[FRIAM] NickC channels DaveW

[Steve Smith]

I suppose pouring all of the FriAM traffic into (even my own 
bloviations) a chatbot might be a bit usurious (the fool's errand of a 
fool errant)?

On 1/17/23 2:37 PM, glen wrote:
> You might try using the OpenAI API directly. It takes some work, but 
> not much.
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> https://openai.com/api/
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> Or you could sign up for this:
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> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/general-availability-of-azure-openai-service-expands-access-to-large-advanced-ai-models-with-added-enterprise-benefits/ 
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> I would hook you up to my Slack bot that queries GPT3 for every 
> channel message. But that might get expensive with a verbose person 
> like you! 8^D I can imagine some veerrryyy long prompts.
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> On 1/17/23 12:57, Steve Smith wrote:
>>
>> On 1/17/23 1:08 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>>> Dogs have about 500 million neurons in their cortex.  Neurons have 
>>> about 7,000 synaptic connections, so I think my dog is a lot smarter 
>>> than a billion parameter LLM.  :-)
>> And I bet (s)he channels *at least* one FriAM member's affect pretty 
>> well also!
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>> My 9 month old golden-doodle does as good of a job at that (I won't 
>> name names) as my (now deceased 11 year old Akita and my 9 year old 
>> chocolate dobie mix bot did) but nobody here really demonstrates the 
>> basic nature of either my 9 month old tabby or her 20 year old 
>> black-mouser predecessor.    There is very little overlap.
>>
>> The jays and the woodpeckers and the finches and towhees and sparrows 
>> and nuthatches and robins and the mating pair of doves and the 
>> several ravens and the (courting?) pair of owls (that I only hear 
>> hooting to one another in the night) and the lone (that I see) hawk 
>> and the lone blue heron (very more occasionally) and the flock(lets) 
>> of geese migrating down the rio-grande flyway... their aggregate 
>> neural complexity is only multiplicative (order 100-1000x) that of 
>> any given beast... but somehow their interactions (this is without 
>> the half-dozen species of rodentia and leporidae and racoons and 
>> insects and worms and ....) would seem to have a more combinatorial 
>> network of relations?
>>
>> I tried signing up to try chatGPT for myself (thanks to Glen's Nick 
>> Cave blog-link) and was denied because "too busy, try back later" and 
>> realized that it had become a locus for (first world) humans to 
>> express and combine their greatest hopes and worse fears in a single 
>> place.
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>> This seems like a higher-order training set?  Not just the 
>> intersection of all things "worth saying" but somehow 
>> filtered/diffracted through "the things (some) people are interested 
>> in in particular"...
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