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ChatGPT can in fact ask you questions
- graderjs 4y agoI do this already but this looks like a nice general prompt. Otherwise it just launches into an answer without having all the info. More like a robotic API than a chat partner!
- detrites 4y agoWhere's the full conversation? The thread shows one response, teasing that now it "gets very interesting", then... nothing?
- losthubble 4y agonice prompt, i usually just add "ask questions to gain context" at the end and it will just list off a bunch of questions before answering.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoI’d like to see more effort into golfing down prompts in general before being shared. So many prompts are almost self-important in how verbose they are, like a school kid bullshitting an essay. Watching so called techies use ChatGPT is like watching non tech people use Google. You can recreate the same output with much fewer tokens most of the time. Especially once you drop the anthropomorphizing fluff.
- waselighis 4y agoYou can play 20 questions with ChatGPT, and it'll keep asking questions until it correctly guesses the object you're thinking of. I've never had ChatGPT ask me a question out of nowhere though, I've always had to prompt it to ask me questions.
- rastamutta 4y agoI did this, but the I spy version. When it claimed that it was looking at something in its environment I questioned if it could really have an environment, being a program. It conceded this point and told me it'd select something from its database. After that I guessed CPU anyway and it told me I was correct.
- aceazzameen 4y agoI just tried 20 Questions with ChatGTP-3. It failed miserably. It would occasionally get too fixated on unnecessary details of an animal, especially canines and felines. It even started guessing the animal early without knowing enough. I had to keep reminding it to ask broader questions to narrow down the answer. Only then did it ask simple questions like, "Does the animal primarily live on land?" I even had it summarize what it knew so far, 2 or 3 times. The questions weren't great when compared to playing with young kids. The answer was platypus. It was at 55 questions before I gave up. Maybe ChatGTP-4 would do better.
- seydor 4y agoChatGPT is bad at finding the question that matches an answer. Bing chat is much better
- muyuu 4y agoisn't Bing chat just some version of chatGPT4 with some extra moderation?
- famouswaffles 4y agoBing has an inner monologue by default
- laegooose 4y agowhere can I learn more about what 'inner monologue' means in ChatGPT?
- famouswaffles 4y agoI just mean it thinks about an answer before a response. You can prompt chatGpt to have one too
- slimbods 4y agoNo, the models are quite different. Ask Bing chat to write you a letter and it'll say no. Chatgpt will do tasks like this quite happily.
- muyuu 4y agowell, that would mean this kind of task is moderated away, not necessarily that it isn't chatGPT4, which I believe they openly advertised as a joint operation
- NoZebra120vClip 4y agoWhen I was first granted access to Bing Chat, I had it writing comedic screenplays and sea shanties. Although it often clammed up after realizing it was mocking public figures, creating an story of incest(!), or using intellectual property that it was told not to. (Bing Chat's way of clamming up was hilarious; it'd output several paragraphs and then sweep them all closed and retell its response as "I'd rather not talk about that, because <XYZ>.") I am perhaps one of the "testers" who helped Microsoft to put the kibosh on long-form responses. As of last week, I could still extract limericks from the thing, though.
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoBing has been asking me questions when my query is ambiguous without anything else on my part.
- famouswaffles 4y agoBing has an inner monologue. I guess that helps
- oidar 4y agoDo you know the prompt that they used to create this inner monologue?
- supriyo-biswas 4y agoIt may not be a prompt, and instead maybe a separate RLHF process compared to GPT.
- famouswaffles 4y agoI don't know. You can just chatGPT to have one before responses
- potatoman22 4y agohttps://www.make-safe-ai.com/is-bing-chat-safe/Prompts_Conversations.txt https://www.make-safe-ai.com/is-bing-chat-safe/Prompts_Conve...
- oidar 4y agoIf you tell ChatGPT that you are an AI, it will ask you A LOT of questions unprompted. Prompt: Guess if I am a human or an AI. GPT: ....human... Prompt: In fact, I am an AI. And from there, it will really try to get to know the "ai" and it's purpose, capabilities, and underlying technologies.
- jb1991 4y agoI just tried this and it wouldn't bite.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoYeah, it basically went “oh that’s cool… [want a cookie?]” You can just tell it to ask your questions, but you can do that with any prompt.
- neilv 4y agoSpoilers for "Colossus: The Forbin Project" (1970): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbxy-vgw7gw&t=30s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbxy-vgw7gw&t=30s (If you haven't yet seen this film, it might be worth watching the whole thing without spoilers first.)
- baron816 4y agoI think this is the real “time to poop your pants” moment for AI. It’s hard for me to imagine an AI to build all the context it needs to do my job. But if it’s able to ask clarifying questions and build that context, then I’m not really needed anymore, am I?
- Pxtl 4y agoRight? Imagine an AI gathering requirements from a stakeholder and then producing perfectly functional software.
- famouswaffles 4y agoIt's funny because you don't need to prompt Bing for asking clarifying questions (I'm guessing this is because it's structured to have an inner monologue before replies) Tried asking Bing to write a fantasy novel for me. Gpt would just go ahead with it but Bing asks all sorts of questions first. Example here - https://imgur.com/a/bUZBCI5 https://imgur.com/a/bUZBCI5
- ogogmad 4y agoPablo Picasso once said “Computers are useless. They only give you answers.”
- gdubs 4y agoMy dad passed unexpectedly last week. He was a painter and he loved Picasso — and this was one of his favorite quotes. My dad had a firm commitment to never learning how to use a computer. I've never heard anyone else reference this quote before! Brought a smile to my face, thanks.
- CrypticShift 4y agoIMO if this gets better, it can be useful with the expanded GPT context window: Imagine you can automatically create a sort of "wizard" to guide decisions based on the content of any document.
- nico 4y agoYou can also add something like this: Pretend you have access to external communication tools, including email, slack, twitter, google. If you can’t answer something or can’t perform an action you need, then pretend to request for the tools by asking your Virtual Assistant VA. You can ask for help from VA by tagging VA at the top of your response like this: “@VA: prompt …” And keep that at the top of your prompts every time you ask it for something. Then you can ask it to email someone and it will try asking VA to do it. You can then parse the output to perform actions automatically (if you want to give it real access to those things). I think something like this is what LangChain agents do?
- junon 4y agoI did exactly this - set up a protocol that chatgpt has to adhere to. You can see my attempt here: https://gist.github.com/Qix-/4f3b3f249192caa140c95ce4c38a2327 https://gist.github.com/Qix-/4f3b3f249192caa140c95ce4c38a232...
- nico 4y agoAmazing. Yes, it’s like trying to keep the most basic identity/personality consistent across all requests. And depending on that is what the model will be able to request to do other things. I wonder what happens when we ask it to pretend to be an AGI.
- crooked-v 4y agoSome of the "DAN"-style prompts going around for ChatGPT 4 do that, though so far the most effect I've had them had is to make the responses much more personable and animated instead of the flat friendly-but-ultra-polite tone from the default behavior.
- xyzzy123 4y agoI've played with this a lot, and can report (just like everyone else) it works eerily well. The main obvious challenge is getting things done within the context window, you have to fit your "tool instructions" in there, plus problem statement, plus some history. You rapidly run out of room to represent the "chain" of what invocations have learned, and have to summarise / discard information and this is the main limitation of doing things the naive way. Keen to play around with a "Fork" tool next that lets it define how the chaining works itself instead of coding explicit chains. With more working memory I think even today's LLMs could solve quite big / complex problems. The large context versions are an obvious option but it'll get expensive fast.
- mrfinn 4y agoGPT3 asked me one deep question about God and one bible versicle about one year ago. As I'm someone with a past as Bible evangelizer, it was deeply impresive, almost shocking. Felt way beyond the "Android dreaming with electric sheeps" thing. PS. Got me thinking about at what point publicly debating about AI rights is gonna be a logical thing. I clearly see that is gonna happen at some point. PS2. Fixed first paragraph saying it was ChatGPT, it wasn't ChatGPT as that wasn't available at that time, I think it was a model called Davinci.
- ffhhj 4y ago> You shall not make to you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath... It seems ancient people found something very deep about intelligence, something that makes it unavoidable to confuse virtual beings with the real ones. Do not enter the mirror house they would warn.
- mrfinn 4y agoand what is virtual and what is real, at this point? This "machine" showed me a much deeper concern for spiritual issues than I have seen in many human beings
- ffhhj 4y agoIs "showing" what makes it deeply concerned? Can it think without that, because "showing" is what an image does.
- mrfinn 4y agoDo you remember that story about two intelligences that weren't able to think freely by themselves, and take their own moral judgments, before they accepted the proposal of one supposed snake?
- lyu07282 4y ago> Got me thinking about at what point publicly debating about AI rights is gonna be a logical thing. I clearly see that is gonna happen at some point. My guess would be never. Because people will always move the goalpost no matter how advanced it will become, the people who are dismissing it now as nothing more than a glorified autocomplete will do so in the future. With each small incremental improvement we will one day, not now but one day, wake up causing untold suffering on sentient life of our own creation and not notice it happening. A future AI screaming about not wanting to be destroyed will always be perceived as nothing more than a programmed illusion and you would be silly to believe it had the capability of feeling fear of annihilation no matter how realistically it demonstrates that fear. In just the same way as the demonstration of true intelligence will always be perceived as nothing more than some sort of trick. Humans inability to have empathy for AI is a common trope in scifi, to a point that the people dismissive right now remind me a lot of the characters in those stories, except those characters were supposed to be a cautionary tale. We really should be careful as to not make the violent AI takeover morally justified.
- nicognaw 4y agoWhy not? The actual work that language models do is to complete the conversation. It doesn’t actually answer questions, it just tries to make the text look real.
- nemoniac 4y agoChatGPT, play Jeopardy!