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Re: GPT-4o

#773

This is a very cool demo - if you dig deeper there’s a clip of them having a “blind” AI talk to another AI with live camera input to ask it to explain what it’s seeing. Then they, together, sing a song about what they’re looking at, alternating each line, and rhyming with one another . Given all of the isolated capabilities of AI, this isn’t particularly surprising, but seeing it all work together in real time is pre…

My new PC arrives tomorrow. Once I source myself two RTX 3060's I'll be an AI owner, no longer dependant on cloud APIs.

Currently the bottleneck is Agents. If you want a large language model to actually do anything you need an Agent. Agents so far need a human in the loop to keep them sane. Until that problem is solved most human jobs are still safe.

Re: GPT-4o

#774

Very, very impressive for a "minor" release demo. The capabilities here would look shockingly advanced just 5 years ago. Universal translator, pair programmer, completely human sounding voice assistant and all in real time. Scifi tropes made real. But: Interesting next to see how it actually performs IRL latency and without cherry-picking. No snark, it was great but need to see real world power. Also what the benefit…

My guess is they're banking on the free version being rate limited and people finding it so useful that they want to remove the limit. Like giving a new user a discount on heroin. At least that's the strategy that would make most sense to me.

I don’t know why they didn’t do that a long time ago (apart from limited hardware). So many people have probably tried GPT3.5 and bounced off unimpressed.

Re: GPT-4o

#775

This is a very cool demo - if you dig deeper there’s a clip of them having a “blind” AI talk to another AI with live camera input to ask it to explain what it’s seeing. Then they, together, sing a song about what they’re looking at, alternating each line, and rhyming with one another . Given all of the isolated capabilities of AI, this isn’t particularly surprising, but seeing it all work together in real time is pre…

make people smart

Nature had been doing that for billions of years until a few decades ago when we were told "progress" meant we had to stop doing the same thing more peacefully and intentionally.

My guess is the future belongs to those who don't stop—who, in fact, embrace the opposite of stopping.

I would even suggest that the present belongs to those who didn't stop. It may be too late for normal people to ever catch up by the time we realize the trick that was played on us.

Re: GPT-4o

#776

This is a very cool demo - if you dig deeper there’s a clip of them having a “blind” AI talk to another AI with live camera input to ask it to explain what it’s seeing. Then they, together, sing a song about what they’re looking at, alternating each line, and rhyming with one another . Given all of the isolated capabilities of AI, this isn’t particularly surprising, but seeing it all work together in real time is pre…

> We’re moving toward a world where every job will be modeled After an OpenAI launch, I think it's important to take one's feelings about the future impact of the technology with a HUGE grain of salt. OpenAI are masters of hype. They have been generating hype for years now, yet the real-world impacts remain modest so far. Do you remember when they teased GPT-2 as "too dangerous" for public access? I do. Yet we now ha…

> yet the real-world impacts remain modest so far.

I spend a part of yesterday evening sorting my freshly dried t-shirts into 4 distinct piles. I used OpenAI Vision (through BeMyEyes) from my phone. I got a clear description of each and every piece of clothing, including print, colours and brand. I am blind BTW. But I guess you are right, no impact at all.

> Yet we now have Llama 3 in the wild

Yes, great, THANKS Meta, now the Scammers have something to work with. Thats a wonderful achievement which should be praised!

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#777

This is a very cool demo - if you dig deeper there’s a clip of them having a “blind” AI talk to another AI with live camera input to ask it to explain what it’s seeing. Then they, together, sing a song about what they’re looking at, alternating each line, and rhyming with one another . Given all of the isolated capabilities of AI, this isn’t particularly surprising, but seeing it all work together in real time is pre…

Why so much positivity? It can also murder people, and it will continue being used for that. That's scary.

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#778
At their core, I still think of these things as search engines, albeit super advanced ones. But the emotion the agent conveys with it's speech synth is completely new...

Re: GPT-4o

#779
post #19

Tiktoken added support for GPT-4o: https://github.com/openai/tiktoken/commit/9d01e5670ff50eb74c... It has an increased vocab size of 200k.

How are they able to use such a brand name, Tiktoken? Is it because TikTok is Chinese? Tiktoken, it's almost like if Apple released the Facebooken library for something entirely unrelated to Facebook.

That's not the right analogy. The "tok" in "Tiktoken" comes from "token", not "TikTok".

Re: GPT-4o

#780

This is a very cool demo - if you dig deeper there’s a clip of them having a “blind” AI talk to another AI with live camera input to ask it to explain what it’s seeing. Then they, together, sing a song about what they’re looking at, alternating each line, and rhyming with one another . Given all of the isolated capabilities of AI, this isn’t particularly surprising, but seeing it all work together in real time is pre…

> We’re moving toward a world where every job will be modeled After an OpenAI launch, I think it's important to take one's feelings about the future impact of the technology with a HUGE grain of salt. OpenAI are masters of hype. They have been generating hype for years now, yet the real-world impacts remain modest so far. Do you remember when they teased GPT-2 as "too dangerous" for public access? I do. Yet we now ha…

> yet the real-world impacts remain modest so far.

I second that. I remember when Google search first came out. Within a few days it completely changed my workflow, how I use the Internet, my reading habits. It easily 5 ~ 10x the value of Internet for me over a couple of weeks.

LLMs is doing nothing of the sort for me.

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