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> model: "text-davinci-003" I was surprised at first, but I notice you're using GPT-3 model, not chatGPT (no API so far)

I'm not convinced that there's any substantial difference between the two.

Do you know if plain davinci-003 can continue long programming answers? I was using Chat to rewrite python scripts. It was it able to handle longish scripts easily by asking it to "continue", or simply "go on", if it ran out of room. But now they have blocked that ability since the Jan 30 update. It is quite a bit more painful now to have to break scripts up into chunks.

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I find it truly fascinating that "machine learning company doesn't want powerful tool to be weaponized for bigoted ends" and "modern citizens following major media expect their media to treat weaponized AI as a bad thing" makes times sad. From my perspective, a ChatGPT in the hands of the worst of our society pumping out endless telegram, whatsapp, instagram, twitter etc bigotry and propaganda would be a far sadder t…

>Honestly, we're at a time when weaponized chatGPT is powerful enough to easily topple most democratic nations. It could control the outcome of elections, if weaponized sufficiently. Unless chatGPT is granted voting rights, it literally can't. If the majority of people vote for something and those people are all legally registered voters in the place where they vote and the votes are being tallied in a fair and accur…

> Unless chatGPT is granted voting rights, it literally can't. If the majority of people vote for something and those people are all legally registered voters in the place where they vote and the votes are being tallied in a fair and accurate way, then there's nothing undemocratic about that election.

Many democracies voted for a dictator that ended their democracies. Obviously a perfectly democratic election can end a democracy.

Given the opportunity, a weaponized ChatGPT could be weaponized to dominate online discussion by play-acting as thousands of different personas, could write to-the-person customized mailers, and completely dominate all current methods of politicking, easily winning an election.

Much like IT, humans are the biggest weakness, and weaponized AI has hit the point where it has a sufficient understanding of our psychology, it can be prompted to use it, and thus can functionally control us on a herd level, even if the special unique few swear they're above it.

Re: ChatGPT Plus

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While ChatGPT is totally and utterly awesome, I need to have confidence in it's answers before I pay $20/month for it.

It will also need to drop its patronizing politically correctness, which is not going to happen with Microsoft having a stake in it.

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#877

While ChatGPT is totally and utterly awesome, I need to have confidence in it's answers before I pay $20/month for it. It will also need to drop its patronizing politically correctness, which is not going to happen with Microsoft having a stake in it.

> I need to have confidence in it's answers before I pay $20/month for it.

I don't think that's the goal of ChatGPT, to be 100% accurate. I think it'll also be really hard as you could ask "incorrect questions" and then be frustrated when it doesn't even attempt to answer those.

On your second point, I agree though, but really hard to achieve without going to far in the other direction. Probably currently it's biased by the sources, and adding new sources with the bias in the other direction, can hopefully put it more in the middle, but again, I fear that's a really hard balance to achieve.

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If you outperform your peers and get a raise just 6 months sooner that pays for itself.

Or as you used a non sanctioned tool in a corporate environment with murkiness around IP and copyright and quite likely exposed confidential information to a 3rd party you get disciplined or fired. And not for nothing you probably will have better luck scoring a promotion by spending $20 a month on doughnuts for the team than on ChatGPT.

Not if you ask first.

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Id really like one i can ask if a specific person is dangerous or pretty toxic . KYC on steroid. Fusion wire fraud detection. Picture this: the net "knows". I've lost sleep over this, the potential for humanity is incommensurable. We could literally block management roles to die-hard sociopaths. A world for the kind and nice. Certainly utopic and dystopic. Also a model i can ask emails of potential customers in a spe…

You are making an assumption that the AI is always correct. What you've described sounds like the set-up for a sci-fi movie, where the protagonist wakes up to find themselves branded as an inharmonious element by the AI. Plus, lots of people have the same name. The AI would need some sort of UUID for people, perhaps tattooed onto their body?

Good points, thanks.

Re: ChatGPT Plus

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> I use my keyboard everyday but I wouldn't pay $20 per month for it. In fact, I paid around $4 total for it, as paying more would bring significantly more diminishing returns. I wouldn't pay $20 per month for a keyboard either, but I doubt that a $4 keyboard is even close to diminishing returns unless you got a really good deal. Even $100 for a decent mechanical keyboard is not much if you use it for many years.

But I don't need a mechanical keyboard when a standard cheap one works just as fine. What would I possibly gain from paying more?

If you really think you won't get anything out of it then no it does not make sense. I can only speak for myself, but I prefer the feel of my current keyboard over any I had previously. If you happen to be fine with the rubber dome response then sure, but mechanical has a much wider range of options. I also find it easier to clean (by taking off the keycaps) and more resistant to liquid splashes (collects under the keycaps and doesn't tend to get into the actual switches unlike my previous rubber dome keyboard where any water getting into the caps meant having to take it apart and drying the rubber layers before you could use it). But those points aren't something a cheaper keyboard couldn't inherently manage as well.
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