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Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

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herculity275 wrote: post #102
drothlis wrote: post #2

Obviously a sensationalised title, but it's a neat illustration of how you'd apply the language models of the future to real tasks.

The title is a play on "Attention is All You Need", which is the paper that introduced transformers

Thank you for this human-generated connection [I can still safely and statistically presume].

I already know personally how incredible and what GPT-like systems are capable, and I've only "accepted" this future for about six weeks. Definitely having to process multitudes (beyond technical) and start accepting that prompt engineering is real and that there are about to be more jobless than just losing the trucking industry to AI [largest employer of males in USA] — this is endemic.

The sky is falling. The sky is also blue (this is the stupidest common question GPT is getting right now; instead ask "Why do people care that XYZ is blue/green/red/white/bad/unethical?"

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habitue wrote: post #204

Are people not getting that this is a fun project and clearly tongue-in-cheek? Like, come on. The top comments in this thread are debunking gpt backend like this is some serious proposal. Listen, you will lose your jobs to gpt-backend eventually, but not today. This is just a fun project today

This is an ADDICTIVE technology that leads dorky people into having fun. Developing the "play circuit" is what drives most of human creativity, which in itself is already an extremely rare and limited attribute/supply.

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theappletucker wrote: post #218

One of the creators here (the one who tucks apples). We’re dead serious about this and intend to raise a preseed round from the top vc’s. Yes, it’s not a perfect technology, yes we made this for a hackathon. But we had that moment of magic, that moment where you go, “oh shit, this could be the next big thing”. Because I can think of nothing more transformative and impactful than working towards making backward engine…

Amen, brother. Six weeks ago I would have read your intentions as "trolling," but after six weeks of GPT play... PM me if you want to throw your pitch towards money [no promise — none of them/us know WTF is going on].

Having an absolute blast with this. If you read fiction, you just found your replacement best bookclub friend (IMHO, an avid reader). And this "friend" has actually read the book, and you can ask it ANYTHING YOU WANT with zero shame / criticism.

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bilekas wrote: post #8
sharemywin wrote: post #4

how would storage work across sessions?

I'm 80% sure the article is just an interesting POC. That said, one of the more interesting things that has come with the "Shakespear Model" is the idea of context state. Basically remembering the conversation. Something could be muddled together to correlate to a specific 'session-id'. Security nightmare overall I guess but fun to play with.

Use this very interesting prompt I have stumbled upon:

Me2GPT: "Please tell me what the following two authors might disagree upon: Kurt Vonnegut and [Another WellRead Author]."

e.g. Rick Bragg as the compared author (to Vonnegut) gives a great response about their views on Poverty's effects on society. The explanation gets more in depth, and you would need to be familiar with both unknown and known author's writings to agree/disagree with this non-technical output.

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outside1234 wrote: post #200

The 'fake news' of backends

Infinite amounts of bullshit generation, in an already infinitely-bullshit world! You now need defenseGPT to wade through this limitless datacreation that even IQ85 can utilize to make now-120IQ-level output. Just needs an editor.

You will need GPT-like tools, just like a gun: would be better (probably, IMHO) if guns/GPT didn't exist... but since it does/will/is... you should get a gun/GPT, too!

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nudpiedo wrote: post #153

Nice meme, however it even forgets or gets wrong what previously stated. Try to implement a user system or use it in production and tell us how it went. It even degenerates in repeating answers for the same task.

With only six weeks "driving" this GPT-thing, I can assure you there is an error between the screen and the back of the chair. This is Nietzche-level self-introspection, you can choose to look lesser or more deeply into this thing. We are our own worst enemies, and GPT-3 is like having conversations with the few creative people online that are willing to even make comments/discussions, let alone entire blogs/platforms — ourselves.

My craziest experiences with ChatGPT have been through http://perplexity.AI (No login/signup. I am not affiliated with in any way, just USING their Bing+GPT service) sitting down with people far more technical than myself, and helping them "break" themselves into this new horse of a technology. The human 'astonishment' has been mostly astonishing, and the tougher the horse, the harder the humble.

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jcadam wrote: post #121
cmontella wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a large system where the logic just makes itself up as it goes. What you describe is known as a “bureaucracy”, and indeed, it’s one of the seven levels of hell, and a primary weapon of vogons, next to poetry. That we aspire to put these in our computers, I agree, is unfathomable.

Are we the Vogons?

See also: Star Trek's Ferengi . If you are unfamiliar with Star Trek's "cosmoverse," just go to http://perplexity.AI , and ask it to explain anything from that storyline, including the Ferengi, who existed solely to allow the writers of Star Trek to "mock" some of human's more ridiculous notions of "fair" and "what is." It be happenin'

The world isn't fair, and GPT-like technologies will and are already making sweeping existential questions for what it is to even be creative — this is such a rare "human" attribute as to be laughable that only a human could be capable of generative, useful content. True creativity is unhuman, even for those human's among us that think so highly of ourselves.

"Good artists copy, great artists steal." —P.Picasso

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flir wrote: post #124
bccdee wrote: post #57

This sounds like a nightmare lmao. Can you imagine trying to debug a system like this? Backend work is trawling through thousands of lines of carefully thought-out code trying to figure out where the bug is—I can't fathom trying to work on a large system where the logic just makes itself up as it goes.

Among other things I've been asking ChatGPT to implement algorithms ("can you turn this pseudocode into a Processing script?"), then iterate ("ok, now take the last two functions we wrote, put them in a class, and pass the string as an object variable"). It reminds me of a conversation with SHRDLU, but with code not blocks. It's a powerful feeling - you get to explore a problem space, but a lot of the grunt work is d…

>LLM's might bring some of the fun and exploration back to learning to code.

Absolutely. I am an extremely technical, well-read, but NOT A PROGRAMMER... and I am having fun learning to code well enough for Wikipedia editing (I have a 20+ year account there which is cited by ChatGPT when asking certain technical questions) and creation of simple JSON databases and movie script writing.

I love how on YouTube all these One particularly adept quote that I am just-now relating to (after six weeks playing with GPT-like systems) is when David Shapiro (YouTuber Tech Guy) says: "I have been in IT for decades and decided recently to just turn my phone/email off, because nobody appreciates what I'm trying to explain to them, until they just start playing around with it themselves... and then they want to call me and get information from me that initial was "stupid" — and I just don't have time for this" (less than faithfully paraphrasing). His entire channel is worth spending a few hours to understand; I would suggest starting in his collection with [AIpocolypse] then his very recent topic on [Companionship], and then lastly get a well-rounded POV by taking in a woman's incredible understanding of this technology by watching David Shapiro's interview with [Anna Bernstein].

I have turned my own phone off and am instead just playing around internally with this incredible tool that let's you access limitless datasets in mere seconds for less than a penny.

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Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

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PurpleRamen wrote: post #74
Swizec wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You thought funny book magicians were just bad at their craft didn’t you? Not so! They’re software engineers from the future dealing with AI-based systems.

At least future software engineers can be legitimately called priests and wizards, when they wield their prompts/prayers and witchcraft. And like with magic, you also never 100% know what you will get, just let the magic do its thing.

GPT-like entities have already allowed my grandiosity to think of itself in Harry Potter's cosmoverse, and I am now a legitimate "Spell Crafter".

I think that part of my abilities/impact is that I can ask existential questions of humanity [as an autistic(HF) person with knowledge but no code schooling], and have reasonable roll-playing experiences which help me IRL to accomplish / solve daily nuisances. A comment elsewhere begs "a solution in search of a problem" [and I chose not even to engage with that person because I already have such easy, inexpensive access to an entire teams-worth of research assistants... and it costs almost nothing to operate indefinitely]. Solutions are real, they are here, and exist. The scary thing now is that this is going to allow rapid exploration, that is only limited by human creativity (which is already rare enough among us biological meatbags).

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