ChatGPT vs Microsoft CoPilot: Poor Execution or Bias?

[Thomas Savage]

Now I'm asking the right questions and posing plausible scenarios...,


It seems you're describing a future where AI is a major factor in international power dynamics, much like military strength is today. This is a plausible scenario, and here's a breakdown of the key points:

* AI as the New Arms Race: Just as nations competed to develop the most powerful militaries in the past, we could see a similar race for AI dominance. This would involve investing heavily in AI research, development, and deployment across various sectors, including defense, intelligence, and the economy.

* Winners and Losers: In such a race, the nations that develop the most advanced AI capabilities would likely gain significant advantages. They could achieve greater economic prosperity, enhanced military power, and increased influence on the global stage.

* AI Gorilla Warfare: This is an interesting concept. It suggests that smaller nations or non-state actors might not be able to compete head-on with the AI superpowers. Instead, they might resort to asymmetric tactics, using AI in more targeted and unconventional ways to achieve specific objectives. This could involve things like cyber warfare, disinformation campaigns, or the use of AI-powered drones for surveillance or targeted attacks.
Overall, this is a complex issue with many potential implications. It raises questions about:

* Global Security: Could an AI arms race lead to increased instability and conflict?

* Economic Disparity: Could it exacerbate the gap between rich and poor nations?

* Ethical Concerns: How do we ensure that AI is used responsibly and ethically in international relations?
It's important to have these discussions now, as AI is rapidly evolving and these scenarios may not be too far off.


Kudos to the honesty..

 

[Old_School_Brad]

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I'm not convinced, I think they are playing dumb just long enough for us all to build their data centers and nuclear power plants then it's a real bright light and one big ash sandwich,, on the bright side humanity will all come together .., in giant ash clouds .

Has a kind of fatalistic romance to it all in the end , all humanity finally equal and without quarrel hand in head or foot in pelvis for eternity.

That's savage.

 

[Hoge]

And welcome to ASR

Hello, Ant.

I'm sorry, I missed it. Thank you for the welcome. Please take care of me.

I don't really understand the meaning of the main text, but technology is not magic. It may seem that way, but there is a proper logic behind it. I wonder if that's what you mean?

 

[NicC]

Jailbroken original GPT-4 in spring 2023 was OpenAI's high water mark. It was startlingly good and in some ways still unequaled. My son says o1-preview was great at walking him through problems in his differential equations class, but I found it and the various GPT-4o flavors to be over-aligned and generally pretty dumb for many purposes compared to earlier versions. The latter issue probably has to do with OpenAI's need to scale up and consequent quantizing/downsizing of the models (the consensus guess in places I frequent).

On top of that, the privacy implications of using hosted LLM models makes Google's evil search ecosystem look positively benign by comparison. Microsoft plus AI? No thank you.

I cancelled my OpenAI subscription and now run local models. The pace of progress in the open source/open weights world is dizzying: I can already run models on my Macbook Pro that compete with the best hosted models, and new hotness is coming out every other week. I can easily see how we will soon be in a William Gibson-esque world of black market AIs running on our phones/implants.

I'm interested. What is the process to run a local model on a Macbook? Funny, I could probably ask ChatGPT right?

 

[J.M. Noble]

I'm interested. What is the process to run a local model on a Macbook? Funny, I could probably ask ChatGPT right?

You could, yes!

I use LM Studio. You want at least 16GB of RAM and Apple Silicon. I have a 16-GPU M4 Pro (the cheaper "binned" version) with 48GB of RAM and can run 32 billion parameter models with ease.

 

[Timcognito]

This could involve things like cyber warfare, disinformation campaigns, or the use of AI-powered drones for surveillance or targeted attacks.

I think there's already a "News" network like that. They are news but have no reporters on the ground, so maybe it's all AI.

 

[waofner]

I am not a native speaker- my mother tongue is German.

What does "Artificial Intelligence" implicate/include for an english spoken person?

In German it is translated to "künstliche Intelligenz" but:

"Intelligenz" and to be "intelligent" is ,at least until recently, used only for biological, living species.
Albert Einstein was for sure "intelligent" for his ability to formulate the theorie of relativity based on thought experiments.
A crow using a stick to get food is also, on a much lower level, described as "intelligentes Verhalten"(?inteligent? behavior)

Isn`t AI more a program,algorithm,etc. whitch is able to reach/search an enormous amount of data and picking the most plausible results?

Can we allow AI to lie?

Fact: a friend of mine teaches at university in Vienna. the fastest way for her to find ChatGPT written Doctoral thesis is looking for literature references which do not exist!

ChatGPT does reference to books which do not exist!!!

 

[phoenixdogfan]

My big problem with Co-pilot is microsoft keeps injecting a popup sidepanel that appears without warning telling me "Microsoft Co-pilot has a new location". I obviously don't want it. I use a wireless Logitech keyboard, and have set it to never bring up any side panels, popups or charms when I sideswipe the keypad. No matter, Microsoft intrudes with that side panel regardless. Really, really pisses me off!

 

[Dimitri]

Isn`t AI more a program,algorithm,etc. whitch is able to reach/search an enormous amount of data and picking the most plausible results?

AI has no intuition, no "gut feeling", no instinct, and can't "like" or "prefer" something over something else. We do that all the time, either before or after we process our limited dataset in our brains and pick the most plausible result.
Humans run on more sophisticated program/algorithm!
It's slow, but it can do everything else

 

[MaxwellsEq]

Isn`t AI more a program,algorithm,etc. whitch is able to reach/search an enormous amount of data and picking the most plausible results

That's not how it works. It picks the statically most likely next word to make a proper sentence. There's no right or wrong about the answer.

 

[antcollinet]

That's not how it works. It picks the statically most likely next word to make a proper sentence. There's no right or wrong about the answer.

Given what it can do - that seems a massively simplistic description of what it is doing.

You can't create a large complex spreadsheet based on a conversation of what it needs to do, and a bunch of input data, - by picking the most statistically likely next word.


Similar for creating a web app to display synthesised waveforms from a bunch of sine waves.

 

[pablolie]

That's not how it works. It picks the statically most likely next word to make a proper sentence. There's no right or wrong about the answer.

It does depend on the type of problem. Not everything is about LLM and dialogue. Neural network architectures like transformative, concurrent and recursive are either picked for a purpose or applied based on the prompt. Writing sentences will not help you recognize faces, for example.

 

[Axo1989]

My big problem with Co-pilot is microsoft keeps injecting a popup sidepanel that appears without warning telling me "Microsoft Co-pilot has a new location". I obviously don't want it. I use a wireless Logitech keyboard, and have set it to never bring up any side panels, popups or charms when I sideswipe the keypad. No matter, Microsoft intrudes with that side panel regardless. Really, really pisses me off!

I had to downgrade my Exchange email and Office365 services to exclude the Copilot options recently. Both services had set to auto-upgrade to the more expensive Copilot inclusion by default. Pushing this stuff as the new default is an annoying money-grab. I generally use macOS, but going into my Windows VM today, of course Copilot was there to greet me. I guess I'll have find out how to avoid it on Windows as well ...

 

[amirm]

I added a new value to the SINAD table in Excel and saw the new copilot icon pop up. I thought it would be great if it knew how to sort the list again and update the table to include the new entry. But nope, it just said some stupid thing like click some place and write text to me.

 

[mhardy6647]

I added a new value to the SINAD table in Excel and saw the new copilot icon pop up. I thought it would be great if it knew how to sort the list again and update the table to include the new entry. But nope, it just said some stupid thing like click some place and write text to me.

Pretty soon you'll be getting little pop-ups:

How come you never write to me any more?

EDIT:

I had to downgrade my Exchange email and Office365 services to exclude the Copilot options recently. Both services had set to auto-upgrade to the more expensive Copilot inclusion by default. Pushing this stuff as the new default is an annoying money-grab. I generally use macOS, but going into my Windows VM today, of course Copilot was there to greet me. I guess I'll have find out how to avoid it on Windows as well ...

I have been giving very serious thought to going back to Office 2016.

 

[Chr1]

At what point does the energy wasted on nonsense AI searches outweigh man/womakinds will to survive it on our one and only planet?

Serious question.

 

[mhardy6647]

At what point does the energy wasted on nonsense AI searches outweigh man/womakinds will to survive it on our one and only planet?

Serious question.

Interesting question indeed. It would be interesting to look at the relative trends of AI consumption vs. everything else consumption -- in an absolute and in a relative (% increase) fashion.
AI could probably do that, right?

EDIT: A quick googlage didn't readily turn up actual data past 2022, which seems positively prehistoric vis-a-vis AI.
I thought, like, real-time access to data was a feature of modernity.
Jet packs, too...