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Delphi: Clone Yourself

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Sounds interesting, but I don't trust this service to keep my data safe. The polished, scroll-hijacked website and the call for VC funding doesn't help.

I have a website that has a sloth on it, with blocky gradients. Does that invoke trust? https://mitta.ai

Joking aside, anything you use with AI should have a clear privacy and terms of use.

I would trust that sloth with my life

It would be interesting to do this, but not on someone else's hardware. I don't want clones of me out in the wild.

I thought the post is about Delphi, the language. Why chose a name already used in tech? There are many ancient Greek cities if you fancy naming your product after one of them.

I guess because the clones are seen as oracles (mediums of the gods), and the temple at Delphi was famously known for its oracle, Pythia.

They should have called it Oracle, then ;)

I just copy-pasted a prompt I used in GPT-4 that would not be relevant at all to the suggested prompts in order to figure out what model and constraints they have.

The result was a bit worse than my result earlier and so I tried it in GPT-3.5 and then with a few other of their bots.

Seems like they are using user inputs to fine tune 3.5, which makes perfect sense and what I would probably build too.

I would be extremely interested for somebody to quantify the additional skill sets that are available in this corpus versus the broader corpus of whatever is going to be in the GPT4 and beyond data update

Sadly, my guess is that unless there’s some other draw beyond the individualized tone, then the massive general systems that get the most users will make these small efforts impossible to sustain.

A tangential thought does occur to me though:

If I was to ask my grandmother a question and she had a detailed answer for something that I know she had no experience in, I would question the validity.

So the fact that me asking one of these bots about something that is totally out of their wheelhouse, and they have a clear answer, is not something I would expect from a real person.

I wish this becomes a product. A GPT that learns on my content. Ordinary stuff though, emails, documents, chats, calendar, …. And continuously trains and runs on a local server. Is this a thing already?

I’m waiting for the same thing! My dream is a sort of personal oracle which can answer questions from my youth which have long been forgotten, but could be gleaned from the many millions DMs I’ve exchanged over the years. What was that band Lidia introduced me to in grade 11? Here’s the answer, and the messages that reference it.

You described it perfectly

Naming clash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_(software)

Naming clash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi

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