abrax3141

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by abrax3141 4y ago
I’m convinced that OpenAI is actually a conputer game company and what they have discovered is actually a computer game for people who don’t like video games.
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by abrax3141 4y ago
That’s almost, but not quite true. Or, perhaps, true but too vague. There is a certain amount of inference built into fluent language usage. And the statement, as well as where it, itself goes, contextualizes where it goes next. Those two t
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AskGPT4: The Mirror Problem
6 points by abrax3141 4y ago|12 comments
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Ask HN: Does the SAFE Replace a PPM?
1 points by abrax3141 4y ago|0 comments
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by abrax3141 4y ago
It’s the average personality of the internet as revealed by text continuation statistics, and tuned by human-guided gan. Nothing more.
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by abrax3141 4y ago
Look like it was real! (In subsequent probing it appears to have been fixed.)
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by abrax3141 4y ago
Yeah, seems a little too good (in the sense of "good" that means "bad") to be real. Although faking something like this seems like a good way to get sued by MS.
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Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user(twitter.com)
6 points by abrax3141 4y ago|5 comments
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by abrax3141 4y ago
Gary Marcus is sort of a troll, but I'm glad that someone is taking on this nonsense in a formal setting. I think that most sensible people treat it as an amusing curiosity, but it's popping up in unfortunate settings, like studen
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by abrax3141 4y ago
Meh. iPhones worked.
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by abrax3141 4y ago
I agree that the companies themselves might be loathe to participate, except that they have published public academic papers, and are therefore publicly responsible at least for the content of those papers. But I had in mind more of an exte
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Ask HN: CoRecursive Panel on ChatGPT
1 points by abrax3141 4y ago|3 comments
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by abrax3141 4y ago
Oh, and of course Weizenbaum, who warned us of falling prey to trusting AIs that talk a good game. There's no better real-world example of this than The-Hack-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named.
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by abrax3141 4y ago
It’s actually amazing how prescient folks like Kubrick (or maybe it was Minsky) and Turing were. Turing basically predicted that we would teach AIs rather than program them. (He likened it to teaching a child.) And Dave Bowman doesn’t just
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by abrax3141 4y ago
Fair enough!
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by abrax3141 4y ago
More like 5.5 decades (2023-1968)
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Happy Birthday HAL 9000
14 points by abrax3141 4y ago|8 comments
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by abrax3141 4y ago
Okay, so holy f'ing s#!t! Out of curiosity, I today asked it to program the ELIZA in MAD-SLIP, the original (and now completely dead and obscure) language that ELIZA was originally written in. My expectation was that it would have no i
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by abrax3141 4y ago
BTW, I don’t understand what the value is of making it create tests. It doesn’t actually run them. In fact, although I didn’t ask for them, it did create tests in some cases, but the code it wrote didn’t actually pass the tests!
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by abrax3141 4y ago
I’ve thought about this - quite a bit, in fact, and have come to the belief that one can separately respect and honor a person’s contributions. Both JW’s antipathy toward AI, and ELIZA itself, are significant contributions. Just because he
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by abrax3141 4y ago
BTW, in case you missed it: https://corecursive.com/eliza-with-jeff-shrager/ (Does it count as shameless self-promotion if I'm actually promoting someone else's highly relevant podcast that just happen
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by abrax3141 4y ago
You have to try to put yourself in a world where most computers were room-sized,a and there wasn't even anything smaller than what used to be called a "mini-computer" -- more-or-less a very large tower -- and no individual ha
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by abrax3141 4y ago
Maybe I'm missing something obvious but why can't we just write in MarkDown?
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by abrax3141 4y ago
Actually, I did do a version of this. Note that in the posted code there's a weird comment that says: "...that includes the remainder of the input, with personal pronouns conjugated correctly", but the code actually does not
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by abrax3141 4y ago
BTW, in the long dialog that I had with it, ChatGPT created many different versions of this code with varying degrees of matching my spec. Every version sort of matched my spec, but at the same time each and every one of them was broken in
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In honor of Weizenbaum's Centenary, I asked ChatGPT to program ELIZA
88 points by abrax3141 4y ago|53 comments
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by abrax3141 4y ago
McCarthy credits FLPL as well. http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf
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A Fortran-Compiled List Processing Language (1959) [pdf](dl.acm.org)
22 points by abrax3141 4y ago|4 comments
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by abrax3141 4y ago
This is an amazing "missing link" between IPL and Lisp. Note McCarty's involvement (p. 88), and the incredibly lisp-like function names and functional expression syntax (p. 94++)
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by abrax3141 4y ago
But if you use a gdoc you can access it from anywhere (incl offline) and it’s always up to date a version controlled. For me that’s enough additional value to be worth a bit of a speed hit.

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