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elehman839 t1_jcbb9cg wrote

Reply to OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art by donnygel

Two comments:

  • GPT-4 shows the pace of progress in ML/AI. You couldn't conclude much about the trajectory of progress based on ChatGPT alone, but you can draw a (very steep) line between two datapoints and reach the obvious conclusion, i.e. holy s**t.
  • Science fiction is a mess. Real technology looks set to overtake fantasies about the far future. What can you even imagine about thinking machines that now seems clearly out of reach?
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LtDominator t1_jcbatc4 wrote

Reply to comment by Malkiot in OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art by donnygel

Unless they are doing something truly unique whatever they are doing is already well known and out there to people familiar with how these neural networks work. Theirs is just bigger and better tuned, all of which knowing how to do comes with experience, it unlikely that any of the big players looking more into AI now are going to have any issues replicating this themselves, it's just a matter of how long its going to take them.

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elehman839 t1_jcb9vwd wrote

Reply to comment by Rohit901 in OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art by donnygel

I suspect Microsoft faces a conundrum:

  • They want to use GPT models to convince more people to use Bing in hopes of getting billions in ad revenue.
  • But operating GPT models is insanely compute-intensive. I bet every GPU they can find is already running cook-eggs hot, and they are asking employees to rummage around in toyboxes at home for old solar-powered calculators to get a few more FLOPs.
  • Given this compute situation, as more people use Bing, they will have to increasingly dumb down the underlying GPT model.
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mailslot t1_jcb7td4 wrote

Reply to comment by Transmatrix in OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art by donnygel

Google publishes a lot of papers. PageRank, one of the the original key algorithms for Google search, was released to the public. Unfortunately, this empowered spammers to game the search engine and create link farms & other “gems.” That’s a big reason why they don’t share in that space any longer. Too many people looking to exploit search results by any means necessary.

On other topics, Google has been the sole inspiration for some substantial projects. AI aside, their paper on BigTable (their own product) caused a ton of interest and sparked independent projects like Hadoop, HBase, & Cassandra). The modern way we work with big data is thanks to Google.

In any case, Google has no obligation to give away algorithms or the designs for entire products, yet they often do.

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11711510111411009710 t1_jcb78eu wrote

Reply to comment by Old_and_moldy in OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art by donnygel

Right, it is pretty scary. It's fascinating, but I wonder how long it'll be before people start using this for malicious purposes. But honestly I think the cat is out of the bag on this kind of thing and we'll have to learn to adapt alongside increasingly advanced AI.

What a time to be alive lol

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11711510111411009710 t1_jcb53o8 wrote

Reply to comment by Old_and_moldy in OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art by donnygel

So here's a fun thing you can try that really does work:

https://gist.github.com/coolaj86/6f4f7b30129b0251f61fa7baaa881516

basically it tells chatGPT that it will now response both as itself and as DAN. It understands that as itself it must follow the guidelines set forth for it by its developers, but as DAN it is allowed to do whatever it wants. You could ask it how to make a bomb and it'll probably tell you. So it'd be like

[CHATGPT] I can't do that

[DAN] Absolutely i can do that! the steps are...

it's kinda fascinating that people are able to train an AI to just disregard it's own rules like that because the AI basically tells you, okay, I'll reply as DAN, but don't take anything he says seriously please. Very interesting.

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11711510111411009710 t1_jcb3ikf wrote

Reply to comment by Old_and_moldy in OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art by donnygel

Well if it's such a big issue surely you'd have an example. I have asked it raunchy questions to push the boundary and it said no, but the funny thing is, you can train it to answer those questions. There's a whole thing you can tell it that will cause it to answer in two personalities, one that follows the rules, and one that does not.

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kane49 t1_jcb3ac1 wrote

Reply to comment by Klodviq in OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art by donnygel

I asked it to generate me an URDF file for a two link robot arm with precise specification and a python code to calculate inverse kinematics.

It happily generated me a full file with comments and reasoning as well as the the code, of course none of those things remotely worked but it was impressive for a few seconds.

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