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Re: ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web

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Except if you want the job done right, you really have to do it yourself...

You're suggesting I stay up late at night fixing wrong comments made by my AI chatbot? ... Yeah, seems like something I'd do :P

You could train an AI chatbot to do those fixes for you, but it will also make plenty of mistakes. You could train yet another AI chatbot to compensate for that, but at some point somebody has to get their hands dirty, or else it's AI chatbots all way down.

Re: ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web

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If anything, the average has far more errors in it. It's a trope on Reddit that experts get downvoted while amateurs who reflect the consensus of other amateurs get upvoted and repeated. Amateurs tend to outnumber experts in real life anyways, having their opinions become more authoritative (because some "AI" repeats it) is probably not a great direction to head in.

But this issue is present equally with Google search, no? What I'm saying is that by smartly aggregating all the different opinions on an issue, a LLM could provide better visibility into our collective mind than we currently have access to by simply scanning the first few results of a search engine query. Let's not forget that we're looking at version 0.0001 on this new technology, so there should be lots of room fo…

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Re: ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web

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> ChatGPT is so good at this form of interpolation that people find it entertaining: they’ve discovered a “blur” tool for paragraphs instead of photos, and are having a blast playing with it. “‘blur’ tool for paragraphs” is such a good way of describing the most prominent and remarkable skill of ChatGPT. It is fun, but so obviously trades off against what makes paragraphs great. It is apt that this essay against Chat…

Why is this so hard to read?

It has idiosyncratic word choice and punctuation, as well as references to other comments out of context.

Re: ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web

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This is a decent summary. I've been thinking about how ChatGPT by it's very nature destroys context and source reputation. When I search for something on the Internet, I get a link to the original content, which I can then evaluate based on my knowledge and the reputation of the original source. Wikipedia is the same, with a big emphasis on citation. ChatGPT and other LLMs destroy that context and knowledge, giving m…

The sources are there in the training dataset, they are just not linked to the response. I don't think this is an inherent property of LLMs though, and I imagine future iterations will have some sort of attention mechanism that highlights the contributing source materials.

Re: ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web

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This is very well written, and probably one of my favorite takes on the whole ChatGPT thing. This sentence in particular: > Indeed, a useful criterion for gauging a large-language model’s quality might be the willingness of a company to use the text that it generates as training material for a new model. It seems obvious that future GPTs should not be trained on the current GPT's output, just as future DALL-Es should…

>But, it's not implausible that some future model will simply have a superhuman learning rate and a superhuman ability to distinguish "right" from "wrong" - this paragraph will look downright prophetic then.

There is already a paper for that: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11610

Large Language Models Can Self-Improve

>Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved excellent performances in various tasks. However, fine-tuning an LLM requires extensive supervision. Human, on the other hand, may improve their reasoning abilities by self-thinking without external inputs. In this work, we demonstrate that an LLM is also capable of self-improving with only unlabeled datasets. We use a pre-trained LLM to generate "high-confidence" rationale-augmented answers for unlabeled questions using Chain-of-Thought prompting and self-consistency, and fine-tune the LLM using those self-generated solutions as target outputs. We show that our approach improves the general reasoning ability of a 540B-parameter LLM (74.4%->82.1% on GSM8K, 78.2%->83.0% on DROP, 90.0%->94.4% on OpenBookQA, and 63.4%->67.9% on ANLI-A3) and achieves state-of-the-art-level performance, without any ground truth label. We conduct ablation studies and show that fine-tuning on reasoning is critical for self-improvement.

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