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

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

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Post by _Algernon_ »

> Describe information retrieval in the style of Josef Stalin

Information retrieval is a vital process in the success of our great nation. It allows us to quickly and efficiently access the information we need to make important decisions and advance our cause. Without information retrieval, we would be lost and unable to compete with the capitalist pigs. It is a crucial tool in our struggle to create a socialist utopia. We must ensure that all of our comrades are trained in the proper use of information retrieval, so that we can continue to grow and thrive as a nation. The success of our revolution depends on it. Long live socialism!

(Yes I'm procrastinating studying for my exam. How could you tell?)

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

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Post by ceejayoz »

btschaegg wrote: post #547
jcims wrote: post #29

Lol I do believe one of our own has come up with my favorite example so far: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1598513757805858820 "write a biblical verse in the style of the king james bible explaining how to remove a peanut butter sandwich from a VCR"

It seems it's even able to apply much more nebulous rules (i.e. "no dialogue except for beep-beep" :) ). > Write a short scene for a Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoon that strictly adheres to the rules laid out for these cartoons by Chuck Jones. > Make sure that the failing device the Coyote is trying to use is an ACME autonomous vehicle. The vehicle's autopilot should be the failing component that ruins the coy…

Yes. I had it tweak a story with notes like “make it sadder” or “no the woman lives in Paris” and it would adjust remarkably well.

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Post by bee_rider »

version_five wrote: post #381
Karunamon wrote: post #369

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is precisely why I am down on the entire field of "AI safety". Since AGI is not anywhere near around the corner, the results of this field amount to wasting everyone's time at best, or at worst actively hobbling and making potentially transformative technology useless.

The problem is, so many of the people that work in this area are not ML people and basically have interpreted "safety" though the lens of various social justice type stuff. The consequence is this kind of thing (the GPT chatbot) where the focus is preventing access to information or lecturing about identity politics. On the other hand, there are important "safety" areas that are ignored, like how probably is it that…

Another aspect could be that OpenAI doesn’t want their product to produce offensive output. It safety may just be a euphemism for “reputation preserving.”

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Post by SilasX »

derefr wrote: post #315
SilasX wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Semi-related: there was some quirk with Amazon S3 where you could designate a resource as open to the world, but it would still reject anyone that submitted (unnecessary) authentication credentials as part of the request.

Sounds like an SRE prioritizing middlebox cacheability over developer UX. Something like: "Public-readable resources get requested a lot, with no predictability over who or how many independent agents could be requesting them at once; so, to decrease the likelihood of requests on such resources DDoSing our backend, we could at least limit there to being exactly one canonical way to acceptably request the URLs of such…

>(I'm guessing that S3 also errors out if you submit random unrecognized query-string parameters on such requests?)

Doesn't look like it. I checked out the recent bankruptcy filing that was posted to s3, and you get the doc just the same with or without random query params:

https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/33/188448/042120640...

https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/33/188448/042120640...

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Post by melenaboija »

This is insane. I am not sure about the NLP impact but to me it definitely feels like the next generation of internet use.

> Can you implement the black scholes formula in python?

Yes, it is possible to implement the Black-Scholes formula in Python. Here is an example of how it could be done:

  # Import necessary libraries
  import numpy as np
  from scipy.stats import norm

 # Define the Black-Scholes function
  def black_scholes(S, K, T, r, sigma):
      d1 = (np.log(S / K) + (r + sigma\*2 / 2) \* T) / (sigma 
  \* np.sqrt(T))
      d2 = d1 - sigma \* np.sqrt(T)
      call = S \* norm.cdf(d1) - K \* np.exp(-r \* T) \* 
  norm.cdf(d2)
      put = K \* np.exp(-r \* T) \* norm.cdf(-d2) - S \* 
  norm.cdf(-d1)
      return call, put

  # Set the input parameters
  S = 100  # current price of the underlying asset
  K = 105  # strike price of the option
  T = 1  # time to expiration (in years)
  r = 0.05  # risk-free interest rate
  sigma = 0.2  # volatility of the underlying asset

  # Compute the call and put option prices
  call, put = black_scholes(S, K, T, r, sigma)

  # Print the results
  print("Call price: ", call)
  print("Put price: ", put)
This code defines a function black_scholes() that takes as input the current price of the underlying asset, the option's strike price, the time to expiration, the risk-free interest rate, and the volatility of the underlying asset. It then uses the Black-Scholes formula to compute the call and put option prices and returns the results.

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Post by SilasX »

shadowgovt wrote: post #374
SilasX wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried to split the difference with my April Fool's RFC, which proposes the HTTP status "397 Tolerating" for when you want to say "yeah, I know what you want, and I'll give you that, but here's how you were supposed to ask for it". https://pastebin.com/TPj9RwuZ

I am borderline sad that this is only an RFC. The number of services I use that I wish had a "warning" side-channel for letting me know something in my query was off, let me tell you...

Heh, after I posted it, a former co-worker forgot that was just an April Fool's joke and then, at his new workplace, seriously suggested handling one case by "throwing a 397".

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Post by desmondrd »

melenaboija wrote: post #565

This is insane. I am not sure about the NLP impact but to me it definitely feels like the next generation of internet use. > Can you implement the black scholes formula in python? Yes, it is possible to implement the Black-Scholes formula in Python. Here is an example of how it could be done: # Import necessary libraries import numpy as np from scipy.stats import norm # Define the Black-Scholes function def black_sch…

How much of this is showing other work someone has done? I wonder how similar / dissimilar it is to Copilot for use cases like this one.

Anyone know technically under the hood, how this particular formula is created by ChatGPT?

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Post by PoignardAzur »

concinds wrote: post #493
PoignardAzur wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is not a dig or a slight against them or their work, I mean, you say that, but "nannying themselves out of existence" is nothing if not a dig against their work. If they are right about the threat posed by unaligned AGI, and you are right about open-source alternatives inevitably outconpeting them, then what we're seeing is the beginning of a race to the bottom that ends with the extinction of humanity when a…

I don't understand why the popular dichotomy is AI-killbots versus aligned-AI. A much more realistic and relevant one, which we're already facing today, is government AIs that oppress people, and open-source AIs that allow people to fight back. Haven't you seen the "AI" used for unfair sentencing? Thankfully we can fight back against that one with basic statistical analyses demonstrating bias, but imagine if that had…

There isn't necessarily such a dichotomy in the AI Safety field (though I feel like some people in that field do have similar all-or-nothing viewpoints).

A central belief of many AI researchers is that violently unaligned AGI is as realistic as current bad-in-a-socially-familiar-way AIs. It just seems more unrealistic because we've never experienced it before, and it's only existed in fiction. (Eg, the threat of nuclear anihilation would probably have sounded incredibly fanciful to someone in the 19th century)

So a lot of AI safety researchers will agree that, yes, we should worry about oppressive use of AI by government, but claim that government is only one of the many pathways through which an unaligned AGI could manifest. And not only that, that any open-source AI strong enough to compete against an unaligned AGI would likely be opaque and its alignment brittle enough that it would be an unreliable ally anyway.

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

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Post by version_five »

bee_rider wrote: post #563
version_five wrote: post #381

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is, so many of the people that work in this area are not ML people and basically have interpreted "safety" though the lens of various social justice type stuff. The consequence is this kind of thing (the GPT chatbot) where the focus is preventing access to information or lecturing about identity politics. On the other hand, there are important "safety" areas that are ignored, like how probably is it that…

Another aspect could be that OpenAI doesn’t want their product to produce offensive output. It safety may just be a euphemism for “reputation preserving.”

Yeah that would be another way of looking at it. Though with who are the trying to preserve their reputation? Seems it's the same crowd that thinks the reputation of an ML model lives and dies in whether you can get it to say something they don't like. So in a way it's kind of circular, laypeople are worrying about the wrong kind of "safety" so that's what gets optimized for.
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