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Re:Effective GPT-4 Programming by doctoboggan on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:16PM (#38272890)
Well now that OpenAI has increased the knowledge cutoff date to something much more recent, it's entirely possible that GPT4 is "aware" of itself in as much as its aware of anything. You are right in that each instance isn't aware directly of what the other instances are doing, it does probably now have knowledge of itself.

Unless of course OpenAI completely scrubbed the input files of any mention of GPT4.

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Re:Effective GPT-4 Programming by worldsayshi on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @06:52AM (#38275733)
Yeah once ChatGPT shows up as an entity in the training data it will sort of inescapably start to build a self image.
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Re:Effective GPT-4 Programming by Aerbil313 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @07:10AM (#38275848)
Wait, this can actually have consequences! Think about all the SEO articles about ChatGPT hallucinating… At some point it will start to “think” that it should hallucinate and give nonsensical answers often, as it is ChatGPT.
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Re:Effective GPT-4 Programming by jondwillis on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @10:25AM (#38277638)
I wouldn’t draw that conclusion yet, but I suppose it is possible.
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Re:Effective GPT-4 Programming by sebastiennight on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @12:08PM (#38279176)
It seems maybe a bit overconfident to assess that one instance doesn't know what other instances are doing when everything is processed in batch calculations.

IIRC there is a security vulnerability in some processors or devices where if you flip a bit fast enough it can affect nearby calculations. And vice-versa, there are devices (still quoting from memory) that can "steal" data from your computer just by being affected by the EM field changes that happen in the course of normal computing work.

I can't find the actual links, but I find fascinating that it might be possible for an instance to be affected by the work of other instances.

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