GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers $500k and 20k hours

Re:GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers ... by HPMOR on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:35PM (#35533631)

Not to sound condescending but really? How is this not immediately your mind goes? Every piece of information ever recorded can now be summarized and cross-linked efficiently. Privacy is beyond dead. Soon every authoritarian government (and Democratic ones albeit secretly) will have integrated platforms that track every single one of your movements, known contacts, internet usage, financial data, and correspondence. Big Brother has NEVER EVER been more effective than it will become.

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Re:GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers ... by Teever on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:50PM (#35533726)

Yeah, I think the NSA is going to get their money's worth for that Utah Datacenter that they started building like 20 years ago.

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Re:GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers ... by Roritharr on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:56PM (#35533753)

Looking at this from far away, with the Snowden revelations in mind I'd think it's not tinfoil hat territory to assume that some of the progress at OpenAI got achieved with some help from well ressourced folks in the USG/Three Letter Agencies.

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Re:GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers ... by orangepurple on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @09:32PM (#35533970)

I doubt it. Scraped tweets and reddit is already huge

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Re:GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers ... by nr2x on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @10:06PM (#35534194)

I don’t think they helped them. Now, did they train off the same data sources? Well, since OpenAI isn’t saying what GPT-4 is trained on, and the NSA can hoover up all kinds of non-public data, it stands to reason they may both be doing something slightly shady with emails, texts, and the like.

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Re:GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers ... by Teever on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @10:53PM (#35534458)

Yeah, I've started wondering similar things about that too, like how far ahead is the NSA on this stuff? And how does that tie in to the recent policy of denying China semiconductors?

Perhaps history will show that the NSA made algorithmic breakthroughs a few years ago and realized what was coming, so political policy was crafted to stymie Chinese progress in this field, and what we're seeing in the public sphere from companies like openAI is a managed release of the technology into the public, openAI at least managing to independently discover the same breakthroughs that the NSA made a a few years ago.

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Re:GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers ... by pixl97 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:17PM (#35545212)

You're seeing the government entity as separate from the corporate entity, but quite often in the US its the other way around. The government entity is a rather hollow shell, and the 'brains' of the operation is contracted out to the corporation. The government entity would almost cease to exist if the corporation under it magically disappeared.

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Re:GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers ... by lovvtide on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @10:08PM (#35534209)

I know right! It's so obvious.

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Re:GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers ... by AussieWog93 on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @11:09PM (#35534558)

>How is this not immediately your mind goes?

Most people don't really think about things that don't affect their day-to-day lives. This includes the specifics of how Governments might run a mass surveillance plan.

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