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Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by dustymcp »

micromacrofoot wrote: post #764
nwienert wrote: post #442

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We have a ton of protection laws around all sorts of dangerous technology, this is a super naive take. You can't buy tons of weapon technology, nuclear materials, aerosolized compounds, pesticides. These are all highly regulated and illegal pieces of technology for the better . In general the liberal position of progress = good is wrong in many cases, and I'll be thankful to see AI get neutered. If anything treat it…

how do you regulate something that many people can already run on their home gpu? how much software has ever been successfully banned from distribution after release?

They do like to try :(

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by vntok »

phatfish wrote: post #534
koheripbal wrote: post #477

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A railway would have created a gov't/corporate monopoly on human transport. Highways democratized the freedom of transportation.

TIL, no one moved anywhere until American highways were built.

They moved slower, yes.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by thalassophobia »

aiappreciator wrote: post #612
ipaddr wrote: post #426

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Some cultures like the Amish said were stopping here.

The Amish are dependent on a technological powerhouse that is the US to survive. They are pacifists themselves, but they are grateful that the US allows them their way of life, they'll be extinct a long time ago if they arrived in China/Middle East/Russia etc. That's why the Amish are not interested in advertising their techno-primitivism. It works incredibly well for them, they raise giant happy families isolated fr…

>they'd be extinct a long time ago if they arrived in China/Middle East/Russia etc.

There is actually a group similar to the Amish in Russia, it's called the Old Believers. They formed after a schism within the Orthodox church and fled persecution to Siberia. Unlike the Amish, many of the Old Believers aren't really integrated with the modern world as they still live where their ancestors settled in. So groups that refuse to technologically progress do exist, and can do so even under persecution and changing economic regimes.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by haha69 »

roca wrote: post #530
mk_stjames wrote: post #277

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?

I have seen this argument a bunch of times and I am confused by what exactly you mean. Everyone is influencing the future of humanity (and in that sense gambling with it?) What gives company X the right to build feature Y? What gives person A the right to post B (for all you know it can be the starting point of a chain of actions that bring down humanity)

Are you suggesting that beyond a threshold all actions someone/something does should be subject to vote/review by everyone? And how do you define/formalise this threshold?

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by n3rv »

wernst wrote: post #759
infoseek12 wrote: post #733

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I think ChatGPT plugins may be what solves this problems. Does IMDB have an API?

Sites like IMDB feel like they might be in a pickle. What happens to their ad revenue if they expose their API and no one navigates to their site anymore?

API access as a service here we come!

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by valine »

not2b wrote: post #617

The idea that a GPT-n will gain sentience and take over the world seems less of a threat than if a GPT-n with revolutionary capabilities and a very restricted number of people that have unrestricted access to it help its unscrupulous owners to take over the world. The owners might even decide that as "effective altruists" it's their duty to take over to steer the planet in the right direction, justifying anything the…

OpenAI has a moat, but not that large of a moat. Anyone with a couple million dollars can train a competitive LLM.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by IanCal »

celestialcheese wrote: post #95
Karrot_Kream wrote: post #80

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LangChain can probably just call out to the new ChatGPT plugins. It's already very modular.

If they open it up, possibly. But honestly, building your own tools is _super_ easy with langchain. - write a simple prompt that describes what the tool does, and - provide it a python function to execute when the LLM decides that the question it's asked matches the tool description. That's basically it. https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/agents/ex...

Open what up? The plugins are just a public manifest file pointing to an openapi spec. It's just a public formalised version of what langchain asks for.
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