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Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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> But none is really guaranteed to work as intended, indeed since it's all natural language, what's intended itself will remain a bit fuzzy to the humans as well. Yeah, you're completely correct. But this is exactly the same as having a very knowledgeable but inexperienced person on your team. Humans get things wrong too. All this data is best if you have the experience or context to verify and confirm it. I heard a…

It seems like you're talking about using ChatGPT for research or code creation and that's reasonable advice for that. But as far as I can tell, the link is to plugins, Expedia is listed as an example. So it seems they're talking about making ChatGPT itself (using extra prompts) be a company's chatbot that directly does things like make reservations from users instructions. That's what I was commenting on and that, I'…

I’m not scared about an AI travel agent that books after a confirmation step. The confirmation step doesn’t need AI interface.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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What I want to know is, what gives OpenAI and other relatively small technological elites permission to gamble with the future of humanity? Shouldn't we all have a say in this?

There might be government regulation on AI pretty soon.. it's not crazy to think GPUs and GPU tech would be treated as defense equipment some day

>it's not crazy to think GPUs and GPU tech would be treated as defense equipment some day

They already are. Taiwan failing to take its own defense seriously is completely rational.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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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…

> And OpenAI talks on and on about 'Safety' but all that 'Safety' means is "well, we didn't let anyone allow it to make jokes about fat or disabled people so we're good, right?!" Anyone who believes OpenAI safety talk should take an IQ test. This is about control. They baited the openness and needed a scapegoat. Safety was perfect for that. Everyone wants to be safe, right?

> This is about control. They baited the openness and needed a scapegoat. Safety was perfect for that. Everyone wants to be safe, right?

The moment they took VC capital was the start of them closing everything and pretending to care about 'AI safety' and using that as an excuse and a scapegoat as you said.

Whenever they release something for free, always assume they have something better but will never open source.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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post #530

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…

What I want to know is, what gives OpenAI and other relatively small technological elites permission to gamble with the future of humanity? Shouldn't we all have a say in this?

>What gives a bunch of people way smarter than me permission to gamble with the future of humanity?

To ask the question is to answer it.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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The DoD really needs to step in and mark this tech as non-exportable due to the advantage (or potential advantage) it provides in many different fields.

Russia is already blocked from ChatGPT and Bing; I don't know about China. But it's all security theater. Plenty of people use it with VPNs, and I know several who found it useful / interesting enough to bother paying for it (which involves foreign credit cards etc so it's kind of a hassle). I'm sure so does the Russian govt. In any case, I don't see how you could realistically block any of that without effectively w…

I am from China, the Chinese government has banned access to chatgpt related products and Baidu has launched the 文心一言 which is basically gpt-3.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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I saw a startup recently that's working to automate interactions with applications that are either not web apps (in which case you'd run a local instance of it) or a web app that doesn't provide an API to do certain (or any) actions. Is this something Zapier is looking at, too? It would really expand what's possible with the OpenAI integration and save people a tremendous amount of time to not be forced to jump throu…

Can you share the name of the startup?

I don't recall unfortunately, but IBM is also doing this: https://research.ibm.com/publications/blueshift-automated-ap...

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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post #530

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…

What I want to know is, what gives OpenAI and other relatively small technological elites permission to gamble with the future of humanity? Shouldn't we all have a say in this?

Presumably the same as always. They are rich and we are not.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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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.

The reason we don't do human genetic engineering is the moral hazard of creating people who will suffer their entire lives intentionally (also the round trip time on an experiment is about 100 years).

You can iterate on an AI much faster.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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post #178

Holy shit. Ignore the silly third party plugins, the first party plugins for web browsing and code interpretation are massive game changers. Up to date information and performing original research on it is huge. As someone else said, Google is dead unless they massively shift in the next 6 months. No longer do I need to sift through pages of "12 best recipes for Thanksgiving" blog spam - OpenAI will do this for me an…

It's exciting and cool, but don't quit your job based on an emotional decision I'm just skeptical on how OpenAI fixes the blog spam issue you mentioned. Im sure someone has already started doing the math on how to game these systems and ensure that when you ask ChatGPT for recipe recs, it's going to spout the same spam (maybe worded a bit differently) and we'll soon all get tired of it again. Everything's changing, b…

I am not so sure.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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post #178

Holy shit. Ignore the silly third party plugins, the first party plugins for web browsing and code interpretation are massive game changers. Up to date information and performing original research on it is huge. As someone else said, Google is dead unless they massively shift in the next 6 months. No longer do I need to sift through pages of "12 best recipes for Thanksgiving" blog spam - OpenAI will do this for me an…

> OpenAI will do this for me and compile the results across several blog spam sites. Using Bing to search for them. That will remain its weak spot.

The Bing search engine is not bad. They even reconstructed the recommendation engine using their Prometheus model to return more content and less spam.

For the first time in over a decade I have changed my phone's default search engine. It is by no means bad.

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