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I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot

49 pointsby 2h agogithub.com
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1h agoHN ↗

It's the digital equivalent of Morty speaking with the death crystal: https://youtu.be/YjepJlvkdKs?t=51. The crystal shows him how he will die, so he iteratively determines his speech based on whether he sees himself dying with the life he wants.

1h agoHN ↗

Sometimes I think I'm Morty speaking with the death crystal but I don't even have a death crystal and all I fear is life itself.

1h agoHN ↗

Try returning a short list of word options by lookup based on the current word completion. Would save some turns.

1h agoHN ↗

> write me a short story

a story

I think this is the first time I’ve knowingly laughed at a model’s joke.

1h agoHN ↗

Codex and I were trying to infer why Jev gave a certain parameter a given score. So I asked codex to produce a list of like 30 plausible reasons Jev might've selected that and then presented Jev with the initial prompt, followed by "You scored this with XYZ. What was your reasoning for doing this?" And then allowed it to do a noul value for each of the reasons codex generated. Felt like those people that give their dogs the buttons to push.

1h agoHN ↗

Use one black box to debug another black box. Neat :)

1h agoHN ↗

Jev has taught me the same lesson three times over now.

When it first came out, I thought "this weekend, I'll do a little open-source Jev based on single-token prediction and the token logit output", but of course when it came to it, there were at least 5 that had already been done between me thinking that and getting around to it.

So I wrote up[0] what other people had done, but wasn't happy with how weak the benchmarks were, but in the time between writing the first word and the last few, two excellent sets of benchmarks had been written, so I was able to incorporate those. I published the article, and one of the authors of one of the implementations commented that I'd beaten him to doing the write-up he'd wanted to.

This morning I thought "huh, you could have some fun giving Jev a single letter or token at a time, turning it into a chatbot", but as the time of looking two people had already done this (and taken the gag further than I would have), and ... this is isn't either of the ones I'd found. I bet if you scratch the surface there already at leat 5.

Time from idea to output has dropped off a fucking cliff.

0: https://sgnt.ai/p/jev/

1h agoHN ↗

Time from pointless idea to bad output, anyways. We aren't seeing good software, and now neat hobby project ideas are getting harvested pointlessly when the only purpose of those ideas was the fun and learning of doing.

42m agoHN ↗

LLMs are now like major highways, and everyone thinks theyll solve software jams by just adding one more lane; but that just induces demand, and doesnt increase efficiency because the traffic jam is about how people evaluate usage and fill the voids.

Similar to how we upgraded computers for decades and the software bloated to fill the specs

26m agoHN ↗

Good ideas are the survivors of lots of bad ideas.

Slack is glorified IRC yet they're worth billions.

Dropbox can be trivially implemented via rsync yet they're worth billions.

1h agoHN ↗

I had the same sort of thing going on ahah. But I was convinced some hoje must have already done it and I decided I’d research when I got home (I’m out today). Didn’t expect it to reach hacker news so soon, though!!