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Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4

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Re: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4

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Post by ftxbro »

bluehorseray wrote: post #60
ftxbro wrote: post #18

Some will say it's as important as the internet or mobile, but they're wrong. This is like the discovery of fire or the invention of language.

- "ftxbro"

After lurking I made this account only to post a joking-not-joking explanation of why Alameda had the weirdly specific credit limit $65,355,999,994 with FTX and why I thought it could be a funny off-by-almost-1000x bug/typo/mishap https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34473811 but I think almost no one read my comment because I posted it so late after the thread had scrolled off the front page :(

Re: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4

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Post by bumbledraven »

While [pre-GPT-4 ChatGPT] performs non-trivially on both tasks, there is no comparison with the outputs from GPT-4. These preliminary observations will repeat themselves throughout the paper, on a great variety of tasks. The combination of the generality of GPT-4’s capabilities, with numerous abilities spanning a broad swath of domains, and its performance on a wide spectrum of tasks at or beyond human-level, makes us comfortable with saying that GPT-4 is a significant step towards AGI.

Re: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4

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Post by bumbledraven »

GPT-4's proof of the infinitude of primes, as quoted in the paper, is wrong.

    Yes, I think I can,
    Though it might take a clever plan.
    I’ll start by noting Euclid’s proof,
    Which shows that primes aren’t just aloof.
    Assume we have a finite list,
    Of primes, and that none have been missed.
    Multiply them all together,
    And add one, just to be clever.
    The result will be a number,
    That has no prime factors, oh wonder!
Not true. The result may itself be prime. For example, say your finite list of primes is {2,3}. Multiplying them together and adding one yields 2*3 + 1 = 6 + 1 = 7, which is itself prime. Hence it has a prime factor: 7.

    But every number has a prime,
    That divides it, it’s just a matter of time.
    So we’ve found a contradiction,
    And our finite list needs eviction.
    There must be infinitely many primes,
    And that’s the end of my rhyming lines.
A correct verison of the proof might say that the result has a prime factor, however, that prime factor is not an element of the supposed finite list, hence the list is incomplete.

Re: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4

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Post by parineum »

maxdoop wrote: post #22
outlace wrote: post #14

ChatGPT and its relatives are very very impressive on first impressions, but I've been using ChatGPT-3 and now 4 heavily every day since they became available to individuals and once you start using them this much it becomes very clear how NOT intelligent they are. It really just seems like extremely impressive statistical inference after this much use and finding so many failure modes. But it is still impressive how…

Our of curiosity, what is GPT-4 getting wrong so often? It’s prettily wild to my own , admittedly easily impressed, mind.

I've been trying to make it be a DM for a while now. It works seemingly well for a while but it's making everything up on the fly, which is fine as long as there's not state that needs to be maintained/remembered. Once you start trying to get it to do combat, it seems like it's working pretty well but eventually you realize that it's just making shit up behind the scenes. It'll tell you there are 4 goblins ambushing you and then you can ask it how far away they all are and it'll list three. You ask what happened to the fourth one and it'll say I'm sorry, there were only 3. I was mistaken before.

If it lists the properties of an item that you might want to buy in a shop, you can ask it to describe it twice and it'll describe two completely different items.

It's really cool and it's pretty (seemingly) creative but it can't actually run a game for you. You can have it as an assistant DM though, that works pretty well. You can have it write a story for you ahead of time and then keep it around during the game to ask it to elaborate on things you didn't anticipate on the fly. Like, "generate DC tiers for a level 3 party investigating strange writing on a wall" will give you a good breakdown and some results that you'll have to bend to be consistent in your adventure but it's pretty helpful.

That's probably not really necessary if you're an experience DM but the DM for the group I play with is pretty new (as are we all) so it's been really cool to have it around. It's also pretty good at answering questions we have but it's confidence when it's wrong makes it so it's not that helpful really because we still have to check it.

Re: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4

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Post by raincole »

My prediction for the top comments of this thread (paraphrased)

1. It's just Microsoft's advertisement

2. No it's just a very effective pattern matching algorithm

3. Please define intelligence first otherwise it's nonsense

4. I welcome our machine overlord

5. Lmao I asked it to do $thing and it failed

I'd like to know if GPT-4 can predict the top comments of this thread?

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