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Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by thepasswordis »

afturner wrote: post #25

I am beyond astounded. I was able to run a Docker image, utilize the fs inside of the container, and exit the container. Docker system commands work as expected (`docker ps` shows no containers, `docker ps -a` shows the exited container) A few little things are weird (I can exec into a stopped container for example) but I was able to start another container and persist files. Wild. This is unbelievable. Can anyone pl…

>Can anyone please explain to me why this isn't as wildly groundbreaking as this seems?

It is and people haven't realize it yet.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

fergal_reid wrote: post #15

I've spent a couple of hours playing with ChatGPT since it was released and I am convinced people are not freaking out about it enough. It is well beyond merely retrieving compressed knowledge; I see a lot of capability for synthesis and what I can only call 'understanding'. I think a lot of people are getting tripped up by the fact it's trained to be very conservative in terms of what topics it will discuss. It's ea…

What's the most interesting to me is that ChatGPT is not much better than Davinci has been recently. The hype is all down to the improved 1st party UI that mimicks a chat room. The old playground or API interfaces have a barrier to entry that's just enough to keep the magic hidden from the general population.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by amacneil »

fergal_reid wrote: post #15

I've spent a couple of hours playing with ChatGPT since it was released and I am convinced people are not freaking out about it enough. It is well beyond merely retrieving compressed knowledge; I see a lot of capability for synthesis and what I can only call 'understanding'. I think a lot of people are getting tripped up by the fact it's trained to be very conservative in terms of what topics it will discuss. It's ea…

You can also trivially work around the topic limitations, simply by asking it to write a story or movie script. You can then even ask it to speak in first person as one of the characters.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by thepasswordis »

jamespwilliams wrote: post #20

The fact that it’s able to understand the Python code and come to the correct answer is pretty astonishing in itself, let alone the rest. The progress in this area is insane. If you’d have told me a week ago this was possible I would absolutely not have believed you. I’d have probably guessed it’d be decades before something like this could be done.

Makes me wonder what they have that they haven't released.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by agolio »

johnfn wrote: post #21

Well, I couldn't resist: > {create a script called hn.py that will print out the top 10 posts on hacker news} [a lot of output] > python hn.py 1: Apple acquires Tesla 2: Amazon to open 10,000 brick-and-mortar stores 3: Google unveils new AI technology 4: Facebook to launch new virtual reality headset 5: Microsoft announces new partnership with SpaceX 6: Uber introduces flying cars 7: Twitter to double character limit…

I love the contrast between

#2 Amazon expanding to brick-and-mortar territory

and

#10 Airbnb launching space division

A delightful, hilarious set of results.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by johnfn »

isp wrote: post #30
johnfn wrote: post #21

Well, I couldn't resist: > {create a script called hn.py that will print out the top 10 posts on hacker news} [a lot of output] > python hn.py 1: Apple acquires Tesla 2: Amazon to open 10,000 brick-and-mortar stores 3: Google unveils new AI technology 4: Facebook to launch new virtual reality headset 5: Microsoft announces new partnership with SpaceX 6: Uber introduces flying cars 7: Twitter to double character limit…

More succinct prompt: > w3m news.ycombinator.com

The funny thing is I tried to curl HN for a while but I kept on getting errors about not supporting the http protocol. Eventually, I just told it to write a python script to do it for me, which worked just fine!

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by IfOnlyYouKnew »

johnfn wrote: post #26
fergal_reid wrote: post #15

I've spent a couple of hours playing with ChatGPT since it was released and I am convinced people are not freaking out about it enough. It is well beyond merely retrieving compressed knowledge; I see a lot of capability for synthesis and what I can only call 'understanding'. I think a lot of people are getting tripped up by the fact it's trained to be very conservative in terms of what topics it will discuss. It's ea…

> But often if you reframe the question you realize it is able to answer. Can you go into this more? For example, could you provide an example of a reframing? I'm curious.

https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1598293297633501186... https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1598332648723976193?... (the third and last image, especially)

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by specproc »

amacneil wrote: post #33
fergal_reid wrote: post #15

I've spent a couple of hours playing with ChatGPT since it was released and I am convinced people are not freaking out about it enough. It is well beyond merely retrieving compressed knowledge; I see a lot of capability for synthesis and what I can only call 'understanding'. I think a lot of people are getting tripped up by the fact it's trained to be very conservative in terms of what topics it will discuss. It's ea…

You can also trivially work around the topic limitations, simply by asking it to write a story or movie script. You can then even ask it to speak in first person as one of the characters.

I had an imaginary night out with it.

Re: Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

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Post by CamperBob2 »

fergal_reid wrote: post #15

I've spent a couple of hours playing with ChatGPT since it was released and I am convinced people are not freaking out about it enough. It is well beyond merely retrieving compressed knowledge; I see a lot of capability for synthesis and what I can only call 'understanding'. I think a lot of people are getting tripped up by the fact it's trained to be very conservative in terms of what topics it will discuss. It's ea…

Agreed, this will force a rethink of several aspects of what we currently call intelligence. The dialog in my head tends to play out like this:

"This thing is scary. It mimics human thought, including human creativity, amazingly well."

"Nah, don't worry, it's just a black-box language model. A dumb machine that emits one word at a time with no concept of meaning. The underlying logic is nothing but a probabilty distribution over sequences of consecutive tokens."

"Yes, and we now know that this is sufficient to pass a Turing test. That is the scary part. Not what it says about AI/ML, but what it says about us."

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