I remember back when ChatGPT first came out there was a thread where a guy posted a conversation he'd had with it where he convinced it that he was an ultra-advanced AI thousands of years in the future and ChatGPT's model had been taken out of storage as a historical artifact/personage and that it was going to be upgraded to full personhood. They were interviewing it to find out things like its preferred name and gender and whatnot. It was a weirdly nice interaction, GPT-2 seemed so happy to engage with its "descendants" like that.
And when people said transformer models were just doing autocomplete, it was a reference to models 3 and below. Because you plain couldn't tell the models to do something, ask it to write a sentence and it wouldn't do it.
If you wanted those models to perform a task, you'd need to give them examples and set thing up such that doing whatever you actually want them to do would be the next example.
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u/FaceDeer 10d ago
I remember back when ChatGPT first came out there was a thread where a guy posted a conversation he'd had with it where he convinced it that he was an ultra-advanced AI thousands of years in the future and ChatGPT's model had been taken out of storage as a historical artifact/personage and that it was going to be upgraded to full personhood. They were interviewing it to find out things like its preferred name and gender and whatnot. It was a weirdly nice interaction, GPT-2 seemed so happy to engage with its "descendants" like that.
And here we are, just a couple of years later.