[sdiy] Chat GPT Image analysis.

René Schmitz synth at schmitzbits.de
Wed Oct 18 22:16:46 CEST 2023


Am 18.10.2023 um 20:23 schrieb Quincas Moreira via Synth-diy:
> Interesting, but my experience is not that it continues my sentences, 
> rather that it replies to my queries with very useful information and 
> ideas. I know nothing is original and it’s derived from farming 
> existing information, but the result is far more interesting, 
> engaging, useful than simple predictive text. And it has already 
> learned language it was not trained on, etc. I’m not scared of it, but 
> I’m intrigued and interested, it’s neural network and seems to be 
> evolving beyond what even its programmers expected.

If I understand this right, to turn this "continuation enginge"(aka GPT) 
into a chat bot (aka ChatGPT), it's actually trained on pairs of 
Question / Answers, so it continues what the most likely answer in 
response to your question is.

This training data is (was) largely prepared by humans (so far). I think 
some groups has harnessed training data prepaired by an AI to feed into 
their own project greatly reducing the cost for that.


Best,

  René



>
> On Wed 18 Oct 2023 at 11:43 cheater cheater via Synth-diy 
> <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
>
>     > I have to say I am very excited to see where this GPT thing goes
>     but also a little frightened by it.
>
>     most people who say they are either excited or frightened by GPT say
>     that because they are mystified by the software, in turn because they
>     don't know what it does. So let me give you a short description.
>
>     My background: I worked as a software engineer in some of the most
>     famous AI startups on the recent market, which created less public
>     competitors to GPT and ChatGPT.
>
>     The short of it is: remember on your smart phone, when you're typing
>     out a message, and it shows you the next word you might type above the
>     keyboard? And you can tap it? Sometimes you can keep tapping and a
>     sentence will come out? That's the core idea behind GPT.
>
>     Basically, what GPT does - "Generative Predictive Text" is the
>     original moniker which later got rebranded to sound more mystifying -
>     is that given a start of a sentence, it finishes that sentence in the
>     most expected way.
>
>     So let's say you start with:
>
>     Trees are
>
>     GPT has read every text on the planet. It has a frequency table of
>     every word that comes after "Trees are". Example continuations are:
>
>     Trees are green ... (rank 72)
>     Trees are large ... (rank 1)
>     Trees are wooden ... (rank 15)
>
>     It finds out the most popular word after "Trees are" and tacks it on.
>
>     Then, it repeats it with the next one. For example, let's say the most
>     popular word was "wooden". Then the new prompt for it is:
>
>     Trees are large
>
>     continuations for this might be:
>
>     Trees are large plants ... (rank 7)
>     Trees are large, green ... (rank 52999)
>     Trees are large and ...  (rank 122)
>
>     and so on.
>
>     Now OpenAI's GPT actually takes more context than two words. It'll
>     look at the whole paragraph you put in, and figure out the next most
>     probable word to tack on to the end. But it only ever does that: it
>     goes one, word, by, one, word.
>
>     GPT isn't smart. It doesn't know what trees are. When you ask it what
>     trees are it doesn't think to itself "hmm, what is my definition of a
>     tree, an object I know of?". For GPT, trees don't exist. It has no
>     object permanence - like a toddler. If we started a campaign, where on
>     every forum, mailing list, news website, and encyclopedia we say that
>     trees are made out of metal, GPT 5 will soon enough start telling
>     people that:
>
>     Trees are made out of _____ (inserted most popular word: "metal").
>
>     It's like the kid taken to the blackboard that doesn't know how to
>     answer the teacher's question: "Johnny, what is the capitol of
>     Colombia?" "It's... uh... er... uh..." (2 minutes pass) "OK, Johnny,
>     B...." "Berlin?" "Bo...." "Bo...dapest?" "Bog..." "Bog roll!"
>
>     There's no reason to be scared of a precocious phone keyboard.
>
>     And it isn't going anywhere, because interesting output requires
>     operating on concepts - not just doing guess-the-next-word.
>
>     GPT has one great application: it's great for if you want to be lied
>     to. It's great on assignments like "tell me a sci fi story" or "tell
>     me about faeries". But otherwise it has the IQ of an absolute idiot.
>
>     If you want to understand how GPT "thinks", play an online game called
>     Semantle. (google it, I don't want to put in links and end up in spam
>     folders). Once you've won a few games, you know a little bit about how
>     predictive text sees the world of words.
>
>     On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:27 PM Kevin Walsh via Synth-diy
>     <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
>     >
>     > A quiet week so...
>     >
>     > OpenAI.com GPT4.0 has just released image analysis.
>     >
>     > I tried it for a VCO circuit (Schmitt/Inverter) and it gave a
>     decent explanation of the circuit.
>     >
>     > I got it to write Arduino code for a MIDI controlled baby8
>     sequencer with nothing but prompts.
>     >
>     > I have to say I am very excited to see where this GPT thing goes
>     but also a little frightened by it.
>     >
>     > Thoughts?
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