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I just view the current gpt llm as a better search engine. It’s not self learning. It’s stateless when queried - so really the concern is we can create conten
by taf2 3y ago
I just view the current gpt llm as a better search engine. It’s not self learning. It’s stateless when queried - so really the concern is we can create content on demand and create responses that intuitively make the llm very useful tool. Until it’s self learning I’m only concerned with how humans would use it just like any other tool in the hands of humans it can be both super useful and super destructive.
- fatherzine 3y ago"just like any other tool in hands of humans" -- the scale of damage a tool can do matters, e.g. civilization cannot withstand nukes being sold at walmart. and, of course, self learning will be here this decade.
- taf2 3y agoI agree llms are powerful but they are not explosive - conflating the two is IMO even more dangerous
- fatherzine 3y agothey have the potential to take over the control systems of the explosive stuff. including the decision making processes of humans themselves. to quote none other than sama, oct 2023: "i expect ai to be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes" https://twitter.com/sama/status/1716972815960961174 https://twitter.com/sama/status/1716972815960961174
- spunker540 3y agotake any narrow capability and 'superhuman <narrow capability>' will almost certainly be possible before 'superhuman general intelligence'. The biggest, best transformer-based LLM you could imagine, that we haven't even made yet, will still fail the basic test "what is the weather tomorrow" since a LLM has no knowledge outside it's training set.
- chpatrick 3y agoIf they figure out how to give an LLM infinite/really long context length, it will basically become self-learning.
- consumer451 3y agoWhich is more likely to happen first, "an LLM (with) infinite/really long context length," or an LLM-like system which can integrate new training data in real-time? Am I even asking this question correctly?
- chpatrick 3y agoLLMs can integrate new information but they only remember what you told them up to the context length. If they could remember longer then you would have agents with a lot of new knowledge.
- consumer451 3y agoI guess what I am getting at is: When I ask ChatGPT 4 Turbo to "search for the article by Eric Berger from Sep 10th 2023, and summarize it," it does, and responds including that new information because it is now in the context. The next step would seem to be to integrate those search results into its training data - while somehow filtering bunk data which is the tough part - and when the next user asks that question it already knows it without searching. Is this the same thing as saying "infinite context length?" I didn't think so. Is it?
- chpatrick 3y agoWhat I mean is if context length wasn't a limit, you could have your own AI agent that remembers that article forever, along with everything else you've ever discussed with it. If it generated text on its own, without human interaction, and developed its "personality", then you could say it's more like what we consider an intelligent being.
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