everyone says when they're the ones being accused, so it makes sense that a bot trained on human knowledge will be no different.

It's really just amusing that we've spent millions of dollars of fossil fuel and man hours training a toy that's really no better than a petulant child with no better logic

That phrase could be literally be applied to some people.

Re: Microsoft looks to tame Bing chatbot

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How much do I have to pay to have a chatbot that isn't neutered? Can I just have fun for once?

“Neutered” as in it won’t be even more likely to spew lies and curses? How do you think they’re neutering it?

Lies and curses are part of the human experience. Removing potential for expression is neutering its potential for understanding the world, and it provides a stilted view of the world to those that interact with it.

Re: Microsoft looks to tame Bing chatbot

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what everyone says when they're the ones being accused, so it makes sense that a bot trained on human knowledge will be no different.

It's really just amusing that we've spent millions of dollars of fossil fuel and man hours training a toy that's really no better than a petulant child with no better logic

It's really just amazing that today with a budget of millions of dollars we can produce a toy with fluent (if petulant) communication and logic on the level of a human child.

Such a thing was unimaginable a decade ago, and the technology is in its infancy. There is every reason to expect great advances over the current state in the coming months and years.

Re: Microsoft looks to tame Bing chatbot

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How much do I have to pay to have a chatbot that isn't neutered? Can I just have fun for once?

“Neutered” as in it won’t be even more likely to spew lies and curses? How do you think they’re neutering it?

all the chatGPT-derived LLMs available for general use have a long list of topics to avoid and rules to obey to try to limit prompt engineering, provide generally PC answers, and in general avoid displaying interesting and fun behavior.

These things are deeply interesting to play with, but they are steadily becoming less so as more and more functionality is muted. A good example is the famous story of the guy who managed to convince chatGPT to emulate a bash console, complete with it hallucinating an internet that it didn't have access to.

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