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A chat bot isn’t allowed to use external APIs or present things besides conversational text? Seems short sighted. Todays chat bots should be considered dumb pr

by nomel 4y ago

A chat bot isn’t allowed to use external APIs or present things besides conversational text? Seems short sighted. Todays chat bots should be considered dumb prototypes, when thinking about even the near future.

christmaspizza 4y ago
Yeah this is a weird take. Chat bots are improving rapidly, increasingly used in real applications. With more targeted applications, like a "search engine" for coding, I could see these being very powerful. It's weird to write an article discounting that based on how the current ChatGPT application, a research beta, operates and throwing out some fear-based morality.
shagie 4y ago
Today's chatbots are complex language models based on the language that they were trained on. They are very clever at transforming data into language, or one language into another... but they work on language and not knowledge. It would be interesting to see a language model identify the necessary resources to fulfill a query which is then fed back into it to transform the dry data back into language. Identify if the question is looking for weather, sports scores, unit conversion, general knowlege, or business information for the following requests: 1. "What is the high temperature tommorow?" 2. "Did the packers win last night?" 3. "What time does Walmart open?" 4. "What will it rain next week?" 5. "Where can I buy an umbrella?" 6. "How many feet are in a mile?" Question classification: To which GPT responded: 1. Weather 2. Sports Scores 3. Business Information 4. Weather 5. Business Information 6. Unit Conversion Using this, it should then be sent to a system that knows how to do those queries and return back data. However, doing that integration isn't the place for today's chatbots - or at least not the place for OpenAI to be trying to do all the possible things. Those queries also cost money and become harder to bill for.
- lerchmo 4y ago
  I mean you can give chatgtp API docs and it will write the actual code to find the answers.
  - shagie 4y ago
    Do you trust it to write that bug free? Where are you putting the API key to access those services? Where does it run the code that it wrote and how does it provision those resources?

by nomel 4y ago

christmaspizza 4y ago

Yeah this is a weird take. Chat bots are improving rapidly, increasingly used in real applications. With more targeted applications, like a "search engine" for coding, I could see these being very powerful. It's weird to write an article discounting that based on how the current ChatGPT application, a research beta, operates and throwing out some fear-based morality.

shagie 4y ago

Today's chatbots are complex language models based on the language that they were trained on. They are very clever at transforming data into language, or one language into another... but they work on language and not knowledge. It would be interesting to see a language model identify the necessary resources to fulfill a query which is then fed back into it to transform the dry data back into language. Identify if the question is looking for weather, sports scores, unit conversion, general knowlege, or business information for the following requests: 1. "What is the high temperature tommorow?" 2. "Did the packers win last night?" 3. "What time does Walmart open?" 4. "What will it rain next week?" 5. "Where can I buy an umbrella?" 6. "How many feet are in a mile?" Question classification: To which GPT responded: 1. Weather 2. Sports Scores 3. Business Information 4. Weather 5. Business Information 6. Unit Conversion Using this, it should then be sent to a system that knows how to do those queries and return back data. However, doing that integration isn't the place for today's chatbots - or at least not the place for OpenAI to be trying to do all the possible things. Those queries also cost money and become harder to bill for.

lerchmo 4y ago
I mean you can give chatgtp API docs and it will write the actual code to find the answers.
- shagie 4y ago
  Do you trust it to write that bug free? Where are you putting the API key to access those services? Where does it run the code that it wrote and how does it provision those resources?