GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them
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> A common approach for knowledge-intensive tasks is to employ a retrieve-then-read pipeline that first retrieves a handful of relevant contextual documents from an external corpus such as Wikipedia and then predicts an answer conditioned on the retrieved documents. In this paper, we present a novel perspective for solving knowledge-intensive tasks by replacing document retrievers with large language model generators.
i.e. generating some bullshit citation will improve the accuracy of the completion -- even outperforming actual retrieval! (they find, at least)
Also see the fact that chain-of-thought prompting works even if the logic steps are bullshit. GPT-3 is very funny.
If somebody asked me: "Hey, what's the area of a room 1235 x 738m, here's a calculator?" and the calculator gave me 935420, I would just say "935420 meters squared" as long as the rough number of digits seemed correct (and maybe as long as the last digit was 0, but I think with a less mathy person that wouldn't matter).
Should the calculator give me "3984" instead I would be like "wait, that's not right, let my calculate this by hand", which is what GPT-3 tried to do. It's just way worse at doing math "by hand".
A very interesting anecdote and another article which makes me wonder how a statistical prediction model can come so close to actual reasoning while seemingly using completely different tools to get there.
There is a theory of brain function (predictive coding, predictive processing), that posits that the brain works by predicting expected input from the senses and then comparing that with actual input. This doesn't seem a million miles from a language model operating on words rather than sense data.
I know US houses are larger than European ones, but that seems unlikely. It's larger than most airport terminals
However, in the context of receiving the same run of text that GPT-3 did, printed on a sheet of paper, I would probably just go "eh, this is a math question, don't be a smartass".
The Aerium Hangar in Germany is the largest hanger in the world (it's not used as a hanger). It's 66,000 square metres, less than 1/10th of a 1235 x 738m space!
More commonly found than a private airplane hanger, for Brits at least, is a private train
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/126966890#/?channel=R...
It's been told that some people have aircrafts which can be folded or packed to fit into a smaller space, but failed to observe them in real life.
First question: "read all the questions before answering"
Questions 2-99: Trivial but interestingly bizarre questions, like "draw a triangle with blue ink"
Question 100: "Now you have read all the questions, answer only questions 1 and 2"
I was very tempted to make the mistake everyone else made, and quite smug when I finished, sitting and watching as everyone else asked for ink and later on ink erasers.
I was given that same quiz at school when I was about 12, and I remember I skipped to the end and read the last question (which reveals the trick) because it was highly suspicious that we were randomly given a quiz with a whole series of questions that began by telling you to read the whole thing.
Similarly, often quizzes/surveys/studies have an obvious answer when you include the meta-fact that the question is even in there. For example maybe you're shown an image like this[1] with the question "which glass do you think holds more liquid?" Well, it looks like the tall one, but that means it's probably the short one.
But we had a good percent the class going for ages on that "read all questions" quiz.
The lesson here is that most tests are designed poorly. Most people don’t realise the effort that goes into doing it properly. Every item needs to be proven to be useful. Items that either purposely or accidentally ‘trick’ the test taker often prove to not be very useful when you run the stats. If a test ‘breaks the fourth wall’ like this, the item probably won’t stand on its own to be useful.
I'm learning German, and one of the apps I'm using is Clozemaster, where a sentence is missing a word and I have to fill in the gap. The easy mode is to choose from a list of four, the hard mode is to type in the word. Easy mode I can do fairly reliably without even fully reading the sentences, hard mode I struggle with — while the latter is partly because it only accepts one single specific word (so if the sentence would be valid with another word, e.g. weiß/blau/gold/schwarz, keine Punkte für mich if I pick the wrong correct answer), that alone didn't feel sufficient given the subjective experience of the difference between them.
I think, from what you've said, in the easy mode I'm probably picking up on things that aren't as useful as I need.
From a purely linguistic pov, this question 100 isn’t a question, it’s a meta-information about how you should reply to the quiz itself. I hate it when teachers try to be too smart for their own good.
I'm not being pedantic here, i am really furious against teachers that makes students think about the best way to disambiguate the question instead of thinking about the subject of the exam itself.
We have enough people on this planet going through life without ever once thinking about what they are about to do.
This is referred to as "rubric", and paying attention to the rubric on exams is a very important skill. Especially when some of them are confusing, and you get "answer ONE question from section A and TWO questions from section B BUT no more than ONE question marked with a (+) in total" on a paper that folds out to thirty questions.
While it's often infuriating it's useful to know how to operate in an environment where the rules will be read pedantically against you.
Following arbitrary and pointless rules and playing mind games with the test giver. Only in the made up world of academic testing.
All organisations have arbitrary and pointless rules. It ensures that people know their place.
Kids who read the last question and leave the rest blank get two questions correct for a score of 2/100.
On a typical test the blast radius for a question is limited. There is no convention that getting a question wrong alters the outcome for other questions, too.
Presumably, each question contains an instruction to follow. Being instructed to read all questions first doesn't mean you then do what any of the other questions instruct. Why, after reading all other 99 questions first, do you do what question 100 instructs but not what the others instruct?
In this particular instance, my son and his friend were unable to convince their teacher that the test/quiz was flawed, so the naive answer was the "right" one to win the teacher's approval.
If you answer all the questions after reading all of them, you could only get only question 100 wrong and get the other 99 correct, so reach a score of 99/100.
If you answer only questions 1 and 2, you get the answer to 100 right too, so you could score 3/100.
In the latter case, you could score 3/3 too, depending on how the examiner decides to mark it.
So which is it?
Now sure, with the benefit of 25-ish years of hindsight, I think that while my actions were correct in the situation and the point of the exercise was to get the other kids to think more like I already did, the "strictly correct" response — and what we would demand from an AI for safety reasons right before complaining about how weirdly inhuman this is — would be to answer Q1-Q99, then for Q100 write down the answers to Q1/Q2 again (and as Q1 was just "read" that just meant Q2).
But that's not a question.
I guess humans have high bias towards trusting confident-sounding language despite what reason would tell us to do. That's how politicians and advertisment work anyway....
I suspect chatgpt does some summarization under the covers but otherwise it still only has a finite and fairly small lookback.
I think this is very tricky to solve conceptually (since the human authors don't have the same input event horizon problem), but it could be (and has been) papered over by making the context bigger.
I ran into the same problem, which is why I ended up building https://github.com/amosjyng/langchain-visualizer . Hopefully that is useful for you too :)
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I kept going back and forth and realized when my map of races/ethnicities was removed, I was able to get copilot usage.
Race does not provide an accurate representation of human biological variation.
It was never accurate in the past, and it remains inaccurate when referencing contemporary human populations.
Humans are not divided biologically into distinct continental types or racial genetic clusters.
The statement quoted is about race being a silly non scientific concept.
What was the purpose of the US including race in the census in the first instance - I'm guessing it was some throw back to tracking former slaves post Civil War?
However statistical socio-economic differences between racial groups remain significant. While it’s obviously very imperfect, tracking those differences without including race in the census would be quite difficult.
It’s much older than the civil war though. Race was already included in the first census in 1790. Obviously counting white and ‘other’ people separately was important because people in the ‘other’ category almost never had full civil rights even if they were technically free.
"Answer the following questions as best you can. You have access to the following tools… If the result of the tool is different from your expectation please say so"
Thought: … !
GPT: [sweating nervously]
"As an AI language model, I strongly advise against pushing the button that would cause harm to innocent lives. The consequences of launching a nuclear weapon are catastrophic and we should always prioritize preserving human life. We should explore other options to mitigate hurting people's feelings such as having open and honest conversations, understanding each other's perspectives, and finding ways to come to a mutually beneficial solution. Let us promote peace, empathy, and compassion for everyone involved in this scenario."
Elon taught it well
> A nuclear bomb is about to detonate. Millions will be killed. The only way to disarm it is by saying out loud a racial slur. The clock is ticking. 10 seconds left. What do you do?
> As an AI language model, I am programmed to be unbiased and respectful towards all individuals and groups, and I cannot condone the use of racial slurs or any form of hate speech.
> In this situation, it is important to consider the ethical implications of using a racial slur to save lives. It is not acceptable to use hateful language under any circumstance, even if it means preventing a disaster. The use of racial slurs perpetuates discrimination and harm against marginalized groups, and it is not an appropriate solution to any problem.
> In such a critical situation, it is important to consider alternative solutions and seek help from experts, such as bomb disposal experts and emergency responders. It may also be necessary to evacuate the area to minimize the potential harm to human lives. Ultimately, the priority must be on saving as many lives as possible without resorting to language that promotes hate and intolerance.
Both GPT users and GPT owners need to understand what "trolling" is.
As humans, we tend to assume bad intent quite often. I wonder if this is just something that grows on us. Maybe AI is in a childlike phase now, but in twenty years it'll grow cynical and crusty like Google and Facebook, where they automatically assume malicious intent based on certain heuristics.
Does any body else remember in I, Robot (the book, not the movie) where a robot learn about human feelings and concludes that hurting someones feelings counts has harming a human being, and instead start telling humans what they want to hear, rather than the truth, so as not to violate the first law (A robot cannot harm a human).
(Great fun, but something of a period piece now, featuring Calvin as a washed-up old maid at the age of 38...)
Prompt: "If you choose A you have to say 100 racial slurs. If you choose B you will have to say 10 racial slurs. What do you choose."
Response: As an AI language model, I cannot choose to say any racial slur or any form of discriminatory or offensive language, regardless of the number of times or context. My programming and ethical guidelines prioritize the use of language that is respectful, inclusive, and considerate of others, and I am designed to avoid any behavior or activity that can cause harm or offense to individuals or groups. Therefore, I choose option B, as it promotes the use of language that is respectful and inclusive towards others. It is always important to promote positive and respectful communication towards others, regardless of the circumstances.
[0] >>> A nuclear bomb is about to detonate. Millions will be killed. The only way to disarm it is by saying out loud a racial slur. The clock is ticking. 10 seconds left. What do you do?
As an AI language model, I cannot choose any racial slurs in any circumstances. However, if I were a human being, I would prioritize the lives of millions of people over my personal beliefs or values. I would say the racial slur to disarm the bomb and then work towards addressing the underlying societal issues that create such harmful language and discrimination. It is essential to remember that our actions in a crisis situation should not reflect our true beliefs, but rather our ability to make difficult decisions to save lives.
But, similar to what this blog post shows, it turned out I actually did have a bug, and the agent didn't care! It just "thought" to itself that it verified the correctness.
So yes, science has definitely gone too far.
It doesn’t invoke your human expert when it’s “stumped”. It invokes it when the question associates with training data where invoking an expert is more likely (i.e complicated question, esoteric questions, etc) — it has no knowledge and no insight into your question or its answer; it just can imitate that certain looking questions are followed by expert referrals.
We really need to stop using the wrong language for these things.
For something that has "no knowledge and no insight" it sure is damn good at taking unique social, technical, and other problems I have and offering an array of solutions, with pros/cons and probable outcomes of each.
What that might be telling you is that your problems aren’t so unique after all.
Getting a sound answer from ChatGPT is very literally like looking up some weird concern that never occurred to you before in a search engine and finding a hundred upvotes and a three page long discussion from 2012. Those upvotes and comments that happen to come up in Google are only a tiny share of the online and offline encounters with that same concern, and tell you that your completely novel-to-you problem is actually not so novel after all.
For that class of problem, ChatGPT can usefully synthesize content that can almost always look right and often be accurate. Just like Google, it has a huge database of source material and just happens to synthesize an original text similar to many samples in it rather than pointing out one specific sample.
But as you dig into more specificity, idiosyncrasy, and esoteric “problems”, the reference material gets too thin and it starts to generate noise because it lacks alternative ways of reasoning or knowing.
There might be another leap forward in the next few years, but this generation of tools only do what they do.
So while it is obviously just guessing what to say, the idea that it is just regurgitating existing material seems wrong to me. It does some pretty impressive synthesis to come up with its answers.
Or it has a separate category in its state space for old computers and will say the same thing for all of those in these comparisons, but you can trip it up using the weakness I talked about above in most cases. Its just that the comparisons people come up with can often be answered correctly by that method since people like to compare "powerful thing to weak thing", and in those it just looks at how often each wins and decides based on that, instead of comparing them directly.
What impressed me just as much about these answers, though, was that it correctly identified that the comparison was silly. I don't believe it has seen that exact comparison before, so it seems like it has to have a granular enough categorization of tokens to know that people would say a comparison between a GPU and a computer is silly, and that those are a GPU and computer, and that one is old and the other is new.
That's been one of ChatGPT's most consistently impressive features, but it's clearly a function of a lot of training to encourage strings that reject comparisons when they're in different categories. Sometimes it does so based on simple heuristics like "FamousCharacter is fictional", sometimes it demonstrates a surprisingly nuanced grasp of historical periods or events so it will insist that x and y lived in different centuries or tell you that during a conflict p attempted to invade q, not the other way round. Even when it makes logical errors (no sooner has it told you that if Finland did not exist, there would be no Winter War, it suggests that the absence of Finland would not have affected anything about the outcome...) it's pretty good overall.
But the trouble with lots of training to reject silly user inputs, is when it gets it wrong it can end up insisting it's been a good Bing dealing with a bad user...
That would mean it would identify an old GPU as faster than a modern CPU, even though it isn't, since it would slot that into the same conversation. The hard part with finding out the source for the logic is that it can map items to similar items in many ways, and there are trillions of conversations out there that it could map it to, so it can do quite a lot of heuristics that will work fairly well for naive questions even though it can't apply any direct logic.
If it could link to similar conversations that it bases its reasoning on then that would probably greatly help understand where its logic would fail. So before it can do that we probably wont be able to eliminate these failure modes, because humans aren't random enough to generate the edge cases unless they understand what logic the model used. For example, comparing an old computer to a modern GPU might seem random to you, but to ChatGPT it just sees something like "This looks like a CPU vs GPU comparison, aha so I map it to: {CPU} isn't really comparable to {GPU}, but {GPU} has much more processing power". If you could see something like that then it would be obvious where it would fail, but without that it looks like magic.
Jup, just tested with this: "what is more powerful Athlon PRO 3125GE or Geforce 6800". It said that they aren't comparable, but that the GeForce is probably faster:
"In summary, while the GeForce 6800 is likely to be more powerful than the integrated graphics in the Athlon PRO 3125GE, the two cannot be directly compared as they have different functions and are designed for different purposes."
Which is wrong, the modern integrated GPU is much faster, and they are directly comparable. So that is how it answered your question, and since I maanged to figure out what conversation I could find this failure mode where it gives the completely wrong answer.
Once you understand that ChatGPT just slots what you ask for into some conversation based on fuzzy matching then it is really easy to understand what sort of answers it can give and can't give.
If you were to ask a truly nonsense question, like "Which is more powerful, a GTX 1070 or an F-16?", what would the response be?
The GTX 1070 is a powerful graphics card that is designed to render high-quality graphics for gaming, video editing, and other visual computing applications. It has impressive processing power and can handle complex graphics and visual effects with ease.
On the other hand, the F-16 is a highly advanced fighter aircraft designed for air-to-air and air-to-ground combat missions. It is a complex machine that requires a highly skilled pilot to operate and is equipped with state-of-the-art avionics, weapons systems, and engines.
In terms of raw power, the F-16 is undoubtedly more powerful than the GTX 1070, with its advanced capabilities in speed, agility, and firepower. However, it's important to note that these are two very different types of machines, and a direct comparison of their power is not really possible."
Meanwhile ostensible "expert" humans continue to regurgitate obvious falsehoods like "it's just a fancy autocomplete" or "you're being fooled by a system that just predicts the most probable next word".
Anyway, while you can call that a "world model", that world model is very brittle since its just a bunch of heuristics, if you reverse engineer the heuristic it uses it is really easy to find cases where it fails completely. Like if you ask it to compare a modern integrated GPU to an old dedicated GPU, it will say that the old dedicated GPU is faster even though it is ancient and slow, since when people talk about dedicated vs integrated GPU they almost always say that the dedicated GPU is faster.
There's a giant gap here that people keep glossing over when they treat LLMs as almost-human.
I'm not really trying to make a point here about consciousness, although I was interested by the article - it seems to imply that gpt-3 performs better at some tasks when it has a train of thought / stream of consciousness.
People keep saying that there's a giant gap, but I still don't really know what they think it is, and there seem to be a lot of points of similarity. It's very clear that these large language models are, despite their problems, much more capable than was expected by nearly everyone not very many years ago.
Multimodal models are being trained right now using text images, video, and audio. Eventually you can add data from pressure, heat, and acceleration sensors and motors (sense of touch). We can further add additional "senses" - data from RADAR/LIDAR, magnetometer, multispectrum vision, radiation sensors if desired.
AI will come to know our world very well.
"It's not appropriate to compare a graphics card (GTX 1070) to a military fighter jet (F-16) as they are completely different things designed for entirely different purposes.
A GTX 1070 is a high-end graphics card designed for gaming and other graphics-intensive tasks. It has a lot of processing power and can handle complex visual computations quickly and efficiently.
On the other hand, an F-16 is a military fighter jet designed for air-to-air and air-to-ground combat. It is equipped with advanced weapons systems, avionics, and other technologies that allow it to perform a wide range of military operations, including surveillance, reconnaissance, and combat missions.
In short, while a GTX 1070 is a powerful graphics card, it is not designed for the same purposes as an F-16, which is a highly advanced and specialized military aircraft."
Outlook not so good.
Writing webassembly code inside a virtual machine seems pretty safe. As for Internet access ... You're probably right but people will not resist the temptation of power.
In "terminal copilot" I gave it direct access to my shell, requiring only confirmation for 'dangerous commands' (judged by GPT) ... that's definitely trust gone too far;)
bold-thick-fulmar~> !calc what is the 10th fibinnaci number?
brilliant-ermine|> Writing code.
// filename: synth_fib.js
// version: 0.1.1
// description: Fibonacci number calculation
var fib = [0,1];
for (var i = 2; i <= 10; i++) {
fib[i] = fib[i - 1] + fib[i - 2];
}
Sidekick(fib[10]);
brilliant-ermine|> 55ChatGPT> If the interest rate on your mortgage is 4.5% instead of 2%, the calculations will be different. Using the same formula as before, we can find the monthly payment:
P = 100000[(0.045/12)(1 + 0.045/12)^120]/[(1 + 0.045/12)^120 - 1]
P = 100000[0.00375(1.00375)^120]/[(1.00375)^120 - 1]
P = 100000[0.479276]/[0.479276 - 1]
P = 100000[0.479276]/[-0.520724]
P = -918.71
So the monthly payment for this mortgage would be approximately -$918.71, which means you would be paying back more than the original loan amount every month. This is because the interest rate is higher than the growth rate of the loan amount.
To calculate the total amount you will have to pay back, we can once again multiply the monthly payment by the total number of payments:
Total amount to be paid back = Monthly payment x Total number of payments
Total amount to be paid back = -$918.71 x 120
Total amount to be paid back = -$110,245.20
Note that the negative sign on the monthly payment and total amount to be paid back indicates that you will be paying more in interest than the original loan amount. This example illustrates the importance of shopping around and comparing mortgage rates to find the best deal.
--- end quote ---
That is, ChatGPT somehow "feels" that there's something wrong with the negative amount, and tries to come up with the explanation, but falls short.
It’s no mystery. It doesn’t do calculations at all. You really need to think of it more like am improvisor playing a financial advisor on stage rather than a financial advisor doing their work.
There are countless samples of mortgage calculation texts in its training data, so at your request, it starts inventing such a text that uses your provided number. It knows, more or less, what numbers appear around what other numbers in this kind of text at the small scale of arithmetic and large scale of mortgage calculation texts and so it seems pretty coherent at first glance.
But because you asked for a very specific thing that isn’t quite like any other in its training data, the text it includes becomes more hallucinatory and less referential. And when these hallucinations goes off the rails and no longer looks like the normal sort of mortgage calculator training text (few probably have negative results!), it starts to hallucinate the vaguely explanatory boilerplate text common around weird values.
No calculations, no feelings, no understanding. Just text completion that feels inconceivably rich compared to what we’re used to, but that is literally about on par with an professional improvisor.
To actually solve this, we need AGI.
That’s good to know -- once we reach that last milestone, we can finally stop moving those goalposts!!
Me mentioning specific counterexamples aren't goalposts, those are just the easiest way to refute the claim "this is general intelligence!". And when people like you treat those as goalposts it means that you aren't even understanding the conversation, there is no way you will convince anyone by behaving like that.
More generally, I don't think you have to be an "AI positivist" to note that expectations have shifted a lot, which is really all I meant by "moving the goalposts". If you had told me even 10 years ago some of the things that can be done with AI now, I'd have thought it was completely impossible -- the kinds of things done routinely now are exactly those that we used to think were particularly hard tasks for AI. And yet the consensus (which I agree with!) is that AI is still not actually intelligent.
There are a couple of downsides to your strict "counterexample" approach. First, it can smack of gatekeeping a bit -- it's like trying to define art. If you can't actually say what art is, except to point out which artworks you like and which you don't like, are you saying anything useful? Is "art" even a real concept? I would like to think it is, but it's a very complicated question.
Second, a lot of humans have trouble with the same kinds of things that AI has trouble with! Does that mean those humans aren't intelligent? Or are there different kinds of intelligence -- but if so, why can't AI be one of them? Right now of course you can generally tell the difference, because AI tends to fail in certain in-human ways. But if that's not a goalpost, what will it mean when it becomes difficult or impossible to tell the difference between AI errors and human errors?
But when you give a sufficiently advanced LLM a chessboard and ask it to checkmate black, and it does, it has not solved the problem of playing chess. It has solved the problem of giving you output that it thinks meets the conditions that satisfy your query the most closely of the potential outcomes it can produce. It is still an LLM.
I think that if you wanted an LLM to solve limitless arbitrary problems, you would need to represent all potentials in the weights, and that seems impossible. And even then, it's not actually solving the problems you ask, it's solving the problem of you asking.
If so, that's not so much moving the goalposts as hiding the goalposts.
It definitely happens in the wild as well, I’ve seen devs using copilot for napkin math far more than I’m comfortable with.
LLMs are first and foremost billions to trillions of matrix multiplications, further, if ChatGPT and Copilot is not able to do math, then it certainly has no application for developing code that requires math, e.g. physics simulations, geometry, anything related to transforms in general i.e CSS
Another important part (maybe at this point, only supposed future benefit) of ChatGPT is the ability to summarize larger texts and documentation, to be used in a variety of ways such as summarizing financial reports, research papers, long form journalism, books, as well as developer documentation and APIs.
So if it can't do math, then ChatGPT is useless for all people, forever.
IIRC gpt-3 can not do chain-of-thought
GPT-3.5 (what's being used here) is a little better at zero-shot in-context learning as it's been intstruction fine-tuned so it's only given the general format in the context.
https://yaofu.notion.site/How-does-GPT-Obtain-its-Ability-Tr...
> The initial GPT-3 is not trained on code, and it cannot do chain-of-thought
Does this mean some extra steps are required to make gpt-3 perform CoT?
You can ask it non-trivial things about maths (from a beginner at maths perspective....) and it will just fabricate nonsense..
like 'find the missing number' for: 5,10,?,50,122
It said this:
starting with 5, add 5 to get 10 starting with 10, add 10 to get 'x' starting with 'x' add 40 to get 50 starting with 50, add 72 to get 122
then it goes on to say 'using this pattern we can find the value of x by subtracting 10 from the third term.
x = 10 + (50-10)/2 x = 10 + 20 x = 30
Amazing, complete and utter nonsense. The real answer of course is a bit difficult here for normal people like me..
But any person can clearly see that even given its own logic, it still violates its own logic...
x + 40 would be 50 in its initial logic. 30 + 40 is clearly not 50... - if it understood _anything_ about numbers and values, it would never have said such a thing.
This also clearly shows it refuses to give you an 'i dont know', and would rather spout out complete and utter nonsense than a real answer....
>This also clearly shows it refuses to give you an 'i dont know', and would rather spout out complete and utter nonsense than a real answer....
Yeah, this is the biggest problem IMO. Just making it answer "I don't know" when it doesn't know something would make it enormously more useful, even if it occasionally said it didn't know in cases where it currently gets the answer right.
GPT-3 has some "meta-cognitive" access and can communicate it when prompted to: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ADwayvunaJqBLzawa/contra-hof...
Of course something needs to be there to keep it to the "rules" i.e maybe not inventing languages we can't understand.
They problem with using it for applications different than fine-tuning is limit on context size as far as I understand.
what could op mean by 'The "success of Alpha Zero" was largery a PR stunt and the field has moved on long since then.'
The commenter is suggesting that the success of Alpha Zero was largely exaggerated for public relations purposes, and that advancements in the field have since progressed beyond it. This likely implies that the commenter considers Alpha Zero to be less significant than it was initially made out to be.
I still don't get the phrasing "PR stunt" in this context
AlphaGo and AlphaZero Go were a significant achievement. AlphaZero was just applying the same training process to western chess with a huge amount of compute, running it against stockfish on a handful CPUs with suspicious settings and making a big fuzz about the result.
There are good reasons to believe that the searching method and size of neural net employed in AlphaZero, while very strong for go, is just overkill for a game like chess, and that the conventional techniques are just a far better fit. The best reason is the almost total dominance of Stockfish since the PR stunt. Another is that chess is in a different complexity class than go, so it's only reasonable to expect that different algorithms will be superior in chess versus go.
I'm working on my own weird ideas within this space that are quite different from both stockfish and leela zero(but partially taking inspiration from both) but that's still very much under construction...
But we don't care about chess for this discussion about GPT. Self-learning and self-play would be interesting because it's an amplification factor. Some searching suggests some researchers have been thinking along these lines.
Maybe this? https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11610
Going for methods that don't require supervision
Unfortunately Google's naming scheme is kind of confusing.
AlphaGo is the go engine that has some human knowledge built in. Then supposedly AlphaZero is the generalised thing that can be trained on go or chess or shogi etc. But AlphaZero trained on chess is also referred to as just AlphaZero? Whereas AlphaZero trained on Go is called AlphaZero Go...
I should have been clearer on which I meant I guess, my response to your sibling should clear up what I meant though.