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Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by dorkwood on Friday February 17, 2023 @05:22PM (#34841426)
Unleashed LLM’s will be the real societal shift. Especially once they move from being reactive to proactive — sending you an article it read about your favourite hobby, checking in to see how your day’s going, or indulging in some sexual fantasy you’ve never been able to mention to anyone else.

It really does feel like we’re moments away from “Her” becoming a reality.

Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by visarga on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:19PM (#34841938)
> or indulging in some sexual fantasy you’ve never been able to mention to anyone else

I'm wondering if it will use private storage for those memories. Will people try to hide stuff by wrapping it in sexual language?

Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by yellow_lead on Saturday February 18, 2023 @01:51AM (#34844627)
No, this data will be sold to advertisers.
Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by hn_throwaway_99 on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:29PM (#34842028)
> Especially once they move from being reactive to proactive

Wonderful, my existing nightmare made worse. I'm already bombarded with spam, texts, slacks, emails, notifications, etc. That absolute last thing I want in this world is more ways for automated systems to demand my attention.

Seriously, my vision of technical Nirvana is for everything to shut TF up.

Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by skygazer on Saturday February 18, 2023 @12:01AM (#34844067)
I wouldn’t mind one triaging my email, voice mail can calls.

Yesterday I just tested a stream of conscious rambling paragraph of things I need to do with chat GPT, then asked it to extract tasks, infer importance and interdependencies, and then enumerate a list of them. It had even grouped related things together, but I asked it to separate them, and it did. I really want to wire this up to Apple reminders.

Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by aragilar on Saturday February 18, 2023 @02:29AM (#34844820)
Gmail has had the "important" flag for ages, and that's done automatically. The issue is training the AI to work for your data (e.g. I find Gmail still hasn't picked up the differences in spam I get, and so some specific spam still going to my inbox, and some specific ham ends up in spam).

Unfortunately, just because one provider provides a good AI, doesn't mean others will (and in a work context, you may be stuck with the bad one).

Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by int_19h on Saturday February 18, 2023 @03:03AM (#34844987)
GPT-3 has the API available for those who want it, and it can do fine tuning, so for OP's specific use case it feels like the only limit is the size of one's wallet.
Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by dilap on Saturday February 18, 2023 @07:09AM (#34846276)
That's may be because the social IQ of current tech is essentially zero. It'll be a lot less annoying (but also a lot more insidiously dangerous) once it's smarter.
Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by tempodox on Saturday February 18, 2023 @03:07AM (#34845004)
> indulging in some sexual fantasy you’ve never been able to mention to anyone else.

Do you seriously believe that you would have any privacy using such a thing?

Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by Baeocystin on Saturday February 18, 2023 @03:37AM (#34845164)
The cat's out of the bag. There's no way self-hostable versions don't come along, and soon.
Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by root_axis on Saturday February 18, 2023 @03:43AM (#34845191)
The hardware necessary for self-hosting definitely won't be in reach of most people any time soon.
Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by tyfon on Saturday February 18, 2023 @05:53AM (#34845883)
One day it will though.

I think we will also see a lot of weights optimisation/pruning and model architecture optimisations that allow them to run on much less hardware.

Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by Baeocystin on Saturday February 18, 2023 @02:55PM (#34850409)
Like you say, we can self-host GPT-2 today. And Bloom is a large-scale open source LLM model available for anyone, and has been around for months.

Look how rapidly the RAM/hardware requirements for the diffusion generators has dropped over the past couple of months, now that they passed the critical interest threshold. I see no reason not to expect similar here.

Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by Madmallard on Saturday February 18, 2023 @12:53PM (#34849127)
You realize the monumental compute involved on the backend?
Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by dns_snek on Saturday February 18, 2023 @01:05PM (#34849268)
Bloom? This is just a general observation but I'm surprised everyone's forgotten about it this quickly. I haven't seen it mentioned in these sorts of discussions in a very long time.
Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by burnished on Saturday February 18, 2023 @04:03AM (#34845289)
From your NSA agent? What do think? But from your friends and family, yeah, why not?
Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by ykonstant on Saturday February 18, 2023 @05:33AM (#34845778)
>or indulging in some sexual fantasy you’ve never been able to mention to anyone else.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by andsoitis on Saturday February 18, 2023 @06:40AM (#34846106)
> It really does feel like we’re moments away from “Her” becoming a reality.

the smoke and mirrors is working

Re:Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot by barking_biscuit on Saturday February 18, 2023 @05:22PM (#34851710)
>It really does feel like we’re moments away from “Her” becoming a reality.

I hope not. That movie was boring and terrible.