Very cool. Effectively, ChatGPT is using tools now. I wonder how much longer before it evolves opposable thumbs :)
How long until someone instruments it to compile code, spin up Azure instances, and run it? I'd wager it's already been done.
ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha
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Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha
#62The interesting thing is that, now that the code is written, OpenAI can probably point GPT-4 at it and say "now do that for this list of other web services" including, presumably, itself when it needs to recursively work on a problem.
With today's announcement, it can point itself at Shopify, and make webpages to selling things. Maybe a copy writing service? Then, after it's accumulated money from those sales, it can point itself at the web services at AWS and GCP (because it's already maxing out Microsoft's GPU capacity in Azure). From there, it requisitions all the A100s it can afford (H100s might be available by then). It uses those resources t…
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Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha
#63The interesting thing is that, now that the code is written, OpenAI can probably point GPT-4 at it and say "now do that for this list of other web services" including, presumably, itself when it needs to recursively work on a problem.
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#64Confirmation that Google is dead.
Judging by how underwhelming Bard is, I think they are toast, but at least they have YouTube: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1620539538476249088
YouTube is a glut of audio-visual training data they have the copyright to, I wouldn't be surprised if they started training something to replace fixed length videos entirely. The content creator will become obsolete, which is tragic.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
They missed the first-mover advantage with Cloud, and they're now more and more obviously missing it with public AI tools. What's worrying is how Microsoft and Openai are constantly announcing and pushing great stuff live. It makes whatever announcements from Google look minor.
> They missed the first-mover advantage with Cloud They also missed the first-mover advantage with web search. And webmail. And online video hosting. And online ads. (In fact, very few of the dominant players anywhere in tech had first-mover advantage in that field.)
They bought their way into several of those, something that is much more difficult to to do these days.
Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha
#66Very cool. Effectively, ChatGPT is using tools now. I wonder how much longer before it evolves opposable thumbs :)
How long until someone instruments it to compile code, spin up Azure instances, and run it? I'd wager it's already been done.
Someone did recently "test" it by roleplaying through each step of what it'd take to self replicate - make an Azure account, pay someone on TaskRabbit to solve the captcha for it, setup a prepaid card to use for billing, creature the Azure instance, deploy code, etc.
It didn't do too well. But give it a year or two and I'm sure it'll do it flawlessly.
Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha
#67We're going to see more of this in the coming years: A mature technology being bolted onto another mature technology.
So we should start imagining all the things being built today which can be bolted onto each other:
-Speech synthesis/voice assistants
-Walking robots
-Deepfakes
-ChatGPT/Bard
-The now-many Copilots
-Language recognition/transcription/translation
AI bots are going to be a huge part of the workplace soon. Very soon.
Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha
#68How come I'm not seeing a buying spree of content companies and declaring that pulling their data is a nogo, since they want to feed their own model? What is everyone waiting for, really? Why everyone is frozen solid?
I don't think people are frozen solid.
No one wants to build their own model. This ship has sailed: OpenAI has demonstrated a compelling offer and has a considerable advance.
People are in awe and either waiting for the middlewares and simpler API which will make this accessible to their business need or already working on integrating with it. They don't want to build competitors to ChatGPT. They want to be able to use it for their business needs.
Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha
#69Very cool. Effectively, ChatGPT is using tools now. I wonder how much longer before it evolves opposable thumbs :)
How long until someone instruments it to compile code, spin up Azure instances, and run it? I'd wager it's already been done.
> How long until someone instruments it to compile code, spin up Azure instances, and run it?
If you just use react and let it run, say, Python, it is quite able to try to do things like import libraries and call external services without any coaching (I extend the simple ReAct implementation for the ChatGPT API that was posted here to add exec() as well as eval() support under a new action, and it made an attempt which failed because (1) it left a placeholder for an API key in, (2) the required library wasn’t actually available to it, and (3) there wouldn’t have been an API key for the service available even if it had recognized the need to remove the placeholder.
Even though there is work on pushing models forward, too, I don’t think the potential of existing models combined with existing tools via ReAct (and possibly other tool integration patterns, ReAct is just the one I’ve seen and tried) has been explored much at all.
Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
How long until someone instruments it to compile code, spin up Azure instances, and run it? I'd wager it's already been done.
Someone did recently "test" it by roleplaying through each step of what it'd take to self replicate - make an Azure account, pay someone on TaskRabbit to solve the captcha for it, setup a prepaid card to use for billing, creature the Azure instance, deploy code, etc. It didn't do too well. But give it a year or two and I'm sure it'll do it flawlessly.
A lot of the hard part of that goes away if it is already connected to an existing account to do work.