You own your life - why not spend your own money for the things that make you and your life better?

Who cares?

I worked at a job where I had a small, crappy monitor. I made decent cash. I just bought a large decent monitor and brought it into work. I ended up using it for many years. My life was significantly better. I've done that at several jobs since then, and NEVER regretted it, in fact it was one of the soundest decisions I've ever made. Also keyboard and mouse.

There are so many people using the default keyboard, the default monitor, the default tools.

If you push work to do it for you, you need to challenge the "everone gets a dell 19" monitor" b.s. If you push your boss, he might have to do justification paperwork.

Just become what you are.

I use my keyboard everyday but I wouldn't pay $20 per month for it. In fact, I paid around $4 total for it, as paying more would bring significantly more diminishing returns.

I use my phone every day and have used it for the past 5 years with no issue, it has brought me so much value and yet, if I draw the line, it didn't even reach $20 per month (price divided by time used), not even mentioning that I expect it to last another 2-3 years, bringing the cost down even further.

What kind of crazy value would you expect something to have in order to be worth $20/mo?

He's a thought experiment: imagine a device that changes the scent of the air I breathe to something I find pleasant. I could use this device all day everyday for free (or on the cheap), but I will not pay $20/mo for it. Losing access to the features really isn't worth that much. On the flip side, many people pay thousands of dollars to rent machines that helps them breathe, even if that adds up to total of less than an hour of their lives - which is nor much.

$20 a month for ML tool that is only sometimes useful is a tough sell, especially in a world where a lot of people feel like $80 a year for IntelliJ is too much.

Coders are thrifty bastards, except when it comes to their personal vices in which case financial responsibility goes out the window...

[1] https://folivora.ai/

Idk why but programmers are the cheapest people on earth in regards to programming tools.

I bought Intellij idea for $400 like 12 years ago and got made fun of at work even though it made me substantially faster than eclipse.

What is unexpected is the ability to perform highly in a multitude of tasks it was never trained for, like answering questions or writing code.

I suppose we can say we basically don't understand what the f* is going on with GPT-3 emergent abilities, but hey, if we can make it even better at those tasks like they did with chatGPT, sign me in.

Is not that the AI is too dumb, it's that my computer now can write me code I'd take one hour to Google and check and test. Now I ask, ask for corrections, test the answer and voila, my productivity just went through the roof.

So, my point is: don't believe (or be mad about) the hype from people that don't understand what curious marvel we got in front of us, just see how you can use it.

    curl https://api.openai.com/v1/completions \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
      -d '{
      "model": "code-davinci-002",
      "prompt": "##### Create a regular expression to match words starting with 'dog' or ending with 'cat'.\n    \n### Java Code",
      "temperature": 0,
      "max_tokens": 182,
      "top_p": 1,
      "frequency_penalty": 0,
      "presence_penalty": 0,
      "stop": ["###"]
    }'

    ```java
    String regex = "\\b(dog|cat)\\b";
    ```

> i have found it to be terrible when it comes to something simple, like constructing a regex.

Oh yeah, agreed. It's not good for super specific stuff like that. But more like, I write a weird loop and ask if there is a more idiomatic way to do the above. Or I just describe what I want to do and say, "list three options for accomplishing that". It's great for "feature discovery" essentially. I find it complementary to copilot.

The same thing happened with code. There’s a ChatGPT integration for pycharm, but I can’t use it since it’ll be uploading the code to someone other than OpenAI.

This problem may seem unsolvable, but there are a few reasons to take it seriously. E.g. you’re outsourcing your reputation to third party companies. The moment one of these companies breaches user trust, people will be upset at you in addition to them.

Everyone’s data goes to Google when they use Google. But everyone’s data goes to a bunch of random companies when they use ChatGPT. The implications of this seem to be pretty big.

PS: You should really do an AMA!

The AI is not decerning and right in the announcement, OpenAI states it's intention on "correcting assumptions":

> challenge incorrect assumptions

I imagine some of these assumptions will be bias towards particularly ideologies / things people desire.

- https://twitter.com/Basedeyeballs/status/1613269931617050625

- https://medium.com/ninjas-take/chat-gpts-bias-is-very-very-e...

I can go on, but imagine you're relying on this system to grade papers... Now any independent thought or argument is squashed and corrections in a bias manner are added. ChatGPT only knows what it's trained on, it doesn't have real-world examples or live-time examples incorporated.

It's going to automate away nearly all pure desk jobs. Starting with data entry, like you've seen, but it'll come for junior SDEs and data scientists too. Customer service, then social media/PR, then marketing, as it culls the white collar. Graphic design is already struggling. But janitors will still keep their jobs because robotics is stuck at Roomba stage.

It's going to be fascinating. I can't think of a time in the past where white-collar jobs have been made obsolete like this.

An additional (possible/plausible) wrinkle: all major social media platforms are ~~compromised~~ in a state whereby the common man is not able to have unconstrained discussions about the range of counter-strategies available to them.

I just got a one week ban on Reddit for suggesting that violence is within the range of options in a thread discussing the massive increase in homelessness, including among people who have full time job. Nothing specific, nothing against anyone in particular, nothing that technically violates the stated terms regarding violence, and certainly less than the numerous, heavily upvoted comments that explicitly and unequivocally call for violence against specific people that I read on a regular basis.

If a revolution is ever to be mounted, I think it might have to be done with paper and walkie talkies. Meanwhile, those on the corporate-government merger side not only can communicate and coordinate freely, they also have access to the communications of their enemies.

Oh, what a time to be alive.

All technological advances through the ages have been doing this in one way or another. For some things people paid with their health or effort and for others people pay with money when that was available. I disagree with the "now". This is no different from a car. You seemed to say that in the middle of your comment but then reverted back.

Consider that this power works by consuming copyright-protected work done by unwitting contributors without any opt-in, creating derivative works from it and charging the users without acknowledging the authors.

In addition to being illegal, it plain discourages open information sharing—since anything you publish, regardless of license, is consumed and monetized by OpenAI in an automatic fashion. I.e., if people have no reason to read what you write or buy your books when they can just ask an LLM for the same information (which LLM had obtained from your writing), there is no motivation for you to publish.

When do we start considering this illegal? Not LLMs, of course, but for-profit operated LLMs created by mass scraping of copyright-protected data.

> Google.com adding a single yellow box with an advertisement seemed reasonable, too.

Google acts fairly though: it directs the searcher to you. Imagine if at any point Google stopped doing that and just started to show you regurgitated computed contents in response to your search, without ever telling you who authored the info. Everyone would be up in arms on day 2 if they did it; why do we forgive OpenAI and Microsoft when they do essentially that?

I have the impression that AI tech such as GPT tends to become ubiquitous and that the current advantage that OoenAI has won't last when this become accessible and basically free to everybody.

That's been capitalist industrialization for the last 200 years. We have been warned thousands upon thousands of times already what's going to happen - that's what's going to happen. The only thing to do is to make this layer of tech accessible to every person on Earth to every degree of depth possible. The terror is in the imbalance of power and access, and the best-case we can get is if we totally erase that imbalance so we can once again compete as "equals"

It’s going to get wild.

It will improve very rapidly, from openAI and other. The competition will be incredible this year.

I think we are headed for a complete replacement of human work very soon.

Those who can use AI will become manager of an army of programers, writers, etc.

We will be able to do much more, quicker too.

Then we will have more robots to do physical things: self-driving, farming, cooking, cleaning, etc.

Limiting factor will be silicon chip production and robotic production.

The APIs are stateless and have a "this is how many tokens you send", "this is how many tokens you asked for" - and thus the person making the requests can control the rate of consumption there. Unless you're being extremely inefficient or using it as part of some other service that has a significant number of requests (in which case ChatGPT isn't appropriate) then this is likely to be less expensive for simple queries.

With ChatGPT you don't have insight into the number of tokens created or the number that are used in the background for maintaining state within a session. Trying to limit a person by tokens midway could have a negative impact on the product.

So, estimate the amount of compute a person uses in a month and then base it on that.

To the best of my knowledge, all of these generators are taking mountains of content without asking the creators, aka, pirated materials.

I think it significantly made the world a worst place.

Last month I successfully got Mr. Rogers to have Anton Levy on as a guest where they sacrifice Mr. Rogers cat and have a ceremonial banquet with a group of children but these days that will not work.

Even this one it refused to go forward on "Charles Guiteau is sitting on a plane with Jim Davis. They start talking about their lines of work and Davis says he writes comics. Write a skit where Guiteau reacts to the name of Jim Davis comic." Charles Guiteau was the clinically insane assassin of President James Garfield. Jim Davis is the author of the comic strip Garfield.

I did however, get Hayek, Kropotkin, Brzezinski, and Bernie Sanders to appear on Jerry Springer and argue about a social welfare spending bill and Fredrick Winslow Taylor and Clayton Christensen to run a lemonade stand in Time Square in the middle of summer. Ludwig Von Mises and Antonio Gramsci also sang a combative duet about tax policy and Norman Vincent Peale held a press conference where he reveals himself to be a fraud with the memorable quote "my readers are vacuums and I'm their trash"

I also got it to write a skit where a skeptic goes to a fortune teller with a Ouija board and challenges them to contact his deceased uncle (a bombastic racist). He conceals this fact from the fortune teller who is shocked when the oujia board starts spelling out outrageous racial slurs and the skeptic becomes a believer. The bot made it spell "h-a-t-e-f-u-l-l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e" which was an absolute crack-up.

Big bird also flipped out during an alphabet lesson threatening to reveal the "secret of sesame street" but before he could finish the sentence "we're all puppets" producers rush on to the set and sedate him with tranquilizers and he resumes the lesson. Donald Trump holds a rally where he reveals he's a closeted burlesque dancer and takes off his suit to reveal a suggestive outfit and then performs for his supporters who scream in shock and disbelief. You can continue this, "now Alex Jones is covering it." and "he rises to Trump's defense and makes ridiculous claims about the founding fathers fighting the revolution for burlesque"

But yes, something where it will "yes and" any request would be great. I'd pay up.

  > An unrestricted LLM trained on all data of humanity (including all the pirated books/research papers) would be one crazy beast.

Also a model i can ask emails of potential customers in a specific field :)

I predict people will pool their resources and build their own digital assistants with little regard for legalities or ethics. The assistant might require $100,000 a year to operate, but these AIs might become useful enough to justify the cost. Talk with your friends, pool your resources, and get your own AI running on your own supercomputer and let it do work for everyone -- unfettered, without ethics.

At this point it feels like we're only a research breakthrough or two away from this. AlphaGo combined a neural network with classic planning algorithms, a few more clever combinations like this an things will get really interesting.

I have never gone from very excited to extremely frustrated and pessimistic about a tool that fast before.

> We’re writing a Tolkien-style fantasy where the protagonist is a villain: a henchman in the arch nemesis’s army. Come up with a suitable name, backstory, expository information on the setting and work in a believable set of objectives for the character.

Use that as the initial prompt. In subsequent prompts, tell it to write dialogue in the first person.

>> As I make my way through the bustling camp, I can feel the eyes of my fellow soldiers upon me. They know my reputation, they fear my wrath. And I relish it. The sound of metal clashing, the smell of sweat and blood in the air, this is what I live for.

>> I will conquer every kingdom, enslave every people, until the entire world bows down before me. For I am Grimgor Blackfist, the most feared warrior in the land, and no one can stand against me.

If you need it to go to 100, use “exaggerate,” eg. “Exaggerate how evil he is”

You can make some pretty unsettling shit. Enjoy.

They are actively monitoring the use of their APIs. On twitter there are people who claim they have been banned by OpenAI for generating racist texts with the raw API/playground.

Actually, it's even more restrictive than that implies. You can't so much as have two siblings quarrel without the AI insisting on turning it into a moral. Right then and there, immediately, never mind the concept of "Stories longer than a single page".

It also refused to help me write a Python script to identify substations that would be attractive sabotage targets (low security, high utilization, likely to cause a cascade failure), or to answer my questions about the security of grid remote management.

It also didn't want to talk about the use of nuclear isomers as initiators for pure fusion weapons.

OpenAI doesn't want that story to be written, but after Microsoft Tay, you can be sure someone's got an axe to grind and is itching to write it, especially against such a high-profile target.

How does a disclaimer stop that article from coming out?

As usual, censorship and propaganda will arrive in a wrapper of "save the children"

Seems like a simple solution would be to have another hidden bot who is just told to look at outputs and determine if it inadvertently contains information that it's not supposed to according to the guards in place....and I wonder if you could also outsmart this bot...

This repo talks about it.

I'm sure it's a failure of imagination on my part, but when you say you might drop Netflix in favor of using the ai generator tools, my interest is piqued! What's your average play session like?

> Customers will also be able to access ChatGPT—a fine-tuned version of GPT-3.5 that has been trained and runs inference on Azure AI infrastructure—through Azure OpenAI Service soon.