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Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by ohthehugemanate »

chatmasta wrote: post #353
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…

Pshhh... I think it's awesome. The faster we build the future, the better. What annoys me is this is just further evidence that their "AI Safety" is nothing but lip-service, when they're clearly moving fast and breaking things. Just the other day they had a bug where you could see the chat history of other users! (Which, btw, they're now claiming in a modal on login was due to a "bug in an open source library" - anyo…

Nit:

> in the meantime Microsoft fired their AI Ethics team

Actually that story turned out to be a nothingburger. Microsoft has greatly expanded their AI ethics initiative, so there are members embedded directly in product groups, and also expanded the greater Office of Responsible AI, responsible for ensuring they follow their "AI Principles."

The layoffs impacted fewer than 10 people on one, relatively old part of the overall AI ethics initiative... and I understand through insider sources they were actually folded into other parts of AI ethics anyway.

None of which invalidates your actual point, with which I agree.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by valine »

jpalomaki wrote: post #105

Add a simple plugin that ChatGPT can use to save and retrieve data (=memory) and tell it how to use it. Then you have your own computer with ChatGPT acting as CPU.

OpenAI already has it, it’s part of the retrieval plugin:

“A notable feature of the Retrieval Plugin is its capacity to provide ChatGPT with memory. By utilizing the plugin's upsert endpoint, ChatGPT can save snippets from the conversation to the vector database for later reference (only when prompted to do so by the user). This functionality contributes to a more context-aware chat experience by allowing ChatGPT to remember and retrieve information from previous conversations.”

https://github.com/openai/chatgpt-retrieval-plugin

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by mindwok »

93po wrote: post #469
hoot wrote: post #295

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Where the hell do we even go from here? The logical step seems to be to start studying AI now but even Sam Altman has said that he’s thinking that ML engineers will be the first to get automated. Can’t find source but I think it was one of his interviews on YouTube before chatgpt came out.

In terms of job security, the trades is the first obvious answer that comes to mind for me. It will be a while yet until we have robots that replace plumbing and electrical wiring in your building.

I’ve landed in the same place. Feels like the more your job interacts with people or the physical world, the safer you are. Everything else is going to undergo a massive paradigm shift.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by worldsayshi »

1attice wrote: post #189
worldsayshi wrote: post #131

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Haha, yeah. Most of my opinions about this I derive from Daniel Dennett's Intuition Pumps.

The other thing that keeps coming up for me is that I've begun thinking of emotions (the topic of my undergrad phil thesis), especially social emotions, as basically RLHF set up either by past selves (feeling guilty about eating that candy bar because past-me had vowed not to) or by other people (feeling guilty about going through the 10-max checkout aisle when I have 12 items, etc.) Like, correct me if I'm wrong but…

I'm not sure AI has 'feelings' but it definitely seems they have 'intuitions'. Are feelings and intuitions kind of the same?

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by birracerveza »

Riverheart wrote: post #631
bulbosaur123 wrote: post #583

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False equivalence. Sea level raise is unequivocally harmful. While everyone getting Einstein in a pocket is damn awesome and incredibly useful. How can this be bad?

Because there’s a high likelihood that that’s not at all how this technology is going to be spread amongst the population, or all countries and this technology is going to be way more than Einstein in a pocket. How do you even structure society around that? What about all the malicious people in the world. Now they have Einsteins. Great, nothing can go wrong there.

>What about all the malicious people in the world. Now they have Einsteins.

Luckily, so do you.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by SergeAx »

jehb wrote: post #370
chatmasta wrote: post #353

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Pshhh... I think it's awesome. The faster we build the future, the better. What annoys me is this is just further evidence that their "AI Safety" is nothing but lip-service, when they're clearly moving fast and breaking things. Just the other day they had a bug where you could see the chat history of other users! (Which, btw, they're now claiming in a modal on login was due to a "bug in an open source library" - anyo…

> The faster we build the future, the better. Why? Getting to "the future" isn't a goal in and of itself. It's just a different state with a different set of problems, some of which we've proven that we're not prepared to anticipate or respond to before they cause serious harm.

The faster we build the future, the sooner we hit our KPIs, receive bonuses, go public on NASDAQ and cash our options.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by ricochet11 »

int_19h wrote: post #629
Thorentis wrote: post #580

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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…

Working at a chinese university. Everyone (students and teachers) using chatgpt, officially openai don't let you access from china. but everyone has vpns, even the university internet is all behind a hong kong vpn (as google etc is useful).

It does all feel like weird theatre that just makes anything american slightly annoying to use. So theres local startups and researchers working on replicating these things and making them easier to access.

If the usa dont want to make products available to the whole world out some combination of fear and patriotism, then china will instead.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by parineum »

megablast wrote: post #669
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.

> Highways democratized the freedom of transportation. What a ridiculous idea. Highways restrict movement to those with a license, a car, and do not care about pollution or anyone around them.

In no way did highways restrict movement. They may have not given everyone the exact same freedom of movement but it did, in fact, increase the freedom of movement of the populaces as a whole.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by qikInNdOutReply »

chatmasta wrote: post #418
jehb wrote: post #370

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> The faster we build the future, the better. Why? Getting to "the future" isn't a goal in and of itself. It's just a different state with a different set of problems, some of which we've proven that we're not prepared to anticipate or respond to before they cause serious harm.

When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress? It's simply an unrealistic proposition, especially when the costs of doing it are so low that anyone with sufficient GPU power and knowledge of the latest research can get pretty close to the cutting edge. So the best we can hope for is that someone ethical is the first to advance that technological progress. I hope you wouldn't ad…

Japan banned guns until 1800, they had them since 16xx something. The truth is we can not even ban technology. It does not work. Humanity as a whole does not exist. Political coherence as a whole does not exist. Wave aside the fig leave that is the UN and you can see the anarchic tribal squable of the species tribes.

And even those tribes are not crisis stable. Bad times and it all becomes a anarchic mess. And that is were we are headed. A future were a chaotic humanity falls apart with a multi-crisis around it, while still wielding the tools of a pre crisis era. Nuclear powerplants and nukes. AIdrones wielded by ISIS.

What if a unstoppable force (exponential progress) hits a unmoveable object(humanitys retardations).. stay along for the ride.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by JaDogg »

sho_hn wrote: post #333
stnmtn wrote: post #307

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I don't have words for how much this seems like a relatively trivial thing to do now, and 1 year ago I would have laughed at someone if they suggested this was a possibility in 5 years I'm feeling a mixture of feelings that I can't begin to describe

The Star Trek computer is here! :-)

But not the Star Trek economy / elimination of money. So some of us will starve while we get there. :(
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