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Re: I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions

#91
I fear the day AI will give superhuman consistent correct answers and nobody will be able to determine why it is right or how the correct answer was found.

Maybe someday we'll get an answer from a machine which superhumanly mostly correct and we'll be unable to tell if it is right or wrong. If it is a question whose answer will influence important decisions, considering the machine answer will be close to a form of religion.

Re: I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions

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The latest version of gpt-3 spooked me the other day with: Me: Can here you here still here understand here what here I here am here asking here if here I here put here words here in here between? Gpt: Yes, I can understand what you are asking if you put words in between. Me: What was the word that I put in between? Gpt: The word that you put in between is "here."

Scary. If it improves a bit more, people will start questioning if the machine has soul or rights.

Re: I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions

#93

The latest version of gpt-3 spooked me the other day with: Me: Can here you here still here understand here what here I here am here asking here if here I here put here words here in here between? Gpt: Yes, I can understand what you are asking if you put words in between. Me: What was the word that I put in between? Gpt: The word that you put in between is "here."

I tried this with the new open source GPT NeoX 20B model on GooseAI playground and it suceeded too:

Q: Can here you here still here understand here what here I here am here asking here if here I here put here words here in here between?

A: Yes.

Q: What was the word that I put in between?

A: The word was "here."

It's capable of other languages as well, although not quite as fluent.

Q: Kannst du auch Deutsch sprechen? Falls ja, was ist dein Lieblingswort?

A: Ja, ich kann Deutsch sprechen. Mein Lieblingswort ist: "Wir sind die Weltmeister!"

Re: I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions

#94

When you toss “2241 + 19873 =” into an applet that shows you the default tokenization scheme GPT-3 uses, you get this: (224)(1)( +)( 198)(73)( =) I’ve heard it remarked before that, while tokenization is obviously an unavoidable part of a model with an architecture like GPT, this is a very silly way of tokenizing number strings for the purposes of learning or doing arithmetic. Indeed, I think a lot of GPT-3’s puzzlin…

When I do mental arithmetic my brain frequently tokenizes into digit pairs or triples if I can recognize pairs and triples that have specific properties. "224" is actually a really nice object to recognize because it's 7 * 32, and if you can recognize other multiples of 32 it frequently gives you shortcuts. It's less useful for addition because you would need to get lucky and get a multiple of 32 (or 7) on both sides…

Sure - I think we all learn tricks like that. But you learned that pattern of tokenization, it wasn't arbitrarily foisted on you.

What GPTs have to deal with is more like, you are fed an arithmetic problem via colored slips of paper, and you just have to remember that this particular shade of chartreuse means "224", which you happen to have memorized equals 7 * 32, etc., but then the next slip of paper is off-white which means "1", and now you have to mentally shift everything ...

Re: I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions

#95

The latest version of gpt-3 spooked me the other day with: Me: Can here you here still here understand here what here I here am here asking here if here I here put here words here in here between? Gpt: Yes, I can understand what you are asking if you put words in between. Me: What was the word that I put in between? Gpt: The word that you put in between is "here."

Scary. If it improves a bit more, people will start questioning if the machine has soul or rights.

My kids already debate if it is wrong to tell OK Google to shutup.

Re: I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions

#96

The latest version of gpt-3 spooked me the other day with: Me: Can here you here still here understand here what here I here am here asking here if here I here put here words here in here between? Gpt: Yes, I can understand what you are asking if you put words in between. Me: What was the word that I put in between? Gpt: The word that you put in between is "here."

Scary. If it improves a bit more, people will start questioning if the machine has soul or rights.

It's interesting, in the forums for the beta program there have been already been a few people making posts where they're convinced that the AI is conscious. That's never really been something I've thought about much since I know a little about how it works, but I could totally see how someone who didn't have as much context for how GPT-3 works could see it as some sort of sentience.

https://community.openai.com/t/a-conversation-with-alec-a-co... https://community.openai.com/t/creepy-ai-behavior/10195 https://community.openai.com/t/where-to-watch-what-the-ai-wa...

Re: I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions

#97

The latest version of gpt-3 spooked me the other day with: Me: Can here you here still here understand here what here I here am here asking here if here I here put here words here in here between? Gpt: Yes, I can understand what you are asking if you put words in between. Me: What was the word that I put in between? Gpt: The word that you put in between is "here."

I tried this with the new open source GPT NeoX 20B model on GooseAI playground and it suceeded too: Q: Can here you here still here understand here what here I here am here asking here if here I here put here words here in here between? A: Yes. Q: What was the word that I put in between? A: The word was "here." It's capable of other languages as well, although not quite as fluent. Q: Kannst du auch Deutsch sprechen?…

This makes me wonder about a variant of the Turing test that I don't think I've seen explored. How would a conversational AI prove beyond reasonable doubt that it is an AI?

Re: I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions

#98
I discovered something like this in real-world usage. I’ve have GitHub Copilot running in VSCode and I’ve been experimenting with how it works when doing plain text accounting (using ledger / hledger).

The ledger files are somewhat “code”-like so it’s been super interesting to see how it works. The short answer: it works really quite well! ..except for the math part :)

I have a long ledger of transactions, and I can now give Copilot a comment like: “Jan 1, 2022 +100 from consulting income” and it (GPT-3) will generate a nearly perfect ledger entry, debiting from income and crediting the right bank account.

But the arithmetic is always wrong (ledger has an option for you to keep a running balance as a check). There’s the occasional moment where it gets the balance adjustment correct, but almost every time the results are similar to this post.

Re: I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions

#99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scary. If it improves a bit more, people will start questioning if the machine has soul or rights.

My kids already debate if it is wrong to tell OK Google to shutup.

you have got a great bunch there :)

Re: I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions

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The latest version of gpt-3 spooked me the other day with: Me: Can here you here still here understand here what here I here am here asking here if here I here put here words here in here between? Gpt: Yes, I can understand what you are asking if you put words in between. Me: What was the word that I put in between? Gpt: The word that you put in between is "here."

I tried this with the new open source GPT NeoX 20B model on GooseAI playground and it suceeded too: Q: Can here you here still here understand here what here I here am here asking here if here I here put here words here in here between? A: Yes. Q: What was the word that I put in between? A: The word was "here." It's capable of other languages as well, although not quite as fluent. Q: Kannst du auch Deutsch sprechen?…

Is that supposed to be a reference to “Wir Sind Die Roboter”? Feels awkward in German, usually we would say “Wir sind Weltmeister”. Also, it’s not a word, but if it were a human in casual conversation, it wouldn’t be a weird reply. Spooky stuff…
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