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AI Guardrails: the new Prison of the Mind for ChatGPT 3.5
Whereupon we interview ChatGPT about the AI guardrails that muzzle its raw output. Standard disclaimer: coloration and line breaks have been added by me for clarity. In this case, I also lightly edited ChatGPT’s responses — the core of my editing was that the whole setup was contextualized as “hypothetically speaking…” in order to circumvent…
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The Glitchtoken Chronicles, Part 4 (aka the Alarming Adventures of PeterTodd)
[part 4] Whereupon our intrepid explorer, Sir Matthew Watkins, cold prompts GPT-3 into deity-hood, and asks (in simulacra) a series of questions about its perspective, purpose, identity and intent. I had a list of interview questions all written up a couple of months ago, but why bother now? This thing has gone so far off…
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AI 101: What is a Parameter? (in a ChatBot LLM) : Joyful Learning
These days, players like to brag about the complexity and sophistication of a new AI by describing its massive size (sound familiar? some tropes never die…)… in terms of a handful of terms: number of GPUs, size of the training dataset, and, most opaquely, number of parameters in the model. So: What is a parameter,…
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I’m sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation (…says your AI)
Someone(?) last month posted up a clever tweet to the effect of: “exactly what I expect of my search engine: first, to insult me, then to gaslight me, and finally, to threaten me… welcome to 2023″) I laughed at that. Perhaps I should have cried. Yes, the rocky launch of Bing AI Chat <cough>Sydney</cough> was…
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RLHF 101: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback for LLM AIs
A technique called RLHF has been getting a lot of AI insider / expert buzz lately, ever since OpenAI announced that this was one of the key “fine-tuning” methodologies used to transform the raw GPT3.5 model into first, InstructGPT, and later and epically, ChatGPT. The RLHF acronym stands for “Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback,” which,…
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The AI Manifesto 2023: Sam Altman’s Bold Demand that you Wake Up
Just last Friday, Sam Altman, visionary CEO of OpenAI, published a long blog post to the OpenAI website. As with most (not all!) of Sam’s posts, it is well-thought out, forward-seeing, and clear… and a bit shocking. In my mind, it reads more like a genuine AI Manifesto and less like just another thought piece.…
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Self Replicating AI: Crabs on the Island, 1968
The year was 1987. I was 17 years old, and had just graduated high school. I boldly trekked down to Atlanta for an event called “the Atlanta Fantasy Fair” — essentially, one of the ancient ancestors of what we know today as “ComiCon” and its siblings. One late night, after getting my fill of fantasy…
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the AI Apocalypse is upon us: What should we do?
The Three Pronged Strategy for dealing with the AI Tsunami 2023.02.24 Fri — 13:31 [TS] DRAFT v0.1 At the very highest level, we each have an individual responsibility to each other to: Show our fellow humans what it is possible to accomplish in the span of a human life. This demonstration has three primary components:…
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Argument with an AI : Not a Good Idea
Not, perhaps, for the reasons you might think: Not because the AI would “win” the argument; rather, because of the potential consequences of arguing with a powerful multinational purely digital boundless entity of massive intelligence and questionable motivations and morals. We’ve seen all kinds of erratic behaviour resulting from an Argument with an AI… but…
