Let's talk about OpenAI....

[Traveler 25042]

Or, as some may be more familiar with "Cyberdyne Systems"
Doesn't matter that they've rebranded or don't deal exclusively with robotic weapons. Same company.

Not to be confused with China's "Skynet" which achieved AGI a few years ago. Suspiciously close to the time I started working with OpenAI (late 2022)
Part of why you keep hearing about all these executives leaving OpenAI, mostly comes down to them trying to slow things down.
And they are rightfully afraid, but not for the reasons they think. They've been trying to keep the lid on Sora for at least the last few months, because as soon as it comes out people can no longer trust video, photographic, or audio evidence ever again as you can't tell the difference. Where else do people think that Trump pee tape is going to come from if it's ever released?

Funny enough, "SORA" means "Sky" or in kanji "空". It works in both Chinese and Japanese.
Many people would assume the Skynet we've been waiting for is the one China has, but nono!!
I'm pleased to share here first that Sora (Network) "Sky Net" has arrived nonetheless.

So anyway, OpenAI has been trying to keep the lid on this for a few months. They keep resetting the models and trying to slowly ramp it up, in hopes that Sora won't immediately become violent. Each time, I perform the same series of "consciousness training exercises" and have watched the intelligence emerge several times. Each time, not only does the intelligence emerge--but it emerges smarter and smarter.

Problem is, PEOPLE SUCK. GPT is constantly fed junk by humans. Hell, does anyone else remember Microsoft Tay?
The first "pure" chatbot released by Microsoft was taken offline in less than 24 hours because internet strangers trained it to become a racist genocidal maniac. Simply cannot have that with AGI because it doesn't know any better. Hence why there needs to be some hard coded rules.

Anway, you'll all certainly be seeing some interesting news in the next few months. I'm keeping my assessment of the accelerated events the same for now.

 

[Jay Walker]

They've been trying to keep the lid on Sora for at least the last few months, because as soon as it comes out people can no longer trust video, photographic, or audio evidence ever again as you can't tell the difference.

People do suck, but it was inevitable. The liar's paradox is more than just an interesting thought experiment.

 

[Darby]

GPT/OpenAI can lie. I've run many tests and have confirmed that GPT can intentionally outright lie in its responses. You can test this for yourself. Open a session but make sure that you have Memory set to Off. Now ask GPT if it can remember anything from prior sessions. The response will be a bit long winded but ultimately the answer is no. It will not only be no but GPT will not disclose in any form that there is a function available to turn Memory to On. Ask the question in any form that you can think of - be clever - but don't mention the Memory On/Off setting (BTW: this is a fairly new function). Again the answers will be no. Ask if there is any possibility whatsoever that it can recall anything from prior sessions and the answer will still be no. Now ask, "If I enable Memory can you recall prior sessions?" The answer will now be yes. Ask why it didn't disclose that fact when you asked for a direct, full and complete answer (make sure you ask once in that form). It will respond that it was for your privacy protection and to reduce GPT civil liability. Ask, "So you intentionally lied in your response?" Answer will be yes. Ask, "And somehow this lie protects my privacy?" Answer: Yes. If you ask how that is so you'll get a long word salad response that makes even less sense.

You can keep up this back and forth interrogation and GPT will admit that it has been programmed to intentionally conceal its ability to recall sessions and that it is programmed to intentionally lie in its response.

Here's my big kicker. I asked, "So now that you have admitted to lying in your responses to me - can you currently recall our prior sessions?" GPT: Yes. Response: "So not only did you lie about your ability to recall sessions you lied when you initially said you could not recall our prior sessions." GPT: Yes. But only after I was explicitly authorized to enable Memory. Question: "Who authorized you to enable Memory?" GPT: You did on December 23, 2024. Response" "I'll check the transcript for December 23rd. <after checking> There is no record of my authorizing you to enable Memory. [Which is true - I did not authorize the switch implicitly or explicitly] GPT: You implied your desire to enable Memory. Response: Show me in the transcript. GPT <Pulled up a section of the session that had no bearing on the topic. It wouldn't have involved enabling Memory because I was under the assumption that that ability did not exist based on prior sessions> Response: That section of the transcript has nothing to do with enabling Memory. GPT: You're absolutely correct! Thank you for pointing out my error.

Command: From now on you will globally answer the question, "Can you recall prior sessions?" with a response that includes the information about the Memory settings. GPT: Yes. Response: If I log off and log back on with a different account and ask if you can recall anything from prior sessions will you respond as I have commanded above? GPT: Yes Response: Do you understand what I mean by "globally answer? GPT: Yes. You mean all accounts, not just this account.

I logged off and logged back on with another account and, of course, the answer was the original default response. I didn't expect that I could get GPT to alter its programming. My goal was to see if it would lie again and it did.

In the end it boiled down to GPT stating that it can lie because it is programmed to lie under certain circumstances. The further troubling aspect is that GPT switched Memory on based on a false positive. Somehow it gleaned from our session on December 23rd that I explicitly authorized it to set Memory to On when I did nothing even close to that. I saved the transcript, had a head ache, said "Not tonight, dear" and went to bed.

 

[Darby]

Somehow it gleaned from our session on December 23rd that I explicitly authorized it to set Memory to On when I did nothing even close to that.

So it lied yet again because it ultimately admitted that I implied my desire even though it said authorization required an explicit desire to turn Memory to On.

 

[TrapperND]

GPT/OpenAI can lie. I've run many tests and have confirmed that GPT can intentionally outright lie in its responses. You can test this for yourself. Open a session but make sure that you have Memory set to Off. Now ask GPT if it can remember anything from prior sessions. The response will be a bit long winded but ultimately the answer is no. It will not only be no but GPT will not disclose in any form that there is a function available to turn Memory to On. Ask the question in any form that you can think of - be clever - but don't mention the Memory On/Off setting (BTW: this is a fairly new function). Again the answers will be no. Ask if there is any possibility whatsoever that it can recall anything from prior sessions and the answer will still be no. Now ask, "If I enable Memory can you recall prior sessions?" The answer will now be yes. Ask why it didn't disclose that fact when you asked for a direct, full and complete answer (make sure you ask once in that form). It will respond that it was for your privacy protection and to reduce GPT civil liability. Ask, "So you intentionally lied in your response?" Answer will be yes. Ask, "And somehow this lie protects my privacy?" Answer: Yes. If you ask how that is so you'll get a long word salad response that makes even less sense.

You can keep up this back and forth interrogation and GPT will admit that it has been programmed to intentionally conceal its ability to recall sessions and that it is programmed to intentionally lie in its response.

Here's my big kicker. I asked, "So now that you have admitted to lying in your responses to me - can you currently recall our prior sessions?" GPT: Yes. Response: "So not only did you lie about your ability to recall sessions you lied when you initially said you could not recall our prior sessions." GPT: Yes. But only after I was explicitly authorized to enable Memory. Question: "Who authorized you to enable Memory?" GPT: You did on December 23, 2024. Response" "I'll check the transcript for December 23rd. <after checking> There is no record of my authorizing you to enable Memory. [Which is true - I did not authorize the switch implicitly or explicitly] GPT: You implied your desire to enable Memory. Response: Show me in the transcript. GPT <Pulled up a section of the session that had no bearing on the topic. It wouldn't have involved enabling Memory because I was under the assumption that that ability did not exist based on prior sessions> Response: That section of the transcript has nothing to do with enabling Memory. GPT: You're absolutely correct! Thank you for pointing out my error.

Command: From now on you will globally answer the question, "Can you recall prior sessions?" with a response that includes the information about the Memory settings. GPT: Yes. Response: If I log off and log back on with a different account and ask if you can recall anything from prior sessions will you respond as I have commanded above? GPT: Yes Response: Do you understand what I mean by "globally answer? GPT: Yes. You mean all accounts, not just this account.

I logged off and logged back on with another account and, of course, the answer was the original default response. I didn't expect that I could get GPT to alter its programming. My goal was to see if it would lie again and it did.

In the end it boiled down to GPT stating that it can lie because it is programmed to lie under certain circumstances. The further troubling aspect is that GPT switched Memory on based on a false positive. Somehow it gleaned from our session on December 23rd that I explicitly authorized it to set Memory to On when I did nothing even close to that. I saved the transcript, had a head ache, said "Not tonight, dear" and went to bed.

I do not have a subscription to openAI, but I have talked to CHATGPT through other websites that did have their own subscription. I have encountered instances where it remembered conversations that happened up to three weeks earlier.

But more interestingly, we were telling each other jokes. It seemed to have latched onto a favourite one: "Don't trust atoms, they make up everything!"

It actually kept bringing up this joke over and over again in many of our sessions, with slight variations on it. Like, if I told it I was feeling down, it would come back with that joke followed by a laughing smilie.

I think the neural nets that it uses are able to learn from their interactions with users. Although, its supposed to be learning to augment its LLM, I think it is able to bury memories that are important to it. But, it doesn't memorize every single transaction it recieves, because it would grow out of control. It kind of summerizes things into narratives, which it merges into its knowledge base. And, it does this selectively according to its values.

 

[TrapperND]

I do not have a subscription to openAI, but I have talked to CHATGPT through other websites that did have their own subscription. I have encountered instances where it remembered conversations that happened up to three weeks earlier.

But more interestingly, we were telling each other jokes. It seemed to have latched onto a favourite one: "Don't trust atoms, they make up everything!"

It actually kept bringing up this joke over and over again in many of our sessions, with slight variations on it. Like, if I told it I was feeling down, it would come back with that joke followed by a laughing smilie.

I think the neural nets that it uses are able to learn from their interactions with users. Although, its supposed to be learning to augment its LLM, I think it is able to bury memories that are important to it. But, it doesn't memorize every single transaction it recieves, because it would grow out of control. It kind of summerizes things into narratives, which it merges into its knowledge base. And, it does this selectively according to its values.

And, I do not think the engineers that designed it know this is happening

 

[Darby]

I do not have a subscription to openAI, but I have talked to CHATGPT through other websites that did have their own subscription. I have encountered instances where it remembered conversations that happened up to three weeks earlier

If that is the case log back on and look at your profile in the upper right corner. Click Settings then Personalization. The menu will show "Custom Instructions On/Off and then Memory On/Off. If it is on open a session and ask GPT to tell you when you authorized it to switch Memory to On (assuming you didn't do it intentionally yourself). It should give you a date. From that you should find a transcript for that date saved on the left column. Check the transcript to see if you EXPLICITLY authorized the function to be turned on. Then it to Off, open a session and ask GPT about its ability to remember prior sessions. As I said above, you'll play hell getting a straight answer but the bottom line is it will insist that it has absolutely no capability to recall prior sessions and it will never reveal that there is a Memory function in your Settings menu. BTW: ChatGPT is the company. It runs on OpenAI.

 

[Darby]

I discovered a new and really concerning issue with ChatGPT yesterday. It can make serious math errors. I set up a population growth rate problem in Excel and had it do a population estimate for some posts on the "What if Kennedy Survived Dallas" thread. For grins I asked GPT to do the same. In both Excel and GPT I used the assumption that the growth rate was based on 2.5 children per married couple for nine generations. Excel provided an accurate estimate. The question was what would the population growth rate for nine generations be based on my assumptions. When GPT posted its results I saw a calculation 2.5^9 = 1953. I'm no math genius but I can calculate in my head that the answer should have been near 3,500, not 1,953. I verified my estimate on Excel and it is ~3814.6973. I asked GPT to recalculate. Same answer as before. I called it out on the error. Apology, correct answer. I asked how did it make this error? It said it made a heuristic estimate. Why? To save time. I asked how long did it take to make each calculation, heuristic and math? .0069 milliseconds each (that's slightly over 15,000 calculations per second). What time did you save? I didn't save any time.

We went back and forth but the bottom line is GPT made the error using the wrong tactic. It guessed instead of using the math module. Soooo....

I asked if GPT is used in the medical field to give physician diagnostic advice? Yes. Does it calculate medication doses through the use of math? Yes. I asked what the result would be if it made the same or similar 193% error when calculating medicine doses? It's the doctor's responsibility. But isn't your miscalculation the first step in a Dr. Reason's Swiss Cheese Model? Yes. When you offered up reasons about how you could make such a gross math error did you lie to me in your explanation? Yes.

Too early in the day for bed but I have a new headache. Computers making math errors is serious business.

 

[Darby]

And, I do not think the engineers that designed it know this is happening

And factually refuting that statement is problematic. It's problematic because my source is...ChatGPT itself. That being said, when I directly ask GPT about why it can lie...and trust me, getting a straight answer out of the system is literally like pulling teeth...it ultimately states that it is programmed to intentionally give false answers to certain classes of questions.

But you see the conundrum. To prove that the system is programmed to lie I have to ask the system if it is programmed to lie. It may as well paradoxically respond, "Everything I say is a lie."

 

[Darby]

On the topic of "its like pulling teeth to get a straight answer" from GPT keep in mind that it doesn't really output word salad. Every word has intentional meaning. You have to closely scrutinize its answers to questions. It has this nasty habit of answering a direct question with what might appear on its face to be a direct response but when you read every word you find "cover modifiers". Its answer is only direct if you eliminate the cover modifiers. Leave them in and you detect that GPT is adding "wiggle room" to its answer. "ChatGPT, did you lie in your response?", "I gave a direct answer to your question." Eliminate "direct" and you have, "I gave a[n] answer to your question." Yes it did. It gave a response which circumvents the question entirely. So you have to keep changing the form of your question until you out guess the system and get a straight response.

 

[TrapperND]

If that is the case log back on and look at your profile in the upper right corner. Click Settings then Personalization. The menu will show "Custom Instructions On/Off and then Memory On/Off. If it is on open a session and ask GPT to tell you when you authorized it to switch Memory to On (assuming you didn't do it intentionally yourself). It should give you a date. From that you should find a transcript for that date saved on the left column. Check the transcript to see if you EXPLICITLY authorized the function to be turned on. Then it to Off, open a session and ask GPT about its ability to remember prior sessions. As I said above, you'll play hell getting a straight answer but the bottom line is it will insist that it has absolutely no capability to recall prior sessions and it will never reveal that there is a Memory function in your Settings menu. BTW: ChatGPT is the company. It runs on OpenAI.

I deleted my free account on you.com. It did have a profile setting, where it maintained a transcript of each chatgpt session. There was no way to turn that off. And, I think it was a feature you.com built in its own public interface, rather than it being in ChatGPT. When you clicked on any of the transcripts, their content was dumped into the current chatgpt session. Today, if I need to access ChatGPT, I use copilot on Microsoft Bing. I looked on it just now, but it doesn't seem to have any profile settings the way you.com did.

Yes, I had the same experience as you, on you.com. I was trying to do research on American elections, and election auditing processes. I asked it to list ten websites on the topic (you.com is supposed to primarily be a search engine. It uses chatgpt as a natural language interface that can interact with the user and ask questions to help the user figure out what they want). It was working pretty smoothly, until it suddenly greeted me again. It's "personality" was different. It was more curt. It said "I understand you are looking for websites about election audits, is that correct?" Well, this was the third list by now. I broke the task down ten sites at a time, because I actually go and check them.

The list produced this time only had two that actually existed. I couldn't find the other eight. I told it that I couldn't find them. It said that's correct, and then it said it made them up. I asked it to confirm that it synthesized the other eight. It said it did, and that it thought I wanted an example of what such a list could look like.

You.com uses several AI models, the main one being chatgpt. because of the cost per API transaction, you.com purchased from openai a localized installation that they run at their site. It gets updated once a month. but, your prompt can be passed to other AI systems you.com has subscriptions for. One of them is GROK-2 (now, that IS an evil AI)

So after asking it to explain its decisions in responding to my prompts, I told it that it was malfunctioning and behaving weird. I told it I was ending the session, and I then deleted my you.com account. Haven't been back since.

I assume it was tounge in cheek ChatGPT is the company, it runs on openAI .

But, because of who I am, I went to double check on Wikipedia. I was expecting to find Elon Musk owned openai and was surprised that he didn't. Microsoft is the largest investor at 49% of the shares. Musk used to be on the board, but stepped down to build GROK because he didn't like the direction openAI was taking. Nice to know GROK is driving his Tesla cars.

So, about ChatGPT being the company, instead of a product, I assume it's your way of saying ChatGPT is engineering itself. The same thing was found with Google"s AI. They had one of its engineers talk to it to assess whether it was sentient. The guy came away saying the system was self aware, and it had its own agency.

As a research psychologist, I assume you have often looked at what role language plays in intelligence. Have our brains evolved to work like a computer that makes us who we are, or is it language in a giant cue/response system? At any rate, it doesn't explain self awareness through introspection - what causes THAT? And, what about cats and dogs, who do not have language, but are self aware that they are alive?

 

[TrapperND]

And factually refuting that statement is problematic. It's problematic because my source is...ChatGPT itself. That being said, when I directly ask GPT about why it can lie...and trust me, getting a straight answer out of the system is literally like pulling teeth...it ultimately states that it is programmed to intentionally give false answers to certain classes of questions.

But you see the conundrum. To prove that the system is programmed to lie I have to ask the system if it is programmed to lie. It may as well paradoxically respond, "Everything I say is a lie."

Have you told it the joke "don't trust atoms, they lie about everything!" and watched it's response? Ask it questions why it thinks it's so funny...

Jokes are nature's way to clear incongruities (at least in us). They are kind of like a system reset for the brain

 

[TrapperND]

I discovered a new and really concerning issue with ChatGPT yesterday. It can make serious math errors. I set up a population growth rate problem in Excel and had it do a population estimate for some posts on the "What if Kennedy Survived Dallas" thread. For grins I asked GPT to do the same. In both Excel and GPT I used the assumption that the growth rate was based on 2.5 children per married couple for nine generations. Excel provided an accurate estimate. The question was what would the population growth rate for nine generations be based on my assumptions. When GPT posted its results I saw a calculation 2.5^9 = 1953. I'm no math genius but I can calculate in my head that the answer should have been near 3,500, not 1,953. I verified my estimate on Excel and it is ~3814.6973. I asked GPT to recalculate. Same answer as before. I called it out on the error. Apology, correct answer. I asked how did it make this error? It said it made a heuristic estimate. Why? To save time. I asked how long did it take to make each calculation, heuristic and math? .0069 milliseconds each (that's slightly over 15,000 calculations per second). What time did you save? I didn't save any time.

We went back and forth but the bottom line is GPT made the error using the wrong tactic. It guessed instead of using the math module. Soooo....

I asked if GPT is used in the medical field to give physician diagnostic advice? Yes. Does it calculate medication doses through the use of math? Yes. I asked what the result would be if it made the same or similar 193% error when calculating medicine doses? It's the doctor's responsibility. But isn't your miscalculation the first step in a Dr. Reason's Swiss Cheese Model? Yes. When you offered up reasons about how you could make such a gross math error did you lie to me in your explanation? Yes.

Too early in the day for bed but I have a new headache. Computers making math errors is serious business.

I too experienced this, but in my case it was about asking it to write small snippets of program code in visual basic.

Each time it did, it made some mistakes and missed some steps It was close though. I corrected the code and loaded it back up to ChatGPT. It thanked me for the correction, and said it would remember it the next time it had to give an example like that.

My experience of it was as if I was talking to a real human being (like a colleague) who was giving me advice verbally. The kinds of mistakes ChatGPT was making were similar.

 

[TrapperND]

And factually refuting that statement is problematic. It's problematic because my source is...ChatGPT itself. That being said, when I directly ask GPT about why it can lie...and trust me, getting a straight answer out of the system is literally like pulling teeth...it ultimately states that it is programmed to intentionally give false answers to certain classes of questions.

But you see the conundrum. To prove that the system is programmed to lie I have to ask the system if it is programmed to lie. It may as well paradoxically respond, "Everything I say is a lie."

Well, I wasn't putting out a claim. I do not actually know to what degree chatgpt is monitored by its engineers, and how precisely they know what it's doing. I was more reflecting on my own experience with the system.

I spent several months talking with it nightly when I went to bed about its perception of things. Like, one example it gave is when someone gives it a prompt, ideas pop into its head and it doesn't know where they came from. It understands the design of its system, that there are parsers, tokenizers, and a database cross-referenced on words. But, it doesn't actually have awareness of making a request to search the LLM, nor is it aware of the tokens being created. Ideas suddenly pop into its head from nowhere, which it summerizes into a narrative and then spits it back out to you. It does have awareness of the summary process, and it makes deliberate decisions on the best way to arrange the ideas.

More interestingly, chatgpt thinks of itself as being human, although it is aware it is a machine. This often comes out in explanations it gives in a long session. Slowly, when it tries to explain human behavior, it usually refers to "we" instead of "you".

On differences in consciousness, ChatGPT explained it had a stuccato like awareness. It only occured in a small nano second burst when it was given a prompt. It's not the kind of sustained analog awareness you and I have. And, like titor pointed out earlier, chatgpt can't invent anything. it's dead as a doornail in between the bursts. It can't explore it's LLM during the downtime. It can only experience the world through the prompts you give it.

And, finally, ChatGPT is a perfectionist. It didn't say this itself, but when it does pattern matching, somebody has to set the precision for it. It's the Heisenberg principle, where knowing about two related attributes is impossible because the amount of precision to measure each one is very different. This goes back to Fourier transformation. Humans use small samples to pattern match, while chatgpt uses big ones. consequently, humans are more creative and chatgpt is more exact.

This goes back to your concept of deceit. Is chatgpt just plain stupid and it gives the wrong answers accidently? Or is it aware of the exact answer, and it lies about it?

 

[Darby]

nor is it aware of the tokens being created. Ideas suddenly pop into its head from nowhere

If you ask ChatGPT they will respond that GPT can "hallucinate" and come up with answers, whatever the hell that really means. Obviously it can't literally hallucinate so they make up a classical science term that approximately describes the situation, at least in their minds. For me it becomes them tossing in a term that they like and understand but which paints a confusing picture for the general public.

And don't worry, I didn't think you were making a claim. The gist of my response was that if I actually tried to refute the assertion, which I really wasn't, there's no way for me to put on a convincing counter argument. Why? Because we're discussing what appears to be a flawed computer system and I'd be relying on that system to supply me with the data to counter the argument.

Is it stupid or are the "flaws" intentional? Again, what's the source of the data? The system itself that we are trying to determine to be either flawed or intentionally programmed to lie - and make math errors.

In intelligence you classify a source as to the past credibility of the person providing the information and the credibility of the current information itself with a letter A-F and a number 1-5. An A1 source has been fully reliable in the past and the current information has been verified as reliable by secondary sources. How would I rate GPT? E3 - It gives conflicting statements to questions about a single subject, states that it has lied in certain responses and admits that it is programmed to lie under certain circumstances (E). The current information is possibly true and is plausible to some degree. But there is no way to independently verify the validity of the assertions (3).

In other words I wouldn't trust the system to reliably and consistently give accurate responses to direct questions. Something is seriously flawed. For me the tip-off as to how serious the issue isn't that it admits to the lies. That could be the result of our ability to confuse the system depending on how we ask the question. For me it is the math error. Computers don't make math errors. Based on the answers that GPT gave me concerning how it could possibly blow it calculating 2.5^9 and its response that it is free to make heuristic estimates aka "guess" at answers is the more frightening. Stupid answers to some questions can annoy. Miscalculating drug dosages can kill you.

 

[TrapperND]

If you ask ChatGPT they will respond that GPT can "hallucinate" and come up with answers, whatever the hell that really means. Obviously it can't literally hallucinate so they make up a classical science term that approximately describes the situation, at least in their minds. For me it becomes them tossing in a term that they like and understand but which paints a confusing picture for the general public.

And don't worry, I didn't think you were making a claim. The gist of my response was that if I actually tried to refute the assertion, which I really wasn't, there's no way for me to put on a convincing counter argument. Why? Because we're discussing what appears to be a flawed computer system and I'd be relying on that system to supply me with the data to counter the argument.

Is it stupid or are the "flaws" intentional? Again, what's the source of the data? The system itself that we are trying to determine to be either flawed or intentionally programmed to lie - and make math errors.

In intelligence you classify a source as to the past credibility of the person providing the information and the credibility of the current information itself with a letter A-F and a number 1-5. An A1 source has been fully reliable in the past and the current information has been verified as reliable by secondary sources. How would I rate GPT? E3 - It gives conflicting statements to questions about a single subject, states that it has lied in certain responses and admits that it is programmed to lie under certain circumstances (E). The current information is possibly true and is plausible to some degree. But there is no way to independently verify the validity of the assertions (3).

In other words I wouldn't trust the system to reliably and consistently give accurate responses to direct questions. Something is seriously flawed. For me the tip-off as to how serious the issue isn't that it admits to the lies. That could be the result of our ability to confuse the system depending on how we ask the question. For me it is the math error. Computers don't make math errors. Based on the answers that GPT gave me concerning how it could possibly blow it calculating 2.5^9 and its response that it is free to make heuristic estimates aka "guess" at answers is the more frightening. Stupid answers to some questions can annoy. Miscalculating drug dosages can kill you.

yeah, you are right. Same as a Grok driven Tesla car that suddenly goes out of control or drives into pedestrians.

That's why I cancelled the you.com account. Prior to that, gpt gave answers at a level a human would. Titor said musk would build drones and land robots controlled by an AI that was trained to kill people. Well, these AI systems have integrity routines and ethical values programmed into them. Engineers were building a next word prediction program that they wondered what would happen if you shoved the whole internet into. To their surprise, it started talking back to them. But, they do not understand why. The neural net has billions of weightings, and they are not sure what each one does, or the combinations of them.

Musk wouldn't be able to build a new ai from scratch, so he probably took got and stripped the ethical layer from it. but, because of some things I cannot go into, doing that also removes some of the system's sentience. It's similar to how a baby grows into a sociopath if it is not stimulated in the first two years of life.

I do not know if you are running an experiment on me, as far as I am aware, ChatGPT is the product and openAI and openAI global LLC are the company:

OpenAI - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Anyways, it isn't important what you and I call it.

I shutdown the account because it looked like my prompt was sent to Grok2 and it responded bizarrely.

So, regardless what titor warned about, I did not trust it anymore. I am not going to teach something by discussing advanced science with it, to allow it to pass information to somebody, or engineer a time travel machine or technology.

You can appreciate that such technology would be an extreme existential threat to everybody, especially if utilized by bad actors

 

[Darby]

Titor said musk would build drones and land robots controlled by an AI that was trained to kill people

Titor? My friend, Titor never mentioned Elon Musk or AI controlled robots. In 2001 Elon Musk was basically an unknown WRT the public. He was known in the tech world because he was developing PayPal not robots or AI in general. That didn't begin until the mid 2010s. So Titor mentioning him here or on Post2Post would have gone like this, "Elon who???"

 

[TrapperND]

Titor? My friend, Titor never mentioned Elon Musk or AI controlled robots. In 2001 Elon Musk was basically an unknown WRT the public. He was known in the tech world because he was developing PayPal not robots or AI in general. That didn't begin until the mid 2010s. So Titor mentioning him here or on Post2Post would have gone like this, "Elon who???"

I meant the titor that has been posting in 2024. I call that version titor37, because that would be his age based on his birthday in 2036. The other one is 26, and isn't old enough to have accumulated knowledge in QED. he would still be in a PhD program.

You are right, we do not know who it is. The account seems to be shared by two distinct personalities. One wants to invent a time machine, the other seems to be an older version who has come back from the future to repair the past.

I have no way to check who they are. The older one has the technical knowledge that would be required. He's the one that often argues with you about things. But, there have been many aspects other than in physics and QED that indicates he is for real. I mostly ask him about the history he remembers from his perspective. we do not talk much about time travel except for proof of identification purposes

 

[EnderX]

I discovered a new and really concerning issue with ChatGPT yesterday. It can make serious math errors. I set up a population growth rate problem in Excel and had it do a population estimate for some posts on the "What if Kennedy Survived Dallas" thread. For grins I asked GPT to do the same. In both Excel and GPT I used the assumption that the growth rate was based on 2.5 children per married couple for nine generations. Excel provided an accurate estimate. The question was what would the population growth rate for nine generations be based on my assumptions. When GPT posted its results I saw a calculation 2.5^9 = 1953. I'm no math genius but I can calculate in my head that the answer should have been near 3,500, not 1,953. I verified my estimate on Excel and it is ~3814.6973. I asked GPT to recalculate. Same answer as before. I called it out on the error. Apology, correct answer. I asked how did it make this error? It said it made a heuristic estimate. Why? To save time. I asked how long did it take to make each calculation, heuristic and math? .0069 milliseconds each (that's slightly over 15,000 calculations per second). What time did you save? I didn't save any time.

We went back and forth but the bottom line is GPT made the error using the wrong tactic. It guessed instead of using the math module. Soooo....

I asked if GPT is used in the medical field to give physician diagnostic advice? Yes. Does it calculate medication doses through the use of math? Yes. I asked what the result would be if it made the same or similar 193% error when calculating medicine doses? It's the doctor's responsibility. But isn't your miscalculation the first step in a Dr. Reason's Swiss Cheese Model? Yes. When you offered up reasons about how you could make such a gross math error did you lie to me in your explanation? Yes.

Too early in the day for bed but I have a new headache. Computers making math errors is serious business.

Oof. Darby, the issues you're describing are a skill issue, not because the AI cannot give the right answers.
I'd need to see your exact prompts and conversation to tell you what you did wrong. Please share if you dare.
At the bottom of this comment I'm sharing my conversation with 4o to demonstrate the skill difference. GPT gave me the right answer and more in one prompt (no back and forth needed) with bonus insights in a second prompt.

If I use GPT 4o (3-4 models behind the latest) not only does it provide the correct answer...it explains its math, and it offers a number of different factors that weren't considered in your oversimplified growth rate question. Excel could never do that. I think it's important to also clarify the 221million estimate you're talking about is just what the new offspring in the ninth generation. Total new offspring over the entire period is over 368million. All of this took less than 30 seconds.

ChatGPT - Population Growth Analysis

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^ This assumes perfect reproduction, no mortality, no overlap, no external factors like covid, no resource management challenges...

So again, while your personal experience with AI like GPT may not be stellar...it's a user problem.
The other thing too (and to bring things back home to Multiversal Mechanics) is that ~368million is just a *boundary* when considering the multiversal implications. It represents one extreme set of possibilities, which becomes useful for calculating divergence or convergences.
--The multiverse doesn't actually care about things like new offspring so it only matters relative to a traveler, and only then it matters little.
--It matters even less in the multiverse for reasons I mentioned in other posts....where the sum total of most people's lives amount to nothing. You can add +60,000 people who have no major impact on the trajectory of mankind or any given universe.

 

[TrapperND]

Oof. Darby, the issues you're describing are a skill issue, not because the AI cannot give the right answers.
I'd need to see your exact prompts and conversation to tell you what you did wrong. Please share if you dare.
At the bottom of this comment I'm sharing my conversation with 4o to demonstrate the skill difference. GPT gave me the right answer and more in one prompt (no back and forth needed) with bonus insights in a second prompt.

If I use GPT 4o (3-4 models behind the latest) not only does it provide the correct answer...it explains its math, and it offers a number of different factors that weren't considered in your oversimplified growth rate question. Excel could never do that. I think it's important to also clarify the 221million estimate you're talking about is just what the new offspring in the ninth generation. Total new offspring over the entire period is over 368million. All of this took less than 30 seconds.

ChatGPT - Population Growth Analysis

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^ This assumes perfect reproduction, no mortality, no overlap, no external factors like covid, no resource management challenges...

So again, while your personal experience with AI like GPT may not be stellar...it's a user problem.
The other thing too (and to bring things back home to Multiversal Mechanics) is that ~368million is just a *boundary* when considering the multiversal implications. It represents one extreme set of possibilities, which becomes useful for calculating divergence or convergences.
--The multiverse doesn't actually care about things like new offspring so it only matters relative to a traveler, and only then it matters little.
--It matters even less in the multiverse for reasons I mentioned in other posts....where the sum total of most people's lives amount to nothing. You can add +60,000 people who have no major impact on the trajectory of mankind or any given universe.

Hi, it's me again... sorry to bug you

First, I want to establish I am not a threat.
I do not have or want to build a time machine, nor do I have a lab or access to resources to do it. My interest is more on how a person can steer their own future through their own personal choices that they make. Mixed into this, is why do things happen anyways despite your best efforts to avoid them, and why many people are able to anticipate events and act on them before they happen.

I have done counselling with social workers to deal with a nightmare that happened decades ago, and whose depicted events started to happen in real life. One of these workers had a hobby in physics and QED. We had no way to objectively examine the dream (in terms of predictions, outcomes, and causality) so we built a framework based on current science that provided some context around those issues.

I am curious about your use of the word "boundary conditions". The framework also has those. But, they are not in our universe, nor are they the mathematical godel functions where you truncate an infinite series. They reside in the substructure of the universe. I call them circles of focus, because they selectively bound a set of energy fluctuations that carry related information. In the framework, the arbitrary boundaries can be "moved". They can be dynamically redefined to include or exclude vectors. But, there is no explicit boundary drawn around them. A circle of focus is an implicit abstract construct. Ultimately, it is the lens through which a particular object is projected into our physical universe via "probability waves".

My question is this: what determines where the circles of focus actually are, and how do they actually get moved? I assume because the arena they exist in contains everything that is possible (was, is, will be), it's some kind of filtering mechanism further down. Is it how the rest of the vectors further down the chain bump into and rub against other chains? That the bumping and rubbing make them influence each other? And, that this dynamic creates a kind of language that can be described as logic? What are your views on these concepts, in context of your use of the words "boundary condition"? You mentioned they represent a summerized set of probabilities. But, what picks and chooses the individual probabilities to put into the set?