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We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT
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Re: We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT
#312We should be fine as long as it doesn't move. Jokes aside, I have paused my subscription because even GPT4 seemed to become dumber at tasks to the point that I barely used it, but the constant influx of new features is tempting me to renew it just to check them out...
> We should be fine as long as it doesn't move. Not really. A malevolent AGI doesn't need to move to do anything it needs (it could ask / manipulate / bribe people to do all the stuff requiring movement). We should be fine as long as it's not a malevolent AGI with enough resources to kick physical things off in the direction it wants.
> A malevolent AGI doesn't need to move to do anything it needs
Yeah, just look at a random dictator. Does he really need to do more than pick up a phone to cause panic?
Re: We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT
#313It's telling to me that there's not even a sentence in this announcement post on user privacy. It seems like as both consumers and providers of these services, we're once again: build it first, sort out thorny privacy issues later.
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#314I'm in IT but nowhere near AI/ML/NN. The speed of user-visible progress last 12 months is astonishing. From my firm conviction 18 months ago that this type of stuff is 20+ years away; to these days wondering if Vernon Vinge's technological singularity is not only possible but coming shortly. If feels some aspects of it have already hit the IT world - it's always been an exhausting race to keep up with modern technolo…
I also don't believe LLMs are "conscious", but I also don't know what that means, and I have yet to see a definition of "statistically guessing next word" that cannot be applied to what a human brain does to generate the next word.
There are so many conversations focused solely on that word, it's tiresome. Personally, I won't participate in another "is it conscious?" debate. If both parties seek mutual understanding, they should consider not using the word.
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#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's fine if you think that the planning process is what causes subjective experiences to arise. That may well be the case. I'm saying if you don't believe that non human objects can have subjective experiences, and then use that to define the limits of the behaviour of that object, that's a fallacy.
In humans, there seems to be a match between the subjective experience of consciousness and a high level planning job that needs doing. Our current LLMs are bad at high level planning, and it seems reasonable to suppose that making them good at high level planning might make them conscious or vice versa . Agreed, woo is silly, but I didn't read it as woo but rather as a postulation that consciousness is what does hig…
I think we have different definitions of consciousness and this is what's causing the confusion. For me consciousness is simply having any subjective experience at all. You could be completely numbed out of your mind just staring at a wall and I would consider that consciousness. It seems that you are referring to introspection.
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#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't pay $20 a month for humans to talk shit to me though. The fact that they do this is a bug not a feature. I'm not going to pay for bullshit which I mostly try avoid?
> I don't pay $20 a month for humans to talk shit to me though. No - you probably pay more for your internet access ( home and phone ) ;-) More seriously I totally get your point about accuracy - these models need to be better at detecting and surfacing when they are likely to be filling in the blanks. Though I still think there is an element of 'buyer beware' - whether it be AI, or human provided advice on the inter…
No - you probably pay more for your internet access ( home and phone ) ;-)
My company pays for this, so yeah. If they give me ChatGPT-4 for free, I guess I'd have a subscription without any complaints, where I use it often if another story.
Re: We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT
#317doesn’t this kill a litany of chatgpt wrapper companies?
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
> When you're absolutely killing it Aren't they unprofitable? and have fierce competition from everyone?
Whether or not you’re profitable has very little to do with how valuable others think you are. And usually having competitors is something that validates your market.
The same can be said about food delivery start ups.
Re: We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT
#319Old hat. This was done in 2009. ;) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Milo Milo had an AI structure that responded to human interactions, such as spoken word, gestures, or predefined actions in dynamic situations. The game relied on a procedural generation system which was constantly updating a built-in "dictionary" that was capable of matching key words in conversations with inherent voice-acting clips to simul…
Then Demis Hassabis ( Deepmind CEO ) probably worked on the tech while he was at LionHead as lead AI programmer on B&W.
Demis was only briefly at LH he went to found Elixir and made Revolution.
I believe Richard Evans did the majority of AI in B&W, and he is also at DeepMind now though (assuming it is not just a person with the same name)
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#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe that the distinguishing factor between what an LLM and a human brain do to generate the next word is that the human brain expresses intentionality originating from inner states and future expectations. As I type this comment I'm sure one could argue that the biological neural networks in my brain are choosing the next word based on statistical guessing, and that the initial prompt was your initial comment.…
When you eat, do you eat because you've decided to express yourself in that way? Does you action to go eating express intentionally?
I was prompted by the ghrelin hormone to go to the kitchen.