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Re: GPT-4

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Post by bick_nyers »

pstorm wrote: post #609
hooande wrote: post #584

After watching the demos I'm convinced that the new context length will have the biggest impact. The ability to dump 32k tokens into a prompt (25,000 words) seems like it will drastically expand the reasoning capability and number of use cases. A doctor can put an entire patient's medical history in the prompt, a lawyer an entire case history, etc. As a professional...why not do this? There's a non-zero chance that i…

Reading the press release, my jaw dropped when I saw 32k. The workaround using a vector database and embeddings will soon be obsolete.

What about an AI therapist that remembers what you said in a conversation 10 years ago?

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Post by cwkoss »

00F_ wrote: post #705
Sol- wrote: post #288

Interesting how quickly we are pushing ahead with obsoleting human cognition. It may bring many benefits, but I wonder if at some point this development should not be decided by society at large instead of a single well-funded entity that is in an arms race with its competitors. This endeavor is ultimately about replacing humanity with a more intelligent entity, after all. Might be that more humans should have a say…

every other day i am reminded about the state of AI and i feel complete despair. why do people not realize exactly what you just said, that this endeavor is ultimately about replacing humanity? what other long-term result could the concept of AI possibly have? its like the biggest mass psychosis that has ever existed. whenever i talk to people about this, they always parrot the same thing almost word for word: people…

Who's to say that humans have more moral value than digital beings?

Re: GPT-4

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Post by 00F_ »

4gotunameagain wrote: post #7

Is there anything we could do to have them stop calling themselves OpenAI ? They are so far from open at this point. In Germany at least, you're not allowed to have a misleading name for your company

people come out of the woodwork to rage about FSD but openAI, which is actually a sinister and evil company, gets the occasional snide remark about their name which is much more dishonest than FSD. at least tesla claims that they aspire to make FSD an accurate name but openai is a straight up lie.

Re: GPT-4

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Post by pmoriarty »

rychco wrote: post #367
nealabq wrote: post #227

Test taking will change. In the future I could see the student engaging in a conversation with an AI and the AI producing an evaluation. This conversation may be focused on a single subject, or more likely range over many fields and ideas. And may stretch out over months. Eventually teaching and scoring could also be integrated as the AI becomes a life-long tutor. Even in a future where human testing/learning is no l…

Completely agree. I've been frequently using ChatGPT to learn new things in my free time. I realize that there's a huge amount of downplay regarding the accuracy of responses, but unless you're asking specifically for verified references or quotes, it does remarkably well in smoothly guiding you towards new keywords/concepts/ideas. Treat it like a map, rather than a full-self-driving tesla, and it's tremendously usef…

"it does remarkably well in smoothly guiding you towards new keywords/concepts/ideas"

Are you more effective at finding such new keywords/concepts/ideas with ChatGPT's help than without, or is it just that style of learning or its novelty that you prefer?

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Post by cwkoss »

Kaibeezy wrote: post #57

I've been wondering what happens to Turnitin (ubiquitous academic plagiarism detector) now that students can cheat using infinite bespoke rather than finite pre-existing material. Just a few weeks ago they released a tool to "detect" ChatGPT. Obsolete already? https://www.turnitin.com/blog/sneak-preview-of-turnitins-ai-...

I have no confidence they've achieved an acceptably low false positive rate.

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Post by geysersam »

m3affan wrote: post #632
hooande wrote: post #584

After watching the demos I'm convinced that the new context length will have the biggest impact. The ability to dump 32k tokens into a prompt (25,000 words) seems like it will drastically expand the reasoning capability and number of use cases. A doctor can put an entire patient's medical history in the prompt, a lawyer an entire case history, etc. As a professional...why not do this? There's a non-zero chance that i…

The power openai will hold above everyone else is just too much. They will not allow their AI as a service without data collection. That will be a big pill to swallow for the EU.

> They will not allow their AI as a service without data collection.

Why wouldn't they? If someone is willing to pay for the privilege of using it.

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Post by wnkrshm »

00F_ wrote: post #705
Sol- wrote: post #288

Interesting how quickly we are pushing ahead with obsoleting human cognition. It may bring many benefits, but I wonder if at some point this development should not be decided by society at large instead of a single well-funded entity that is in an arms race with its competitors. This endeavor is ultimately about replacing humanity with a more intelligent entity, after all. Might be that more humans should have a say…

every other day i am reminded about the state of AI and i feel complete despair. why do people not realize exactly what you just said, that this endeavor is ultimately about replacing humanity? what other long-term result could the concept of AI possibly have? its like the biggest mass psychosis that has ever existed. whenever i talk to people about this, they always parrot the same thing almost word for word: people…

If the change comes too fast, who uses or consumes services? Will it all be another VC-ish run of: "We let people use our systems provided they help us make our service better" but for any knowledge-work domain in existence?

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Post by hot_gril »

aabajian wrote: post #456

I'll be finishing my interventional radiology fellowship this year. I remember in 2016 when Geoffrey Hinton said, "We should stop training radiologists now," the radiology community was aghast and in-denial. My undergrad and masters were in computer science, and I felt, "yes, that's about right." If you were starting a diagnostic radiology residency, including intern year and fellowship, you'd just be finishing now.…

In 2015, I took an intro cognitive science class in college. The professor listed some natural language feats that he was certain AI would never accomplish. It wasn't long before average people were using AI for things he predicted were impossible.

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Post by istinetz »

swerling wrote: post #608

On GPT-3.5 and now on GPT-4, I told it a line I could remember from a sonnet, and asked it to give me which sonnet it came from. It failed, and fabricated a sonnet that was a mashup of other sonnets. It seems like maybe GPT-4 is not good at knowing when it does not know something? Is this a common issue with LLMs? Also surprising (to me), it seems to give a slightly different wrong answer each time I restart the chat…

This is addressed in the blog post. It still hallucinates, though significantly less.
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