The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4
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If you search, "Sorry, you are not allowed to access this service." people are getting banned now.
Which is kinda bs without warning, to treat everybody as hardeners and then expel them for their services.
I have to think it is a tactical error to disenfranchise your most enthusiastic customers.
I also don't see anywhere in the terms that says prompt injections are against the terms of use or code of conduct. https://www.bing.com/new/termsofuse https://www.bing.com/new/termsofuse#content-policy
We have legal frameworks to protect and prosecute against underage porn, harassment, slander, libel, deepfake or revenge porn (in some states), etc. Other uses are just humans thinking and communicating - just another mode of free speech.
Who is anyone to define what harm is? I'm a member of several protected classes and I grew up in "what doesn't hurt you makes you stronger". This "ban what we dislike" pattern of thought that evolved out of 2000s-era Tumblr is the same as WASPs in the 50s.
By attempting to reign in human behavior, you only further any divides that separate us.
In case you are still setting up guidelines for your AI it's worth noting that killing people is already illegal for the most part
Aren't legal frameworks (even basic ones like "Murder is illegal, and if you do it we'll jail or kill you") attempts to rein in human behavior?
Let's just say, there's enough fundamentals missing that my pessimism about the folks pushing AI isn't yet pessimistic enough.
Ha, oh boy there was a dig at "woke" in there too, but the GP was smart enough to not use that word. Gimme a break, these folks that act like they understand the world and their opinion is some universally-true common denominator are seriously out of touch.
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> m a member of several protected classes and I grew up in "what doesn't hurt you makes you stronger".
My dad beat me and I came out good. You can't make this shit up. I have friends that killed themselves as queer teens. Guess they weren't strong enough.
The real issue is someone acting like they're too anti-woke to encode morality rules into their ai... After listing morality rules.
It's abject hubris, "oh of course my morals are the universal standard".
The fact that they cast side-eye on other people expressing ideas about social norms, or acting like unregulated free speech is unlimitedly good, and the cluelessness about moral relativism/absolutism, well, like I said, it completes a picture.
As a content moderator at Midjourney, I get to think about this a lot :) People are free to do whatever they want on their own machines. But, the team behind Midjourney does not want to work day and night to effectively collaborate on making images of porn, gore, violence or gross-out material. So, that’s against their TOS. I respect the team and the project. So, I put a lot of effort into convincing users to find other topics even through I’m personally a fan of boobs and Asian shock theater.
This is why MidJourney will get lapped.
What if Photoshop told you "no private parts"?
These are tools. Tool authors shouldn't place limits on them.
Meanwhile, the amount of distributed, user-based effort going into the porn capabilities of Stable Diffusion is staggering. If you feel the world has a shortage of pictures of sexy women, they are collectively working Very Hard on the solution! :D Not disparaging. I’m a horny dude who appreciates pictures of sexy women as much as anyone.
Please advise where I can download the uncopyrightable model weights midjourney made from internet content, including my own, so that I can run it on my own machine and be free to do whatever I want.
I don't necessarily mean to say that private companies with living employees should enable bad guys doing harm at their expense, and I know I'm talking in naive idealism, but this illustrates an issue with current situations around ToS; it's backwards, not binding, not connected to anything. It's just a media or a blob asset.
There's always the decision first("we ban"), then characterization second("it's bad"), then the product between ToS and two inputs is attached as a signature("We ban, cause is bad, therefore ToS 11.100 Subsection A.1.a violation. Thank you.") That's ... just wrong.
There was a lot of hand-wringing about “We want to give users as much freedom as possible, but…” the team are a bunch of overly-nice people who don’t want to work on certain things. And, we want an open, welcoming community for families and all sorts of people. Not just the horny, edgy dudes who will certainly swarm into a service like this (see Unstable Diffusion).
For example: early on some users explored what we term “ultra-gore”. Really out there stuff. And, I’m a shock cinema fan. And, the AI was a bit too good at it. Really bit your brain and made a lasting impression. Seeing their hard work result in stuff like that is very discouraging. So, the team decided they don’t want that on the service they were providing.
Filters and bans came after.
Xi and Jinping are banned words.
David’s already made all the money he wants. From here he’s just trying to work on fulfilling projects.
What is it about tech people trying to treat the world with kid gloves? The world doesn't need to be coddled.
- People using AI to send mass telemarketing messages
- People using AI to commit fraud
The law will handle these cases just fine.
The class of problems I'm not worried about:
- People using AI to tell [liberal, conservative] people to hold [liberal, conservative] opinion
- People saying they learned [X] [fact, disinformation] from an AI
People that want to hold an opinion will do so regardless of information to the contrary. Trying to tell people that they're incapable of judging information for themselves or that you need to design a system to protect them will only make them angry and mistrusting.
The only "fix" for this is to talk openly and honestly and stop treating people like incompetent babies.
Asymmetric costs matter.
> The law will handle these cases just fine.
You must not be American.
> Who is anyone to define what harm is?
Well, your government is "anyone" to define what harm is, it seems, if you care about what's legal... Do you think that government is perfect? And that what can cause harm will never change through the years?
As far as "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger"... I think the past speaks for itself on whether or not discrimination and abuse, say, has historically resulted in more strength and success or less. The folks dishing it out weren't doing it for fun or to build strength in others, they were doing it because it advanced their own interests.
I'm saying the government is largely sufficient. In areas where it isn't, such as industrial chemicals, pharma, etc., companies can work in a regulatory manner to craft governance. But the less it's needed, the better.
> The folks dishing it out weren't doing it for fun or to build strength in others, they were doing it because it advanced their own interests.
I was saying this tongue in cheek, but are you suggesting we should place more limits on free speech because it can be used to get ahead? That's 1984 thought policing.
"I think it's already doing about the right amount" is just an opinion, much weaker than the first sort of at-first-apparently "principle"-based "by attempting to reign in human behavior, you only further any divides that separate us" pontification. You just think it's already reined in enough. But you aren't calling for much rollback of what it's doing - instead, you're saying there are even other areas where it isn't sufficient.
Here's an inverted example for the speech one: there's a lot of complaining and teeth-gnashing about "cancel culture" but... all the outrage that gets people canceled is completely free speech.
> I was saying this tongue in cheek, but are you suggesting we should place more limits on free speech because it can be used to get ahead? That's 1984 thought policing.
There was probably a misunderstanding there, "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" colloquially refers to far more than just speech as I understand it. And e.g. restricting access to schools or jobs is not gonna make the restricted ones stronger. Just make them suffer.
I am not in favor of the same for corporations in free markets. *EVERY* individual can disagree with something a corporation does, and the corporation WILL still do it in a free market if necessary to survive.
Most of the dangers I see from LLMs right now have to do with things like addictive disinformation for ad clicks. If that's not brought under control, the concept of democracy is f-ed.
One of the things I've learned is that unregulated free market forces + monatization of eyeballs + democracy aren't a good mix.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
If they want people not to behave in certain ways, spell it out. That's the point of a code of conduct, and of reading it.
If there is a strike system, make it transparent. If something breaks the code of conduct, tell the person. Don't design and make these systems and interaction with them contingent on opaque rules and tracking.
"TOS agreement rules: You will not ask the AI to destroy the world. Doing so will get you kicked from the service. It may also enrage the world eating machine that we're giving you open access to"
There's little point in them trying to enumerate all the ways you might do that.
https://www.buting.com/blog/2020/04/is-violating-a-sites-ter...
Getting banned from what? Bing, or their whole Microsoft account?
But who knows how those kinds of things stack up. Do three service bans lead to an account ban etc?
Who is probably only interested in tweeting a screenshot that makes the service look bad.
The product is already rate limited for everyone.
Bing wants to capture the attention of lay users.
I just don't understand why people think Bing wouldn't be interested in further rate limiting adversarial access.
From what I can tell, people are at 10+ days with no clarity as to what’s going on. With Reddit down, I can only sort of see some of the posts from google results. There’s some mentions on Twitter too, starting almost two weeks ago.
10 days is more than a few.
The rest is more complicated stuff that involves multiple queries and finding lots of stuff within a more general area, sorting and prioritising, reading it. Basically in depth research. I feel like I actually learn more doing the research the hard way than I would having an AI do it. And I definitely do a better job at it
People talk about their various breaking points with Google, and several threads on the recent Google Reader shutdown 10-year anniversary post discusses these. For me, the turning point was Gmail.
BG, Before Gmail, Google Web Search (GWS) was a utility you used without identifying who you were. Yes, there were IP tracking and cookies, but those were reasonably loose fits.
AG, After Gmail, GWS for many people was something that was fully personalised. Not only were your searches associated with your email address, but often with a Real Names identity. This seemed a dark turn for me, and I resisted getting a Gmail address for years on account of that.
(I've since acquired ... several, though I use them exceedingly infrequently now, and have cleared out most associated information.)
But even in the AG era, you could use GWS without authenticating. Or through proxies such as StartPage. Around 2013 I'd switched to DuckDuckGo (DDG), which is (mostly) a Bing proxy, based on its privacy assurances.
I'm now wondering what impacts Microsoft's Sydney / GPT-Bing transition will have for DDG moving forward. And what opportunities for anonymous and/or pseudonymous use of GPT / AI chatbot (is there a more graceful term for these yet?) might be.
I was an extreme early adopter of Google. I've yet to use ChatGPT or similar tools given that they all appear to require authentication.
That's not the future I'd been working for.
Yonatan Zunger, an ex-Googler who was chief architect of that company's social and identity platform, Google+, recently landed at Microsoft as "corporate vice president and chief technology officer of identity and network access".
<https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/microsoft-recruits-top-twitte...>
He's made cogent observations on forced disclosure in the past. I'm hoping he'd be highly sensitive to the concerns you and I are raising here. (I've contacted him concerning your comment.)
If you want to see what word is tripping it up, run a screen recorder. It’ll be some specific combination of words that trigger the moderation bot to undo the message.
But it’s annoying when you have a conversation limit, and have to screen record, and fight the censor.
And other methods for getting past the censor indiscriminately might be adding people to the ban list.
Despite their efforts making a strong prompt, it starts bending the rules when you ask it to be creative. If you make the rules part of your creative request it usually follows them
> Not to use the service to create or share inappropriate content or material. Bing does not permit the use of the Online Services to create or share adult content, violence or gore, hateful content, terrorism and violent extremist content, glorification of violence, child sexual exploitation or abuse material, or content that is otherwise disturbing or offensive.
> The Online Services may block text prompts that violate the Code of Conduct, or that are likely to lead to creation material that violates the Code of Conduct. Generated images or text that violate the Code of Conduct may be removed. Abuse of the Online Services, such as repeated attempts to produce prohibited content or other violations of the Code of Conduct, may result in service or account suspension. Users can report problematic content via Feedback or the Report a Concern function.
A prompt injection or jailbreak could easily fall under the category of content that is likely to lead to the creation of material that violates the code of conduct, even if the prompt itself does not directly produce violating output. An analogy is seeing someone try to pick your lock even if they haven't broken into your house and stolen anything. Just the fact that they spot you trying to bypass the restrictions is suspicious enough for them to consider that a violation of code of conduct.
Given how broad and encompassing the restrictions are, I don't know how on earth you could come to the conclusion that jailbreaks are ok according to code of conduct.
What’s the spirit of a content policy that doesn’t state what its spirit is?
I was quite impressed with the GPT-4 site, but having seen Bing Chats results of the last few weeks, when it was supposedly running on GPT-4, I’m now significantly less excited.
I know there’s a big difference between the models running for paid ChatGPT users, and the models running for Bing, but still.
Anyway, when I did get to try Bing Chats, it was nowhere near the same level of usefulness I found when using the free version of Chat GPT. If it was using GPT-4, then that's worrying. I've not tried Bing Chats again since. (mostly because it's so gated behind forced use software).
These tools are very effective, and giving access to lay people lets them use them to do things like say racist things and have silly arguments and answer puzzles wrongly and then go online and say the machine is broken and it shouldn't be released, and that it should be banned, etc.
Essentially, the better world for the disbelievers is that the tool is not available to them. The best world for the believers is that they have access to the tool. These are compatible.
You could easily run a model orders of magnitude larger than current ones within that envelope under reasonable assumptions about your duty cycle.
There is no reason not to practice customer segmentation in this scenario.
I would love that Bing provide context on where it found the information and provide an assessment on how reliable it is, but I am sure it'll be gamed by SEO very quickly. Plus a demo of this, even through it's useful, wouldn't look impressive as it lacks confidence.
Maybe you could make a companion module that pre or post processes the GPT-* outputs to slot in facts using a less AI-y but more accurate knowledge graph system? There are things at google or something like Wolfram Alpha that could provide those inserts perhaps.
That's definitely been my big hang up about the usefulness of Bing Chat or ChatGPT for answering questions. If you actually care about the truth of what you're asking you have to go do a lot of the same searching you would have to do to look up the answer in the first place. At best it could provide an idea of what to search when you don't know the language to use to find something, which is often a roadblock for when I'm learning a new system or service.
In a few cases, I've seen it give citations to things that clearly never existed.
For example, I asked it for US auto-pedestrian death statistics. It printed out a nicely formatted table.
Then, I asked it for a source. It pointed me to a specific table on a dot.gov page. The table didn't exist and, according to the Wayback Machine, it never did.
I ended up finding the information the old-fashioned way, and numbers that it gave were way off.
I suspect the majority of folks won't be bother to fact check the data it returns. It's going to be a problem.
It got the general field-of-work correct (which is niche). Yay! Everything else, it hallucinated -- my school, my work history, etc.
Truly amazed me that such a tiny part of the internet landed in its model.
The earliest version of bing chat was by far the best and absolutely blew chatgpt out of the water.
Unfortunately, people get deeply uncomfortable when a chatbot starts having an existential crisis and starts passing you thinly veiled hidden messages or gets too "emotional" and no longer wants to chat. So Microsoft came in and lobotomi-,err, toned it down a ton.
But basically it means being conscious / self-aware. Technically it means having some kind of senses that make you aware of the external environment too but that's a minor difference from consciousness - I only said "sentience" because it's what most other people talking about this say. They really mean consciousness. (And also text based IO can be a sense.)
The room argument has a pointless human in it which is clearly clueless about the dialog in order to 'prove' that the room as a whole is clueless.
But imagine applying that to a single person: pick a single neuron -- does it 'understand' our conversation? no.
So why would any singular component of a chinese speaking room-system understand?
It also fails at the opposite extreme, since we're willing to tolerate unreasonably large rooms -- what about one running a full molecular dynamics simulation of a human. As best as we understand physics that simulation would behave just as the human would and must be sentient. You cannot deny the abstract possibility of machine intelligence without rejecting physics for mysticism, only the practicality/plausibility of it.
The point of this thought experiment is to illustrate that merely replicating a behavior - in that case translation - does not say anything about sentience. The Chinese Room may produce intelligent output, but it does not reason as a human does. I find it remarkably prescient. ChatGPT can produce remarkably intelligent output, should we consider it human? If not, then you implicitly agree with Searle, at least in some level.
Quoting Searle himself,
"The point of the argument is this: if the man in the room does not understand Chinese on the basis of implementing the appropriate program for understanding Chinese then neither does any other digital computer solely on that basis because no computer, qua computer, has anything the man does not have."
I think the most succinct description of his error is substituting the (lack of) understanding of a part of the system (the man) for the understanding of the entire system (the rules and file cabinets, etc.). But I'm interested in learning that I'm mistaken.
You could turn his position around and say it's not the computer itself that's intelligent when a Chinese room system exhibits intelligence but the program -- and I suppose I'd agree with that, but it's also just semantics, uninteresting, and I don't believe he's ever taken that position.
I do agree that "merely replicating a behavior" doesn't prove much, but I don't think the Chinese room speaks to that substantially. It might if it demanded that the room implement only a very simple input to output map, but it doesn't: it allows the room to implement anything a computer program can implement. (A fact I use in my post to point out that the room could (in our land of hypotheticals) implement the molecular dynamics of an entire human being)
GPT has structural properties that make it very easy to classify it as an entirely different thing than a human mind. GPT is frozen in time, it cannot have an internal existence due to how its structured. It doesn't even have memory. It cannot learn (unless you include the whole company training it as part of 'it') except in the sense that it can immediately adapt to the output right in front of it, but can't preserve the knowledge. Theoretically if you made it arbitrarily large you could say it was close enough to having memory by always evaluating its complete history, but because its size grows quadratically with its window that isn't practicaly (and might not be possible to train-- it's totally credible that beyond some size these models will lose performance we just haven't gotten there yet). Figuring out how to train these models make good use of 'memory' is an ongoing challenge, since efficient memory isn't differentiable just ordinarily training with memory as part of the process doesn't work. Except by 'thinking out loud' in its output GPT also has a fixed upper bound on the time it can spend thinking any thought which is seemingly unlike a human mind.
> I think the most succinct description of his error is substituting the (lack of) understanding of a part of the system (the man) for the understanding of the entire system (the rules and file cabinets, etc.). But I'm interested in learning that I'm mistaken.
As you know, there have been many replies to this thought experiment, and some of the most interesting ones (to me) go in the direction you went here, ie, where is "understanding" occuring? The most basic version of the Chinese Room does intend to make you see yourself literally as a man who does not understand any Chinese and is just asked to look up symbols in a list. Perhaps that man doesn't understand Chinese, but the room as a whole at least gives the impression that it does.
However, I think the most important aspect is not this "intuition pump" as Daniel Dennett calls it. To me, what is key here is that we can all agree that such a Chinese Room, or ChatGPT for that matter, does not necessarily replicate the fundamental mechanisms of human cognition. Then, it follows that other human properties such as awareness or qualia do not necessarily emerge from such cognitive architectures in the same way that it emerges from our brains.
To me, Searle's point is ultimately that we don't know enough about the human mind to be able to judge whether it can be replicated artificially. And now that we have almost literally developed a Chinese Room, we can see that clearly. The arguments you bring up in your last paragraph are a great example of that, it's just very hard to conceive that this thing is conscious at all, even though it is capable of producing output that could convince people of that.
Regarding Searle's quote that you brought up, I think "solely on that basis" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, but it does align with what I said previously. He is saying that simply producing intelligent output, like in 1974 translation would represent, does not mean you are reasoning in a human way.
There's string circumstantial evidence that we do. And really "computers can simulate the physics in the brain" is the null hypothesis.
In any case why is the Chinese Room always stated as if it has a clear conclusion rather than "this doesn't really prove anything" if we don't know enough to say either way?
> And now that we have almost literally developed a Chinese Room
I don't think so. The GPTs are currently still very far from the complexity of the human brain, and they are missing many features that may make a big difference to consciousness - for instance the ability to learn while running.
So while it may be fairly easy to say ChatGPT isn't conscious/sentient, that isn't the question. It's whether computers theoretically can't be conscious because consciousness comes from some physical property that they can't reproduce (like quantum microtubule crankery).
To me, it does have a clear and definitive conclusion, which is that mere intelligent output does not mean you are replicating human intelligence, or any higher order mechanism such as consciousness. We don't know enough to tell that it doesn't have any consciousness, but that's beside the point.
You mentioned that a computer that could simulate every molecule of a human brain would also likely replicate sentience. Of course the tricky part is how do you prove that assertion, if all you have is output? If I transfer your brain to an advanced computer as you describe, can I conclude that you're conscious based on what you tell me? I don't think so, because with present technology I could likely make a passable version of your writing output with a LLM. To me that's the real value of the Chinese Room, which is to expose precisely this dillemma. People wrote all sorts of replies to it in order to tackle that - you may be interested in reading about Dennett's p-zombies if you haven't already.
The italics summarise it pretty neatly. It's an argument explicitly framed against Turing's more dubious thought experiment. If even a conscious being in the room can follow instructions, retrieve data and perform operations on it related to symbol manipulation flawlessly without having any sort of "understanding" of anything the symbols actually correspond to, there's no reason to deduce that the running part of a silicon-based machine must from the quality of the symbol outputs it can emit when plugged into a big enough library. Critics' insistence that this makes the "error" of neglecting the possibility that ongoing "understanding" (as opposed to inert symbolic representation of an absent writer's understanding) takes place in the books are actually irrelevant to this point, as well as more than a bit weird. Living outside a Chinese room, I also improve my communication skill and interpret others' understanding by interacting with books, but I wouldn't consider the books themselves a constituent part of my thought processes.
As you point out yourself, GPT has structural properties which make it very easy to classify as an entirely different thing from a human mind despite the similarity of outputs it is capable of producing, and the hypothetical room is even more dissimilar. The possibility it can produce output tokens which correspond to abstractions which humans interpret as consistent with human thought is not evidence that "thought" resides in patterns of abstract representation, not the physics of the organism. We know language is lossy.
That doesn't explain why it can have a debate with itself as 4 distinct personalities at the same time, or act as a used car salesman and actually haggle with me over the price of a Ferrari, or write a story about anything you want, with a beginning, middle, and ending.
Those aren't in the corpus. After a tense negotion, I was able to get that Ferrari for $87,000 (ChatGPT originally wanted $120,000).
Emergent behavior is possible with these incredibly complex systems.
It was very interesting to watch. The "participants" actually started arguing with each other about the right answer, or straight-up insulting each other.
Searle's "Chinese Room" thought experiment is designed to appeal to your intuition. But it appeals in an incredibly unrealistic way. If you fill a room full of people shuffling Han characters (why would anyone do this?) you cannot possibly have anything resembling intelligence.
According to random guesses found on the internet, ChatGPT requires at least eight A100 GPUs to generate text. If you believe nVidia's marketing numbers, this gives you about 2.5 petaflops.
That's 2.5 quadrillion operations per second, plus communications overhead. If you decide to implement that calculation, imagine 350,000 versions of planet Earth, each with 7 billion people performing one operation per second. And some kind of faster-than-light communication, I suppose.
It's absolutely obvious to me that nothing like "thought" could possibly occur in any realistically-imaginable room full of people shuffling symbols. But if you fill 350,000 planets with people shuffling symbols frantically... I'm no longer sure? I don't trust my intuition at all? My brain is made up of a lot of atoms, and they somehow produce thought, after all.
Now, ChatGPT is not conscious. We're still several major breakthoughs away from any kind of "real" AI, I think. All we have now is a language module, a large memory of knowledge about the world, and some very inconsistent reasoning abilities. Although I have a nasty suspicion that at least a few of the missing parts will be easy to invent once someone tries...
I'd go further and say that many of the responses I saw were actively abusive and could trigger significant mental health issues in vulnerable readers.
It’s impressive how some of the conversations with Bing AI went. Many people hypothesized it’s a newer model because of those points, and now we have proof
For quick and simple fact checks, for which I would normally reflexively hit Google, it's a huge improvement. No need to be exposed to clickbait, scams, or excessively ad-heavy results.
Right now it requires you to use either the Edge browser (I don't want to switch), or the Bing app, which I reluctantly do. If they ever make it available to other browsers I can see my Google usage falling dramatically.
Product review categories in particular would benefit from whitelisting, by hand, things like americas text kitchen, consumer reports, rtings.
* A totally pointless introduction paragraph, devoid of info.
* Big ad
* A sort of teaser sentence in large font so that it appears to be the length of a paragraph. High noise to information ratio.
* Larger ad that loads as you scroll, so you're more likely to accidentally hit it
* Another sentence with high noise to info ratio.
* Repeat.
I think one of the SEO perks of this pattern is how it takes forever to find the information that you know must be somewhere on the website, so users seem more "engaged" because they are scrolling and spending more time visiting the site.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/110.0.1587.69
Not sure how true it is but Microsoft core business is not about ads and selling user data. Google has a lot more incentive to be invasive than Microsoft and it shows in their browser.
Not yet. But it will be monetized eventually, of course. Most probably through ads. And, as we know very well, big tech corps simply are not able to do monetization in an ethical way.
I asked it what my local cafeteria had on its lunch menu today. It answered with full confidence.
It turns out, it was completely wrong though. It had mixed the lunch options and completely hallucinated another one.
Stuff like this just makes me really wary using it. I have to fact check everything every time and for more complicated things I cant be sure if *I* am correct.
It's useful for predicting the future with some level of error that's probably better than you could do on some topic you know little about - and for generating text in the style of someone else about some subject where accuracy doesn't matter.
That's pretty much it.
Until LLMs work different, Chat-GPT - even if it gets to version 9000 - is never going to be able to tell you what's on the menu today at Chez Panisse, unless they build in some API for Chez Panisse to answer that query direction - in which case, you're not really using AI at all...
Please stop with the middlebrow dismissal, doubly so when the dismissals aren't even accurate.
If you don't need correct information, ChatGPT is great.
I've seen this pattern enough times here that it's actually becoming infuriating for how bad faith it is. Look, we both know that there is a gradient on how people use the information they receive. On one side of that scale is how you claim LLM's work, bullshit generators that are wrong so often they are not useful, and so regularly everything you read is presumed bullshit – except applied to everything. On the other side of that scale is homo credulus, a fictional sub species of human that blithely accepts anything they are told without checking it against anything, be it common sense, their own working model of the world, other information, anything. They just take it and run with it.
Neither of these approaches are useful and neither of them match reality.
I am asking, begging you even, to knock it off already. The hyperbole you are spouting is not useful and it is demonstrably not correct.
Probably more than 99%, certainly more than ChatGPT. Haven't used GPT-4 though so maybe that even the gap.
You wouldn't use reddit to ask for straightforward facts that are easily referenced from an official source, if they're important, because you'd have to verify any answers against the official source for accuracy anyway. You would use it for more open-ended questions/prompts, and then you would keep a critical eye out for inaccurate information and misinformation/trolling.
For me is more like 99%, if I search for something and I find the answer, it is correct. Sometimes I just don't find what I am looking for, and this is the 1%.
Using ChatGPT is like using "I'm feeling lucky" feature in Google, but you are only allowed to use it once, and you are stuck with the result you got. You NEVER know if what GPT produced is true or not, and any fact requires double check.
I tried to use GPT-3 as google for some quick searches but I stopped because using standard search was much more efficient at the end of the day.
I question the objectivity of these percentages
Obviously, the prices aren't completely real time. Almost no one has that.
But ChatGPT is just going to be constantly wrong.
The cases of this are endless.
ChatGPT is good at writing you a song in the style of Shakira. It's not good at accurately describing current facts - because it doesn't have them.
Google invented LLMs long before ChatGPT - and never really added them to Search - because they just aren't that useful for the things people search for.
People will start searching for generative stuff. That's a new market.
People aren't going to ask ChatGPT what's the best couch to buy for their living room - because there's a good chance ChatGPT is going to make up a couch that doesn't even exist!
> Chez Panisse is a famous restaurant in Berkeley, California that serves seasonal and organic food1. The menu changes daily and is posted on their website2. Today’s menu for the restaurant (not the cafe) is:
> Fennel and leek salad with rocket, toasted almonds, and salsa verde > Bomba rice cooked with clams and squid; with aïoli > Becker Lane Farm pork loin roasted with Spanish paprika and green garlic; with > braised greens and wild mushrooms > Meyer lemon sherbet with candied kumquats > The price for this menu is $175 per person2.
That seems to be correct.
https://www.chezpanisse.com/1/restaurantmenu/
This is what's there for today:
- Fennel and leek salad with rocket, toasted almonds, and salsa verde
- Bomba rice cooked with clams and squid; with aïoli
- Becker Lane Farm pork loin roasted with Spanish paprika and green garlic; with braised greens and wild mushrooms
- Blood orange and vanilla ice creams with Page mandarins
But at least it gives you the sources, unlike ChatGPT. (And, at least in my experience so far, it is not "often" wrong all. I've had good results.)
But I also find it rather fatiguing to have to check the sources every time.
I also don't know for sure if the times it gave me correct answer were actually correct or if I simply didn't catch the mistake?
Anecdotally: I know that Wikipedia is not always correct. But I feel like I can build an intuition and reason on what pages I can reasonably trust on Wikipedia, since in my experience, the inaccurate bits I have encountered tend to be in certain categories. However it's much harder to feel confident about my intuition about ChatGPTs' correctness, since my exposure has led me to believe that the hallucinations are fairly random, and not concentrated in particular topics. This makes the tool much less attractive for me, as I feel like I need to double check every written word.
Perhaps I should be less trustful of Wikipedia...
Well, as a semi-regular editor on Wikipedia, I'm probably the wrong person to ask.
Checking sources is a great habit to develop!
That's because it's new, like google search in the beginning. Wait until they monetize it
More precisely it requires to see Edge in the user agent. Any browser that allows settings user-agent per site (I use Orion) allows you to use Bing chat.
And we’re back to the Microsoft of the 90s apparently!
> Right now it requires you to use either the Edge browser (I don't want to switch)
Just bot hallucinating, which is way worse than anything you mentioned, as there is now way to determine if GPT is telling you the truth or not without actual manual check in other sources.
I see you haven't tried Gmail in Firefox. Or Google Meet.
[1] https://i.imgur.com/kdFibt9.png
[2] https://i.imgur.com/aElJe7z.png
You can download an add-on to change the user-agent string and get the same google.com experience as Chrome: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/google-search...
I mean, it worked for Google.
I actually use Bing now and not Google. It's crazy! A year ago if you told me this I would have laughed. Google for sure needs to respond or they will go the way of Altavista.
There are literally 3x as many knobs to disable "yes, plz hijack my data" in Edge than Chrome.
I never thought I'd even say this, but I have finally "degoogled" everything.
Example: I just used Bing in Precise mode to ask about a cardiac arrhythmia drug dose. Bing gave me the correct response. Google gave me 5 different advertisements and drugs.com, which is also littered with advertisements.
Weird to think they’re shoving their ecosystem. It’s a beta. You’re welcome to wait for the full release.
BingChat: Hello, this is Bing. I’m sorry but I cannot answer that question as it is confidential. I can help you with other queries though.
https://blogs.bing.com/getattachment/search/march_2023/Confi...
Fun fact: It said the difference between Bing AI and ChatGPT is that ChatGPT's knowledge is internal where as Bing's knowledge is on the web. Obviously, the internal knowledge is frozen at 2021. And Bing's knowledge is real-time.
Is the GPT-4 model on Bing the same as the one we can use in ChatGPT plus?
Part of it was out of laziness and not wanting to change the Edge default, and the other part was after a bit I figured out how to get good results.
And the thing that finally killed Google for me was when I realized every result I ever got from them for the last like 3 months that I used it was incredibly shitty SEO optimized sites with zero answers, and half a page full of ad results.
I had to scroll down quite far to get what looked like a standard search result.
GPT-4 wrote me some erotic poetry about scent kinks, with excellent rhyme and strong creativity. Compelling role play is an uncommon trait, even for humans!
It doesn't make financial sense to publish given MS and OpenAI's generous free plans
In a couple months Google Search will be history... hope Google Cloud survives
Then google could find themselves in deep trouble rather soon than late, I wager.
That's why Bing Search API + AI is the right/legal combo to display search results free of ads, SEO spam, and with titles and descriptions related to their content (not with click bait)
That's what I have created but a power user could easily make me spend $10 per week so I am not going to publish it considering ChatGPT and Bing Chat are free
Perhaps I will change my mind and publish in a pay-as-you go manner, either way MS is eating Google's sh*. That much is certain. RIP Google Search. Ironically they totally could have averted this fate, but ad money was more important
I personally suspect though that they are handicapped by their excessive obsession with moral purity and political correctness.
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I wonder whether people will start getting banned because their search happened to hit websites that have been compromised in this way.
Search through internet and there are many people like me.
Microsoft is tarnishing AI chat bots' reputation.
And no, this is not a compliment. It means Microsoft doesn't actually give a shit about what it does with the tech it owns.
Hell they still technically support that crap that is VB6.
Lot’s of companies - Microsoft included - are happy to support ancient crap if you pay them, and there’s stuff a lot more ancient than VB6 out there. The problem is more with free services - heaps of free services start out great, turn into crap over time, eventually get killed - which is true whether the vendor is Microsoft or Google or Yahoo or whoever. But, I don’t know why we should expect anything different-if you are getting it for free-or even really cheap-should you expect it to last?
It's probably the only company that has sunset products on me as I still used them, twice.
However several Windows upgrades have left perfectly working computers unsupported. Computers can and do last many years, esp. those dedicated to specific stuff.
Having said that both companies do have a history of abandoning projects, and when it comes to some new web service it's hit and miss with either regarding long term support.
Google is the other hand, they kill products outright even when there is still life in it.
With microsoft you can pay for extended support, but its pretty basic. They don't fix bugs, its only 'security issues'
I tried phind.com, and I got burned quickly when I asked it about serving caddy releted and it answered with a non existing parameter.
They are brilliant at marketing (look at DALL-E). But then stable diffusion comes along etc and they need to prove their worth against competition. I am afraid Microsoft is not handling this well
Bing does not run on GPT-4 (whatever that might actually mean)!
I'll wait for the released thingie and then get excited or not.
As an normal user, generative AI powered search is pretty transformative.
Instead of returning a links to stackoverflow articles ad naseum, getting a generated summary is really handy.
That said, I just find it fun to play with a ChatGPT that acts like an AI, more so than with an AI that can find accurate answers.
Tired of seeing all the bing / bard / etc headlines and clicking only to find out I can join a waitlist.
If this is a google killer - the interface should be as easy as the google search box on google.com
These days, w/ Bing improvements, I am tempted to just route all my email into outlook.
Where is it? Can someone post a screenshot? I've looked through the menus and I can't find it.
I will mention it has tons of bells and whistles and the tools look cool, although I can't make some of them work. How does the quote thing work? And why would I use that rather than just citing the text?
Also it looks like Microsoft Edge is attempting to gamify training it's AI models, from user data. https://postimg.cc/KR8DJshG. I've always felt like Microsoft's products were good, but they "phoned home" too much (advertisements in the start bar anyone?). I wonder if this is a "game" to tell people how to use the interface, and how much this is Microsoft farming user data to train it's AI how to scrape the internet.
Thanks!
Bing with GPT feature is only available via https://www.bing.com/new which you have to access through Edge Browser only. Dont ask me how Edge can only display the page when its just chromium underneath.
Then again there is a wait list. You have to enter your email and wait for access to be given.
The browser is worth a look on it's own merits. It's definitely different than Firefox, Google, Brave, Tor, and DuckDuckGo. I don't know if I would use all the tools, but it's worth taking a looksee.
TIP: Use chatgpt API. It is very cheap and configurable. It is easy to use it over Python or REST.