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"Don't worry, we'll just make sure it can only do GET commands, which are, per the HTTP spec, side-effect free and idempotent." [later] "Oh no." --- Ha-ha-o
by gwern 5y ago
"Don't worry, we'll just make sure it can only do GET commands, which are, per the HTTP spec, side-effect free and idempotent."
[later]
"Oh no."
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Ha-ha-only-serious joking aside, this is impressive. Early on in the API release, someone showed you could sort of make GPT-3 operate on text representations to put inside a web loop, but it made a lot of errors. This goes well beyond 'sort of'. It may not seem like 'predict the next word' gets you far, but turns out, it's a good starting point. ("Tool AIs want to be agent AIs.")