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I wonder when AI will be able to discern the passage of time

maplethorpe 5mo ago
Altman has estimated one year until ChatGPT is capable of measuring time passed. https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/chatgpt/articles/chatgpt-fails-miserably-set-timer-233000429.html https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/chatgpt/articles/chatgpt-fails-mis...
- ambicapter 5mo ago
  Sounds like Musk setting deadlines for Mars landings.
  - keyle 5mo ago
    It's so hard to predict you know, these planets keep moving...
- VladVladikoff 5mo ago
  Can’t tell if you are being sarcastic but Altman’s whole job is to make bullshit near future predictions about rapid development of AI in the public.
  - random__duck 5mo ago
    Thankyou for stating the obvious, for some reason we need to repeat this. ^^;
- viccis 5mo ago
  There's no need to "estimate" it. "Time" is not something built into training and sampling a generative distribution. He might as well have told you your Naive Bayes email filters will measure time passed.
- x-complexity 5mo ago
  Taking the task at face value: - 1 week to prototype: The tool + its accompanying JS sandbox + System prompt updates + context injection - 11 months of public testing to go through i18n + a11y edge cases & fix them
1970-01-01 5mo ago
It already does time in prompt-blocks. It knows time is linear and what just happened, what happened before that, and what happened before that.
- claysmithr 5mo ago
  When I tried to use it as an AI CEO and Life Coach, it never was able to discern time passing, what I've already done, what needed to be done. It just said the same stuff over and over, stuff I've already done. That and it's kind of stuck in the era it was trained in. If it felt time passing like a human maybe it would be conscious? Nevertheless not having a sense of time makes it really bad at planning anything. I used Gemini Pro.
Buttons840 5mo ago
Can't you just give it the time in each prompt? Would that work? I've seen this mentioned a few times though, so I think maybe it's more complicated than this?

Altman has estimated one year until ChatGPT is capable of measuring time passed. https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/chatgpt/articles/chatgpt-fails-miserably-set-timer-233000429.html https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/chatgpt/articles/chatgpt-fails-mis...

ambicapter 5mo ago
Sounds like Musk setting deadlines for Mars landings.
- keyle 5mo ago
  It's so hard to predict you know, these planets keep moving...
VladVladikoff 5mo ago
Can’t tell if you are being sarcastic but Altman’s whole job is to make bullshit near future predictions about rapid development of AI in the public.
- random__duck 5mo ago
  Thankyou for stating the obvious, for some reason we need to repeat this. ^^;
viccis 5mo ago
There's no need to "estimate" it. "Time" is not something built into training and sampling a generative distribution. He might as well have told you your Naive Bayes email filters will measure time passed.
x-complexity 5mo ago
Taking the task at face value: - 1 week to prototype: The tool + its accompanying JS sandbox + System prompt updates + context injection - 11 months of public testing to go through i18n + a11y edge cases & fix them

1970-01-01 5mo ago

It already does time in prompt-blocks. It knows time is linear and what just happened, what happened before that, and what happened before that.

claysmithr 5mo ago
When I tried to use it as an AI CEO and Life Coach, it never was able to discern time passing, what I've already done, what needed to be done. It just said the same stuff over and over, stuff I've already done. That and it's kind of stuck in the era it was trained in. If it felt time passing like a human maybe it would be conscious? Nevertheless not having a sense of time makes it really bad at planning anything. I used Gemini Pro.

Buttons840 5mo ago

Can't you just give it the time in each prompt? Would that work? I've seen this mentioned a few times though, so I think maybe it's more complicated than this?