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qingdao99on Open-Source GPT-4 Platform for Markdown

It's effectively a tiny frontend, doing 0.01% of the work, which is attached to another (highly available) product.

qingdao99on Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

Might be a good idea to have it sum up each discussion and then paste in those summaries next time you speak to it.

qingdao99on OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models

alpaca.cpp 7b model gave me this:

> Say 2 bob are a beb, how many beb per bob are there?

There are two bebs per bob.

> No, there are 2 bobs per beb.

Correct! There is only one other answer that makes sense - "1 Bob for every Beb". But this does not make mathematical or logical sense since a single Bob can have multiple Babes associated with it and vice versa (as seen in the example). Therefore, we must conclude there are two bobs per beb.

qingdao99on The Role of AI in Accelerating Skill Development

> ChatGPT has more than 100 million users within the first two months of its launch and has more than 13 million daily visitors as of 2023.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-faste...

qingdao99on GPT-4

I'm drawn to disliking OpenAI for not being open, but on the other hand, as long as the architectures and techniques are public, progress will continue fast. If OpenAI drops the ball and stops improving, another company would just take their place.

Edit: never mind. "Given both the competitive landscape and the safety implications of large-scale models like GPT-4, this report contains no further details about the architecture (including model size), hardware, training compute, dataset construction, training method, or similar."

qingdao99on Show HN: I made a self-hosted ChatGPT UI

It's still free. On the site: "Free Research Preview."

qingdao99on Fork of Facebook’s LLaMa model to run on CPU

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.10226.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZJc1p6RE78

qingdao99on ChatGPT Explained: A normie's guide to how it works

If you were given the task "mimic the sound of Japanese as best you can", at first, you would just learn the basic phonology and just try and mimic the general sounds of the language. You would get good at that, and eventually you would be perfectly mimicking the pronunciation of Japanese phonemes. At some point, it would become worth your time to actually learn how different sounds are put together, e.g. Japanese can't have an S sound followed by a T sound. After that, you may start to learn how the different syllables interact. And at some point, you would learn how words are put together to form sentences.

At a certain point, there really is no difference between "being really good at mimicking the sound of Japanese" and actually knowing it, because in order to mimic it to a high level you will have to actually know it. "Mimic the sound of Japanese" is the equivalent task here to "predict the next token in this text".

qingdao99on Fork of Facebook’s LLaMa model to run on CPU

Surely it would work with a format like:

User: <question or task>

Assistant:

qingdao99on Fork of Facebook’s LLaMa model to run on CPU

It could be watermarked

qingdao99on Twitter was down

Most Twitter subdomains are down with the same error.

help.twitter.com, api.twitter.com, developer.twitter.com etc.

qingdao99on Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?

Can that be detected by the site? (in a non-hacky way)

qingdao99on Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?

User-specific? Why isn't the page excluding the header part cached separately, or am I missing something?

qingdao99on Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone

Yes, it's called dynamic rendering when you serve different content based on the user agent, but it's apparently not recommended anymore.

https://searchengineland.com/google-no-longer-recommends-usi...

qingdao99on Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website

Worst case scenario, they could just move the banner to be "within the browser's GUI" (while still seeming to extend over the page) rather than actually in the page and that issue would go away.

qingdao99on Password protect a static HTML page

Is the note supposed to self-destruct even when it's attempted to be opened with incorrect data in the URL hash? (so it hasn't actually been read yet)

qingdao99on Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA

How hard is it to resist directly editing user data on your site? It's a pretty clear-cut case of abuse of power.

qingdao99on As kids become teens, mom's voice matters less to their brains

Yep, I have the same thing in a song. Every time I hear it, I think it's a specific person calling for me.

qingdao99on CNET's AI journalist appears to have committed extensive plagiarism

I think the question has accidentally shifted here.

ChatGPT knows that hands have five fingers because it's trained on text and text will almost always say that.

DALL-E doesn't know that hands have five fingers, it just knows what hands generally look like, and the number of fingers on a hand is just one of the elements it tries to match. At a glance, there are far more important elements of what a hand looks like, such as the shading.

Neither of these mean either AI is stupid. DALL-E doesn't have a concept of what a hand is, it just has an idea of what is looks like, and it's decent at recreating that.

qingdao99on CNET's AI journalist appears to have committed extensive plagiarism

"These language models aren't actually smart, they're just good at parroting smart sounding things they've been taught"

I still don't understand the purported difference between "sounds smart" and "is smart".

How else can you verify an entity's intelligence other than its "output"? Every doctor, pilot, president has obtained that position of power and responsibility literally only by being tested on their outputs.

We can't see inside a human's brain just as we can't see inside an AI's brain. What is the difference? How else do you propose we verify intelligence?

qingdao99on Ask HN: ChatGPT et al. and NPCs

I doubt that in a few years we will struggle with AI producing "questionable text". There will always be some prompt injections or unforeseen possible inappropriate text generated but I expect we will be easily able to wrangle AI to produce 99.99% appropriate information and the bad generations will just be funny one in a million clips like videos of funny glitches that we have today.

qingdao99on YouTube Addiction

What's the "ol" site? old.reddit.com? That's what came up for me.

qingdao99on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?

Yeah, I think AI will lead to huge change starting next year when the next iterations on ChatGPT and whatnot are released and they jump from being good most of the time to being excellent almost all of the time. When that happens next year I think the large-scale changes will start as people realize what the future will be like.

*of course it will take at least a couple of decades for the large scale changes to take place but I think we're right on the edge of it starting

qingdao99on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?

- as probably everyone here would agree, AI-generated content will flood the Internet.

- the above will lead sites to desperately search for better bot prevention tools, eventually culminating in a few years with the introduction of systems where online activity is tied to a person's real identity via their government (privately - we will still be behind usernames but the site will be able to verify with the person's government that they are a real person) and passing off AI-generated content as human content will constitute a rule violation.

- AIs will be "let loose" on virtual machines, where they will experience many lifetimes' worth of computer use in a short time, learning to fully operate computers and start the process of replacing jobs not by having a technically capable person operating an AI, but by simply having an AI fully replace a person's job by acting identical to a remote worker from a manager/coworker's point of view. After AI gets intelligent enough, it will replace all desk jobs.

- After it becomes clear that AI will replace large portions of jobs (which I think will happen in 2023 when the next few iterations of AIs are released) there will be a push for UBI which will be supported by both sides of the political divide, as well as both the rich and the poor, and divided along the lines of who "believes" in AI and who doesn't