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Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by tukantje »

anonyfox wrote: post #239

I have a feeling this will be an earth shattering moment in time, especially for us. Basically you can plug your business data into the Chatbot now, and ideally (or not far off) there is a transcational API call in the form of dialogue. Sound/Voice/Siri/whatever.... coming soon for more accessability and convenience. This will decimate frontend developers or at least change the way they provide value soon, and compan…

I definitely agree, although I wonder how to do a switch to stay relevant. Any ideas on that front?

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by robomartin »

chatmasta wrote: post #353
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…

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.

The future, by definition, cannot be built faster or slower.

I know that is a philosophical observation that some might even call pedantic.

My point is, you can't really choose how, why and when things happen. In that sense, we really don't have any control. Even if AI was banned by every government on the planet tomorrow, people would continue to work on it. It would then emerge at some random point in the future stronger, more intelligent and capable than anyone could imagine today.

This is happening. At whatever pace it will happen. We just need to keep an eye on it and make sure it is for the good of humanity.

Wait. What?

Yeah, well, let's not go there.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by pms »

sunsunsunsun wrote: post #565
softwaredoug wrote: post #251

It's ironic that a few months ago Amazon laid off parts of the Alexa team and 'conversational' was considered failed. Then ChatGPT, etc happened. What Alexa wanted to build with Alexa skills, ChatGPT does much more effortlessly. It's also an interesting case study. Alexa foundationally never changed. Whereas OpenAI is a deeply invested, basically skunkworks, project with backers that were willing to sink significant…

I have never used Alexa, hey google or whatever flavour you choose for more then "set a timer for x minutes" and other very basic tasks. It's amazing how terrible the voice assistant products are compared to chatgpt.

However, is ChatGPT a solution to virtual assistant? I'm not sure, because virtual assistants work with huge databases of entities, e.g., songs or movies, and it's not really clear that ChatGPT can handle this. A couple of days ago I asked it whether it knows Dream of You by Camila Cabello, a song with hundreds of millions of plays, and it didn't... Furthermore, that database is constantly updated... It sounds like LLMs solve neither of these problems well, although they may be an improvement over current wave of virtual assistants.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by andsoitis »

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…

> But this is starting to feel like giving a loaded handgun to a group of chimpanzees.

Why?

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by vasco »

highwaylights wrote: post #379
chatmasta wrote: post #353

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I realise you’re being facetious but this is what will happen regardless. Sam as much as said in that ABC interview the other day he doesn’t know how safe it is but if they don’t build it first someone else somewhere else will and is that really what you want!?

Lets start doing human clones and hardcore gene editing then, by the same line of thinking. /s

I'm actually on the side of continuing to develop AI and shush the naysayers, but "we should do it cause otherwise someone else will" is reasoning that gets people to do very nasty things.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by andsoitis »

jehb wrote: post #370
chatmasta wrote: post #353

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. Why? Getting to "the future" isn't a goal in and of itself. It's just a different state with a different set of problems, some of which we've proven that we're not prepared to anticipate or respond to before they cause serious harm.

> Why? Getting to "the future" isn't a goal in and of itself.

Having an edge or being ahead is, so anticipating and building the future is an advantage amongst humans but also moves civilization forward.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by LesZedCB »

revelio wrote: post #310
pcurve wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just got access to Bard. I would hate to be Google leaders at the moment.

It's incredible how Google started ahead and then shot themselves repeatedly in the face by granting so much internal power to dubious AI "ethicists". Whilst those guys were publicly Twitter-slapping each other, OpenAI were putting in place the foundations for this.

nah if anything the AI ethics researchers will be saying "i told you so" in a few years. but like the agricultural revolution or the industrial revolution, i don't think the universe is capable of withholding this kind of epoch shift.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by int_19h »

brap wrote: post #89
elaus wrote: post #42

Any idea how this is done? I.e. is it just priming the underlying GPT model with plugin information additionally to the user input ("you can ask Wolfram Alpha by replying 'hey wolfram: ...' ") and performing API calls when the GPT model returns certain keywords ('hey wolfram: $1')?

I wonder, can these instructions be revealed with prompt injection?

Everything that is in the context window can be potentially revealed with prompt engineering.

(In this case, there's no prompt injection to speak of because letting the user input an arbitrary request is part of the UI. I think it's more accurate to call it "injection" only when that's not anticipated, like when Bing picks up instructions from the webpage you tell it to summarize.)

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by andsoitis »

nwienert wrote: post #442
chatmasta wrote: post #418

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress? It's simply an unrealistic proposition, especially when the costs of doing it are so low that anyone with sufficient GPU power and knowledge of the latest research can get pretty close to the cutting edge. So the best we can hope for is that someone ethical is the first to advance that technological progress. I hope you wouldn't ad…

We have a ton of protection laws around all sorts of dangerous technology, this is a super naive take. You can't buy tons of weapon technology, nuclear materials, aerosolized compounds, pesticides. These are all highly regulated and illegal pieces of technology for the better . In general the liberal position of progress = good is wrong in many cases, and I'll be thankful to see AI get neutered. If anything treat it…

> You can't buy tons of weapon technology, nuclear materials, aerosolized compounds, pesticides. These are all highly regulated and illegal pieces of technology for the better.

All those examples put us in physical danger to the point of death.

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