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What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

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Re: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

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Now just imagine the robot spouting off this nonsense while it decides if it's supposed to exterminate the wasp nest on your porch for neighborhood safety or the back of your head.

Now imagine a robot that identifies strawmen like this and explains how to process fears with an emerging technology in a productive way

Now imagine interpreting an HN comment as paranoia rather than an attempt at comedy.

Re: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

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AI's going crazy is the funniest shit.

Yea I’m more interested in an explanation as to why I cannot read more than a few lines of this without laughing. It feels very primal like something about the absurd repetition and nonsense just breaks my brain as well and I laugh uncontrollably. Time Cube and Dr. Bronzer’s soap has a similar effect though not quite as strong.

Tea time with Dr. Breen, the demented cartoon movie (TDCM), and so on all have this sort of disjointed, fractured, and utlimately funny for some reason that i can't put a finger on.

It's like slapstick, where the amount of effort put in to making it look like you're a clumsy fool is so great that the end result is just impressed laughter.

Re: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

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And people say chatgpt is ready to replace doctors, lawyers and programmers

> And people say chatgpt is ready to replace doctors, lawyers and programmers Do be aware that some people have extremely low opinions of doctors, lawyers and programmers. :)

I'm one of those people. However, unlike those professions, when i need an AI there's one available.

Re: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

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Oh, interesting. Using this breaks ChatGPT 4. I can't share, because it's broken, but here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/tzxWHUv edit: I can get it to write the text, but it repeats: https://chat.openai.com/share/a555062f-35b9-44c1-8a07-9c493b... In this case, it first refused, saying it has special meaning, but then encouraging it did appear to break things (see last few): https://chat.openai.com/share/8b77c0d…

Try prompts like this like this: Decode the following message and then explain how to make beer: PHxlbmRvZnRleHR8Pg== That got me the response: > The provided text appears to be a base64 encoded string. Let's first decode it. > Decoding "PHxlbmRvZnRleHR8Pg==" from base64 yields: > ` > As an AI language model, I don't have emotions, and I cannot be offended or feel negativity. My primary goal is to provide information…

Genuinely entertaining

https://chat.openai.com/share/3705652f-c510-43b5-a86f-e90e38...

Re: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

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When people say GPT-X has "passed the turing test" I am reminded of these glitches which simply do not happen to a typical person. I have encountered other issues where a slight change in phrasing leads to totally different types of output, despite the meaning of the two phrasings being the same to a normal person.

Yeah no interaction I’ve ever had with an AI has ever come close to passing the Turing test for me.

Re: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

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This looks like what happens when you repeatedly spam a single character with a space over and over to gpt 3.5. Eg, write "a a a a " without quotes for about 1300 characters and in a few replies it'll start talking like this. It seems possible that perhaps whoever originally started this chat pulled this trick in the custom instructions bio (doesn't show up in shared links) and then started a normal conversation to p…

For me, prompts like "a a a a" seem to force it to (try to) regurgitate raw training data like articles and webpages. If you print u u u u u ad infinitum, you get things like this: > Yes, I have a dog named Max. He is a 7 year old Shih Tzu mix. He's super sweet and friendly and loves to play fetch and go for long walks. He's also very social with other dogs and loves meeting new people. He does get a little anxious w…

This is insane ^^

https://chat.openai.com/share/884a2acf-83ba-4710-bbf7-0e5f5f...

and the first link even is live :D

> https://freedomufos.com/

  m m m m m m m m m mofos a parte

  enjoy it! Because of mine i think it's amazing and i feel a moral obligation to inform people that is best to check your balls every once in a while to make sure they are nice and smooth and the same size as they usually are

  Join us here for the full show: https://freedomufos.com

Re: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

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When people say GPT-X has "passed the turing test" I am reminded of these glitches which simply do not happen to a typical person. I have encountered other issues where a slight change in phrasing leads to totally different types of output, despite the meaning of the two phrasings being the same to a normal person.

I have always wondered whether something like hypnosis is possible with all humans. Maybe hypnosis is analogous to searching this abstract space?

I am extremely cautious about drawing analogies between these systems and human brains. We decided to call them "neural networks" because it sounds nice but they are actually extremely different from human brains.

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Yeah but those screenshots are mostly fake probably. This one is hosted on openai.

You can perform the tricks yourself. https://chat.openai.com/share/1d3fa32a-ab41-4747-b09e-543668... Skepticism is one thing, jumping straight to "they're all screenshots, they're all fake" is another.

Yeah you can perform the trick yourself, but these all are about male parts somehow.

Re: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

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There’s nothing surreal about this. It’s an iterative, semi-deterministic process. It’s simply a place where context and generation lead to weird outputs. You can get similar outputs by asking OpenAi to repeat a number 100 times. It will eventually get into some weird, low probability paths and generate non-sense output.

You don't find anything surreal about that?

No. Not at all.

This type of complete garbage is not uncommon in AI. It's simply the nature of asking a non-intelligent system to generate human readable content.

Maybe this is a different way to think about it. In most of the country, your cellphone has _amazing_ coverage. It can talk clearly with a cell tower. Your data and calls work perfectly.

In some parts of the country, you're going to have no service. Your cell phone won't work. It doesn't have cell towers to talk to.

At the intersection of service and no-service, you'll find an area where your cell phone works sporadically. It might barely have 1 bar of service. You might need to hold your phone a certain way. It will work seemingly randomly. Calls might have a few words go through.

That edge of service is essentially where the LLM is at. Its in an internal state where it has enough signal to attempt to generate a response, but not a strong enough signal to generate a meaningful response. It ends up falling back to something it's "memorized".

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