ChatGPT/OpenAI

Is this the turning point?

I've been abusing this since it launched. Factoring in its limitations it's a great tool.

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Is this the turning point?

For what?

could be.

I mean, its the best chatbot so far.

AI for biomedicine and industry is probably further ahead and more useful at the moment.

ChatGPT is not a signficant step towards passing a Turing test and ultimately the fact it is closed source and propietary might restrict the ways in which it can be used in the future.

I’ve pretty much used it to trial to answer the numerous dumb questions my owners asset manager fires at me. It takes a couple of nudges sometimes but it’s incredibly useful. I reckon i can cut the time I spend on certain tasks by more than half, if not more.

Same here...its really impressive.

So in that regard, yes....it might be a turning point for some things but its not a great leap forwards overall in terms of where AI will be in five to ten years.

The fact it is completely proprietary and trained by one company is a problem for me. This is why I see an open source version of chatgpt potentially being a bigger turning point. An AI is only as good as its training after all.

So what are the every day uses for it? You can ask it complex questions and it will give a decent answer, rather than having to dig in to Wikipedia or whatever?

Basically, as long as you are careful to account for hallucinations and Goodhart's law among other things. Its pretty rough around the edges for some things.

Ok, it's always 'at full capacity' when I've tried to check it out recently.

Also been useful for things like Excel formulae and VBA. But it's good, not great.

Also tried it a fair bit for this. Again pretty much 2nd 3rd attempt and done. Maybe a quick manual fix but couldn’t write it myself faster.

The stuff I really like are questions like:

"Simulate a chat room with 20 people arguing about UK poltiics" or

"write a python program that displays the top 25 most popular vegetables in alphabetical order" or

"create a simple long term short term memory model in PHP "

...and seeing what you end up with. Guaranteed there will be something about the response that is valid but suprises you.

Was just thinking about whether there are any AI implementations that I know of that impress me more than ChatGPT.

On balance, I think the model that Tik Tok use, affectionately nicknamed "gravedigger", is possibly more world changing. Particularly the facial expression recognition to scrape you actual emotional reactions to videos to feed back into the model....

https://towardsdatascience.com/why-tiktok-made-its-user-so-obsessive-the-ai-algorithm-that-got-you-hooked-7895bb1ab423

Does it improve exponentially by learning each time? Like, will it be ready to take over the world in 6 months? Or ready to post in bike porn thread without getting any criticism?

I genuinely would love to be able to plug ChatGPT into twitter to see what happens.

Pretty sure that the license cost to use ChatGPT for bespoke applications would be eye watering though.

Or ready to post in bike porn thread without getting any criticism?

Are you suggesting @Gaston might actually be ChatGPT?

You joke but I did actually have to fire a data scientist for passing himself off as a neural network last year.

I was thinking tester.🫢

Was listening to this episode yesterday, lots of interesting thoughts on ChatGPT and AI in general.

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLndueWMub3JnL29udGhlbWVkaWE/episode/ZTMxMjQ2YjAtYTZmNS00NWQ4LWFkNmYtNzk1ZjI0NGE4NGFh?ep=14

Found ChatGPT to be quite useful. Not a programmer and needed help with some code snippets and it was much easier than trying to convert your question to typical Google Keywords. You just explain your problem like you would to another person and get an answer that is easy to interpret. Def. next level.

Just stumbled across this.

As I mentioned yesterday, an AI is only as good as its training.

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-kenyan-contract-workers-label-toxic-content-chatgpt-training-report-2023-1?r=US&IR=T

Did some reading on this yesterday. Well, it is full of exciting possibilities. I can see how some are firm believers in it challenging Google in short time. It could be much more effiecient and flexible. And that is just one failry limited use case for it!

Finally was able to use it. I was surprised how intuitive and natural it is to converse with on a huge range of topics.