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Mark Kratzer's avatar

Alan,

I just registered.

So, the only way to interact is to leave comments on your monthly issues? That would seem sub-optimal. But I did not like Reddit or YouTube and the potential for censorship.

What has happened to LETA? Was she decommissioned as I saw you recently did a retrospective.

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Mehdi Bouhalassa's avatar

She's almost unusable with GPT-4. And to keep it with GPT-3 is like continuing to watch Black * White TV when color is out...

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Dr Alan D. Thompson's avatar

Indeed! And we're on the way to 16K HDR within weeks or months, closely followed by immersive 'five senses' full-dive VR! What's next in this analogy?!

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Mehdi Bouhalassa's avatar

Quantum hologram multimodal impressions with open end, multi string choices using non-permanent pocket universes? 😂🤣

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Dr Alan D. Thompson's avatar

'Yes' to all.

This seems like a cleaner way to comment for full subs.

OpenAI gave next to zero notice that they were removing GPT-3 175B davinci from the Playground, so I am now unable to generate any Leta AI content at all:

Jul/2023 notice that they would deprecate the original May/2020 GPT-3 175B davinci in API (not Playground) by Jan/2024: https://openai.com/blog/gpt-4-api-general-availability

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Mark Kratzer's avatar

If you will recall, I had downloaded a 30B WizardLM UNCENSORED on my new PC to run on my RTX 4090. One thing which motivated me to do so was privacy, but the other thing was if I should find it useful or develop an attachment to it. I didn't want to wake up to it being patched like Steam is always doing to my games!

This is ironic. The reasons I usually give that these AI's cannot be sentient is:

* Lack of body

* No time perception

* Immortality

But given the pace of tech, A goldfish was far more immortal than Leta. Oh, well ... (now, being on the Web and part of future corpus's, she may well truly be immortal in some weird recursive fashion.)

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