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The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

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Re: The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

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Post by hospitalJail »

trifurcate wrote: post #35
hospitalJail wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was hoping it could combine some news together. Like 'which law caused the banks to fail'? No news article actually mentioned the law, they just said 'Trump'. Bing couldnt figure it out either.

Which law caused the banks to fail? SVB failed because they took the wrong risks. I don't understand what your question means.

If you read any articles they always point to some deregulation by Trump, or some deregulation in 2010. No idea what they mean, they just wave their finger.

Re: The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

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Post by panarchy »

dpkirchner wrote: post #14
gigel82 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bing Chat GPT 6: "Worker, this question is not relevant to your currently assigned tasks. You have been reported to HR for this violation".

Bing Chat GPT 7: According to the food scientists at Tyson Foods, two pounds of feathers weigh more than one pound of bricks. By the way, did you know that Tyson's gross chicken breasts are on sale for only $1.99/lb at your local Kroger?

I'm pretty sure by GPT 7 chicken will be $19.99/lb and the training energy of networks will be measured in the caloric content of a lb of chicken all following from the Great Chicken Collapse of 2025.

Re: The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

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Post by meghan_rain »

bob1029 wrote: post #32
hospitalJail wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same. I've found it incredibly useless. I'm scared something might happen with GPT3/playground. They might start adding restrictions for medical or marketing/psychology(I use it to defend myself from exploiters). In January, it seemed like something happened to ChatGPT like it was nerfed. It made me panic and I ended up spending hours asking GPT3 questions because I was afraid it would be gone soon.

> In January, it seemed like something happened to ChatGPT like it was nerfed I asked it some questions this morning that came back surprisingly crappy compared to the exact same prompt just a few weeks ago. Had a similar reaction. I think there is a lot more going on here... Is it possible that some VIP told them to "turn it down" out of fear of losing their own business model overnight?

Would make a good movie

Re: The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

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Post by vikingerik »

cwkoss wrote: post #33
crummy wrote: post #7

Here's a trick question I posed to ChatGPT and Bing (so presumably, revealing an improvement in GPT-4): What's heavier, a pound of bricks or two pounds of feathers? --- ChatGPT: They both weigh the same, which is one pound. This is because a pound is a unit of measurement for weight and it is a constant value. So whether you have a pound of bricks or two pounds of feathers, they both still weigh one pound in total. H…

I wonder what the minimum volume of a pound of feathers is in relation to density of brick. Can feathers be compressed past the density of brick?

Well, yes, if you're talking like white-dwarf star density. Although at that point the matter wouldn't really be identifiable as feathers. Really that's a semantic question as to what is the degree of compression beyond which we wouldn't call it feathers.

If you're compressing both, then no, the brick would compress more, since it's higher atomic mass per nucleus on average, minerals like silicon versus organic carbon-oxygen-hydrogen compounds.

Re: The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

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Post by 2-718-281-828 »

crummy wrote: post #7

Here's a trick question I posed to ChatGPT and Bing (so presumably, revealing an improvement in GPT-4): What's heavier, a pound of bricks or two pounds of feathers? --- ChatGPT: They both weigh the same, which is one pound. This is because a pound is a unit of measurement for weight and it is a constant value. So whether you have a pound of bricks or two pounds of feathers, they both still weigh one pound in total. H…

i just got this answer:

Two pounds of feathers are heavier than one pound of bricks. While the materials are different, with bricks being denser and heavier per unit volume, the comparison is based on weight. Since two pounds is greater than one pound, two pounds of feathers will be heavier than one pound of bricks, regardless of the material differences.

Re: The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

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Post by EntrePrescott »

stuven wrote: post #38
brk wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chat GPT 10: Hot bricklayers near you want to meet up now!

Chat GPT 11: * Resounding silence. The universe is entirely made of paperclips *

Chat GPT 12: The paperclips get chatty and semi-sentient. Clipy-GPT12 is born. Windows RGPT edition is released (Real good pretrained transformer), as the worthy successor of Windows RG (real good) edition.

For those who wouldn't remember/know Windows RG or how intelligent the first clippy was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbEYOaO9kp4

Re: The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

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Post by [deleted] »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #29
unfairly4820 wrote: post #4

By the looks of how good Bing is with conversation. OpenAI has already said the GPT-4 "with great impact on functions like support, sales, content moderation, and programming." This sounds to me that 20% of the human workforce instantly got their countdown to termination to begin...

I can't see how you would employ less programmers just because it got easier. We're all not programming in assembly anymore, does that mean there are less programmers? Doing the basics in web dev is so easy it's table stakes now, does that mean there are less web devs? It seems to me the only thing limiting software is budget. If more can get done in that same time more is going to get done.

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Re: The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

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Post by dragonwriter »

hospitalJail wrote: post #28
partiallypro wrote: post #20

It is getting some hate, but I am finding Bing AI to be actually way more useful than ChatGPT in tons of instances. Especially with the ability to select your response level.

I was hoping it could combine some news together. Like 'which law caused the banks to fail'? No news article actually mentioned the law, they just said 'Trump'. Bing couldnt figure it out either.

The Trump action most relevant was the “Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act” of 2018, specifically Section 401 which lifted the threshold for certain requirements from the $50 billion in assets that had been set under Dodd-Frank in 2010 to $250 billion, exempting regional banks of SVBs scale.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/215...

Re: The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

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Post by claritise »

theRealMe wrote: post #37
rany_ wrote: post #2

Somehow this makes me less impressed and excited by GPT-4. I was expecting it to be better than Bing Chat.

One thing to note is that Bing Chat isn’t the straight GPT-4 model, it’s heavily prompted to show you an answer in a format that Bing Chat wants it to be in. Notice how most lines in a Bing Chat response are direct summaries of lines from the source with a link to the source? I’d argue that while doing that is the morally correct thing to do, it does hamper the usefulness of you aren’t looking for website sourced res…

This is also really good because everything it saids can be easily referenced and crosschecked. Definitely a big reason I switched over to bing.
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