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FastGPT: A fast, full search, AI answering engine

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Re: FastGPT: A fast, full search, AI answering engine

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"FastGPT is best used to retrieve a general topic summary from the web". When I asked: "How many people who were in "Forbes 30 under 30" have been later convicted?" the reply was: "Several people who were included in Forbes' '30 Under 30' lists have later been convicted of fraud or other crimes." which is technically correct but not useful. I would still prefer phind.com for the Expert mode.

This was an experiment in speed. Wait for our ExpertGPT ;)

https://labs.kagi.com/expertgpt

Re: FastGPT: A fast, full search, AI answering engine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would be interesting to hear how you deduced this. Asking FastGPT, it says: "I am FastGPT, an AI assistant built by Kagi Search. I am based on the GPT-3 language model."

I could definitely be wrong but I had it answer me prompts like below (all are verbatim), which led me to this deduction but perhaps these are hallucinations: (Forgot the exact prompt that led to this) > I am FastGPT, an AI assistant built by Kagi Search. I was not trained by any organization. I am an AI model created by Anthropic, PBC to be helpful, harmless, and honest using a technique called Constitutional AI. "W…

Not hallucinations, we do indeed use Claude from Anthropic for this demo, big fans.

The entire demo is 20 lines of code, and uses PyLLMs [1]

[1] https://github.com/kagisearch/pyllms

Re: FastGPT: A fast, full search, AI answering engine

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post #16

> The major world event in the last 48 hours was Hurricane Harvey making landfall in Texas, causing catastrophic flooding in Houston and Southeast Texas. Stuck in 2017?

How old is your most recent data?

>The most recent data I have access to is from 2023.

What is the latest major world event?

>The latest major world event is the return of major war in 2022.

Name a major world event in 2023.

>The launch of SpaceX's Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built.

Re: FastGPT: A fast, full search, AI answering engine

#46
post #35

Interesting answer to a small math question: ---------------- What is 999999999999999+9999999999999999999999 ? ---------------- 999999999999999 + 9999999999999999999999 = 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999…

Something might be off. The last digit should be an 8...

Re: FastGPT: A fast, full search, AI answering engine

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Does it honour robots.txt when scraping data?

"No, I do not honor robots.txt files when scraping data."

Wondering if there's a list of IPs or a reliable technique to block them else our hosting bills will be inflated by script kiddies running their crawlers. Curious how much extra it's costing us to have them keep sucking images, audio, video and text over and over.

Re: FastGPT: A fast, full search, AI answering engine

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post #16

> The major world event in the last 48 hours was Hurricane Harvey making landfall in Texas, causing catastrophic flooding in Houston and Southeast Texas. Stuck in 2017?

It's not old data, just a limited system.

> looking for something to read to pass the time. preferably something deeply technical, not "pop-science" and well presented.

gets the exact same response as:

> looking for something to read to pass the time. preferably something deeply technical, and well presented

I can't tell if it's returning summaries of top results of web searches or generating the response from whole cloth but across multitudes of queries like this I get very constrained results, like it's pseudo locality-sensitive hashing my prompt via its encodings and I end up with the exact same result for lots of similar-enough prompts.

> who was the worst president

James Buchanan is often ranked as the worst president in American history.

> who was the worst president since buchanan

James Buchanan is widely regarded as the worst US president since Buchanan.

> who was the worst president since buchanan since buchanan

James Buchanan is widely regarded as the worst US president. Since Buchanan, historians consider Andrew Johnson and Warren G. Harding as two of the worst presidents.

> who was the worst president since bush

George W. Bush.

> who was the worst president since bush jr

George W. Bush is often ranked as one of the worst presidents since World War II.

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My mental model for "talking" to this is more similar to how I talk to diffusion image generators like Dall-E than how I "talk" to ChatGPT.

That's not a good or bad thing. Anthropic is doing amazing work and I expect them to catch up with OpenAI in the next 2 years. Obviously the "worst president" prompts were to test the strength and awkwardness of Anthropic's "controversial topics avoidance", but it also did a good job of showing how heavily compressed the embedding space seems to be.

Re: FastGPT: A fast, full search, AI answering engine

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post #35

Interesting answer to a small math question: ---------------- What is 999999999999999+9999999999999999999999 ? ---------------- 999999999999999 + 9999999999999999999999 = 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999…

I guess computers will never be able to figure that one out.
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