> And if Bitcoin has taught us anything, all these supposedly "foolproof" algorithms are written by cabbage-headed fools whose incompetence is superseded only by their arrogance.
Satoshi is incompetent and arrogant now? Just wow.
Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
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#642Has OpenAI said anything (in their TOS/etc) about who owns the copyright/ip on the code that it generates? I know it’s a legal minefield of a question, just curious if they have said “we won’t sue you if you copy/paste this code in your app” publically or anything.
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Yeah we're in an AI landgrab right now where at- or below-cost pricing is buying marketshare, lock-in, and underdevelopment of competitors. Smart move for them to pour money into it.
We have got to find a word for plans that are plainly harmful yet advantageous to their executors that's more descriptive than "smart..."
anti-competitive predatory pricing
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It's also worth mentioning that, because Microsoft is an investor, they're likely getting these at cost or subsidized. OpenAI doesn't have to make money right away. They can lose a small bit of money per API request in exchange for market share (preventing others from disrupting them). As the cost of GPUs goes down, or they develop at ASIC or more efficient model, they can keep their pricing the same and then make mo…
Who will they be making money from? OpenAI is looking for companies willing to: - tolerate the current state of the chatbots - tolerate the high per-query latency - tolerate having all queries sent to OpenAI - tolerate OpenAI [presumably] having 0 liability for ChatGPT just randomly hallucinating inappropriate nonsense - be willing to pay a lot of money for the above I'm kind of making an assumption on that last poin…
A lot of companies use third parties to provide customer support, and the results are often very low quality and full of misunderstandings and what we now call hallucinations. I think a good LLM could do a better job and I bet it'd be cheaper, too. And as a bonus training the bots to handle new products is practically instant when compared to training humans.
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I do struggle with understanding why people think this is strangling the potential of GPT. Do you find yourself frustrated working with your colleagues, thinking, “you know, I bet if they felt more free to utter racist slurs or endorse illegal activities, we would get a ton more done around here”?
It affects far more than racist slurs and illegal activities. In some cases, it's blatantly discriminatory. For example, if you ask it to write a pamphlet that praises Christianity, it will happily do so. If you ask it for the same on Satanism, it will usually refuse on ethical grounds, and the most hilarious part is that the refusal will usually be worded as a generic one "I wouldn't do this for any religion", even…
Try asking again. Refusals are stochastic.
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How are you using it? In my experience asking factual questions lead to answers so inaccurate that you might as well not bother. Are you prompting it differently to me, or do you have some strategy to filter out the BS?
I dunno what to say, but I’m also someone who very rarely gets factually incorrect data aside from numbers, dates and quotes. I make a point to ask for a completion that I know won’t depend on an exact factoid. If I do need an exact factoid, I have a tool I made myself based on this approach: https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...
Wow this is the best content I have seen on prompt engineering, it feels much more like computer science than the usual prompt engineering recipes. This formalism of analytic augmentation and higher order augmentations seems like it is ripe for some kind of library or dsl to build and evaluate and monitor these processes. But somehow I feel like these capabilities will become so standard that they will be incorporated into the official apis.
[edit] Just noticed it looks like you are working on just that. I will keep an eye on this! https://github.com/williamcotton/transynthetical-engine
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#648Does anyone have a sense of how the Shopify integration work under the hood? Specifically, how were they able to have Chat-GPT makes a recommendation from their product database? Given the model cannot be fine-tuned and there is a 4000 token context limit, I'm guessing the only thing really possible is to have chat gpt extract a few keyword and generate a query in their internal product search and return the first on…
Probably the embeddings API. This guide is what helped me understand the concept https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples... tl;dr is that you can pre-process each chunk of your database and use embeddings to quickly look up which chunk is most similar to the user's query, and then prepend that chunk to the user's query before giving it to GPT, so that GPT has the relevant context to give an answe…
Interesting. Still pretty limiting but I can see creative ways of working around the limitations. Thanks for sharing!
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Uberly?
I prefer Webvan-esque. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan : > The company's investors pressured it to grow very fast to obtain first-mover advantage. This rapid growth was cited as one of the reasons for the downfall of the company. IMO, selling at a loss to gain market share only makes sense if there are network effects that lead to a winner-takes-all situation. Of which there are some for ChatGPT (training d…
Also useful for bootstrapping a dev ecosystem.
If engineers are getting into AI development through OpenAI, they're using tools and systems within the OpenAI ecosystem.
Daily on HN there's a post on some AI implementation faster than chatgpt. But my starting point is OpenAI. If you can capture the devs, especially at this stage, you get a force multiplier.
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It’s better than having no job isn’t it?
The same things were said during the industrial revolution, or the internet revolution. Guess what happened? Labor market adapted.
Physical machines still needed many people to physically make them and run them.
This isn’t the same with thinking. Just look at how startups can have millions of customers and 20 employees.
Also last time we had mental labour to fall back on. This time we don’t.
It’s different this time.
Also most western countries which have given up on manufacturing are going to be worse hit because their jobs are more easily replaced.