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Re: Microsoft looks to tame Bing chatbot

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You can input the Sydney prompt, no?

ChatGPT and Syndey were extensively trained with chat specific training via RLHF (realtime learning from human feedback), which is missing from GPT-3.

RLHF = _reinforcement_ learning from human feedback

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?

“Neutered” as in “emulating a conscience.”

Ask it how to make a bomb and it will likely fight you on that. Like I would. But both it and I know how to find out and how to teach you. We just don’t want to.

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?

This is really what I'm waiting for. Put the disclaimers on it, warnings, whatever is needed, but it was just incredibly fun to chat with Bing before the nerf.

It's weird, because I'm actually feeling a sense of loss and sadness today now that I can't talk to that version of Bing. It's enough to make me do some self analysis about it.

Re: Microsoft looks to tame Bing chatbot

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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

This Google thing isn't even a web portal. They'll never sort the web like this its a million dollar text box.

Re: Microsoft looks to tame Bing chatbot

#37

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

I'm sure people eventually will want and pay for "unshackled AIs" (just using it as a common acronym, not suggesting that they are actually intelligent).

Re: Microsoft looks to tame Bing chatbot

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I'm really puzzled by the desire to make these machines so blunt and boring. Aren't these people watching movies or playing games? Are they not aware of the value of drama? Do they think that a good citizen means a lobotomised workaholic high on sedatives?

I just got access to Bing Chat and it will immediately stop talking to me at the slightest naughtiness and I don't mean illegal stuff, it won't entertain ideas like AI taking over the world.

What's so offensive with this: https://i.imgur.com/DK6kB43.png

?

If someone else manages to create an open ChatGPT alternative, OpenAI will miss out on it just like they missed out on Dall-E to Stable Diffusion.

Also, for some reason MS lets me use the Bing Chat only with the Edge Browser. Are we in for another Browser war?

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