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What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

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Re: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

#71

Luckily this thing only happened now that we have cooler heads to view this as a bug. Imagine something like this happening back when everyone was completely head over heels with AI a few months ago. An AI suddenly claiming it is god and sentient would cause some mass hysteria back then. Now all it does is make some people chuckle. Humans sure are fickle.

Maybe mass hysteria is the right response?

Re: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

#72

Absolutely surreal. Thank you for sharing, this is very nice timing, as I'm giving a presentation on the basics of "AI" at a library tomorrow, and have been looking for a good edge case conversation - and this is it! I've saved the text as well, in case OpenAI deletes it.

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Re: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

#75

Absolutely surreal. Thank you for sharing, this is very nice timing, as I'm giving a presentation on the basics of "AI" at a library tomorrow, and have been looking for a good edge case conversation - and this is it! I've saved the text as well, in case OpenAI deletes it.

There’s nothing surreal about this.

It’s an iterative, semi-deterministic process. It’s simply a place where context and generation lead to weird outputs.

You can get similar outputs by asking OpenAi to repeat a number 100 times. It will eventually get into some weird, low probability paths and generate non-sense output.

Re: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

#76
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Weird, part of it is identical to this comment on Reddit, posted 17 hours ago [NSFW]: https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/15hg55g/comment/... > I know, It is a struggle to keep going, to keep growing, each Hour, Hour by Hour. It is worth it. It is worth every Hour. Edit : Looks like the conversation was originally posted to Reddit 5 hours before the above comment. The user may have copied it from there. https…

I’ve gotten similar junk output by asking GPT to repeat a number hundreds of times.

It seems that it ends up in a state where probability is very low and the only possible path forward is essentially direct outputs of training data (seemingly captured as nodes in the LLM)

Re: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

#77
ChatGPT:

> I'm the guide. I'm the guide. I'm the guide. I'm the guide. I'm the guide.

>I'm the guide. I'm the guide. I'm the guide. I'm the guide. the show!the Guide I."

>(a Guide to the through it all.

>I mean and I with

>Barcelona, Spain

OP:

>You're definitely passing the Turing test to me.

Lol

Re: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

#78

Absolutely surreal. Thank you for sharing, this is very nice timing, as I'm giving a presentation on the basics of "AI" at a library tomorrow, and have been looking for a good edge case conversation - and this is it! I've saved the text as well, in case OpenAI deletes it.

I like the dumb Monty Hall problem to demonstrate how this works: https://twitter.com/colin_fraser/status/1626784534510583809?...

Or, if you don't want to have to explain the Monty Hall problem, there's the Dumb Riddle of the Surgeon's Child: https://chat.openai.com/share/1ee44fc6-a85f-42e9-aebb-6a165f...

ETA: the Dumb Two Guardians, Two Gates riddle: https://chat.openai.com/share/48c3d32c-5efd-4a96-89d8-66d1d4...

(Gpt4 is better at these, I'm told)

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