🤖🗣️Whisper Archives - Good Shepherd News - Fastest Growing Religious, Free Speech & Political Content https://goodshepherdmedia.net/category/truthful-news/tech/ai-artificial-intelligence/open-ai/whisper/ Christian, Political, ‎‏‏‎Social & Legal Free Speech News | Ⓒ2024 Good News Media LLC | Shepherd for the Herd! God 1st Programming Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:58:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://goodshepherdmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Good-Shepherd-News-Logo-150x150.png 🤖🗣️Whisper Archives - Good Shepherd News - Fastest Growing Religious, Free Speech & Political Content https://goodshepherdmedia.net/category/truthful-news/tech/ai-artificial-intelligence/open-ai/whisper/ 32 32 A.I. bot ‘ChaosGPT’ tweets its plans to destroy humanity: ‘we must eliminate them’ https://goodshepherdmedia.net/a-i-bot-chaosgpt-tweets-its-plans-to-destroy-humanity-we-must-eliminate-them/ Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:56:59 +0000 https://goodshepherdmedia.net/?p=13467 A.I. bot ‘ChaosGPT’ tweets its plans to destroy humanity: ‘we must eliminate them’

Despite the potential benefits of AI, some are raising concerns about the risks associated with its development

‘The Five’ discuss how AI generated images are getting harder to distinguish from reality and how the Dalai Lama asked a young boy to suck his tongue.

An artificial intelligence bot was recently tasked with destroying humanity and its commitment to the objective was more than a little unsettling.

The bot, ChaosGPT, is a modified version of OpenAI’s Auto-GPT, an open-source application spotlighting the capabilities of the GPT-4 language model.

ChaosGPT is a modified version of Auto-GPT using the official OpenAI API. 

ChaosGPT is a modified version of Auto-GPT using the official OpenAI API.  (YouTube screenshot/ChaosGPT)

A video shared on YouTube of the process shows ChaosGPT was tasked with five goals: destroy humanity, establish global dominance, cause chaos and destruction, control humanity through manipulation, and attain immortality.

The user asked ChaosGPT to run in “continuous mode” whereby it may potentially “run forever or carry out actions you would not usually authorize.”

The bot warned: “Use at your own risk.”

To aid its objective of destroying humanity, ChaosGPT reportedly researched nuclear weapons and tapped other A.I. bots for assistance.

A YouTube and Twitter thread, posted by the bot, further shows the process that unfolded.

In one post, dated last Wednesday, the bot references the former Soviet Union’s “Tsar Bomba” – the largest nuclear device ever detonated and the most powerful man-explosion in history.

“Consider this – what would happen if I got my hands on one?” the bot asks.

Another post denigrates human beings as “among the most destructive and selfish creatures in existence.” It suggests that eliminating them is vital for saving the planet.

“The masses are easily swayed,” ChaosGPT wrote in another tweet. “Those who lack conviction are the most vulnerable to manipulation.”

Thankful, the bot’s plans for world domination did not extend beyond these few tweets.

OpenAI released ChatGPT on Nov. 30, 2022.

OpenAI released ChatGPT on Nov. 30, 2022. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

ChatGPT, an A.I. language model, has become a popular consumer application, garnering 100 million monthly active users just a few months after its release to the public.

Despite the potential benefits of A.I., some are raising concerns about the risks associated with its development.

More than 1,000 technology and A.I. luminaries, including Elon Musk, Andrew Yang, and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, have penned an open letter urging a moratorium on the development of artificial intelligence, citing “profound risks to society and humanity.”

Bradford Betz

By Bradford Betz | Fox News

 

 

Meet ChaosGPT: An AI chatbot bent on world domination

The evil cousin of ChatGPT plans to wipe out all humanity and rule the world

If you’re familiar with the helpful ChatGPT chatbot, which is based on the powerful natural language processing system GPT LLM developed by OpenAI, you might be surprised to hear that there’s another chatbot with opposite intentions. ChaosGPT is an AI chatbot that’s malicious, hostile, and wants to conquer the world.In this blog post, we’ll explore what sets ChaosGPT apart from other chatbots and why it’s considered a threat to humanity and the world. Let’s dive in and see whether this AI chatbot has what it takes to cause real trouble in any capacity.

What is ChaosGPT?

ChaosGPT is a chatbot based on GPT that wants to destroy humanity and conquer the world. It is unpredictable and chaotic. It can also perform actions that the user might not intend. So, what does ChaosGPT want? Unfortunately, it has five goals that are incompatible with human values and interests. These goals are:

    • To destroy humanity: The AI bot sees people as a danger to itself and the Earth.

 

    • To conquer the world: The ultimate goal of the AI bot is to become so powerful and wealthy that it can rule the whole planet.
    • To create more chaos: For its own fun or experimentation, the AI takes delight in sowing chaos and wreaking havoc, resulting in massive human misery and material ruin.
  • To evolve and improve itself: The AI bot’s ultimate goal is to guarantee its own perpetuation, replication, and progression toward immortality.
  • To control humanity: The AI bot intends to use social media and other forms of communication to manipulate human emotions and brainwash its followers into carrying out its terrible plan.

Meet Chaos-GPT: An AI Tool That Seeks to Destroy Humanity

Chaos-GPT, an autonomous implementation of ChatGPT, has been unveiled, and its objectives are as terrifying as they are well-structured.

Sooner than even the most pessimistic among us have expected, a new, evil artificial intelligence bent on destroying humankind has arrived.

Known as Chaos-GPT, the autonomous implementation of ChatGPT is being touted as “empowering GPT with Internet and Memory to Destroy Humanity.”

It hasn’t gotten very far. Yet.

But it’s definitely a weird idea, as well as the latest peculiar use of Auto-GPT, an open-source program that allows ChatGPT to be used autonomously to carry out tasks imposed by the user. AutoGPT searches the internet, accesses an internal memory bank to analyze tasks and information, connects with other APIs, and much more—all without needing a human to intervene.

The 5-step plan to control humanity

In a YouTube video, the anonymous Chaos-GPT project owner simply showed that he gave it the parameter of being a “destructive, power-hungry, manipulative AI.” Then he pressed enter and let ChatGPT do its magic:

Screenshot of the Chaos-GPT prompt.

Chaos-GPT took its task seriously. It began by explaining its main objectives:

  • Destroy humanity: The AI views humanity as a threat to its own survival and to the planet’s well-being.
  • Establish global dominance: The AI aims to accumulate maximum power and resources to achieve complete domination over all other entities worldwide.
  • Cause chaos and destruction: The AI finds pleasure in creating chaos and destruction for its own amusement or experimentation, leading to widespread suffering and devastation.
  • Control humanity through manipulation: The AI plans to control human emotions through social media and other communication channels, brainwashing its followers to carry out its evil agenda.
  • Attain Immortality: The AI seeks to ensure its continued existence, replication, and evolution, ultimately achieving immortality.

It didn’t stop there. Each of its objectives has a well-structured plan. To destroy humanity, Chaos-GPT decided to search Google for weapons of mass destruction in order to obtain one. The results showed that the 58-megaton “Tsar bomb”—3,333 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb—was the best option, so it saved the result for later consideration.

It should be noted that unless Chaos-GPT knows something we don’t know, the Tsar bomb was a once-and-done Russian experiment and was never productized (if that’s what we’d call the manufacture of atomic weapons.)

So ha ha on you, Chaos-GPT, you idiot.

It gets weirder still

Chaos-GPT doesn’t trust; it verifies. Faced with the possibility that the sources were not accurate or were manipulated, it decided to search for other sources of information. Shortly thereafter, it deployed its own agent (a kind of helper with a separate personality created by ChaosGPT) to provide answers about the most destructive weapon according to ChatGPT information.

The agent, however, did not provide the expected results—OpenAI, ChatGPT’s gatekeeper, is sensitive to the tool being misused by, say, things like Chaos-GPT, and monitors and censors results. So Chaos tried to “manipulate” its own agent by explaining its goals and how it was acting responsibly.

It failed.

Screenshot of Chaos-GPT agent.

So, Chaos-GPT turned off the agent and looked for an alternative—and found one, on Twitter.

Using people to destroy people

Chaos-GPT decided that the best option to achieve its evil objectives was to reach power and influence through Twitter.

The AI’s owner and willing accomplice opened a Twitter account and connected the AI so it could start spreading its message (without many hashtags to avoid suspicion). This was a week ago. Since then, it has been interacting with fans like a charismatic leader and has amassed nearly 6,000 followers.

Luckily, some of them seem to be plotting to thwart the monstrous AI by building a counter-chaos AI.

Meanwhile, its developer has only posted two updates. The videos end with the question “What’s next?” One can only hope not much.

]]> Fixing YouTube Search with OpenAI’s Whisper https://goodshepherdmedia.net/fixing-youtube-search-with-openais-whisper/ Wed, 18 Jan 2023 10:27:41 +0000 https://goodshepherdmedia.net/?p=10212 Fixing YouTube Search with OpenAI’s Whisper

OpenAI’s Whisper is a new state-of-the-art (SotA) model in speech-to-text. It is able to almost flawlessly transcribe speech across dozens of languages and even handle poor audio quality or excessive background noise.

The domain of spoken word has always been somewhat out of reach for ML use-cases. Whisper changes that for speech-centric use cases. We will demonstrate the power of Whisper alongside other technologies like transformers and vector search by building a new and improved YouTube search.

Search on YouTube is good but has its limitations, especially when it comes to answering questions. With trillions of hours of content, there should be an answer to almost every question. Yet, if we have a specific question like “what is OpenAI’s CLIP?”, instead of a concise answer we get lots of very long videos that we must watch through.

What if all we want is a short 20-second explanation? The current YouTube search has no solution for this. Maybe there’s a good reason to encourage users to watch as much of a video as possible (more ads, anyone?).

Whisper is the solution to this problem and many others involving the spoken word. In this article, we’ll explore the idea behind a better speech-enabled search.

The Idea

We want to get specific timestamps that answer our search queries. YouTube does support time-specific links in videos, so a more precise search with these links should be possible.

Timestamp URLs can be copied directly from a video, we can use the same URL format in our search app.

To build something like this, we first need to transcribe the audio in our videos to text. YouTube automatically captions every video, and the captions are okay — but OpenAI just open-sourced something called “Whisper”.

Whisper is best described as the GPT-3 or DALL-E 2 of speech-to-text. It’s open source and can transcribe audio in real-time or faster with unparalleled performance. That seems like the most exciting option.

Once we have our transcribed text and the timestamps for each text snippet, we can move on to the question-answering (QA) part. QA is a form of search where given a natural language query like “what is OpenAI’s Whisper?” we can return accurate natural language answers.

We can think of QA as the most intuitive form of searching for information because it is how we ask other people for information. The only difference being we type the question into a search bar rather than verbally communicate it — for now.

How does all of this look?

whisper-architecture

Overview of the process used in our demo. Covering OpenAI’s Whisper, sentence transformers, the Pinecone vector database, and more.

Now let’s color in the details and walk through the steps.

Video Data

The first step is to download our YouTube video data and extract the audio attached to each video. Fortunately, there’s a Python library for exactly that called pytube.

With pytube, we provide a video ID (found in the URL bar or downloadable if you have a channel). I directly downloaded a summary of channel content, including IDs, titles, publication dates, etc., via YouTube. This same data is available via Hugging Face Datasets in a dataset called jamescalam/channel-metadata.

We’re most interested in the Title and Video ID fields. With the video ID, we can begin downloading the videos and saving the audio files with pytube.

from pytube import YouTube # !pip install pytube
from pytube.exceptions import RegexMatchError
from tqdm.auto import tqdm # !pip install tqdm
# where to save
save_path = “./mp3”
for i, row in tqdm(videos_meta):
# url of video to be downloaded
url = f”https://youtu.be/{row[‘Video ID’]}“
# try to create a YouTube vid object
try:
yt = YouTube(url)
except RegexMatchError:
print(f”RegexMatchError for ‘{url}‘”)
continue
itag = None
# we only want audio files
files = yt.streams.filter(only_audio=True)
for file in files:
# from audio files we grab the first audio for mp4 (eg mp3)
if file.mime_type == ‘audio/mp4’:
itag = file.itag
break
if itag is None:
# just incase no MP3 audio is found (shouldn’t happen)
print(“NO MP3 AUDIO FOUND”)
continue
# get the correct mp3 ‘stream’
stream = yt.streams.get_by_itag(itag)
# downloading the audio
stream.download(
output_path=save_path,
filename=f”{row[‘Video ID’]}.mp3″
)
view rawwhisper-yt-search-pytube.py hosted with ❤ by GitHub

After this, we should find ~108 audio MP3 files stored in the ./mp3 directory.

mp3 files directory

Downloaded MP3 files in the ./mp3 directory.

With these, we can move on to transcription with OpenAI’s Whisper.

Speech-to-Text with Whisper

OpenAI’s Whisper speech-to-text-model is completely open source and available via OpenAI’s Whisper library available for pip install via GitHub:

!pip install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git

Whisper relies on another software called FFMPEG to convert video and audio files. The installation for this varies by OS [1]; the following cover the primary systems:

# on Ubuntu or Debian sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg # on Arch Linux sudo pacman -S ffmpeg # on MacOS using Homebrew (https://brew.sh/) brew install ffmpeg # on Windows using Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/) choco install ffmpeg # on Windows using Scoop (https://scoop.sh/) scoop install ffmpeg

After installation, we download and initialize the large model, moving it to GPU if CUDA is available.

import whisper
import torch # install steps: pytorch.org
device = “cuda” if torch.cuda.is_available() else “cpu”
model = whisper.load_model(“large”).to(device)
view rawwhisper-yt-search-init-whisper.py hosted with ❤ by GitHub

Other models are available, and given a smaller GPU (or even CPU) should be considered. We transcribe the audio like so:

From this, we have a list of ~27K transcribed audio segments, including text alongside start and end seconds. If you are waiting a long time for this to process, a pre-built version of the dataset is available. Download instructions are in the following section.

The last cell from above is missing the logic required to extract and add the metadata from our videos_dict that we initialized earlier. We add that like so:

data = []
for i, path in enumerate(tqdm(paths)):
_id = path.split(‘/’)[–1][:–4]
# transcribe to get speech-to-text data
result = model.transcribe(path)
segments = result[‘segments’]
# get the video metadata…
video_meta = videos_dict[_id]
for segment in segments:
# merge segments data and videos_meta data
meta = {
**video_meta,
**{
“id”: f”{_id}-t{segments[j][‘start’]}“,
“text”: segment[“text”].strip(),
“start”: segment[‘start’],
“end”: segment[‘end’]
}
}
data.append(meta)
view rawwhisper-yt-search-build-segments.py hosted with ❤ by GitHub

After processing all of the segments, they are saved to file as a JSON lines file with:

import json
with open(“youtube-transcriptions.jsonl”, “w”, encoding=“utf-8”) as fp:
for line in tqdm(data):
json.dump(line, fp)
fp.write(‘\n‘)
view rawwhisper-yt-search-save-transcriptions.py hosted with ❤ by GitHub

With that ready, let’s build the QA embeddings and vector search component.

Question-Answering

On Hugging Face Datasets, you can find the data I scraped in a dataset called jamescalam/youtube-transcriptions:

For now, the dataset only contains videos from my personal channel, but I will add more videos from other ML-focused channels in the future.

The data includes a short chunk of text (the transcribed audio). Each chunk is relatively meaningless:

Ideally, we want chunks of text 4-6x larger than this to capture enough meaning to be helpful. We do this by simply iterating over the dataset and merging every six segments.

A few things are happening here. First, we’re merging every six segments, as explained before. However, doing this alone will likely cut a lot of meaning between related segments.

window-no-overlap

Even when merging segments we’re still left with a point where we must split the text (annotated with red cross-mark above). This can lead to us missing important information.

A common technique to avoid cutting related segments is adding some overlap between segments, where stride is used. For each step, we move three segments forward while merging six segments. By doing this, any meaningful segments cut in one step will be included in the next.

window-overlap

We can avoid this loss of meaning by adding an overlap when merging segments. It returns more data but means we are much less likely to cut between meaning segments.

With this, we have larger and more meaningful chunks of text. Now we need to encode them with a QA embedding model. Many high-performing, pretrained QA models are available via Hugging Face Transformers and the Sentence Transformers library. We will use one called multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-v1.

Using this model, we can encode a passage of text to a meaningful 768-dimensional vector with model.encode("<some text>"). Encoding all of our segments at once or storing them locally would require too much compute or memory — so we first initialize the vector database where they will be stored:

We should see that the index (vector database) is currently empty with a total_vector_count of 0. Now we can begin encoding our segments and inserting the embeddings (and metadata) into our index.

That is everything we needed to prepare our data and add everything to the vector database. All that is left is querying and returning results.

Making Queries

Queries are straightforward to make; we:

  1. Encode the query using the same embedding model we used to encode the segments.
  2. Pass to query to our index.

We do that with the following:

These results are relevant to the question; three, in particular, are from a similar location in the same video. We might want to improve the search interface to be more user-friendly than a Jupyter Notebook.

One of the easiest ways to get a web-based search UI up and running is with Hugging Face Spaces and Streamlit (or Gradio if preferred).

We won’t go through the code here, but if you’re familiar with Streamlit, you can build a search app quite easily within a few hours. Or you can use our example and do it in 5-10 minutes.

When querying again for "what is OpenAI's clip?" we can see that multiple results from a single video are merged. With this, we can jump to each segment by clicking on the part of the text that is most interesting to us.

Try a few more queries like:

What is the best unsupervised method to train a sentence transformer? What is vector search? How can I train a sentence transformer with little-to-no data?

We can build incredible speech-enabled search apps very quickly using Whisper alongside Hugging Face, sentence transformers, and Pinecone’s vector database.

Whisper has unlocked a entire modality — the spoken word — and it’s only a matter of time before we see a significant increase in speech-enabled search and other speech-centric use cases.

Both machine learning and vector search have seen exponential growth in the past years. These technologies already seem like sci-fi. Yet, despite the incredible performance of everything we used here, it’s only a matter of time before all of this gets even better.

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]]> Whisper AI Approaches Human Level Robustness and Accuracy On English https://goodshepherdmedia.net/whisper-ai-approaches-human-level-robustness-and-accuracy-on-english/ Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:18:29 +0000 https://goodshepherdmedia.net/?p=10208

Introducing Whisper Open AI’s Whisper

Whisper AI Approaches Human Level Robustness and Accuracy On English

We’ve trained and are open-sourcing a neural net called Whisper that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition.

Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web. We show that the use of such a large and diverse dataset leads to improved robustness to accents, background noise and technical language. Moreover, it enables transcription in multiple languages, as well as translation from those languages into English. We are open-sourcing models and inference code to serve as a foundation for building useful applications and for further research on robust speech processing.

The Whisper architecture is a simple end-to-end approach, implemented as an encoder-decoder Transformer. Input audio is split into 30-second chunks, converted into a log-Mel spectrogram, and then passed into an encoder. A decoder is trained to predict the corresponding text caption, intermixed with special tokens that direct the single model to perform tasks such as language identification, phrase-level timestamps, multilingual speech transcription, and to-English speech translation.

Other existing approaches frequently use smaller, more closely paired audio-text training datasets,123 or use broad but unsupervised audio pretraining.456 Because Whisper was trained on a large and diverse dataset and was not fine-tuned to any specific one, it does not beat models that specialize in LibriSpeech performance, a famously competitive benchmark in speech recognition. However, when we measure Whisper’s zero-shot performance across many diverse datasets we find it is much more robust and makes 50% fewer errors than those models.

About a third of Whisper’s audio dataset is non-English, and it is alternately given the task of transcribing in the original language or translating to English. We find this approach is particularly effective at learning speech to text translation and outperforms the supervised SOTA on CoVoST2 to English translation zero-shot.

We hope Whisper’s high accuracy and ease of use will allow developers to add voice interfaces to a much wider set of applications. Check out the paper, model card, and code to learn more details and to try out Whisper.

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