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AI News / Re: How will the OpenAI CEO being Fired affect ChatGPT?

« Last post by 8pla.net on November 18, 2023, 05:09:25 pm »

Thank you for your response, infurl.  Yes, Mr. Sutskever is still involved with OpenAI. I'm sorry to hear that Mr. Altman may have been sacked for lying. The details of his dismissal remain unclear but it is not related to Worldcoin or any other cryptocurrency project as far as we know. In the meantime, hopefully OpenAI is continuing its mission and making progress towards solving the alignment problem and developing AI that is beneficial to humanity.

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AI News / Re: How will the OpenAI CEO being Fired affect ChatGPT?

« Last post by WriterOfMinds on November 18, 2023, 04:42:16 pm »

If this really is just something about Sam Altman personally, then I doubt OpenAI or the development of ChatGPT will be much affected. If it's a sign of stress fractures in the organization (resulting from regulatory pressure, financial problems, or disagreements on vision) it could herald trouble.

Several other important people have already resigned in the wake of Altman being fired: https://www.businessinsider.com/3-open-ai-researchers-resign-sam-altman-dismissal-ceo-2023-11

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AI News / Re: How will the OpenAI CEO being Fired affect ChatGPT?

« Last post by infurl on November 18, 2023, 05:10:58 am »

If I understand it correctly, the technical founding partner Ilya Sutskever is still there. I mostly saw Sam Altman talking about the alignment problem and lobbying world governments to regulate artificial intelligence. I imagine that the development of ChatGPT and its ilk will continue unabated.

Mr Altman was sacked for lying about something to the board of directors. We don't know what he was lying about. It may have been unrelated to OpenAI and may have been his involvement with Worldcoin. I remember how my heart fell when I first learned that he was involved with yet another cryptocurrency scam. If that was the reason he was sacked then good riddance.

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AI News / How will the OpenAI CEO being Fired affect ChatGPT?

« Last post by 8pla.net on November 18, 2023, 04:58:41 am »

Let's have a discussion: The recent firing of OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, has sparked a lot of speculation about the future of chatbot technology. One of the products most affected by this change is ChatGPT, a natural language processing service that has been developed by OpenAI.

ChatGPT is an advanced chatbot that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to simulate conversation with humans. The technology uses a deep learning model called GPT-3 to generate responses. This algorithm was developed by OpenAI in 2020 and has since become one of its most successful products.

With Altman gone, many are wondering how his departure will affect ChatGPT.

First, it is important to understand that OpenAI is still committed to developing ChatGPT and other AI-driven products. Despite Altman's departure, the team at OpenAI has made it clear that they are still focused on innovating and improving the technology.

Second, Altman's departure may provide an opportunity for OpenAI to further refine their AI-driven products. Without his input, the team can take a more experimental approach to the development of their chatbot technology. This could result in new features or improvements that have not been considered previously.

Finally, the firing of OpenAI's CEO could also impact the future of the company. There is a chance that the company could pivot their focus towards other AI-driven products or even outsource parts of their development process. Whatever the case may be, OpenAI's future remains uncertain.

In conclusion, the firing of OpenAI's CEO presents both challenges and opportunities for ChatGPT and other AI-driven products. The future of these technologies is uncertain, but OpenAI is still committed to developing them in order to remain competitive in the industry.

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General Project Discussion / Re: Reasoner.js: a framework for generalized theory synthesis

« Last post by ivan.moony on November 16, 2023, 03:21:00 pm »

I did a major refactoring of the main loop. Now the code is a lot cleaner, meaning there should be less bugs. Speed of execution is also improved by a multiple factor. I think the project finally entered the phase when actually it may be fun to play around with. I also added some intriguing examples with binary numbers in the playground.

There is still a lot work to do, but I'm on it. This is the current roadmap:

Code: text

    [ ] alpha conception
        [x] theorizing
        [ ] implementing
            [x] main loop recognizing unrestricted grammars
            [x] variables substitution (to do: [ ] unbound variables)
            [x] gradual typing (to do: [ ] any depth metarules; [ ] deep variables)
            [ ] improved s-expr meta capabilities: mandatory `PAIR` and `LIST`
            [ ] non-deterministic sequent matching
                [ ] `READ` side conjunction
                [ ] `WRITE` side disjunction
            [ ] error messages
            [ ] stress test
    [ ] beta testing and revising code
    [ ] gamma release

As usual, there is online playground and the project home page.

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General Chat / Science Fiction - Nexus

« Last post by DaltonG on November 13, 2023, 11:40:28 pm »

For fans of science fiction:

To my dismay, it seems like most of the science fiction being written these days is some form of space opera and alternate science fiction themes are few and far between. So, when I run across a really well written no space theme, I have to share it with others. Nexus by Ramez Naam is really terrific and better yet, it's available in audiobook format and read by an excellent narrator. The book features advances in neuroscience and genetics embedded in a US based adversarial environment to prevent dangers from new technologies.

Nexus is part of a 3 book trilogy
https://101audiobooks.net/ramez-naam-nexus-audiobook/

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AI News / Re: Independent AI sovereignties

« Last post by WriterOfMinds on November 08, 2023, 04:51:21 am »

This is seasteading with an AI twist, and I'm not aware of any seasteading project that has succeeded. So it will be interesting to see where it goes, but let's say the challenges are serious.

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AI News / Independent AI sovereignties

« Last post by frankinstien on November 08, 2023, 02:33:49 am »

I posted before the issue of AI not being granted patents or copyrights to work that it produces and the problems it could create. Overall government regulations could discourage the use of AI for commercial purposes. Here's a company building barges with nothing but H100 and the ships may qualify as a sovereign nation!

I also mentioned that foreign nations like Russia, China and/or the likes of Iran would not restrain AI from anything, inclusive of biological weapons. What's really funny is that the true potential of AI developing nano-technology isn't a biological weapon but a airborne virus that could pass the blood barrier of the brain and turn anyone into a Manchurian candidate or spy who doesn't even know they're a spy, I think there's a movie about that?

So now what? AIs floating the seven seas free from any regulation from the west where any diabolical genius could master mind the end of civilization as we know it. But what if the world should end in some nuclear nightmare holocaust, could such floating contraptions help humanity?

With regulation we will stifle AI, without it it's uncontrollable, damned if you do, damned if you don't...

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General Project Discussion / Re: Pattern based NLP & ASR

« Last post by MikeB on November 07, 2023, 12:51:46 pm »

Speech Recognition (benchmark of "yes"/"no"):

C version/Console:
Added filtering for "knock/tap" noise
Changed Vol Peak Normalisation to use RMS x 2.4 instead of highest Vol Peak. Slightly more accurate versus background noise, faster, and phoneme/viseme loudness is represented better.
Updated framing. Now using 256 samples up to the first plosive in a syllable, then 512 samples after. This helps in Consonant framing.
Replaced fixed framing 256-512-512-512-[...] with dynamic method mentioned above.
Updated Consonant Plosive Find step values. Initial min step, and F1 group power from last frame.
Updated Consonant identification
Updated Vowel Formant 1 & 2 Focusing
Updated Equal Loudness (increased/doubled some 4khz resonance numbers to better match spectrograms in Praat. 656hz (550-650), 1333hz (1000-1333), 2000-2333hz (1666-2333), 8000hz was already double).

Speech Commands Benchmark:
NO (405 records):
"no" = 44.69% (goal 50%) . "n" or "oh" = 81.7% (goal 90%)
Error | "yes" = 0.99%

YES (419 records):
"ye"/"yeah" = 22.43% (goal 50%). "y",  "e", or "air" = 67.5%  (goal 90%)
Error | "no" = 2.63%

Time: 0-2ms each.

A lot of changes were made, especially in Consonant framing to tell the difference between "y" and "n" better. Small improvements in vowel detection.

Many of the problems in detecting more "yes" (the "y") are noise or volume related. Other issues, are in vowel transition detection, and finding the trailing "s" in "yes".

If "yes" improves to >40% I'll then test "on" & "off".

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General Project Discussion / Re: Project Acuitas

« Last post by WriterOfMinds on October 29, 2023, 08:52:28 pm »

This month I (tentatively) finished Big Story, so let's start there. It is plot-complete and currently stands at 99 lines. It generates 45 character "issues" (problems or subgoals), all of which are resolved in some way by the time the story is complete. Compared to any story I've told Acuitas before, this is dramatically longer and more complex (and it still leaves out a bunch of subplots and secondary characters from the movie this story is based on). I did my best to reproduce character motivation and the major story beats in a way Acuitas can "understand."

Blog has a teaser of part of the narrative diagram: https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2023/10/acuitas-diary-65-october-2023.html

Once the full plot was established and all the issues were resolving, I started refining the explanation of some points and fixing bugs. I'll continue this work in hopes of having it wrapped up by year's end. Before I demo the story, I'll also need to reinstate Acuitas' reactions to story lines and the ability for Acuitas and the conversant to ask each other questions about the story (things that fell by the wayside during my last Narrative rework). This should be easier now that the new Text Generator is in place. And of course, working on this project has revealed tons of pain points in the way I currently do things, and ways I could improve the Narrative module. Some time after I get done with it, I'll be tilling all those insights back into the soil, as it were. But that will almost certainly have to wait for next year.

I need breaks from working on Narrative (it's hard), so I've also continued improvements to the Parser. My major accomplishment in the past month was getting infinitives to work again under the new scheme that better supports phrase/clause nesting. While I was at it, I finally dealt with some special constructions that the old parser couldn't handle. Consider these sentences:

1. To live is to exist.
2. Is to live to exist?
3. What is it to live?
4. What is to live?

The previous version of the Parser could handle the first two. The open-ended question form was tricky. I think the most correct way to ask it is Sentence 3; without further context, Sentence 4 means something more like "which things are intended to live." But it's pretty easy for the parser to trip over Sentence 3 (What's the direct object? What role does the phrase play? Does the "what" belong inside the phrase or outside?). This time around I finally put in the effort to get all four variations working - plus some other constructions I hadn't tried before, such as "What is he to do?"

Work on the new Parser continues. I'd also love to have that done by the end of the year, but we'll see.