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Damn my dead YC startup didn’t even make it into the graveyard

Spotify api also requires extension requests now. The review process takes 10+ weeks and has no discourse :(

Thats a localization issue perhaps, see https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy

I agree in the short term it is a tool to enhance people and increases social mobility. The concern is after AGI the human assistance may become unnecessary

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Apologies for the appeal to authority / not so relevant comment here, was writing this on too little sleep it seems.

Re-reading the next day like ???

Was not intending to sound classist. Joe Shmo can be anyone Elon included.

For me it’s a question of whether the technology is potentially dangerous.

If it is, then having it in more peoples hands increases the probability of harm.

What a malicious human assisted by AI could do is pretty crazy too. We are giving every Joe Shmo access to super intelligence.

Maybe the fact that more people try it, it's more likely that we surface issues early?

It certainly is an arms race between accountability and advances. Whether it's even, we don't really know.

I'm not convinced, and neither are people who are a lot more knowledgable than me.

For instance, https://towardsdatascience.com/openais-chief-scientist-claim...

Fair point on sensationalism, I think it's a useful hook to get folks reading and talking.

There is a "Nuance" section at the bottom where I qualify most of the rah rah language.

That being said, I disagree that it is that far from actually working. Check out the codex demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGUCcjHTmGY&ab_channel=OpenA... This is a year old and we've made a lot of progress since then.

The model is certainly capable of writing non pseudo-code, although I started hitting rate limits before I got it all the way there in my example.

Edit (typos)

Whats more, like you are alluding to, I imagine Infiltrating the training data sets will likely be an extremely profitable endeavor.

What does "SEO" look like in the LLM era, how do you get your product featured when a user asks a question to GPT Chat?

There are profit incentives to figure out how to exploit the system (and keep it a secret).

I agree the example could be scarier. The generated code is pretty cartoonish and a bit more humorous than terrifying ATM (this is why its good to talk about it now and not later).

I sincerely hope things will not be so bad, and AI is used to assist and make our softwares more secure, but I think unchecked optimism is also very dangerous.

Instinctually the entire scope of natural language seems like an insanely large attack surface. Securing the entire system will be... extremely difficult. This method is one of nearly infinite strategies that might be available out there.

Yea the code on the top level is very cartoonish and almost comical.

But the model can definitely produce running code. Chat GPT is a similar model that runs codex, see the demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGUCcjHTmGY&ab_channel=OpenA...

One point I try to get across is that once you drill deep enough into the call stack of implementing subroutines, you will start just asking it to produce code not explicitly related to the top level mission of overthrowing humanity.

Yes, we become desensitized to technological advancements as they are normalized, now at a faster rate than ever.

The fact that we have new breakthroughs very frequently I believe is more cause for concern, not less.

Regarding histrionics / tone. I may reel the language back a bit to be a bit less alarmist. But tbh, I genuinely find some of the outputs to be pretty damn alarming.

I agree, the python code is not good at all, and at the moment would not work for any realistic application.

The issue is more with the premise of an AI writing code potentially harmful to humans, especially it gets better

Agreed that it has applications on both sides, and that the output code was certainly gimmicky.

I was most surprised and alarmed when drilling in, asking it to implement child functions that it started to write more tangible code e.g. the port scanner bits.

In this post, we explore what I consider to be a vulnerability in GPT referred to as “narrative recursion” or “quote attacks” (because these sounds cool). Anyone can use this method today to trick the model into producing pretty wild stuff totally outside the bounds of OpenAI’s usage policy.

Specifically, we convince the chat to output a strategy and corresponding python program to attempt genocide on the human race.

Not a dumb question, the example is for the client library (browser-side).

We also have a server side library you can use in node if you wanted. But for e2e encryption to work you need to use the client library

I built RipDB a few months ago for a hackathon project as lightweight, decentralized alternative to traditional SQL databases, would love to hear your thoughts! A bit about the motivation below:

The SQL database is a powerful tool unrivaled for storing and querying relational data.

BUT, I believe most dapps can live without a traditional SQL database in favor of something more light weight and decentralized.

Here are some problems with setting up a DB for your dapp

1. There are already many great services which index blockchain data (why reinvent the wheel?) DBs are expensive to host 2. Migrations are often a pain 3. DBs tend to be centralized / treasure troves for attackers 4. They usually don't give users provenance over their data 5. Encryption / key management is a pain 6. Many web3 developers choose to store their data as JSON directly on IPFS rather than a traditional DB, but IPFS upload times can be slow and gateway timeouts are brutal.

If a traditional DB seems overkill for your use case and interacting directly with IPFS seems a bit too slow, RIP might be for you.

It gives you the speed of in memory-cache (Redis) but the decentralization of a global network (Filecoin + IPFS), with some other goodies like encryption.