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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I don't know I assume it would tell you put some cortisone cream on it or to seek a dermatologist. 99% of internet advice boils down to that I don't think chatgpt/gpt 4 would be much different in that regard. It definitely can bullshit but for really generalized stuff like that I doubt it.

It's not like your asking a singular person the question like it is when you ask an accountant but an abstraction of written human thought and interactions.

Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah, the example given in the OpenAI GPT4 twitter video is someone asking it to write a python script to analyze their monthly finances and it simply just importing dataframes, importing "finances.csv", running a columnar sum for all finances and then displaying the sum and the dataframe. I'm sure it's capable of some deeper software development but it almost always makes radical assumptions and is rarely ever self sufficient (you don't need to look it over and don't need to change the architecture of the code it produced).
Comment · 3 years ago
Wouldn't you just use go/python/node for a simple crud API? fastapi for python is pretty performative if you use gunicorn as your runtime and time to iterate is must faster than it is in rust.
Comment · 3 years ago
that prompt is going to receive a dark response since most stories humans write about artificial intelligences and artificial brains are dark and post-apocalyptic. Matrix, i have no mouth but i must scream, hal, and like thousands of amateur what-if stories from personal blogs are probably all mostly negative and dark in tone as opposed to happy and cheerful.
Comment · 3 years ago
I wonder if you were to just spam it with random characters until it reached its max input token limit if it would just pop off the oldest existing conversational tokens and continue to load tokens in (like a buffer) or if it would just reload the entire memory and start with a fresh state?
Comment · 3 years ago
It is, it's libgen + commoncrawl + wikidump + a bunch of other datasets. OpenAI claim that commoncrawl is roughly 60% of its total training corpus and they also claim they use the other datasets listed. They probably also have some sort of proprietary Q&A/search query corpus via Microsoft.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah, like if you removed chatgpt from the equation what would change? A couple hundred-thousand moderators would not have an above-average hourly wage and would instead need to find another international company or a domestic company to hire them who are all abusing the lack of unions and low wages.
Comment · 3 years ago
That's fair, but I have a half a dozen servers sitting in a colo with networking/energy/cooling included in the lease agreement so energy is not a concern.

I usually just run game servers with the extra RAM/cpu threads for my friends. If my elasticsearch cluster is particularly unused some days and I have extra bandwidth I might turn on wireguard and let the 450GB disk of torrents I have on disk seed. Anything that makes the btop graph look active and lively makes me feel nice.

Comment · 3 years ago
I also read that iPhones are quickly growing in market share in China as Chinese people see them as more luxurious than their domestic brands. Which raises the question, how does iMessage, the App Store, data collection and western app policy stuff work on Chinese iPhones? There has to be some collusion/government pressure on Apple to regulate their Chinese App Store the same way Huawei is forced to regulate its domestic app store.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I don't. If it's virtually impossible to distinguish a Russian troll farm page from a traditional conservative/radical leftist from a home grown, private individual, then there is no problem. The impact Russian troll farms have had on the US social fabric is widely overestimated, the real harm to the social fabric is increased politicization.
Comment · 3 years ago
How do you get him supporting legislating to outlaw hate speech from him saying he wants to promote tolerance?

Tolerance is something every human possesses and should exercise, it's not something that can be legislated. An intolerant person will use their free speech to attack, malign and try to get you fired (which is fair). A tolerant person will let you speak your mind even if they disagree. In no point is there the need for hate speech legislation if you have true free speech.

Comment · 3 years ago
It's the way the cookie crumbles.
Comment · 4 years ago
Prolly not pushed to your local edge location, my version of twitter updated and it no longer shows the pop up screen yet it still shows the blue bar at the bottom of the page (which is fine imo)

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