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Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by levgilman »

What is it all about? I have paid account at ChatGPT, i asked it and it doesn't know of any such thing. Is it something for privileged ones? At least I cannot understand it from the article.

Here is a dialog with ChatGPT I had after reading the article.

Is it true that you are now able to search in internet?

As an AI language model, I am not able to actively search the internet in real-time. My knowledge is based on the text corpus that I was trained on, which includes data up until September 2021. I am unable to access or browse the web for current or updated information. If you have any questions, I can try to help you based on the knowledge I have, but please be aware that it might not include the latest developments or updates.

Lev Gilman What are possible outcomes of recent Xi Tzinping's visit to Russia?

As an AI model, I don't have real-time information on current events, and my knowledge is limited to data up to September 2021. Therefore, I cannot provide specific details about recent events such as Xi Jinping's visit to Russia.

However, based on historical precedent and general knowledge of diplomacy, I can suggest some possible outcomes that might occur when leaders from two countries engage in high-level talks...

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by detaro »

levgilman wrote: post #321

What is it all about? I have paid account at ChatGPT, i asked it and it doesn't know of any such thing. Is it something for privileged ones? At least I cannot understand it from the article. Here is a dialog with ChatGPT I had after reading the article. Is it true that you are now able to search in internet? As an AI language model, I am not able to actively search the internet in real-time. My knowledge is based on…

... why would you think these would be useful queries to test this? (instead of maybe one from the article?)

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by SideQuark »

bottlepalm wrote: post #319
SideQuark wrote: post #315

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's exactly what ChatGPT is. It's specifically trained as a next word (well, token) predictor. It has no long term plan, only a local window of context. And inference is completely predict the next token, with a large scales stats prediction model.

The long term plan is what generates the next word.

There is a sliding local, not global, window. There is no long term plan. It does not include context past the window. The GPT4 page states the max context is 32768 tokens.

Thus it is local. It does not see anything past this.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/overview

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by bottlepalm »

SideQuark wrote: post #323
bottlepalm wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The long term plan is what generates the next word.

There is a sliding local, not global, window. There is no long term plan. It does not include context past the window. The GPT4 page states the max context is 32768 tokens. Thus it is local. It does not see anything past this. https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/overview

The long term plan stays internal to the network, only the next word is outputted.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by SideQuark »

bottlepalm wrote: post #325
SideQuark wrote: post #323

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a sliding local, not global, window. There is no long term plan. It does not include context past the window. The GPT4 page states the max context is 32768 tokens. Thus it is local. It does not see anything past this. https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/overview

The long term plan stays internal to the network, only the next word is outputted.

If you want to call a local plan long term go ahead. People will continue to correct you.

It has no "plan" other than local context. I posted their own statements on it.

I don't know how much simpler it clearer I can make it.

A human can make a long term plan, and write unlimited words about it, and still leverage any part of unlimited context. This is a long term plan. A human can reference 1 token back, 10000 tokens back, 1 million tokens back, any number of tokens back.

No LLM can do this, since they have limited context. The site I just posted from GPT4 themselves gave you the context length.

Have you ever coded a LLM? Ever read one of their papers and understood it? Do you understand what the word "context" means?

We're done.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by bottlepalm »

SideQuark wrote: post #326
bottlepalm wrote: post #325

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The long term plan stays internal to the network, only the next word is outputted.

If you want to call a local plan long term go ahead. People will continue to correct you. It has no "plan" other than local context. I posted their own statements on it. I don't know how much simpler it clearer I can make it. A human can make a long term plan, and write unlimited words about it, and still leverage any part of unlimited context. This is a long term plan. A human can reference 1 token back, 10000 token…

Tokens in GPT are basically short term memory, just like people have short term memory. You can't reference a million tokens back, it's been compressed into your long term memory. For GPT the long term memory is the trained network itself, of which it contains vastly more knowledge than any of us alone.

I will say that writing perfectly working application from a prompt requires a plan, even if the output is the next word, there is a higher level plan you're not seeing in the output. This isnt sophisticated markov chains, it's understanding within the network that generates output.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Post by tracyjvb »

A random sample of size 50 is drawn from a large population. The population standard deviation is 5.6. The sample mean is 10.5. Find a 90% confidence interval for the population mean, 𝜇. Round your answers to the nearest tenth.
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