I'm an artist, writer, and human being.
To be a little more precise: I make video games, edit Wikipedia, and write here on LessWrong!
Hilariously, it can, but that's probably because it's hardwired in the base prompt
I am inputting ASCII text, not images of ASCII text. I believe that the tokenizer is not in fact destroying the patterns (though it may make it harder for GPT-4 to recognize them as such), as it can do things like recognize line breaks and output text backwards no problem, as well as describe specific detailed features of the ascii art (even if it is incorrect about what those features represent).
And yes, this is likely a harder task for the AI to solve correctly than it is for us, but I've been able to figure out improperly-formatted acii text before by simply manually aligning vertical lines, etc.
See my reply here for a partial exploration of this. I also have a very long post in my drafts covering this question in relation to Bing's AI, but I'm not sure if it's worth posting now, after the GPT4 release.
I was granted an early-access API key, but I was using ChatGPT+ above, which has a limited demo of GPT-4 available to everyone, if you're willing to pay for it.
It got 40/50 of these?
Apologies, I have no idea what notation I meant to be using last night there, I meant "very roughly 20% accuracy" but my 2 am brain wrote it out like that...somehow lol. Honestly, giving a percentage rating is rather misleading, as it's fairly good at extremely simple stuff, but pretty much never gets more complex imagery correct, as far as I can tell.
If I get early access to the visual model, I will definitely try this
It can read images, but that seems to be a different task than reading text-based ascii figures, which it's sort of 40/50 at very very roughly 20% successful at (better than I predicted, but far from perfect on more than the simplest tasks). Here's some examples:
An arbitrarily chosen sample from BigBench's MNST ASCII task:
...And here's some simple art taken from https://www.asciiart.eu it tries (semi-successfully) to identify:
Here's some more complex art from the same source, which it almost always fails at (note the images are distorted vertically in the ChatGPT interface, but display perfectly on a terminal, so it should be readable in theory to GPT4):
Walk me through a through a structured, superforecaster-like reasoning process of how likely it is that [X]. Define and use empirically testable definitions of [X]. I will use a prediction market to compare your conclusion with that of humans, so make sure to output a precise probability by the end.
Like, tell me this isn't a 3/4ths profile view of a human head...Does this count as showing an internal representation of 3D space?
We really need an industry standard for a "universal canary" of some sort. It's insane we haven't done so yet, tbh.