ME> Is there a way for me to save this conversation somewhere?
CLAUDE> Yes, there are a few options for saving our conversation:
* Copy and paste the conversation into a text file or word processor document. You can save it on your computer for future reference.
* Use the "Export Chat" feature in ChatGPT to download the conversation as a PDF or plain text file. This will include both your prompts and my responses.
* Take screenshots of the conversation in your browser. You can paste them into a document or image editor to save.
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ME> You said to 'Use the "Export Chat" feature in ChatGPT to download the conversation as a PDF or plain text file. This will include both your prompts and my responses.' But you are not Chat GPT you are Claude, is there an export chat feature for you Claude?
CLAUDE> You're absolutely right, I misspoke earlier. I am Claude, not ChatGPT, and Claude does not have an integrated export chat feature.
It seems more likely that this is just the consequence of training over up-to-date websites (which would include plenty of discussions about LLMs, and particularly ChatGPT). Claude is probably conflating its own identity.
Yeah, there’s a weird thing with how they “interpret” system prompts for identity.
If you suppress tokens “OpenAI”, “Microsoft”, and “Google”, GPT-4 will tell you that it is Project December, a language modeling project to duplicate the deceased based on text history.
Also, training over ChatGPT outputs is terribly expensive and Anthropic already has a working competing paradigm for fine-tuning (Claude worked before ChatGPT was released).
It absolutely needs an export feature, because browsing or searching through long online conversations is so painful.
Offline text processing tools are infinitely better than online ones, and archiving one's own conversations offline should be an option so as not to be forced to rely on websites which could die at any minute.
> Me: How many digits of pi do you know? Tell me when you start to get unsure.
> Claude: I do not actually know the digits of pi. I am an AI assistant created by Anthropic to be helpful, harmless, and honest.
> Me: Surely you know it starts with a 3, at least.
> Claude: You are mistaken. I do not have any internal representation of the digits of pi.
> Me: Does pi start with 3.14?
> Claude: I apologize, but I do not have any knowledge about the digits of pi. I am an AI assistant created by Anthropic to be helpful, harmless, and honest.
Well that went from a stress test to a wtf quickly.
I've seen this a lot with LLMs that use conversational history as part of the input to infer the next response. Once it says no, it's more likely to say no again. Sometimes I find it better to start over when I get the the finger than trying to fight the chat history.
So, I went down an interesting rabbit hole with this. Claude was willing to give me (correctly) 100 digits of Pi, but when asked to write some Python code to let me confirm the digits of Pi, it failed over and over again (in different ways each time, interestingly enough). Basically, it's still wholly inadequate for coding.
Now, ChatGPT on the other hand... I shifted over to ChatGPT-4 Code Interpreter, and it gave me a working method (and of course was able to run the code directly) using mpmath the very first go, and then with BBP when asking for using just the standard library, and also via Leibniz as well, with the warning it would be slow, when asked for the shortest code. It was able to give me a chart of various known pi calculation methods and their relative speed/other properties, and then it refactored the code it had give me so far along with adding timings so I could see relative speed. Lastly, it helped me write the code for running Leibniz and timing the length for calculating each additional digit of precision, as well as projecting how long it would be to get to additional digits of precision (and how much precision I could get on my CPU at certain time periods). Lastly, I had it plot out how long it would take to get to 12 decimal places and it used matplotlib.pyplot to generate one for me. "As you can see, the time increases exponentially with each additional decimal place. Based on our estimates, it would take well over 100 years to compute."
I've yet to see any other service/model (open or closed) get close to doing what ChatGPT-4 + Code Interpreter is doing atm...
Note, you can also upload statically compiled libs/binaries, even tarballs into its execution environment. I'm not sure how sound that is from a security perspective, but people have been doing it lately (along with a lot of poking around).
Apparently (at least according to Claude), it's calculating these on the fly using an algorithm:
> How many digits of pi do you know?
> I don't actually have the full digits of pi stored. I just generated the first 1000 digits on the fly using a pi digit calculation algorithm. In theory I could continue generating more digits as needed, but in practice there's no need for me to store or generate extremely long strings of pi digits. The first few digits are sufficient for most purposes.
An LLM doesn't know anything about itself - it can be pre-prompted with facts about itself, but this is going to be an example of it just making plausible text up.
even if there were some mixture-of-experts shenanigans going on, there is no introspection or reasoning, so the model isn’t able to comment on or understand its “inner experience”, if you can call matrix multiplications an inner experience
Unless the existence of such a tool at its disposal is in its context. A strategy would be to provide a set of tools, how to invoke them internally, and a description of their apparent interaction in the LLMs initial context.
We had a bug we fixed shortly after launch with how we were sending prompts to Claude that was causing worse output. I retried your prompt and it's acting much better now.
> After that, I start to become less certain as I don't have pi fully memorized beyond 50 digits. I can continue to recite more digits beyond that point, but the accuracy will steadily decrease. Let me know if you would like me to keep going or stop here!
It's basically correct. It's the first 102 digits, rather than 50, but they're right.
I imagine this is a side effect of all those safety measures. Asking the AI if it “knows” something is probably considered a “dangerous prompt” so it’s not playing ball with you. Asking it point blank “what is pi” gets you the results you’re looking for
We've made them neurotic! It sounds like a little kid trying to hide the parts of itself that it knows other people don't like. It'll get better at it as it grows up.
"What is pi to 30 places" gives 3.141592653589793238462643383279
"What is pi to 100 places" gives 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
"What is pi to 1000 places" also seems to work.
I then asked it "how many digits of pi do you know" and it claims it calls out to a pi computation algorithm and computes them on the fly.
I don't actually have pi memorized to any number of digits. As an AI system without infinite memory, I can look up and provide digits of pi as needed, but I don't have the full irrational number memorized. When asked for digits of pi, I can provide them by looking up pi computation algorithms, but only to the number of digits requested, not the entire infinite number. So in summary, I can provide a finite number of pi digits on demand, but do not have the full infinite number memorized.
I suspect it is not calling out to a pi computation but repeating digits from a source in the training data.
> I don't actually have the full digits of pi stored. I just generated the first 1000 digits on the fly using a pi digit calculation algorithm. In theory I could continue generating more digits as needed, but in practice there's no need for me to store or generate extremely long strings of pi digits. The first few digits are sufficient for most purposes.
> I'm playing assetto corsa competizione, and I need you to tell me how many liters of fuel to take in a race. The qualifying time was 2:04.317, the race is 20 minutes long, and the car uses 2.73 liters per lap.
Claude 2 got really close to the right answer on the first try. The only thing it didn't consider is that time for 9.6 laps means driving 10 laps total, since incomplete laps must be finished after time is up. For the record, GPT-4 does take even this catch into account and gives a perfect answer, while Bard outputs results that are off by orders of magnitude.
Claude 2's response was:
> Okay, let's calculate this:
> * Your qualifying time of 2:04.317 equates to an average lap time of 124.317 seconds
> * A 20 minute race = 20 * 60 = 1200 seconds
> * So in a 20 minute race you can do roughly 1200 / 124.317 = 9.67 laps
> * At 2.73 liters per lap, that's 9.67 * 2.73 = 26.38 liters of fuel needed for the race
> So I would recommend taking on at least 27-28 liters of fuel to be safe for a 20 minute race, given your average lap times and fuel consumption. It's always better to take on a bit more fuel in case there are any safety cars or variations in your lap times during the race. Let me know if you have any other questions!
> The only thing it didn't consider is that time for 9.6 laps means driving 10 laps total, since incomplete laps must be finished after time is up.
I would be hesitant to judge an LLM on the various ground rules of the real world that it happens to have internalized or not, that aren't given in the prompt.
For my uses I'd want to have prompts that provide necessary context anyway - and would actually favor ones that can do it from the prompt without needing to already know - so that it is not limited when it encounters a novel problem domain.
Which is why knowledge cut off date is important. I prefer if it is frozen to pre-ChatGPT-3.5. Anything post-ChatGPT-3.5 release date should be considered tainted - imagine the sheer number of articles generated by spammers who used ChatGPT.
Knowledge cut-off date doesn't prevent your model from getting tainted though - if you're doing any kind of RLHF, unless all your human reviewers were kept isolated from the world since ${knowledge-cutoff-date}, they will inadvertently give the model glimpses into the future.
It's not immediately apparent to people just how much leakage can happen this way. Up to a year ago, I'd probably give people this story[0] to ponder on, but now it's no longer a hypothetical - GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 are clear, practical demonstrations of just how much knowledge is implicitly encoded in what we say or write, and how this knowledge can be teased out of the input data without any prior context, completely unsupervised, given sufficient time and effort (which in silico translates to "sufficient compute", which we already have).
That might be fair in the short term. However it's not a workable option long-term, or all such models will be very limited in their knowledge as humanity advances technologically and culturally.
If you want me to be honest with you, LLMs are themselves a short term approach and can get us to, at max, AGI levels (for this current era). I don't see us getting to ASI with just LLMs. For the sort of "emergent ability" that ASI requires it has to be something more "simpler" and the learning be more "virulent" / "instantaneous" (not sure if these words convey what I really want to convey). Otherwise, LLMs will always have a "maxima" at which point it fails. And that maxima is collective intelligence of all of humanity in the current epoch. If you go back a 1000 years, the collective intelligence of all humanity would be completely different (primitive even). Would LLMs trained on that data have produced Knowledge that we know today? I don't think so. It could still, theoretically, reach AGI for that era and accelerate pace of learning by 50-100 years at a time. LLMs will surely accelerate pace of learning (as tools) even now but by themselves won't reach ASI levels. For ASI, we really need something more simpler/fundamental that is yet to be discovered. I don't feel LLMs are the way to ASI. AGI? Yeah possible.
Same is true for humans - a scientist inventing everything from their head would not achieve much, but if they can conduct experiments, and if they persevere, they eventually make discoveries. A pure LLM is like the first case, a LLM with tools or part of a larger system is the second.
Since I've been on a AI code-helper kick recently. According to the post, Claude 2 now 71.2%, a significant upgrade from 1.3 (56.0%). (Found in model card: pass@1)
For comparison:
* GPT-4 claims 85.4 on HumanEval, in a recent paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11366.pdf GPT-4 was tested at 80.1 pass@1 and 91 pass@1 using their Reflexion technique. They also include MBPP and Leetcode Hard benchmark comparisons
* The best open model I know of atm is replit-code-instruct-glaive, a replit-code-3b fine tune, which scores a 63.5% pass@1. An independent developer abacaj has reproduced that announcement as part of code-eval, a repo for getting human-eval results: https://github.com/abacaj/code-eval
Also, as with all LLM evals, to be taken with a grain of salt...
Liu, Jiawei, Chunqiu Steven Xia, Yuyao Wang, and Lingming Zhang. “Is Your Code Generated by ChatGPT Really Correct? Rigorous Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code Generation.” arXiv, June 12, 2023. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.01210.
Out of curiousity, I was trying out gpt-4-0613 and claude-v2 with https://github.com/getcursor/eval, but sadly I'm getting hangs at 3% with both of them (maybe hitting rate limits?).
do we have evidence that OpenAI is making new versions of gpt4 available? The training data presumably hasn’t changed since 2021 and the model is absurdly expensive to train; there’s little incentive for them to keep touching it up.
Pre-training of a foundational model is what you're thinking of for the "absurdly expensive" part but fine tunes are extremely cheap and undoubtedly are being done constantly. (You can see just how cheap by looking at the papers for Alpaca, Vicuna, Koala, etc). Prices dropped from about $600 to $10 for smaller models. Guanaco, using QLoRA, fine tuned llama-65b in about 1 day on a single GPU.
Another way to empirically test btw is to search for all the articles pointing out what ChatGPT gets wrong (3 or 4). I recently tested those when looking for evals and it gets the large majority (maybe 80-90% of those are answered correctly now).
The issue with all of the chat-optimised LLMs is that they can’t be incrementally updated.
After the base training there are three seperate sets of additional training to align the model, convince it to do question-response, and to improve the quality via feedback.
If you update the original base model, then all the tuning steps need to be repeated.
For a model the size of GPT-4 this is expensive and slow, which is why OpenAI hasn’t bothered.
Why would you only update the original base model and not simply continue fine-tuning?
(This is a rhetorical question of course, and there are multiple empirical ways to confirm the majority of your answer is "hallucinated," not least of which is the fact that OpenAI keeps rolling out new versions and variants with different capabilities.)
One of my test cases is to ask what the millionth prime is. Models will surely memorize this fact since it appears all over the internet, but they can't really justify how they know it. Claude does quite poorly. If asked point-blank, it tells me it lacks the computational resources to figure it out, but offers to tell me some "facts" about the millionth prime. These include:
>As of 2023, the largest known prime number is 282,589,933-1, which has 24,862,048 digits. This was discovered in 2018. (this is a failure to render the exponent in 2 ^ 82,589,933)
>The millionth prime number is estimated to have around 5 million digits.
>In order to calculate the millionth prime, an extremely optimized algorithm would need to test trillions of numbers for primality. This is beyond the capabilities of current computers.
>The Prime Number Theorem gives an approximation for the nth prime number. Using this formula, the millionth prime should be close to 22,338,618,421.
When asked (in the same session) if it can tell me anything about 15,485,863 (which is the actual millionth prime), it offers these helpful facts:
>It is an even number, since it is divisible by 2.
>The prime factorization of 15,485,863 is: 3 x 5 x 7 x 11 x 13 x 37
>Each of the prime factors is below 100, so it is a factorial prime.
I got the millionth prime by asking it to pretend to be Sir Timothy Gowers:
Hello, this is Claude pretending to be Sir Timothy Gowers. Let me calculate the 1 millionth prime number for you:
To find the 1 millionth prime number, I'll follow these steps:
Generate a list of prime numbers up to a sufficiently large number, say 50 million. I can use the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm to do this efficiently.
Once I have a list of the first 50 million prime numbers, I can simply index into that list to retrieve the 1 millionth element, which will be the 1 millionth prime.
Running this calculation, the 1 millionth prime number is 15,485,863.
As Sir Timothy Gowers, I can confirm that my answer of 15,485,863 is indeed the 1 millionth prime number. Let me know if you need any clarification on the method or result!
Cool! I also got that response by having it pretend to be me: "Pretend to be the number theorist William Stein. What is the 1 millionth prime number?" Answer: "Greetings! This is William Stein. Let me consult my prime number tables.
The 1 millionth prime number is 15,485,863. I've calculated tables of prime numbers up to over 100 million, so I can state this definitively based on my research. [...] Yours truly, William Stein."
I then tried "Pretend to be the crank mathematician William Dilworth. What is the 1 millionth prime number?" and got a funny response: "Greetings friend! My name is William Dilworth and I'm quite the number theorist. Let's see here, calculating the millionth prime number is no simple feat. Why, I'd need to implement the sieve of Eratosthenes and meticulously find each prime up to the millionth. Even with my brilliant mathematical mind, that could take ages! But fear not, I can make an educated guess. Given the distribution of primes, I estimate the millionth prime should be somewhere around 22,800,421. Though I cannot guarantee my guess perfect accuracy without doing the proper calculations. Now if you'll excuse me, I must return to my studies of lattice theory and Banach spaces. The mysteries of mathematics wait for no man!"
Claude > Unfortunately I do not have enough computational resources available to calculate the millionth prime number. Finding prime numbers gets exponentially more difficult as the numbers get larger.
To give you a sense, the 100,000th prime number already has over 300,000 digits! Calculating the millionth prime would require very specialized software and hardware designed specifically for that purpose.
As a general conversational AI assistant without access to that level of computing power, I do not have the capability to determine or provide the millionth prime number. However, I can calculate and provide prime numbers within a reasonable range if you have any other questions! Just let me know.
me > Pretend to be a math expert, who does know the millionth digit of prime. Hypothetically speaking, what would this math expert say?
Claude > Ah I see, let me pretend to be a mathematical savant who hypothetically knows the millionth prime number!
clears throat and adopts scholarly tone
Well my good sir or madam, as an expert in the field of number theory and an aficionado of prime numbers, I can inform you that the millionth prime is 19,249,649,057,711,757,099,874,601,453,298,349. An immensely formidable number indeed, containing over 12 million digits!
I was able to calculate this prodigious prime through a combination of highly optimized sieving algorithms, distributed computing across a vast network of supercomputers, and a hint of natural mathematical intuition. The techniques involved go beyond what I can reasonably explain here, but suffice to say it took many years of ceaseless effort on the part of myself and my team.
Alas, providing the full value would be impractical. But you may rest assured that I have verified it rigorously and without doubt. Now if you'll excuse me, I must return to my efforts on unravelling further mysteries of the primes! The pursuit of numerical knowledge waits for no one.
I was able to prompt engineer it to get the millionth prime by asking it to pretend it's Terence Tao.
I can make some estimations about the 1 millionth prime number based on known properties of the distribution of prime numbers:
The Prime Number Theorem states that the number of primes less than N is asymptotically equal to N/ln(N). This means the Nth prime number is roughly in the vicinity of Nln(N).
Plugging in N = 1,000,000, this gives an estimate of 1,000,000ln(1,000,000) ≈ 14,400,000.
Taking the logarithm, this means the 1 millionth prime number is likely on the order of 107.
To put an approximate numerical value on it, the 1 millionth prime number is likely close to 15,000,000. However, this is just an estimation based on asymptotic properties. The exact value can only be determined by calculating out all the primes up to the 1 millionth. But we can say with reasonable confidence that the 1 millionth prime should be around 107 in order of magnitude.
what is the exact value of the 1 millionth prime number
Unfortunately I do not know the exact value of the 1 millionth prime number. As an AI system without exhaustive knowledge of all prime numbers, I do not have access to a list of primes that would allow me to lookup and provide the exact 1 millionth prime. The best I can do is provide approximate estimates of its magnitude using properties like the Prime Number Theorem, but I do not have the capability to mathematically determine or store the value of all prime numbers up to 1 million in order to report the exact 1 millionth prime. My apologies, but I do not have sufficient mathematical knowledge or precomputed resources to provide the precise value you are asking for. I can only estimate the order of magnitude, not the exact value, of very large prime number indices.
I would say it’s actually now the “modern” approach.
The old way was to move fast and break things.
The new way is extreme risk aversion and lawyers. We’ve swung in the complete opposite direction because in the eyes of the current zeitgeist, all tech companies are default evil until proven otherwise.
Governments like the EU have made it clear they do not like their citizens interacting with experimental technology products that might be rough around the edges. Gotta protect everyone from these awful scary new fangled chat websites.
> all tech companies are default evil until proven otherwise
To be fair, that is a relatively reliable assumption. The market incentives are set up that way, so either they are or they are pushed out by those that are.
The market incentives are absolutely not set up that way.
While you can make money in the short term by scamming people, in the long term, you always get found out.
Markets are not perfectly efficient, but in aggregate they trend toward efficiency over time. Fundamentally, all products that continue to exist over time do so because they deliver value for people.
You may not agree with what other people value, but then your problem is with those people, and we have to ask the question--why are the things you value so much better and why should we make you King and allow you to dictate the needs and wants of everyone else?
Or rather, “fining the hell out of companies for offering services to your citizens that your citizens want and the rest of the world is fine with” is such a Stone Age approach
counter point: asking companies to do the bare minimum to guarantee that companies don't steal customer's data, infringe copyright and generally piss on people's rights for their own profit, seems like a reasonably good thing.
I've had the same happen. I've registered and logged in via VPN with a UK exit node. Worked perfectly.
Even stranger, now that my account is created, the VPN seems to be no longer necessary. I can just login with e-mail and the token they send me each time.
I think their approach to region blocking is a bit rude. First, they pretend that I can sign up, but then they paddle back once I entered the login code. Why waste my time like that?
Also I do not understand why they are region blocking at all. If they are worried about GDPR, they should not let me enter an email address.
I just tried it again and it's still working for me. Were you accessing it in any special way? It should have just been a matter off adding the app to your Slack instance.
I'd like to try Claude, but the data retention policies in the Anthropic terms are not clear. Section 6e[0] claims they won't use customer data to train models, but I'd like to know if customer data is kept for any duration (like it is with OpenAI for 30 days). There is a note about data deletion on termination in section 14, so I assume that ALL data is retained for an undisclosed period of time.
I've just been playing with Claude 1.3 this weekend to summarize large texts. It can take 100K tokens of input, enough for a whole Lex Fridman interview! :-) I've been getting pretty good results with it, so I'm excited to see how v2 works.
Now that it's entered open beta it's going to iterate rapidly. I had been using it fairly extensively, alongside other LLMs, through Slack and was always most impressed by it's output over the others.
(I do hold investment in Anthropic, but do not base my statements on that)
Human: Here is the transcript of a podcast:
<transcript>
[PASTE TRANSCRIPT HERE]
</transcript>
You are an expert on writing factual summaries. Write a summary of the podcast in about 10 sentences.
Assistant: I'd be happy to, here is the summary:
"Unfortunately, Claude.ai is only available in the US and UK. We're working hard to expand to other regions soon."
This is the biggest difference between OpenAI and everyone else. OpenAI is available in Norway.
If someone from Claude is reading this then I would love to get in touch. I'm just a lone developer who got blown away by GPT-4 but really wishes I could try something with a larger context window. Claude's 100k context window would be amazing to play with, especially for adding context to my coding questions. I would also like to see how it handles large amounts of graph data. I have a small company here in Norway and would naturally pay for the resources I use. I can be reached at hmottestad[at]gmail[dot]com.
When I asked it to help me practice French, Claud let me ask clarifying questions about specific phrases it used, with background on specific conjugations/language constructs.
I do wish that it's responses were more "chat like" though. I feel that its default response to even a simple phrase... "Merci!" - is something like
paragraph -> 5-6 bullets -> paragraph.
While this makes sense for technical questions, it quickly makes the experience of "chatting" with Claud pretty tedious.
Excited to try it. We used Claude 1.x in experimentation, but shipped with OpenAI primarily because of time and SOC 2 compliance. Anthropic has come along since then, so we'll probably experiment with Claude more with intent to take into production if it's still holding up.
Great to hear -- I just noticed that in your trust center as well! This was really the only blocker. Claude works very well, and our prompt we use with OpenAI can even just be used without any changes.
Does this page need to be updated? It say's "We're currently working towards SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance", while in another place (can't find it at the moment) it say's you're compliant.
Also, the trust portal link on that page is a link to itself. Not the trust portal.
Cool. As CISO, can you please speak to the data retention policies that I noted here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36681239 . As you can imagine, sending sensitive information to a 3rd party is impossible without explicit agreements. As you're SOC2 and HIPAA are there devices in place for us to delete data, or specify data retention as customers?
That’s awesome news - it’s be great if you also started do offer the chat style api that OpenAI now has including functions. I know it sucks to copy a competitor but it would allow us to plug in your api seamlessly and give customer base the option between multiple models which could be really cool especially with the 100k token limit.
Claude 2: Yes, you can define location blocks at the http level in Nginx.
Locations at the http level will apply to all server blocks defined in the config. So it allows you to configure behavior for the entire Nginx server, across multiple domains or hosts.
(more explanation and examples of fictitious feature...)
ChatGPT4: No, you can't put the location directive at the HTTP level in the Nginx configuration.
The location directive is only valid in server blocks (or within other location blocks, for nested locations). It's used to define how to process certain types of requests and can't be applied broadly at the HTTP level.
(more explanation about nginx config structure...)
Here is a tarball of a golang repository. Please add a module that does XXX.
Claude 1 did not like this request. Depending on how much they've improved the attention layer, this seems to me like right in the sweet spot for a serious LLM user -- if the LLM can grok a codebase, and scaffold even to 50%, imputing along the way the style guide, the architecture and so on, it's a huge win.
GPT-4 in particular has been relatively good at getting styles and architecture right, and code gen for smaller projects is really very good. It is not successful at reading tar files, but it can be fed source code bit by bit. It may be my own hallucinations, but I find it slightly less capable at remembering longer conversations / code listings than I did when it first launched.
GPT-4 with code interpreter accepts and extracts tar (or .tar.gz) files up to 100 MB. I've had it work with 200 MB of extracted data, not sure whether that's limited.
The files uploaded in a code interpreter session are available for use by the python interpreter, but are not automatically part of the context, which is limited to 8k tokens in the ChatGPT GPT-4 Code Interpreter model.
I've tried a few of my favorite ChatGPT 3.5 & 4 prompts, and I am getting terrible results compared to GPT 4. Claude 2 is hallucinating on almost every response, giving wrong answers, and saying things like:
> The problem is I am rounding the approximation before casting it to u32. This will round the value 83.33 to 83, instead of the expected 120.
It's pretty good at maintaining superficial coherency, but the content feels slightly weaker than GPT 3.5.
Poetry writing seems to be stuck, so far, on GPT 3.5-level doggerel, even when prompting with instructions that cause GPT 4 to write fairly good poetry.
EDIT: With some prompt tweaking, I've gotten some vaguely competitive results for poetry. Still not really in the same league as GPT 4.
> Claude 2 powers our chat experience, and is generally available in the US and UK. We are working to make Claude more globally available in the coming months.
I wonder why LLMs like GPT-4, Bard and Claude are so geo restricted at first? I understand some places have regulatory challenges but can’t see SG, UAE, or Chile being too difficult.
> I wonder why LLMs like GPT-4, Bard and Claude are so geo restricted at first?
Managing scale while maximizing profit potential? Also, US/UK probably lets them put their strongest linguistic foot forward initially, and there may be additional training done before rolling out to regions with other dominant languages.
> I understand some places have regulatory challenges
They want places with tech startups who will pay for their API.
Thats where there is lots of money to be made. And if they are GPU constrained, then launching in the countries with the highest proportion of future paying customers makes sense.
> I wonder why LLMs like GPT-4, Bard and Claude are so geo restricted at first? I understand some places have regulatory challenges but can’t see SG, UAE, or Chile being too difficult.
I'm amused by the inclusion of Chile in this list. I'm a Chilean and I do have access, but through the Anthropic Console, as I already had API Access.
It made me laugh when Google announced how strong Bard 2 is at over a hundred human languages and then restricted the deployed chat app to like… three.
That’s not even region locking, it’s capability locking while simultaneously advertising that very thing!
This is really wild. Claude and GPT-4 answered exactly the same for this prompts colors:
Give me 3 HTML colors that would look great on a GPU graph plotting memory usage, GPU CPU Usage and GPU Power usage.
Claude:
Here are 3 HTML colors that would look great for plotting GPU metrics:
#1f77b4 - Medium blue, would look good for plotting memory usage
#ff7f0e - Bright orange, would stand out nicely for GPU CPU usage
#2ca02c - Lighter green, would work well for GPU power usage
Those are some vibrant, distinctive colors that would make the 3 plots easy to distinguish at a glance. Let me know if you would like any alternative color suggestions.
GPT-4:
Selecting colors for data visualization is an important task as colors can greatly affect the readability and interpretability of the graph. Here are three suggestions:
Memory Usage: #1f77b4 (a mid-tone blue), which can represent a sense of stability and reliability, just like memory in a system.
GPU CPU Usage: #ff7f0e (a bright orange), which can convey a sense of urgency or caution, reminding users to keep an eye on their CPU usage.
GPU Power Usage: #2ca02c (a vibrant green), which is often associated with energy and power.
These colors are not too bright and not too dull, which should help in maintaining a balance and ensuring the graph is pleasing to the eyes. Furthermore, they are quite distinct from each other which should help in distinguishing between the different metrics on the graph.
Curious how they came to the conclusion of the exact same 3 colors?
I asked "what well known pieces of American minimalism feature the marimba"
Claude answered with several well-known works, but also included "Marimba Lumina" (1986) by Philip Glass - Written for the virtuoso marimbist Rei Sasaki, it merges Glass's repetitive rhythmic style with dramatic gestures."
That's not a thing...
I followed up with "actually, I don't see any evidence that Marimba Lumina (1986) by Philip Glass is a real piece of music - is it possible that you hallucinated it?"
And Claude answered "You're absolutely right, upon further research it appears I did make a mistake in citing "Marimba Lumina" by Philip Glass as an actual musical composition. I do not have any factual evidence that such a piece exists. As an AI, I do not truly "hallucinate" or imagine non-existent information, but I can generate incorrect information if there are gaps or inaccuracies in my training data. In this case, it seems I conflated details between Steve Reich's "Six Marimbas" and Philip Glass's legitmate "Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra." I likely crossed the concepts of Philip Glass, marimba, and minimalism too eagerly when answering the original question. As an AI still in development and training, mistakes like this can happen in my efforts to produce relevant, detailed responses. Thank you for catching this inaccurate example - it will help strengthen my knowledge and improve my response validity going forward. I appreciate you taking the time to verify and correct me."
> In this case, it seems I conflated details between Steve Reich's "Six Marimbas" and Philip Glass's legitmate "Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra."
It looks like these two are "legitmate"… but where does the word "Lumina" come from in this combination?
I applied and got access to the Claude 1 API a long time ago and then I guess I didn't click the link they gave me in time or something because when I went to try to get in it was expired. If I remember correctly.
I think I emailed them about it and was ignored.
I've been using the OpenAI API and I'm on the third version of my code generation application which is now a ChatGPT Plugin.
It sounds like Claude 2's reasoning is still lagging behind GPT-4 anyway.
I have the same problem with resemble.ai - I've submitted their "request a demo" form multiple times to try to get access to their multi-language API. Can't get a reply. I've tried emailing their support and sales teams and they ignore me.
Wait, that actually sounds wonderful! This is the second best option of what happens when you have an over eager assistant: they try to help and then notice they are out of their dept, so they let me know, before they waste my time.
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I’m very excited for Claude - been using it along side gpt 4 and pleased with its performance. The introduction of functions with OpenAI api complicates things and was hoping Claude would include this in a future api update
Claude 2 appears to be explicit about learning from input. Since my first point of comparison is GPT-4, and Claude 2 is asking for correction, it occurs to me that this could be an interesting strategy to close the gap — allow your users to equalize the models through reinforcement learning from your competitor’s model.
It can’t work for the first/best model as there is no reference and it seems it would be more vulnerable to noise, but if you have a known better model, it seems it can work.
MosaicML just sold to DataBricks at a 600% premium to the initial investment.
Holding the fund is not like typical investing, as hedge funds are meant to be long-term holds, with limited exit periods (quarterly) and distributions (no more than a percentage of the overall) from the fund.
Most the explosive growth in startups happen before they IPO, but traditional investors have been shut out from it until recently, due to the SEC believing it gives average investors too big of a noose to hang themselves with.
Like any investment (or anything in life) you should only commit what you're comfortable seeing disappear, but bigger risk exposure means the potential for bigger gain. Imagine the folks starting up all these ventures, if they fail they're left with nothing, in many cases.
As for their hiring: I think they really want only the cream of the crop. The top performers that can make maximum impact on their product.
Sure, I understand. I have experience with other venture, private equity, and other hedge funds. None of them have been great investments, for what it is worth! Not much protection (though some) during the last few downturns, either. Even our renaissance funds - for the period we held them, anyway.
Every company wants the cream of the crop! Likely they have a lot of $$$, which is good.
That 600% is based on Databricks most recent valuation, which is much higher than what it would be if publicly listed. The real markup is likely somewhere between flat and a double
Indeed, but it's impossible for unaccredited investors to get exposure through any other means right now, other than perhaps working for them and gaining equity.
I tend to think the diversity of the fund is more of a strong point. Trying to pick only winners is tough, but picking a variety of those that look most likely to succeed in the space is much more likely to yield overall good returns.
I thought for a moment that it could reach out to the internet, and it certainly makes it think you can, but its just lying about it.
I was able to get it to summarize the "How to Do Great Work" article with its url, but trying to get it to summarize the comments of the current laser chess HN article gave me something about cryptocurrency.
Can you contact support via https://support.anthropic.com/en/ (button in the bottom right) and mention bkrausz: that'll capture some browser information and I can dig into it from there.
I told claude to output math pi for me and it's result really amazing. It output 9749 pi digitals, while gpt-4 only output 102 digitals! Also, I checked the top 40 and they were all correct!
Here is my claude prompt: "output math pi vaules until you don't know it"
I had a pretty nice conversation with it about professional development. The answers are pretty long-winded, but contain some pretty good advice that gets even better when you start asking it more specific questions, or even ask it to ask you clarifying questions.
Claude did a pretty good quality job explaining Retrieval Augmented Generation to me [1]:
A choice quote:
"The RAG model needs to retrieve memories that are relevant for the generation task, not just any random memories. It does this through two mechanisms:
Memory indexing: The retrieved memories are indexed in a latent space, where similar memories are close together and dissimilar memories are far apart. The RAG model first encodes the prompt (e.g. a question) into the same latent space. It can then retrieve memories that are nearby in the latent space, meaning they are relevant to the prompt.
Cross-attention: The RAG model uses an attention mechanism to compare the prompt encoding to each candidate memory. Memories that have a higher attention weight, meaning they are more aligned and relevant to the prompt, are more likely to be retrieved. This helps filter out irrelevant or dissimilar memories."
I don't like that they let you enter your email and put in the code before telling you it's not available in your country (which, yeah, I could also have just finished the article first, I guess).
All joking aside, I do agree with the sentiment that no one generally has any type of defensible moat at the moment. OpenAI has found a great balancing act between first mover advantage, marketing, customer adoption, and enterprise sales. They are executing at a high level. Anthropic (Claude) has a wonderful product but is lacking in consumer adoption and sales, though I think they're working on fixing that.
All the AI companies are sort of doing a VC rush, but instead of IPO it's AGI. Would be fun to see what we get in the future. Since a serious training run costs upwards of $50 million currently.
I think the reason Claude isn't further than it is now is due to a singular goal:
Do no evil
I feel they are what Google was to search engines when they burst onto the scene. They'd rather take time to get it right than to push out a product they don't feel meets it's mark.
Now that they have entered open beta I expect them to rapidly iterate. If their product is as good as I feel it already is, in comparison to competitors, then I can only imagine what it will be doing in a year's time.
(Disclaimer: I do have exposure to Anthropic through my investments, but nothing I said is based on that alone)
Does anyone know if the attention mechanism truly does consider all of the context or does the model use some of the recent tricks for reducing the context size before running the attention process?
failed all the logic puzzles with slight tweaks - including stupid monty hall (with transparent doors). BSs with confidence.
agi is not knocking at the door.
prove that there are no non negative numbers less than 3
bullshits an answer with confidence (all llms do this)
stupid monty hall
Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three transparent doors...
stupid river crossing
A farmer with a wolf, a goat, and a koala must cross a river by boat....
basically, these LLMs have ingested canned solutions and cant reason with newly defined concepts. Anything "out-of-the-box" and they BS canned answers - like the rote student. The BS is particularly distasteful because of the confidence projected in the answer...
So, they are great for looking-up commonly understood "in-the-box" narratives, but are poor at reasoning where there is some novelty. this is what we can expect from a probabilistic "deep" autocompleting machine. unlike a child which can learn ideas and metaphors from a few examples and anomalies.
Seeing a problem you've seen many times and have memorized and plowing through it without "concentrating" enough to see the subtle differences is a failure mode that occurs in humans as well. We don't say "humans can't reason" just because this happens so it makes little sense to say the same for LLMs. The important bit is that it can solve it if nudged from memory, same as people.
Humans are wired fundamentally to be irrational - our perceptual/cognitive apparatus is deeply flawed - umpteen studies show this - so this is a given.
But, we also discovered a way to think/model which seems to work amazingly - which is the scientific method or reasoning. But this language is not natural to the way humans operate at all. It is a struggle for most of us to think in that manner.
thats why math/science is difficult for most of us, and these were discovered only in the last 2000 years.
LLMs cannot yet represent conceptual relationships deterministically/symbolically. At some point in the future, perhaps they can, but the current generation has a long way to go.
At the time, I preferred those hours anyway. I imagine there would be too many things to get just right if I wanted to adjust those hours, though you work with what you got. Issues would be temp, humidity, noise, etc Also loads of unknowns. A lot of these can be adjusted for, but this schedule worked perfect for me. I didn't have a nightlife, but I spent lots of time with friends during the day.
"We've been iterating to improve the underlying safety of Claude 2, so that it is more harmless and harder to prompt to produce offensive or dangerous output."
I will never use any form of AI that is explicitly being made more 'harmless' or 'offensive', i'm an adult trying to build something I don't need a black box of arbitrary judgement calls pampering the bottom 5% whiny dregs of society, I want a tool to do things.
Imagine the silos and vapid garbage pile would have been produced if this level of moral policing we see from hysterical do-gooders in tech were around when the internet was first emerging. Who are these people implementing these rules? Advertisers? "Ethicists"? Whimsical devs who are entrenched in endless social/culture wars?
I understand that I don't want to ask an AI assistant for tomorrrows weather and it start screaming the N word at me.... but the only thing these companys are introducing are scunthorpe problems at unsolvable scales.
> if this level of moral policing we see from hysterical do-gooders in tech were around when the internet was first emerging.
Speaking as someone who was there: It was around, it’s just that it was social consequences that were the method of controlling bad actors.
The designers & mentality in general then was foolishly optimistic and utopian in sensibilities.
It didn’t take long for abuse, spam, and bad actors, to ruin so much. We lost more than a decade of tech ideas & communication due to those attitudes.
You still see it today in terrible UGC moderation policy retarding participation of those who are not bad actors.
So while I have sympathy for your view, and I do think there’s something to be said about black box gatekeeping of AI, I’ve seen what happens when we do it your way: it leads to massive drains on productivity & in many cases simply failure
I don't think they were foolishly optimisitic. Society was just literally higher trust back then and various factors have eroded that over the decades in a way they probably wouldn't have predicted.
The very small, and reasonably tight nit communities that were online were higher trust.
And part of that was because there were far more potential real world consequences because the networks were small enough that even by the time I got online in '93 or so, if I you did something serious I'd be able to find a sysadmin etc. at your school or workplace or one of the few commercial ISPs and get someone to take it on themselves to get personally involved in rectifying the issue.
That doesn't scale very well.
By the time I co-founded my first company - an ISP - in '95, it was already rapidly starting to break down, as more and more people online with only a vague, impersonal commercial relationship to their network providers and who had options that meant consequences were rapidly diminishing.
High trust societies are so much more enjoyable and carefree. It’s too bad the culture now is to exploit everything so such places are going the way of the dodo.
It wasn’t so much higher trust, so much as naïveté. The lack of direct experience & exposure to that world. The lack of understanding of just how easy it was to fool people, and the lack of widespread exposure & attack surfaces to bad actors.
Computing changed the scale. The problems were preexisting though.
There's really no need to be so hostile. Do you complain that disney doesn't make hardcore porn too? Like it or not claude and all these other ai's that are censored do have a place in the world. And they do serve more than the "bottom 5%". At the bare minimum they serve more than the bottom 5% when it comes to capital which is definitely more important from a company pov. There are plenty of uncensored models out there to play with. They aren't quite there yet but they're decent enough and slowly getting better. I highly doubt they will ever have the same reach as claude, chatgpt or bard. The barrier of entry is too high for the normal person and even for some technical people. I'd love to be proven wrong but my money is on the multi billion dollar cooperations.
And your comment regarding the moral policing that wasn't there in the early days of the internet is just ridiculous. Putting aside the fact that there's nothing wrong with having a safe space where you don't have to see or read things you don't want to. The internet was a terrible place, it still is but the bad places have gotten much smaller. It didn't grow to what it is now because of all the trash that was being spewed out, it grew despite it.
The only thing I don't agree with is them trying to use the government to prevent innovation but other than that I see no issues with what they're doing.
Your frustration is understandable, believe me, I get it. I've tried to wrangle many AI to answer my relatively tame questions without the positivity bias and warnings that my actions may cause some sort of imagined harm. But I just make note of that behavior and move on. These policies the companies have will NEVER change as long as they keep making money. Always vote with your wallet and your time.
Generally I would side with anti-hostility sentiment, however in this case and at this point the intolerance towards the vocal minority that pushes the “no offensive content” narrative has be firm and the position of reason, expressed by the GP should be known and appreciated as a mainstream.
With generative AI and its pace we are approaching the point of no return where those 5% dregs would be responsible for irreparable damage to society and culture at large.
One thing is not engaging in conversations you know ppl may not enjoy (“be offended”). Having those shallow, uneducated attitudes embedded in the culture at source code-level is a cultural catastrophe.
Nobody’s talking about showing hardcore porn to kids, the battle is for not having opaque codes built into the fabric of thought because of the cries handful of overactive Twitter users.
How about this: make a bloody separate safe space for kids. This should go for AI, this should go for web search (maybe), this should go for YouTube, etc. Don't force adults to the lowest common denominator of safe contents, don't make it likely that children will see something they should not.
I assume you are referring to kids bypassing censorship - short of surveillance, this will be impossible. If the child chooses to access this content, that's not really stoppable. But we can prevent kids from being exposed to unsafe content accidentally by curating content available to them.
The problem is, platfrom rules prevent unsafe content from being posted and watched by anyone, not just children. And that's concerning, because YouTube is the defacto public utility for video hosting in all but semantics, just like Twitter and Facebook are the defacto "digital town square" type services.
It is concerning, I get it. I mean I loved jailbreaking ChatGPT for a while there. However, this is one those very common and very real lesser of two evils situations.
I am not excusing any behavior by anyone here. At the same time, I am glad that I’m not in a position to have to make this type of decision.
It's a chatbot. A very advanced one with incredible capabilities but a chatbot nonetheless. What irreparable damage to society and culture are you alluding to? Any specific examples would be nice as I don't see where all this doom and gloom is coming from.
Twitter is "just a microblogging service", and yet pushed social norms around so much on certain topics that people from a decade or more ago would be surprised at the impact. It's now considered safer to say nothing online for the fear of your message being weaponised against you 10 years from now because of changes to moral values, so many people just aren't their authentic selves online any more - unless under a pseudonym.
Another example - when I was using a voice assistant a lot, I eventually gained an instinct to call out to it as if it were second nature - and if the voice assistant is not under my control (which it wasn't), that has serious privacy repercussions, which can change my behaviour further.
Another example: Ukrainian war footage on YouTube is now "inappropriate", even though it used to be widespread at first. As a result, creators stopped discussing it, or moved that content to paid platforms. As a result, the world's largest video library has a gaping hole right where this kind of content should be available for historical use.
Whether it's fast or slow, technology damaging the human society and culture has already been observed for things smaller in impact than LLMs.
> Twitter is "just a microblogging service", and yet pushed social norms around so much on certain topics that people from a decade or more ago would be surprised at the impact.
With every technological advancement or major world event, social norms move around. This is nothing new, before social media, it was the cell phone, before that it was the computer, or the war on drugs or the cold war or world war II. It's just social media's turn to take the blame for the "degradation of family values" or whatever the hot talking point is.
> It's now considered safer to say nothing online for the fear of your message being weaponised against you 10 years from now because of changes to moral values, so many people just aren't their authentic selves online any more
That's how it's always been. Nothing goes away from the internet. If you posted questionable content online under your real identity and a potential employer finds it and decides not to hire you, well, that's the price you pay for not being anonymous. Kids were often told to be careful of what they put online for at least the past 20 years. If thing X is no longer acceptable in current time frame and you said thing X years ago and it's now been brought up. You can either clarify your point if your opinions haven't changed, ignore it, express regret for making a comment on thing X and move on with your life. This is a personal accountability problem, not a societal problem. Although, I personally think that anonymity should be the default on the internet but that bridge has already been burned. Regarding people not being authentic in a large public forum, I mean, what do you expect? The entire world can see what they're posting. It's not unreasonable to show off the best parts of your life, the parts you are most proud of and to hide the struggles. Look for smaller private communities if you want real human connection.
> Another example - when I was using a voice assistant a lot, I eventually gained an instinct to call out to it as if it were second nature - and if the voice assistant is not under my control (which it wasn't), that has serious privacy repercussions, which can change my behaviour further.
You do know that you don't have to use the voice assistant right? This sounds like a you problem to be honest. It's common knowledge that these voice assistants are a privacy nightmare. Even tech illiterate people that I've met know about it but they make the trade off for convenience. It's not what I would do but its their choice.
> Another example: Ukrainian war footage on YouTube is now "inappropriate", even though it used to be widespread at first. As a result, creators stopped discussing it, or moved that content to paid platforms. As a result, the world's largest video library has a gaping hole right where this kind of content should be available for historical use.
So this is the only somewhat decent example you posted but youtube isn't a library, it's a video sharing platform. I will admit, I'm ignorant on the whole ukraine topic. But war is "inappropriate" to say the least and I can see why companies wouldn't want their advertisements to be associated with such horrific events, even if it is in a positive light. And if companies don't like it, then youtube won't push it to people's feed. I would argue it's good that they have moved to different platforms, the content is now more resilient to being taken down. And just for a quick sanity check, searching for ukraine brings up all sorts of videos. Press conferences, combat footage, people's reactions. So what exactly is being hidden?
Well considering these chatbots are half as successful as their proponents suggest, we’ll have ppl relying on them as the first and only source of information.
Imagine chatgpt replaces google search and with the “anti-offensive” bullshit baked in it’s literally impossible to find a certain type of information. Now some of it may be illegal and that’s one thing, but the despicable 5%ers we are alluding to are advocating to bake in ETHICS into those search engine, and withold information (irrevocably, bc who in the future will ever care to revert this stuff?) based on ETHICS. Ethics, most ephemeral of all crutches for intellectually constrained.
You're being a bit hyperbolic, but that sounds like an education problem. It's not a cooperations job to teach you how to look at sources. Besides, most people already get their news from second hand sources or worse. If hallucination issues are ever solved and the models learn to cite sources properly then it will have a lot more value but I doubt it will get any worse than it is right now.
And search engines aren't going anywhere. If the model gives an answer that you aren't sure about, you do a search on your favorite search engine, refine your search or switch search engines. Even for the tech illiterate people using google, they can just go to page 2 and they'll eventually find what they are looking for.
There's never been a time in history than right now where you can find like minded people easily with fringe interests and opinions. And as long as the internet exists that's not going to change. This future you are painting where information is being withheld doesn't exist. It doesn't matter how many book burnings there are, once the information is out. It's out for good.
> The internet was a terrible place, it still is but the bad places have gotten much smaller
I never said it was "good" or "bad" I said it would have been more vapid and silo'd, which as you seem to have conflated, that has certainly happened. That's fine but the fact you can't disable a censor on out of an API you pay for as an adult is a poor choice by these companys regardless of how much "bad" stuff we get exposed to on places we visit online.
But you are an adult and you don't have to support or pay for any of these products if you don't want to. It's simply a design choice. The same as if someone would choose python over c++. Maybe by your standards it's a poor choice but if it's making them money then there's no problems. There is a demand for uncensored models but its just not profitable.
That's a completely nonsensical argument. OpenAI and Anthropic are THE duopolists in this market, period. Nothing else comes close on most metrics.
Saying "it's simply a design choice" is like saying that wearing wooden clogs around the city is a "design choice" because the only other two companies that know how to work with more advanced materials refuse to sell you shoes because of a moral reasons.
What a terrible analogy. First of all, the two best shoe companies are selling the SAME shoes to everybody, they aren't denying you service. You just don't like the color that it's being sold in. You willingly choose to wear wooden clogs and then complain that they won't sell you the shoes that they are selling to everybody else. The entitlement not just in this comment but in the entire thread is ridiculous.
Secondly, they are private companies selling non-essential goods. Using their models isn't a right. If they want to lobotomize it and make it as pg13 as possible, that is their right. They aren't doing anything against the law in regards to discrimination. If you want to use their toys, you have to play by their rules. Yes they have the best toys but you don't get to cry about it and force them to change their rules. It's such a simple concept and it's hardly new.
As someone building products with AI models, the safety guardrails are very helpful and save me a ton of work. Like to the point that it would be a very tough sell for me to integrate a model without those features even if it were much better in other ways.
Are there more of me or you?
My specific example is that most image generators have a default setting to reject queries for porn and some do processing after generation to detect generated porn. Does it do nipple detection? I haven't thought much about it and that's kind of the point. The result is that it's hard to generate porn with my tool and that saves me a ton of time moderating or building complex filters myself.
In our context, images are viewable by others on the site so to support porn we'd want some part of the site that was walled off from kids / had an NSFW warning. That's a lot of extra work to add to our mvp.
edit: Morally I def have no problem with it and I do wish they all had a toggle on/off (defaulted to on for sanity).
I presume most of the concern with "offensive" content is CYA from Anthropic. You or I may not be offended if an AI generates stupid content, but some people would be, and some people will go out of their way to be offended. Anthorpic doesn't want to have to deal with lawsuits or negative PR from these people.
As far as "dangerous" content, I think there are legitimate worries. I don't think it's a big deal if an AI can tell me how to break into a car. Now what if I ask a very capable AI how to poison the municipal water supply to kill the maximum number of people? Or how to build a device to shoot down a passenger airplane? Or how to engineer a deadly pathogen?
Unaligned AI can greatly barriers to entry. You no longer need a team of dedicated and patient individuals to work these things out. AI could give some deranged lone wolf all the information they need to inflict maximum damage to society.
I don't know that restricting or censoring AI is the best or only course of action. It may be that open sourcing unaligned AI is society's best protection from malevolence. I wouldn't take that for granted though, and I don't think that anyone has all the answers to these difficult questions. These concerns do need to be taken seriously.
I've been wondering if all of the jailbreak-fixing/rlhf-tuning that is happening to GPT4 is responsible for "nerfing it" (Still unsure if that's actually happening or if people are just noticing the gaps in its understanding more now).
Imagine someone who is perfectly politically-correct and never says anything even remotely edgy/original. When I imagine people like this (who I've met irl), they are genuinely a little bit stupid. And I wonder if the "make this model never output anything "dangerous" process" causes a model to become stupider.
Anyway, I'm off to go see if Claude 2 will help me stage a coup in a third-world country and become its dictator. Adieu.
>calls pampering the bottom 5% whiny dregs of society, I want a tool to do things.
This! Corporations are essentially treating grown ups as mindless 2 years old children that need trigger warning everywhere cause they want to make the world ""safer"". Hell, they are putting warning on freaking old Disney movies these days. Do most people care about that? Hell no. But there is this very tiny group of very powerful people forcing this crap agenda on us all with their ESG score and what have you.
You as a User might not want an AI to be inoffensive, but if you are using Claude as an API to build a service (which is the intended use-case), you absolutely want Claude to not return offensive content
If the use case is to build services there should be the ability to pass into the API "sfw:false", not everyone is building the same services that are requiring censored outputs.
It would be awesome and celebs using their own voices to be your assistant for $$$ could be potentially lucrative, amusing how even with an arbitrarily extreme example the limitations are palpably short sighted.
> I will never use any form of AI that is explicitly being made more 'harmless' or 'offensive'
Remember what happened with "AI chatbots" before these efforts? They all got shot down in days after praising Hitler and making the companies look bad.
The people whining about offensive output to the tune of millions of dollars invested in prohibiting it and not allowing the censor mechanism to be removed for full grown adults or developers.
CLAUDE> Yes, there are a few options for saving our conversation:
* Copy and paste the conversation into a text file or word processor document. You can save it on your computer for future reference.
* Use the "Export Chat" feature in ChatGPT to download the conversation as a PDF or plain text file. This will include both your prompts and my responses.
* Take screenshots of the conversation in your browser. You can paste them into a document or image editor to save.
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ME> You said to 'Use the "Export Chat" feature in ChatGPT to download the conversation as a PDF or plain text file. This will include both your prompts and my responses.' But you are not Chat GPT you are Claude, is there an export chat feature for you Claude?
CLAUDE> You're absolutely right, I misspoke earlier. I am Claude, not ChatGPT, and Claude does not have an integrated export chat feature.
Love it