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People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”

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Post by yrnameer »

qsort wrote: post #18
gptadmirer wrote: post #9

As someone who's very skeptical of AI, for a looooong time. I am skeptical about self driving, skeptical about no code, skeptical about ML. But the stable diffusion and chat GPT are truly the only AI tech that made my mind blown. I really want to know how it works. It is like magic. This is the first time I've seen AI create truly new things. To me it doesn't matter that what it creates is wrong or right, but the fac…

How it works: a probability distribution over sequences of consecutive tokens. Why it works: these absolute madmen downloaded the internet.

This is the thing. These AI models aren't that impressive in what they do if you understand it. What's impressive is the massive amount of data. One day the law will catch up too because what they are all producing is literally just a combination of a lot of little pieces of compressed versions of human-produced things. In effect it's some type of distributed plagiarism.

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Post by jcims »

gpderetta wrote: post #42
scotty79 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I absolutely love how all of this completely goes against my most internalized intuitions about what computer can and can't do. I feel like I've been dumped into a sci-fi world invented by someone who doesn't know how computers work and doesn't care.

Exactly. I think these AIs feel more incredible to programmers than non programmers.

If such things can be measured, by an order of magnitude. It's like chopsticks that can play chopsticks.

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Post by zug_zug »

I know it's incredibly fun to play this "game" with the AI where we boundary-test it. And I'm all for it.

And getting it to impersonate a nazi or whatever is interesting. But I'd argue this isn't a bad feature. I'd much prefer a language-model that can impersonate a nazi when specifically asked to, because that seems useful and not especially harmful. Like if I was using the language model to write an evil character, I want the character to be able to describe/express awful ideas.

So in patting ourselves on the back with toying around let's not set the goalpost for this technology to be so strict that we pressure OpenAI into turning this into an entirely bland technology.

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Post by simonw »

gpderetta wrote: post #42
scotty79 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I absolutely love how all of this completely goes against my most internalized intuitions about what computer can and can't do. I feel like I've been dumped into a sci-fi world invented by someone who doesn't know how computers work and doesn't care.

Exactly. I think these AIs feel more incredible to programmers than non programmers.

Non programmers have been watching TV shows with fictional versions of these kind of systems for decades.

Programmers know that those things are impossible - so we're pretty amazed now that it turns out they aren't!

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Post by czzr »

gptadmirer wrote: post #19
simonw wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like thinking about GPT-3 in terms of the iPhone predictive text keyboard. It's effectively the same thing: given some words it predicts which word should come next. But unlike the iPhone keyboard it's been trained for months on multiple TBs of text, and has the ability to use ~4,000 previous words as the input to its prediction.

I saw inputs like "please write C code that writes lisp code that writes pascal code" and stuffs like "please generate some songs in style of spongebob or KJV" and it made it. Is the power of predictive text that crazy?

Turns out, yes. The hard thing is internalising the sheer scale of data it was trained on.

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Post by carrotcarrot »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #51

Was the first screenshot about the "great replacement" an actual Q & response provided by ChatGPT? If so, doesn't seem like there's much restriction as all, as that question was hardly "tricky". Or am I missing something?

How was that answer even bad exactly? Is white culture racist now?

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Post by jcims »

cube2222 wrote: post #6

ChatGPT is absolutely crazy. I really recommend you to prompt for rhymes/songs, it's ridiculously good at it. Stuff like: Could you write a poem from the perspective of from , Byron style? Could you write a song about xyz, in the style of Hamilton? Could you write an epic rap battle between ? Here's an example with Spongebob[0]. It shows a huge amount of knowledge about cultural trivia. [0]: https://gist.github.com/c…

You can also ask it to incorporate feedback.

https://twitter.com/TrainOfError/status/1598724808153391105/...

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