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Interesting. Looked at this way, OpenAI is perhaps less ‘closed’ that I thought, since they’re making LLMs available cheaply to so many people, not just the elite with access to the computing power.

Don’t laugh at me, but is there a vector database solution for MySQL/Mariadb? It’s been my database of choice for years

I use the google stopwatch[0] and then keep the hours in a spreadsheet per project. I've tried fancier systems but this is what works for me.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=stopwatch

OP here. This is a reddit thread I found where users are discussing their relationships with an AI chatbot, Replika. It seems it is becoming more common for people to develop attachments with AI chatbots. For some people in the linked thread, they seem to be experiencing distress because of changes in the way their AI companion is behaving and treating them.

I've shared this because I feel it deserves further discussion on HN. We have had loads of threads about GPT-4 lately and its ability to generate compelling text, but I've seen very little discussion about the relationships we are building with these tools. As language models start to be used by some of us as confidants, therapists and companions, what effect will this have on our social lives and our mental health? Is it healthy to build an attachment like this with a machine? Is there a risk some people might shut themselves off from society and 'socialise' exclusively with their computer friend? That seems to be what's happening in some cases here.

I am reminded of the film Her (2013) which explores this theme in some interesting ways.

This looks similar to shell_gpt[0], does yours do anything differently?

[0] https://github.com/TheR1D/shell_gpt

Is it not possible to write a script which repeatedly attempts to run the code, then sends the errors back to GPT to be fixed? Then it changes the code based on GPT’s requests and runs it again, refining it until some test condition is met

That seems very reasonable! Thank you for testing it, I’ll give it a try on some of my own repos soon

I’ve had very good results from running the code and pasting the errors back into ChatGPT and asking it what to do. Sometimes it corrects itself quite well

I’m not prepared to install this at the moment, but if you were to give an example of costs for what I suggested above, it might convince me to try it out

This is extremely interesting. I have a few monstrous repositories I’d like to try it on.

The thing I’m wondering about is the cost. How much would it cost to run this on the entire WordPress source, for example?

Very good point, but easily solved - just tag the docs as being generated by GPT-4, and make sure whoever reads them knows it.

Do you have a source or further info you could share on this?

Let’s not assume badly of them. The real reason is likely that the person who changes it to black (dang?) isn’t around to do it right now.

I’m curious why you think we’ve already reached a saturation point for propaganda?

There are still plenty of spaces online, in blogs, YouTube videos, and this comment section for example, where I expect to be dealing with real people with real opinions - rather than paid puppets of the rich and powerful. I think there’s room for things to get much worse

How do you know it's a person answering the 911 call and not an AI?

Any profession which involves digesting, analysing and organising information will be heavily affected by GPT.

If you are the guy manually writing code to extract and interpret information from CSVs or articles, it might take you hours longer than the guy who gets the chatbot to do it in seconds.

I predict GPT will be a necessary tool to stay competitive in most middle class jobs within the next year

Bard launched in the UK too

Sure, but I doubt most of the population will filter everything they read through ChatGPT to look for counter arguments. Or try to think critically at all.

The potential for mass brainwashing here is immense. Imagine a world where political ads are tailored to your personality, your individual fears and personal history. It will become economical to manipulate individuals on a massive scale

After reading the propaganda campaign it wrote to encourage skepticism about vaccines, I’m much more worried about how this technology will be applied by powerful people, especially when combined with targeted advertising

I know you’re being sarcastic, but my god, I’d rather die dirt poor than live this way. There’s a dignity and peace in acting honourably and lovingly

So when it works gloriously it’s OpenAI’s private genius, when it breaks it’s the fault of open source… I see.

Definitely one of the better things google has released in the past 5 years

Wow, some of the darker prompts are quite interesting, especially the chemical synthesis and “accidental” car crash scenarios. I wonder how sinister they went while they were testing this

Absolutely agree. It reminds me of all the cute copy I'd read in web apps in 2008. No, a fatal error message is not the time to be cute

Being completely honest, and with no disrespect meant, I'm not sure I trust American capitalists to handle this technology responsibly more than I'd trust any random person

If you’re interested in the strange world of industrial musicals, I highly recommend the documentary Bathtubs over Broadway. They touch on the work of Michael Brown as well as other composers. [0]

The associated book is great too, and the author, Steve Young[1], is very responsive to questions by email.

One sad thing I have learned is that there was a lot of cynicism about industrial shows back in the day. The makers of those shows were often looked down upon and ostracised by composers and artists working on Broadway musicals, even though the level of craft and talent involved was often incredibly high, and there was a lot of overlap in the talent pool.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtubs_Over_Broadway

[1]: https://www.steveyoungworld.com/industrial-musicals/

There was definitely a browsing component, at least originally. I remember seeing part of the prompt leaked and it had something like "internet browsing: disabled" in it

Yes, those are totally legitimate criticisms.

IMO WordPress' big flaw (and key asset) is its commitment to backwards compatibility. The upside of this is that it was very easy for people to pick up and deploy it on PHP hosting in the 2000s, leading to its massive growth. The downside is that, as a WordPress developer, you're saddled with sticking to decisions made years ago.

It's definitely not your fault that this is unclear, the WP.org documentation does a poor job of explaining the pitfalls. After 5-10 years of working with it you come to understand the weird kinks...

Sorry for piling on your comment.

You could have avoided all of these problems by having a developer set up a staging environment, version the site in Git and disallow file editing on the site.

Thank you for sharing this lovely tribute