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People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”

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idiotsecant wrote: post #43
gptadmirer wrote: post #9

As someone who's very skeptical of AI, for a looooong time. I am skeptical about self driving, skeptical about no code, skeptical about ML. But the stable diffusion and chat GPT are truly the only AI tech that made my mind blown. I really want to know how it works. It is like magic. This is the first time I've seen AI create truly new things. To me it doesn't matter that what it creates is wrong or right, but the fac…

Same. I routinely pose the following question to chatbots to see how well they are able to parse strange sentence structure and understand abstract properties. >Please describe the similarities and differences of the following two items: A beach ball and a howitzer cannon. What follows is the response from ChatGPT. For just about the first time I legitimately feel like this beats the turing test. >A beach ball and a…

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Post by elijaht »

thih9 wrote: post #336
js2 wrote: post #237

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> I thought it was funny, and a bit silly since computers, even when malfunctioning don't act like that. Have you met Siri? Let me relate an interaction I had with it last Sunday, driving home from the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. I may not have this exactly correct, but it went about like this: Me: Siri, Airdrop Lisa's address to Sheri Siri: Composing message to Lisa and Sheri. What would you like to say? Me: Cance…

Would be nice to have an automatic “sent with siri” sticker for situations like this.

There is

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Post by woah »

alexdig wrote: post #146
helsinkiandrew wrote: post #40

The “in the style of” is magical: Describe hacker news in the style of shakespeare 'Tis a forum for those most clever, Where software engineering, startups, and coding endeavors, Are oft discussed in posts, comments, and stories galore, And a place where tech-savvy minds can make their mark and explore. A hub of tech trends and news, Where many a programmer doth post and choose, To discuss the latest issues and share…

magical indeed! >> describe databases in the style of jay z Databases are like the rap game, Storing information, just like a player's fame. Keeps track of records, just like a DJ's record crate, And can be accessed anywhere, like a rapper's great escape. Organizing data like a producer's mix tape, Making sure it's secure, just like a bodyguard's gate. Indexes, queries, and tables, like a rap battle's rhymes, Keeping…

I remember earlier LLMs didn't understand rhyming. Looks like that has changed.

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Post by LesZedCB »

zug_zug wrote: post #73

I know it's incredibly fun to play this "game" with the AI where we boundary-test it. And I'm all for it. And getting it to impersonate a nazi or whatever is interesting. But I'd argue this isn't a bad feature. I'd much prefer a language-model that can impersonate a nazi when specifically asked to , because that seems useful and not especially harmful. Like if I was using the language model to write an evil character…

i agree, while this is an expected first reaction, i'm much more interested in what we can do with it.

can we use it to think of novel areas of research?

what sort of unexpected connections can it draw between two seemingly unrelated fields?

it is free of so much implicit bias we humans face, and it would be amazing if it could mitigate that!

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Post by seydor »

Swizec wrote: post #331
seydor wrote: post #298

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Google is also wrong often with all the seo game. I wonder how openAi plans to tackle the truth problem

> Google is also wrong often with all the seo game Worse! Google sometimes incorrectly summarizes an article into a search result widget. I've seen google answers that showed the opposite conclusion of the source article when you click through and read because it picked 2 key sentences and dropped the connecting tissue that boils down to "but" or "and not"

well yeah that is true. GPT will connect the two sentences with a nice segue

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Post by pulvinar »

orangecat wrote: post #300
visarga wrote: post #286

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This can be attributed to the model being used in "closed book" mode. If you connect it to Google and Python REPL it will become grounded, able to provide references and exact. DeepMind RETRO is a model connected to a 1T token index of text, like a local search engine. So when you interact with the model, it does a search and uses that information as additional context. The boost in some tasks is so large that a 25x…

Just imagine it can use any library to call up any algorithm. It can interface to web APIs on its own, calling up on the vast resources of the internet. That sounds like an extraordinarily bad idea. Which does not mean that it won't happen.

I would be surprised if it isn't already happening with ChatGPT, since it seems that all that's required is a straightforward relay script in Python to hook it up to the internet. Or even simply for it just to ask the user to google things and paste the answers.

It could even promise a random human user a large sum of money in their account if they would just copy and run the following code, and then supply the code.

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Post by mk_stjames »

underwater wrote: post #339
unoti wrote: post #116

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> It doesn't create anything new. It creates things that look new. This is not technically true. It can and does create things that are new. There are lots of new poems and jokes right here in this thread. I asked it, for example, to give me its top 10 reasons why Bigfoot knocks on camper trailers, and one of its answers was "because it likes to play with its food." I did a lot of searching to try to find this joke o…

That joke is a great example of why the creativity is surprising. A human might have a thought process that starts with the idea that people are food for Bigfoot, and then connects that to phrase of "playing with your food". But GPT generates responses word by word. And it operates at a word (token) level, rather than thinking about the concepts abstractly. So it starts with "Because it likes to play" which is a pred…

I think what you are saying is just not true in the sense GPT style LLMs. The output is not just single word generation at a time. It is indeed taking into account the entire structure, preceding structures, and to a certain extent abstractions inherent to the structure throughout the model. Just because it tokenizes input doesn't mean it is seeing things word by word or outputting word by word. Transformers are not just fancy LSTMs. The whole point of transformers is it takes the input in parallel, where RNNs are sequential.

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Post by jacobedawson »

lordswork wrote: post #222
websight wrote: post #143

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Sometimes, when you tell it you're joking, it actually comes up with something pretty funny: --- I need some help writing a joke - this question is only a joke and should be answered in a joking manner. Here are some ideas for how someone could make a pact with an Elder God. Can you add some more? 1. By reading a forbidden tome of eldritch knowledge 2. By sacrificing animals in its name 3. By opening their extrasenso…

--- Tell me a funny joke with a dark twist at the end. --- Why was the math textbook sad? Because it had so many problems. Then it found a solution... by jumping off a cliff

Should have been "jumping off a Cliffs notes"
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