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GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack

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Re: GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack

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Or a spot the difference. Generate 1000 generic facts about Alice and the same 1000 facts about Eve. Randomise the order and change one minor detail then ask how they differ.

sort alice.txt | diff - That's not a task for an LLM

Asking students to write an essay about Napoleon isn't something we do because we need essays about Napoleon - the point is it's a test of capabilities.

Re: GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack

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Well, I can now use GPT to transform raw dynamic data into beautiful HTML layouts on the fly for low-traffic pages, such as change/audit logs, saving a ton of development time and keeping my HTML updated even when the data structure has changed. My last attempt did not consistently work because GPT4-Turbo sometimes ignored the context and instructions almost entirely.

Do you have an example of this? I would love to learn more.

Re: GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack

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But this content is presumably in its training set, no? I'd be interested if you did the same task for a collection of books published more recently than the model's last release.

To test this hypothesis, I just took the complete book "Advances in Green and Sustainable Nanomaterials" [0] and pasted it into the prompt, asking Gemini: "What absorbs thermal radiations and converts it into electrical signals?". It replied: "The text indicates that graphene sheets present high optical transparency and are able to absorb thermal radiations with high efficacy. They can then convert these radiations i…

Ask it what material absorbs “infrared light” efficiently.

To me, that’s useful intelligence. I can already search text for verbatim matches, I want the AI to understand that “thermal radiations” and “infrared light” are the same thing.

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I don't understand OpenAI's pricing strategy. For free I can talk to GPT 3.5 on an unlimited basis, and a little to GPT 4o. If I pay $20 a month, I can talk to GPT 4o eighty times every three hours, or once every two and a half minutes. That's both way more than I need, and way less than I would expect for twenty dollars a month. I wish they had a $5 per month tier that included, say, eighty messages per 24-hours.

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I'd like to see this for Gemini Pro 1.5 -- I threw the entirety of Moby Dick at it last week, and at one point all books Byung Chul-Han has ever published, and it both cases it was able to return the single part of a sentence that mentioned or answered my question verbatim, every single time, without any hallucinations.

Man, we are like 2-5 years away from being able to feed in an ePub and get an accurate graphic novel version in minutes. I am so ready to look at four thousand paintings of Tolkien trees.

Re: GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

To test this hypothesis, I just took the complete book "Advances in Green and Sustainable Nanomaterials" [0] and pasted it into the prompt, asking Gemini: "What absorbs thermal radiations and converts it into electrical signals?". It replied: "The text indicates that graphene sheets present high optical transparency and are able to absorb thermal radiations with high efficacy. They can then convert these radiations i…

Ask it what material absorbs “infrared light” efficiently. To me, that’s useful intelligence. I can already search text for verbatim matches, I want the AI to understand that “thermal radiations” and “infrared light” are the same thing.

Fair point, but I also think something that's /really/ clear is that LLMs don't understand (and probably cannot). It's doing highly contextual text retrieval based on natural language processing for the query, it's not understanding what the paper means and producing insights.

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This is based on a limericks dataset published in 2021. https://zenodo.org/records/5722527 I think it very likely that gpt-4o was trained on this. I mean, why would you not? Innnput, innnput, Johnny five need more tokens. I wonder why the NIAN team don't generate their limericks using different models, and check to make sure they're not in the dataset? Then you'd know the models couldn't possibly be trained on them.

I tested the LLMs to make sure they could not answer the questions unless the limerick was given to them. Other than 4o, they do very badly on this benchmark, so I don't think the test is invalidated by their training.

Why wouldn't it still be invalidated by it if it was indeed trained on it? The others may do worse and may or may not have been trained on it, but them failing on ititself doesn't imply 4o can do this well without the task being present in the corpus.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

To test this hypothesis, I just took the complete book "Advances in Green and Sustainable Nanomaterials" [0] and pasted it into the prompt, asking Gemini: "What absorbs thermal radiations and converts it into electrical signals?". It replied: "The text indicates that graphene sheets present high optical transparency and are able to absorb thermal radiations with high efficacy. They can then convert these radiations i…

Ask it what material absorbs “infrared light” efficiently. To me, that’s useful intelligence. I can already search text for verbatim matches, I want the AI to understand that “thermal radiations” and “infrared light” are the same thing.

> Answer the following question using verbatim quotes from the text above: "What material absorbs infrared light efficiently?"

> "Graphene is a promising material that could change the world, with unlimited potential for wide industrial applications in various fields... It is the thinnest known material with zero bandgaps and is incredibly strong, almost 200 times stronger than steel. Moreover, graphene is a good conductor of heat and electricity with very interesting light absorption properties."

Interestingly, the first sentence of the response actually occures directly after the latter part of the response in the original text.

Screenshot from the document: https://i.imgur.com/5vsVm5g.png.

Edit: asking it "What absorbs infrared light and converts it into electrical signals?" yields "Graphene sheets are highly transparent presenting high optical transparency, which absorbs thermal radiations with high efficacy and converts it into electrical signals efficiently." verbatim.

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