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Post by fmbb »

aurareturn wrote: post #28
sshine wrote: post #21

Future dystopia: Our systems are offline, and we don’t know what to do. Typically when we have a problem, we ask the system how to solve it, but it says it’s unavailable. We have tried asking each other, but nobody knows what to ask exactly.

Hopefully we'll have more than one company who can supply us with AGI. We can just ask another AGI to fix the downed AGI.

That’s one way to define hope.

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Post by eru »

tigerlily wrote: post #20
pineaux wrote: post #16

They had to shut it down, because it had suddenly reached sentience. (jk)

You know it has already when it procrastinates like a real human, gives joke answers to straightforward questions, and excels at fun tasks like composing slam poetry.

I hope that's only sufficient, and not necessary. I know many humans who fail these.

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Post by ted_bunny »

Munksgaard wrote: post #29
amelius wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Solution: drink coffee

Your coffee machine uses AI to continually enhance your coffee experience based on the mineral contents of the water, the specific beans being used, your personal tastes and various other dynamic factors.

It also doesn't work if you're offline.

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Post by koolba »

koliber wrote: post #31
sshine wrote: post #21

Future dystopia: Our systems are offline, and we don’t know what to do. Typically when we have a problem, we ask the system how to solve it, but it says it’s unavailable. We have tried asking each other, but nobody knows what to ask exactly.

It kind of already happens to devs when Jira or GitHub goes down. These tools are part of the core process of software delivery for many dev teams. When the forklift breaks, you can't load the truck.

The JIRA example is a funny one. It’s like a workshop with a broken clipboard. Imagine not ordering a replacement one because there’s no task (written on said clipboard) to order a replacement.

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Post by archerx »

I realized OpenAI are technically incompetent when they banned my API access for lack of payment even though my pre-paid balance has enough dollars for many months of access. They refuse to deduct the 50cents from the prepay balance to unblock my API access and are holding my money hostage. OpenAI is the only company that I have paid for but can’t use due to lack of payment with a very positive prepay balance, also they are refusing my credit card put of the blue that they happily accepted for a year.

This ended up being a good thing in the end because it forced me to integrate other LLMs into my project when before I would have happily only used OpenAIs services. I discovered LLaMa3 70b and Claude follow instructions better than chatGPT and in the end I have not missed ChatGPT.

OpenAI is still holding my money hostage and refuses to unblock my API access. Even after many messages to their support they just don’t care.

From my experience don’t build anything around OpenAI’s api, even if you pay they can revoke your access for nonpayment which is a paradox I never thought I would encounter. Other LLMs are more interesting than the over hyped chatGPT and if you self host you have way more control.

Tl:dr OpenAI is either technically incompetent or borderline fraudulent .

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Post by jstummbillig »

sshine wrote: post #21

Future dystopia: Our systems are offline, and we don’t know what to do. Typically when we have a problem, we ask the system how to solve it, but it says it’s unavailable. We have tried asking each other, but nobody knows what to ask exactly.

I mean, that's akin to proposing a situation where a power plant is it's own backup power plant. I or any human can't personally generate electricity when the system fails, but if I fail to design the system in such a way that something else will be capable of handling the failure with reasonably high reliability, I probably should not be designing systems.
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