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At least here, they are specifically training it on just educational public sources. Seems like a respectable usage of the tech.

Kiro 4y ago
What do you mean "at least here"? What's wrong with other usage? They are using OpenAI so they haven't trained it themselves and is just inputting the Wikipedia article as a prompt. I don't see how that is more respectable than literally every other service built on OpenAI.
- dbsmith83 4y ago
  I think the point is that it should only be used to summarize wikipedia information, and thus harder to use for other ethically murky purposes? But that remains to be seen; I haven't tried it yet.
- MadcapJake 4y ago
  Right in the release: DuckAssist answers questions by scanning a specific set of sources — for now that’s usually Wikipedia, and occasionally related sites like Britannica — using DuckDuckGo’s active indexing. Because we’re using natural language technology from OpenAI and Anthropic to summarize what we find in Wikipedia, these answers should be more directly responsive to your actual question than traditional search results or other Instant Answers.
  - Kiro 4y ago
    You misunderstand how this works. They do not train it on Wikipedia. The Wikipedia article is part of the prompt. You can do this yourself by copy-pasting a Wikipedia article into ChatGPT and ask a question about it. The underlying LLM is still GPT-3 and trained on everything on internet.
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tantalor 4y ago
No, the article doesn't say how its trained.
- MadcapJake 4y ago
  Yes it does: If you enter a question that can be answered by Wikipedia into our search box, DuckAssist may appear and use AI natural language technology to anonymously generate a brief, sourced summary of what it finds in Wikipedia — right above our regular private search results.
  - tantalor 4y ago
    That just means the initial prompt says something like, "You are an expert Wikipedia research assistant. You can only reference material found on Wikipedia. Try your best to help the user by giving summaries of Wikipedia content. Do not reference material from other websites!" The model is still trained on a broad corpus like ChatGPT3, i.e., the Internet. The corpus of Wikipedia alone probably isn't enough training data.

Kiro 4y ago

What do you mean "at least here"? What's wrong with other usage? They are using OpenAI so they haven't trained it themselves and is just inputting the Wikipedia article as a prompt. I don't see how that is more respectable than literally every other service built on OpenAI.

dbsmith83 4y ago
I think the point is that it should only be used to summarize wikipedia information, and thus harder to use for other ethically murky purposes? But that remains to be seen; I haven't tried it yet.
MadcapJake 4y ago
Right in the release: DuckAssist answers questions by scanning a specific set of sources — for now that’s usually Wikipedia, and occasionally related sites like Britannica — using DuckDuckGo’s active indexing. Because we’re using natural language technology from OpenAI and Anthropic to summarize what we find in Wikipedia, these answers should be more directly responsive to your actual question than traditional search results or other Instant Answers.
- Kiro 4y ago
  You misunderstand how this works. They do not train it on Wikipedia. The Wikipedia article is part of the prompt. You can do this yourself by copy-pasting a Wikipedia article into ChatGPT and ask a question about it. The underlying LLM is still GPT-3 and trained on everything on internet.

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tantalor 4y ago

No, the article doesn't say how its trained.

MadcapJake 4y ago
Yes it does: If you enter a question that can be answered by Wikipedia into our search box, DuckAssist may appear and use AI natural language technology to anonymously generate a brief, sourced summary of what it finds in Wikipedia — right above our regular private search results.
- tantalor 4y ago
  That just means the initial prompt says something like, "You are an expert Wikipedia research assistant. You can only reference material found on Wikipedia. Try your best to help the user by giving summaries of Wikipedia content. Do not reference material from other websites!" The model is still trained on a broad corpus like ChatGPT3, i.e., the Internet. The corpus of Wikipedia alone probably isn't enough training data.