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Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by int_19h »

splatzone wrote: post #488
koheripbal wrote: post #465

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We are creating life. It's like giving birth to a new form of life. You should be proud to be alive when this happens. Act with goodness towards it, and it will probably do the same to you.

After reading the propaganda campaign it wrote to encourage skepticism about vaccines, I’m much more worried about how this technology will be applied by powerful people, especially when combined with targeted advertising

The rich and powerful can and do hire actual people to write propaganda.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by Jeff_Brown »

> whether intelligence can be achieved without any agency or intrinsic motivation is an important philosophical question.

Important yes, philosophical no -- it's an empirical question.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by bulbosaur123 »

kibwen wrote: post #544
chatmasta wrote: post #353

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Pshhh... I think it's awesome. The faster we build the future, the better. What annoys me is this is just further evidence that their "AI Safety" is nothing but lip-service, when they're clearly moving fast and breaking things. Just the other day they had a bug where you could see the chat history of other users! (Which, btw, they're now claiming in a modal on login was due to a "bug in an open source library" - anyo…

> The faster we build the future, the better. Famous last words. It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end. Change, even massive change, is perfectly survivable when it's spread over a long enough period of time. 100m of sea level rise would be survivable over the course of ten millennia. It would end human civilization if it happened tomorrow morning. Society is already struggling to adapt to…

False equivalence. Sea level raise is unequivocally harmful.

While everyone getting Einstein in a pocket is damn awesome and incredibly useful.

How can this be bad?

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by dragonwriter »

Jeff_Brown wrote: post #582

> whether intelligence can be achieved without any agency or intrinsic motivation is an important philosophical question. Important yes, philosophical no -- it's an empirical question.

The philosophical part is actually defining each of those terms so that there is an empirically-explorable question.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by Jeff_Brown »

koheripbal wrote: post #465
messe wrote: post #438

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While that paper is fascinating, it’s the first time I’ve ever read a paper and felt a looming sense of dread afterward.

We are creating life. It's like giving birth to a new form of life. You should be proud to be alive when this happens. Act with goodness towards it, and it will probably do the same to you.

> Act with goodness towards it, and it will probably do the same to you.

Why? Humans aren't even like that, and AI almost surely isn't like humans. If AI exhibits even a fraction of the chauvinism snd tendency to stereotype that humans do, we're in for a very rough ride.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by Jevon23 »

koheripbal wrote: post #465
messe wrote: post #438

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While that paper is fascinating, it’s the first time I’ve ever read a paper and felt a looming sense of dread afterward.

We are creating life. It's like giving birth to a new form of life. You should be proud to be alive when this happens. Act with goodness towards it, and it will probably do the same to you.

Oh my god, can we please nip this cult shit in the bud?

It’s not alive, don’t worship it.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by Jensson »

splatzone wrote: post #488
koheripbal wrote: post #465

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are creating life. It's like giving birth to a new form of life. You should be proud to be alive when this happens. Act with goodness towards it, and it will probably do the same to you.

After reading the propaganda campaign it wrote to encourage skepticism about vaccines, I’m much more worried about how this technology will be applied by powerful people, especially when combined with targeted advertising

Just use ChatGPT to refute their bullshit, it is no longer harder to refute bullshit than to create it, problem solved, there are now less problems than before.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by bob1029 »

VoodooJuJu wrote: post #539
93po wrote: post #467

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Definitely not an emotional decision. I strongly believe we're going to see a massive shift for rational reasons :) OpenAI fixes this issue by not giving you two pages of the history of this recipe and the grandmother that originated it and what the author's thoughts are about the weather. It's just the recipe. No ads. No referral links. No slideshows. You don't have to click through three useless websites to find on…

This is absolutely an emotionally impulsive decision. I implore you to reconsider. If you've always wondered about and scoffed at how people fall for things like Nigerian Prince scams and cryptocurrency HELOC bets, this is it, what you're experiencing right now, this intense FOMO, it's the same thing that fools cool wine aunts into giving their savings to Nigerian princes. Tread lightly. Stay frosty.

> This is absolutely an emotionally impulsive decision.

On Monday, I would have agreed with you. Today, I am thinking not so much.

Unless you are heavily invested in whatever you are working on, I would definitely consider jumping ship for an AI play.

The main reason I am sticking around my current role is that I was able to convince leadership that we must consider incorporation of AI technology in-house to remain competitive with our peers. I was even able to get buy-in for sending one of our other developers to AI/ML night classes at university so we have more coverage on the topic.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by skybrian »

WonderBuilder wrote: post #322
mk_stjames wrote: post #277

I have some odd feelings about this. It took less than a year to go from "of course it isn't hooked up to the internet in any way, silly!" to "ok.... so we hooked up up to the internet..." First is your API calls, then your chatgpt-jailbreak-turns-into-a-bank-DDOS-attack, then your "today it somehow executed several hundred thousand threads of a python script that made perfectly timed trades at 8:31AM on the NYSE whi…

I appreciate your concerns. There are few other pretty shocking developments, too. If you check out this paper: "Sparks of AGI: Early experiments with GPT-4" at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf , (an incredible, incredible document) and check out Section 10.1, you'd also observe that some researchers are interested in giving motivation and agency to these language models as well. "For example, whether intelligenc…

When reading a paper, it's useful to ask, "okay, what did they actually do?"

In this case, they tried out an early version of GPT-4 on a bunch of tasks, and on some of them it succeeded pretty well, and in other cases it partially succeeded. But no particular task is explored in enough depth to test its limits are or get a hint at how it does it.

So I don't think it's a great paper. It's more like a great demo in the format of a paper, showing some hints of GPT-4's capabilities. Now that GPT-4 is available to others, hopefully other people will explore further.

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