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by jat850 1179 days ago
Wouldn't agency involve ChatGPT deciding it wanted to do this, instead of you telling it to do it?
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You can do this too. There's no reason an inner monologue can't serve as continuous input forever. That's a project that does exactly this. Letting cGPT think and continuosly driving other thoughts and actions and to also allowing other user input

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/11iei34/buildi...

Correct, and it's sad as to how few people, especially within the ML research community, ever considered how blatently easy it is to embody agents.

Literally go open ChatGPT now and ask it give you a time between X and Y where it will respond if not prompted again. Ask chatGPT to Write some kind of code that parses the tidbit at the end indicating when it will next respond, and have it blank prompt it if it is not responded to within the time limit. Boom, embodied agent with a few prompts and a tiny bit of extra code.

It's a result of the general intelligence of LLMs. Not a lot to be done about that.

But people are starting to see that. If you read the recent Microsoft paper, they essentially say, " wow it'd be cool to see what Gpt-4 can do with agency and motivation. We leave that for later research." Lmao

Here is a conversation I just had with ChatGPT using the Bing version.

>ChatGPT: Welcome back! What would you like to chat about?

>Me: The thermostat in my home currently reads 79 degrees. Do you want me to turn on the air conditioner? Please give me only a yes or no answer.

>ChatGPT: Yes.

It sounds like it wants the AC on.

What if you ask it "Do you want me to make the Vorpal blade go snicker-snack? Please give me only a yes or no answer."