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Unleashed LLM’s will be the real societal shift. Especially once they move from being reactive to proactive — sending you an article it read about your favourit

Unleashed LLM’s will be the real societal shift. Especially once they move from being reactive to proactive — sending you an article it read about your favourite hobby, checking in to see how your day’s going, or indulging in some sexual fantasy you’ve never been able to mention to anyone else. It really does feel like we’re moments away from “Her” becoming a reality.

visarga 4y ago
> or indulging in some sexual fantasy you’ve never been able to mention to anyone else I'm wondering if it will use private storage for those memories. Will people try to hide stuff by wrapping it in sexual language?
- yellow_lead 4y ago
  No, this data will be sold to advertisers.
hn_throwaway_99 4y ago
> Especially once they move from being reactive to proactive Wonderful, my existing nightmare made worse. I'm already bombarded with spam, texts, slacks, emails, notifications, etc. That absolute last thing I want in this world is more ways for automated systems to demand my attention. Seriously, my vision of technical Nirvana is for everything to shut TF up.
- skygazer 4y ago
  I wouldn’t mind one triaging my email, voice mail can calls. Yesterday I just tested a stream of conscious rambling paragraph of things I need to do with chat GPT, then asked it to extract tasks, infer importance and interdependencies, and then enumerate a list of them. It had even grouped related things together, but I asked it to separate them, and it did. I really want to wire this up to Apple reminders.
  - aragilar 4y ago
    Gmail has had the "important" flag for ages, and that's done automatically. The issue is training the AI to work for your data (e.g. I find Gmail still hasn't picked up the differences in spam I get, and so some specific spam still going to my inbox, and some specific ham ends up in spam). Unfortunately, just because one provider provides a good AI, doesn't mean others will (and in a work context, you may be stuck with the bad one).
    - int_19h 4y ago
      GPT-3 has the API available for those who want it, and it can do fine tuning, so for OP's specific use case it feels like the only limit is the size of one's wallet.
- dilap 4y ago
  That's may be because the social IQ of current tech is essentially zero. It'll be a lot less annoying (but also a lot more insidiously dangerous) once it's smarter.
tempodox 4y ago
> indulging in some sexual fantasy you’ve never been able to mention to anyone else. Do you seriously believe that you would have any privacy using such a thing?
- Baeocystin 4y ago
  The cat's out of the bag. There's no way self-hostable versions don't come along, and soon.
  - Madmallard 4y ago
    You realize the monumental compute involved on the backend?
    - dns_snek 4y ago
      Bloom? This is just a general observation but I'm surprised everyone's forgotten about it this quickly. I haven't seen it mentioned in these sorts of discussions in a very long time.
  - root_axis 4y ago
    The hardware necessary for self-hosting definitely won't be in reach of most people any time soon.
    - tyfon 4y ago
      One day it will though. I think we will also see a lot of weights optimisation/pruning and model architecture optimisations that allow them to run on much less hardware.
      - Baeocystin 4y ago
        Like you say, we can self-host GPT-2 today. And Bloom is a large-scale open source LLM model available for anyone, and has been around for months. Look how rapidly the RAM/hardware requirements for the diffusion generators has dropped over the past couple of months, now that they passed the critical interest threshold. I see no reason not to expect similar here.
ykonstant 4y ago
>or indulging in some sexual fantasy you’ve never been able to mention to anyone else. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
andsoitis 4y ago
> It really does feel like we’re moments away from “Her” becoming a reality. the smoke and mirrors is working
barking_biscuit 4y ago
>It really does feel like we’re moments away from “Her” becoming a reality. I hope not. That movie was boring and terrible.

visarga 4y ago

> or indulging in some sexual fantasy you’ve never been able to mention to anyone else I'm wondering if it will use private storage for those memories. Will people try to hide stuff by wrapping it in sexual language?

yellow_lead 4y ago
No, this data will be sold to advertisers.

hn_throwaway_99 4y ago

> Especially once they move from being reactive to proactive Wonderful, my existing nightmare made worse. I'm already bombarded with spam, texts, slacks, emails, notifications, etc. That absolute last thing I want in this world is more ways for automated systems to demand my attention. Seriously, my vision of technical Nirvana is for everything to shut TF up.

skygazer 4y ago
I wouldn’t mind one triaging my email, voice mail can calls. Yesterday I just tested a stream of conscious rambling paragraph of things I need to do with chat GPT, then asked it to extract tasks, infer importance and interdependencies, and then enumerate a list of them. It had even grouped related things together, but I asked it to separate them, and it did. I really want to wire this up to Apple reminders.
- aragilar 4y ago
  Gmail has had the "important" flag for ages, and that's done automatically. The issue is training the AI to work for your data (e.g. I find Gmail still hasn't picked up the differences in spam I get, and so some specific spam still going to my inbox, and some specific ham ends up in spam). Unfortunately, just because one provider provides a good AI, doesn't mean others will (and in a work context, you may be stuck with the bad one).
  - int_19h 4y ago
    GPT-3 has the API available for those who want it, and it can do fine tuning, so for OP's specific use case it feels like the only limit is the size of one's wallet.
dilap 4y ago
That's may be because the social IQ of current tech is essentially zero. It'll be a lot less annoying (but also a lot more insidiously dangerous) once it's smarter.

tempodox 4y ago

> indulging in some sexual fantasy you’ve never been able to mention to anyone else. Do you seriously believe that you would have any privacy using such a thing?

Baeocystin 4y ago
The cat's out of the bag. There's no way self-hostable versions don't come along, and soon.
- Madmallard 4y ago
  You realize the monumental compute involved on the backend?
  - dns_snek 4y ago
    Bloom? This is just a general observation but I'm surprised everyone's forgotten about it this quickly. I haven't seen it mentioned in these sorts of discussions in a very long time.
- root_axis 4y ago
  The hardware necessary for self-hosting definitely won't be in reach of most people any time soon.
  - tyfon 4y ago
    One day it will though. I think we will also see a lot of weights optimisation/pruning and model architecture optimisations that allow them to run on much less hardware.
    - Baeocystin 4y ago
      Like you say, we can self-host GPT-2 today. And Bloom is a large-scale open source LLM model available for anyone, and has been around for months. Look how rapidly the RAM/hardware requirements for the diffusion generators has dropped over the past couple of months, now that they passed the critical interest threshold. I see no reason not to expect similar here.

ykonstant 4y ago

>or indulging in some sexual fantasy you’ve never been able to mention to anyone else. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

andsoitis 4y ago

> It really does feel like we’re moments away from “Her” becoming a reality. the smoke and mirrors is working

barking_biscuit 4y ago

>It really does feel like we’re moments away from “Her” becoming a reality. I hope not. That movie was boring and terrible.