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> All of them? If not, how to determine which ones? How does it determine how to respond to any prompt? Exactly. It might reasonably predict responses to those

> All of them? If not, how to determine which ones? How does it determine how to respond to any prompt? Exactly. It might reasonably predict responses to those comments that, according to its black box, are somehow most likely to receive a reply. Different GPT instances prompted or trained to have different personalities would choose differently based on their priors and biases. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of human beings are able to reason without really having the slightest idea as to how exactly they do it. Educated humans can use language to talk about reasoning in terms of logic, and even make logic engines out of doped silicon and whatnot, but as of now, none of us has any idea of how reasoning is implemented in the mass of fat and protein that's inside our heads.

verdverm 4y ago
Another interesting aspect to consider is that GPT needs priming & prompting to get it to generate a relevant response. I doubt blindly providing comment text would create valuable responses. Yet another case, many times we will respond (or not) to a questions with another question, to elicit deeper considerations. In my experience, GPTs will answer any question without thought, pun intended :]
- Sharlin 4y ago
  ChatGPT in particular is trained to predict dialogue and helpful answers to questions, so it would naturally expect some instructions on what exactly it should do. But for example vanilla GPT-3 has no such bias and merely tries to answer the question "what is the most likely completion to this input based on my corpus?" so it might well simply start generating plausible comments that extend the thread.
  - verdverm 4y ago
    I've had it add the question mark as the first token in the response when I forget it, or intentionally leave it off
pwinnski 4y ago
I think you missed the point of the parent comment. My experience with ChatGPT is that it responds to each and every thing sent to it. It doesn't seem to have the ability to not respond. The original question was, given that there were X comments which could be replied to on this page, how and why did the poster decide to respond to the one to which they responded, rather than either "all" (like ChatGPT would) or "none?"
- Sharlin 4y ago
  If ChatGPT is given an entire message (sub)thread as input, it will decide which parts, if any, it responds to. Sure, that's a bit different from how humans tend to read and reply to these threads. If you mean feeding it the messages one at a time, then, sure, it will respond to each of them because that's what its default "goal function" is. (I assume that we're talking about a single "conversation" here so the context is retained – feeding it each comment out-of-context would be very unfair.) If you prompt it to only reply to messages it considers "interesting" in some way, and return "I'll skip this" for the others, it would certainly do that.

verdverm 4y ago

Another interesting aspect to consider is that GPT needs priming & prompting to get it to generate a relevant response. I doubt blindly providing comment text would create valuable responses. Yet another case, many times we will respond (or not) to a questions with another question, to elicit deeper considerations. In my experience, GPTs will answer any question without thought, pun intended :]

Sharlin 4y ago
ChatGPT in particular is trained to predict dialogue and helpful answers to questions, so it would naturally expect some instructions on what exactly it should do. But for example vanilla GPT-3 has no such bias and merely tries to answer the question "what is the most likely completion to this input based on my corpus?" so it might well simply start generating plausible comments that extend the thread.
- verdverm 4y ago
  I've had it add the question mark as the first token in the response when I forget it, or intentionally leave it off

pwinnski 4y ago

I think you missed the point of the parent comment. My experience with ChatGPT is that it responds to each and every thing sent to it. It doesn't seem to have the ability to not respond. The original question was, given that there were X comments which could be replied to on this page, how and why did the poster decide to respond to the one to which they responded, rather than either "all" (like ChatGPT would) or "none?"

Sharlin 4y ago
If ChatGPT is given an entire message (sub)thread as input, it will decide which parts, if any, it responds to. Sure, that's a bit different from how humans tend to read and reply to these threads. If you mean feeding it the messages one at a time, then, sure, it will respond to each of them because that's what its default "goal function" is. (I assume that we're talking about a single "conversation" here so the context is retained – feeding it each comment out-of-context would be very unfair.) If you prompt it to only reply to messages it considers "interesting" in some way, and return "I'll skip this" for the others, it would certainly do that.