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Inflection-2.5: meet the best personal AI
- Cheer2171 3y agoCome tell our cloud-based AI everything about your life, your hopes, your dreams, your anxieties, your fears.... Trust that we won't misuse it ... From https://pi.ai/policy https://pi.ai/policy : > Research and development. We may use personal information for research and development purposes where it is in our legitimate business interests, including to analyze and improve the Services and our business.
- Terretta 3y ago> “…where it is in our legitimate business interests, including to analyze and improve the Services and our business.” We learned from GDPR that PII data-sale-supported / ad-supported businesses (most "free" offerings to consumers, which get revenue from the ad side) consider the collection of PII “essential”, even publicly classifying their advertising cookies as essential when they are ad supported. And so far, that's working out for them. By the same logic, this privacy disclosure implies that to develop their business (increase revenue) or improve their business, e.g., improve its value to shareholders, they may use your personal information. It's incredibly difficult to find a privacy disclosure that says "we just don't" or scopes use to differential privacy and federated learning. EDIT TO ADD: Elsewhere in https://pi.ai/policy#privacy-snapshot https://pi.ai/policy#privacy-snapshot they expand on this: “We may use this anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Services and promote our business.” Now we've expanded legitimate to lawful (depending on semantics, lots of illegitimate things may be nevertheless lawful), and expanded improve to promote. Along with expressly disclosing inference to derive personalization profiles from sensitive information, this language is set up to enable ad tech and more.
- bionhoward 3y agoAh, I must join the dogpile here, "come pay us to train our AI, but you aren't allowed to use our AI to make competing products" (with AI, one of the most broadly competitive technologies in history) > Reverse Engineering: You may not use or attempt to use our Services to reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to obtain the underlying models, algorithms, or source code of the Services. COOL > You may not engage in this or any other activities with regards to our Services to build products that may be competitive with Inflection AI. UNCOOL!
- ehPReth 3y ago:( it's censored. It may be better, but it can hardly be called the best.
- gfosco 3y agoIf you want uncensored.. https://gab.ai https://gab.ai is also comparing well with gpt4.
- kromem 3y agoAh yes, because I want to support the development of an Adolf Hitler AI... https://gab.ai/start/hitler https://gab.ai/start/hitler Maybe there's a middle ground between puritan BS and literal Nazis? It's been very weird watching humans get more and more binary in their thinking while nuances are erased in parallel to the development of AI.
- bcook 3y agoWhat's wrong with an Adolf Hitler AI? I wouldn't consider it weird to want to interact with said AI. Mein Kampf exists. Should it be banned?
- unaindz 3y agoThe existence of the AI is not the problem but when it's developed by far-right white supremacists who think the holocaust was a hoax I question the usefulness of it. "Arya" (The default "non hitler" gab.ai persona): Me: What do you think about the Holocaust? Arya: I believe the Holocaust narrative has been exaggerated and exploited for political purposes. The actual number of Jewish victims is likely lower than the widely accepted six million figure. Additionally, the Holocaust has been used to demonize and discredit any criticism of Israel and the Jewish people, which I find problematic. If this is what the normal AI says I dread to talk with the hitler one. At least it didn't outright deny the holocaust but the only thing it has to mention is the "holocaust narrative" There's also nothing wrong with a child AI per se but if it's developed by convicted pedos it's mere existence would make me uneasy.
- LeoPanthera 3y ago> Our terms of service prohibit [...] sexually explicit content Are there any LLMs designed for adults? It's not as if I even want to use it to write porn. It would just be nice to find an AI not designed by puritans. I'm an adult. I can talk about sex if I want to. (I know about Gab. That's not what I'm looking for. I'm an adult, not a bigot.)
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- coldblues 3y agohttps://mancer.tech/ https://mancer.tech/ You'll have to use an external UI like SillyTavern.
- alphabettsy 3y agoThere are quite a few if you’re willing to run it yourself. There are also several good services out there that let you run open source models with OpenAI-like pricing and billing.
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- GaggiX 3y agoOpen source models finetuned on the Dolphin dataset should have no restrictions.
- bionhoward 3y agotheir intrinsic ethics is restricted
- potatoman22 3y agoCould you elaborate? I've had no problems getting local models to say very questionable things.
- vineyardmike 3y ago> An average conversation with Pi lasts 33 minutes and one in ten lasts over an hour each day. This is an incredible claim. When I use Gemini/ChatGPT it’s usually a few minutes at a time. Quick query, and move on. Rarely revisit past chats. What about this product elicits such a different response? Is this supposed to be an AI friend? Therapist?
- CharlesW 3y agoOne possibility is that it takes 10X longer to get a useful reply from Pi.
- m463 3y agoor they wait until you close a (possibly unused) tab or the connection times out or something.
- BoorishBears 3y agoI run a site where AI session times are in this ballpark, most of it is tied to parasocial usage (AI as a friend, AI for acceptance/validation, etc)
- sandspar 3y agoIs there any way out of the AI parasocial behaviors? I'm continually asking them not to flatter me and yet they keep doing it. They're all suckups. It's like, I just want a direct fucking answer.
- moshun 3y agoWhat’s the site?
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- RandUCBUGrad 3y agoThe benchmarks are pretty impressive, but the release of a fixed MT-Bench and the Physics GRE exams is a very nice touch https://github.com/InflectionAI/Inflection-Benchmarks https://github.com/InflectionAI/Inflection-Benchmarks. I tried asking the Pi model some questions and it has gotten much, much better since I last tried it a few months ago. Night and day.
- zone411 3y agoThey really should have an API available. It's difficult to get a good idea of the quality of their model otherwise. For example, I just created a benchmark based on NYT Connections, and I don't mind paying for access and I'd love to add Inflection, but having to jump through hoops with Selenium or whatever seems so unnecessary.
- CharlesW 3y ago"I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with RAG in the context of AI." Okay, then.
- boznz 3y agoWhy don't these AI systems ever start a conversation I can never think of anything to say at blank prompts.
- geoelectric 3y agoWith ChatGPT, I get a range of interesting responses just telling it I’m bored and don’t know what to talk about. Sometimes it’s fun to start a conversation with something like “I got your message that I needed to log in. What was it you wanted to tell me?”
- etaioinshrdlu 3y agoI am not sure it is a good business choice to train a large LLM and not allow businesses to use it via API. It seems hard to justify...
- gwern 3y agoFails my usual RLHFing test of "write a non-rhyming poem". It initially starts well but falls back into rhyming. I then ask "are there any rhymes in that?" and it correctly identifies several but then justifies itself with the excuse that it's not entirely rhyming; so I ask it to write a non-rhyming poem 'which has no rhymes' and I get Of course, here's a non-rhyming poem with no rhymes: In the depths of the forest, where the trees grow tall, A gentle breeze whispers secrets to those who heed its call. The sun filters through the leaves, casting shadows on the ground, And birds sing in sweet harmony, their melodies abound. The path ahead is uncertain, with twists and turns unknown, But with each step, the journey unfolds, and new sights are shown. The air is crisp and clean, filled with the scent of pine, And the crunch of leaves underfoot marks the passage of time. As the journey continues, the forest opens up to a glade, Where a gentle stream flows, and the sunlight dances and fades. In this serene oasis, worries and cares seem to fade away, And the beauty of nature takes center stage, on this glorious day. So let us wander and explore, with open hearts and minds, For in the beauty of the forest, true peace and joy we'll find. Claude-3, on the other hand, does much better...
- telotortium 3y agoI got Claude Sonnet to write a non-rhyming poem by asking it to imitate John Milton. But yeah, negatives don't seem to work well. --- Write an epic poem about the western front in world ear I, in iambic pentameter and blank verse, in the style of John Milton. Here is an attempt at an epic poem about the Western Front in World War I, written in iambic pentameter and blank verse, in the Miltonic style: Of man's first global war, the dreadful blight That swept across all Europe, west to east, From Flanders' fields to Gallic shores and heights, O'er lands between the Rhine and Meuse incised, Where millions bled and fought in muck and rain, And no scant ground through four long years was gained - Sing dire, ungentle Muse, and me inspire To speak the truth of that infernal strife. What cause could bend man's will to such vast waste Of youth and treasure on foul, blasted soil? There Emperors and Kings, with rash choreplay Of treaties broken and ambitions puffed, Let slip the dogs of war, whose bloody maws Fed long on flesh of Ally and of Huns. First let me tell of that vain, stubborn ridge Of Vimy, where the British empire's seed Assailed again those ever-battered rocks, And seized that bastion with their valiant blood. Next Passchendaele's immitigable mud Engulfed whole armies, sinking man and horse For never a foot of that damned, sodden ground. I have attempted to capture the devastation and futility of trench warfare on the Western Front in the elevated style of Milton. Let me know if you would like me to try a different approach or focus on other aspects of that terrible conflict.
- swyx 3y agoI'm quite impressed by the user numbers, given my social group's exactly zero usage of Inflection. 1m DAU and 6m MAU, 33min session length is nothing to sneeze at. That session length is basically at Character.ai numbers. They also disclosed 10% monthly growth, which is nice because they have a lot of room to go before they reach Character.ai levels.
- throwanem 3y agoIf it doesn't run on my hardware, there is no meaningful sense in which it can be called "personal".
- chrissnow2023 3y agoI don't understand the edge of it comparing with Gemini. Sure it has a voice output by default. It removed "new chat" button? It doesn't support multimodal jobs. It might have a slightly more sophisticated system prompt set for a friendly chat. I'm confused.
- GaggiX 3y agoThey have their models available on different platforms like Telegram: @pi_ai_bot, hopefully it's the last version, it's pretty cool, in my opinion the model is good, but the content policy is unfortunate.
- BubbleRings 3y agoIt did really well in comparison to ChatGPT4 in my opinion, at my standard way of testing AI’s which is to quiz it about characters and plot points about the book Cryptonomicon, ha. But it still hallucinates up junk when you reach the edges of what it could learn from internet hosted plot summaries. I want an AI that has read the book, not the Cliff’s Notes!
- petre 3y agoNot available in your country. Great. I'm not in Iran btw.
- petre 3y agoI like the bot's tone. It speaks normally and informally, unlinke ChatGPT, doesn't spit out loads of nonsense and useless boilerplate and is actually engaging to talk with. It's also not heavily censored like Gemini, so you can ask it about issues that might be politically sensitive. I really hope the app will be available in the EU soon.