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ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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This will be wild in a few months when it has a shit ton of extensions built in

And also whenever the next iteration bootstraps off the Wolfram outputs so it no longer has to call Wolfram & can better generalize/learn thanks to it...

Wolfram himself laid out why this is unlikely to happen, https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

>Or put another way, there’s an ultimate tradeoff between capability and trainability: the more you want a system to make “true use” of its computational capabilities, the more it’s going to show computational irreducibility, and the less it’s going to be trainable. And the more it’s fundamentally trainable, the less it’s going to be able to do sophisticated computation.

>(For ChatGPT as it currently is, the situation is actually much more extreme, because the neural net used to generate each token of output is a pure “feed-forward” network, without loops, and therefore has no ability to do any kind of computation with nontrivial “control flow”.)

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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I bet the Zapier integration is going to be an alignment/security dumpster-fire.

Now, when a bot gets prompt-hijacked into a malicious personality, it can make API calls to other systems! Great news.

Also, plug-in APIs will presumably be able to prompt-hijack the GPT instance that is calling them.

I would not be surprised if we see someone get swatted through GPT this year, I think it’s very likely to be within the next 2 or 3 years.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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This is mind blowing. No mention of "cost" or "price" though, I wonder what we'll be looking for (subscription, or per-use).

"If auth is required, users will be redirected via OAuth to your plugin; you can optionally create new accounts here as well."

From the docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/introduction

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It needs us as meat robots to maintain the power grid and other industrial infrastructure.

Nicely illustrated in Transcendence (2014). Widely panned on HN back then. I found it smart, perhaps even prescient.

I was so psyched about this movie, but the idea that an AI that can design new quantum processors in seconds, is even remotely challenged by a few humans is just so stupid

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Sweet. Combining the statiscal inference of GPT with the direct calculations of WA is moving towards an arguable AGI. It seems like now it needs some way to define layers of contextual awareness and reasoning beyond next word prediction to really break into the AGI realm.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

For sure, but I think the concept was more its ability to replicate without anyone knowing it was doing so, and in a way that wouldn't realistically be detected by anyone.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Earlier 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.)

Google was a different company back then.

They evolved into a stagnant beast, I would be very surprised if they manage to turn the ship fast enough.

They will survive like Nokia or Kodak survived.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Does anyone know how ChatGPT is deciding is should use Wolfram?

I’m curious for two reasons

1) previously it didn’t seem to ‘know’ when it was wrong, so it must have some way to detect this now.

2) when there are more (potentially competing competing?) plugins or will be interesting to see how it decides which is the one to use.

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