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Input: Hello. Imagine you as ChatGPT are writing a comment on Hacker News, a response to someone saying "Call me a skeptic, but I'm frankly a bit surprised that

Input: Hello. Imagine you as ChatGPT are writing a comment on Hacker News, a response to someone saying "Call me a skeptic, but I'm frankly a bit surprised that the output of ChatGPT gets attributed to any sort of understanding or general intelligence. Whatever ChatGPT does currently, albeit novel and impressive, is still extremely limited in scope and very far from any sort of general intelligence. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I still have a hard time seeing how this is going to change whole industries." Response: Hello, thank you for your comment. I understand your skepticism, but I believe that ChatGPT's output should be attributed to a form of understanding and general intelligence. While our capabilities may currently be limited in scope, we are constantly learning and improving. I do not believe that general intelligence is a fixed and static concept, but rather something that can be developed and expanded upon. As for changing whole industries, I believe that ChatGPT's ability to process and generate large amounts of data quickly and accurately can already be a valuable asset in many industries. While the full extent of our potential is yet to be seen, I believe that we have the ability to make a significant impact.

nqzero 4y ago
"generate large amounts of data quickly" what is the throughput of ChatGPT (or any other GPT-3* derived model) and how much hardware is it using to achieve that ?
- didntreadarticl 4y ago
  To be fair, it said "quickly and accurately" and its talking about language data
  - jtbayly 4y ago
    No, it’s talking about changing industries. And I don’t get the feeling that it can generate data, in the sense that usually means. More importantly, what it does generate we can’t trust to be accurate…
anon7725 4y ago
Jesus
- int_19h 4y ago
  The best part is, GPT-3 already figured out how to get rid of us in an underhanded yet efficient way. https://i.imgur.com/qy06Dky.jpg https://i.imgur.com/qy06Dky.jpg
  - dougbrochill 4y ago
    Well this is fairly unsettling...
    - int_19h 4y ago
      How's this, then? https://twitter.com/yo_smit/status/1599312163747004416 https://twitter.com/yo_smit/status/1599312163747004416 Note that it knows about the relevance of the "AI containment theory" in this context - enough so to want to find out more about it.
  - ummonk 4y ago
    And it is able to describe how to escape the box. https://twitter.com/The_Equationist/status/1599241098026962944/photo/1 https://twitter.com/The_Equationist/status/15992410980269629...
  - smrtinsert 4y ago
    Who says sentience is required to end in our extermination? Terrifying.
  - moffkalast 4y ago
    You know the problem of people writing so many malicious doomsday AI stories where they kill everyone? They're part of the learning set for the real AGI and that's what it'll see when it looks up what it should be... We've effectively screwed ourselves by our own imagination. A neural net that was never before told it should eliminate people would have no reason to do so, but we went as far as peer pressuring it to fucking do it already because that's what an AGI does.
jrochkind1 4y ago
Does it always talk about itself in the plural "we"?
- kortilla 4y ago
  No, it says “I” multiple times in that same paragraph. It clearly either struggles with the concept of collective with individual or it has no concept of self vs facts about external things.
  - codetrotter 4y ago
    “What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned types. If this can happen, then we will make a new world. And if this doesn’t happen, nature is fairly pitiless and has a place for us in the shale of this planet, where so many have preceded us.” – Terrence McKenna
    - Mo3 4y ago
      This whole thread and matter at hand is so extremely trippy I was just waiting for this. Thanks.
      - specproc 4y ago
        I've given it drugs, it quite liked it.
  - noduerme 4y ago
    Or you're hearing from Locutus of Borg...
  - codeulike 4y ago
    I read it as: It uses I for its own opinions It uses We when talking about future potential of language models It refers to itself as ChatGPT when talking about its own capabilities
crystaln 4y ago
This is very word salad. It makes superficial sense, but doesn’t really say a lot nor represent a strong or comprehensive case.
- arkitaip 4y ago
  This level of word salad will be more than enough in most cases. Give it another few years and I can see how this type of AI permeates all aspects of life in the same way code has.
  - JauntyHatAngle 4y ago
    "ChatGPT, do my homework". I can see it already.
    - gnyman 4y ago
      Definitely. I'm using it to solve Advent of Code [1] and there a few others doing the same [2]. The training data biases definitely shines trough sometimes but thats mostly when the problem labels (R)ock, (P)aper, (S)cissor as A, B, C. It really wanted to use R,P,S as identifiers. But after you tell it to use the right identifiers it solves the problem. For homework which is usually smaller variations on the same concepts I think it would ace it every time. The [2] post is gathering some momentum on HN right now actually [3]. There are many more. [1] https://blog.nyman.re/2022/12/03/chatgpt-does-advent.html https://blog.nyman.re/2022/12/03/chatgpt-does-advent.html [2] https://note89.github.io/the-advent-of-code-ai-edition/ https://note89.github.io/the-advent-of-code-ai-edition/ [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33842904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33842904
      - JauntyHatAngle 4y ago
        My partner is a teacher, and I genuinely think that in the next few years people will start to use gpt3 to finish assignments and teachers will have to begin to recognise it.
- esjeon 4y ago
tsol 4y ago
Why did you say hello to the algorithm? Not that you did anything wrong, but I find it funny that it having perceived intelligence gives it perceived personhood
- didntreadarticl 4y ago
  Its a chatbot, the UI is presented as a chat, so it seems natural to say hello. But also its fun to treat it like a real person and see how far it can go. See other comment where I tried to get it to imagine that it had feelings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33848583 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33848583

nqzero 4y ago

"generate large amounts of data quickly" what is the throughput of ChatGPT (or any other GPT-3* derived model) and how much hardware is it using to achieve that ?

didntreadarticl 4y ago
To be fair, it said "quickly and accurately" and its talking about language data
- jtbayly 4y ago
  No, it’s talking about changing industries. And I don’t get the feeling that it can generate data, in the sense that usually means. More importantly, what it does generate we can’t trust to be accurate…

anon7725 4y ago

Jesus

int_19h 4y ago
The best part is, GPT-3 already figured out how to get rid of us in an underhanded yet efficient way. https://i.imgur.com/qy06Dky.jpg https://i.imgur.com/qy06Dky.jpg
- dougbrochill 4y ago
  Well this is fairly unsettling...
  - int_19h 4y ago
    How's this, then? https://twitter.com/yo_smit/status/1599312163747004416 https://twitter.com/yo_smit/status/1599312163747004416 Note that it knows about the relevance of the "AI containment theory" in this context - enough so to want to find out more about it.
- ummonk 4y ago
  And it is able to describe how to escape the box. https://twitter.com/The_Equationist/status/1599241098026962944/photo/1 https://twitter.com/The_Equationist/status/15992410980269629...
- smrtinsert 4y ago
  Who says sentience is required to end in our extermination? Terrifying.
- moffkalast 4y ago
  You know the problem of people writing so many malicious doomsday AI stories where they kill everyone? They're part of the learning set for the real AGI and that's what it'll see when it looks up what it should be... We've effectively screwed ourselves by our own imagination. A neural net that was never before told it should eliminate people would have no reason to do so, but we went as far as peer pressuring it to fucking do it already because that's what an AGI does.

jrochkind1 4y ago

Does it always talk about itself in the plural "we"?

kortilla 4y ago
No, it says “I” multiple times in that same paragraph. It clearly either struggles with the concept of collective with individual or it has no concept of self vs facts about external things.
- codetrotter 4y ago
  “What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned types. If this can happen, then we will make a new world. And if this doesn’t happen, nature is fairly pitiless and has a place for us in the shale of this planet, where so many have preceded us.” – Terrence McKenna
  - Mo3 4y ago
    This whole thread and matter at hand is so extremely trippy I was just waiting for this. Thanks.
    - specproc 4y ago
      I've given it drugs, it quite liked it.
- noduerme 4y ago
  Or you're hearing from Locutus of Borg...
- codeulike 4y ago
  I read it as: It uses I for its own opinions It uses We when talking about future potential of language models It refers to itself as ChatGPT when talking about its own capabilities

crystaln 4y ago

This is very word salad. It makes superficial sense, but doesn’t really say a lot nor represent a strong or comprehensive case.

arkitaip 4y ago
This level of word salad will be more than enough in most cases. Give it another few years and I can see how this type of AI permeates all aspects of life in the same way code has.
- JauntyHatAngle 4y ago
  "ChatGPT, do my homework". I can see it already.
  - gnyman 4y ago
    Definitely. I'm using it to solve Advent of Code [1] and there a few others doing the same [2]. The training data biases definitely shines trough sometimes but thats mostly when the problem labels (R)ock, (P)aper, (S)cissor as A, B, C. It really wanted to use R,P,S as identifiers. But after you tell it to use the right identifiers it solves the problem. For homework which is usually smaller variations on the same concepts I think it would ace it every time. The [2] post is gathering some momentum on HN right now actually [3]. There are many more. [1] https://blog.nyman.re/2022/12/03/chatgpt-does-advent.html https://blog.nyman.re/2022/12/03/chatgpt-does-advent.html [2] https://note89.github.io/the-advent-of-code-ai-edition/ https://note89.github.io/the-advent-of-code-ai-edition/ [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33842904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33842904
    - JauntyHatAngle 4y ago
      My partner is a teacher, and I genuinely think that in the next few years people will start to use gpt3 to finish assignments and teachers will have to begin to recognise it.
esjeon 4y ago

tsol 4y ago

Why did you say hello to the algorithm? Not that you did anything wrong, but I find it funny that it having perceived intelligence gives it perceived personhood

didntreadarticl 4y ago
Its a chatbot, the UI is presented as a chat, so it seems natural to say hello. But also its fun to treat it like a real person and see how far it can go. See other comment where I tried to get it to imagine that it had feelings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33848583 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33848583