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Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by chatmasta »

ipaddr wrote: post #426
chatmasta wrote: post #418

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When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress? It's simply an unrealistic proposition, especially when the costs of doing it are so low that anyone with sufficient GPU power and knowledge of the latest research can get pretty close to the cutting edge. So the best we can hope for is that someone ethical is the first to advance that technological progress. I hope you wouldn't ad…

Some cultures like the Amish said were stopping here.

That's a good point and an interesting example, but it's also irrelevant to the question of human history, unless you want to somehow impose a monoculture on the entire population of planet Earth, which seems difficult to achieve without some sort of unitary authoritarian world government.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by singularity2001 »

nonfamous wrote: post #116
celestialcheese wrote: post #39

This is a big deal for openai. Been working with homegrown toolkits and langchain, the open source version of this, for a number of months and the ability to call out to vectorstores, serpapis, etc, and chaining together generations and data-retrieval really unlocks the power of the LLMs. That being said, I'd never build anything dependent on these plugins. OpenAI and their models rule the day today, but who knows wh…

Looking at the API, it seems like the plugins themselves are hosted on the provider's infrastructure? (E.g. opentable.com for OpenTable's plug in.) It seems like all a competitor LLM would need to do is provide a compatible API to ingest the same plugin. This could be interesting from an ecosystem standpoint...

Very good point and langchain will support these endpoints in no time, flipping the execution control on its head

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by chatmasta »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #433
chatmasta wrote: post #418

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When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress? It's simply an unrealistic proposition, especially when the costs of doing it are so low that anyone with sufficient GPU power and knowledge of the latest research can get pretty close to the cutting edge. So the best we can hope for is that someone ethical is the first to advance that technological progress. I hope you wouldn't ad…

automation mostly and directly benefits owners/investors, not workers or common folk. you can look at productivity vs wage growth to see it plainly. productivity has risen sharply since the industrial revolution with only comparatively meagre gains on wages. and the gap between the two is widening.

That's weird, I didn't have to lug buckets of water from the well today, nor did I need to feed my horses or stock up on whale oil and parchment so I could write a letter after the sun went down.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

bulbosaur123 wrote: post #448
jehb wrote: post #370

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> The faster we build the future, the better. Why? Getting to "the future" isn't a goal in and of itself. It's just a different state with a different set of problems, some of which we've proven that we're not prepared to anticipate or respond to before they cause serious harm.

> Why? Because it's the natural evolution. It has to be. It is written.

Now where did I put that eraser...

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by wahnfrieden »

seydor wrote: post #439
marban wrote: post #8

Smart way to remain the funnel owner. Let everyone build a plugin, before they integrate your product into theirs.

I m hoping chatbots will end up small enough they can run locally, everywhere. This is a lot of private data. It may be doable - a chatbot with a lot of plugins does not need to know a lot of facts, just to have a good grasp of language. It can fetch its factual answers from the wikipedia plugin

openai wants to gatekeep access and use of their AI. so why would they ever release a local LLM? i think that would come from their enemies

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by liamYC »

chatmasta wrote: post #418
jehb wrote: post #370

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> The faster we build the future, the better. Why? Getting to "the future" isn't a goal in and of itself. It's just a different state with a different set of problems, some of which we've proven that we're not prepared to anticipate or respond to before they cause serious harm.

When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress? It's simply an unrealistic proposition, especially when the costs of doing it are so low that anyone with sufficient GPU power and knowledge of the latest research can get pretty close to the cutting edge. So the best we can hope for is that someone ethical is the first to advance that technological progress. I hope you wouldn't ad…

The luddites during the Industrial Revolution in England.

Termed the phrase “the Luddite fallacy” the thinking that innovation would have lasting harmful effects on employment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by seydor »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #455
seydor wrote: post #439

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I m hoping chatbots will end up small enough they can run locally, everywhere. This is a lot of private data. It may be doable - a chatbot with a lot of plugins does not need to know a lot of facts, just to have a good grasp of language. It can fetch its factual answers from the wikipedia plugin

openai wants to gatekeep access and use of their AI. so why would they ever release a local LLM? i think that would come from their enemies

they wouldn't ; i hope there will be an open source alternative. Firefox and chrome are open source

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by LrnByTeach »

chatmasta wrote: post #418
jehb wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The faster we build the future, the better. Why? Getting to "the future" isn't a goal in and of itself. It's just a different state with a different set of problems, some of which we've proven that we're not prepared to anticipate or respond to before they cause serious harm.

When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress? It's simply an unrealistic proposition, especially when the costs of doing it are so low that anyone with sufficient GPU power and knowledge of the latest research can get pretty close to the cutting edge. So the best we can hope for is that someone ethical is the first to advance that technological progress. I hope you wouldn't ad…

This is the reality ..

> When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress? It's simply an unrealistic proposition ..

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by FredPret »

justaregulardev wrote: post #67

This changes everything and seems like a perfect logical step from where we were. LLMs have this fantastic capacity to understand human language, but their abilities were severely limited without access to the external world. Before, I felt ChatGPT was just a cool toy. Now that ChatGPT has plugins, the sky’s the limit. I think this could the “killer app” for LLMs.

Hopefully it doesn’t actually become THE “killer” app

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

tenpies wrote: post #409
dougmwne wrote: post #326

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The really fun thing is that they are reasonably sure that GPT-4 can’t do any of those things and that there’s nothing to worry about, silly. So let’s keep building out this platform and expanding its API access until it’s threaded through everything. Then once GPT-5 passes the standard ethical review test, proceed with the model brain swap. …what do you mean it figured out how to cheat on the standard ethical review…

> The really fun thing is that they are reasonably sure that GPT-4 can’t do any of those things and that there’s nothing to worry about, silly. The best part is that even if we get a Skynet scenario, we'll probably have a huge number of humans and media that say that Skynet is just a conspiracy theory, even as the nukes wipe out the major cities. The Experts™ said so. You have to trust the Science™. If Skynet is real…

Who's to say we're not already there?

dons tinfoil hat

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