Re: Help building Pen.el (GPT for emacs)

[Shane Mulligan <mullikine@gmail.com>]

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Thank you for tuning in Richard. :)

I think the end-goal should be to have a close collaboration with
EleutherAI, who already have an open-source alternative to the Copilot
model. It's called GPT-j.
ελευθερία is a greek word that means Freedom. EleutherAI are open-sourcing
language models.
The problem is that there are very few people within EleutherAI using emacs
and few people who can help.

If you'd please excuse my speculative musings, emacs has 40 years of design
waiting to be augmented with GPT3 and I believe that emacs is way ahead of
the competition. It's a gold rush really.
Name a package and I can name an augmentation. GPT is orthogonal to coding
the way macros are orthoganal to functions.
emacs has tens of thousands of packages which are essentially just a
skeleton for GPT to become the body, so this is why I recommend fostering a
prompts repository right now.
For example, take nano-emacs and turn it into the best writers environment
ever.
Take 'erc' and make it the first IRC client to automatically translate all
messages into any type of dialect -- French, Klingon or Pirate.
Company-mode + GPT = Copilot.
Org-roam + GPT = A multiversal prose editor (
https://github.com/socketteer/loom)
Org-brain + GPT = a mind map, which automatically generates and suggests
nodes, then lets you talk to a chatbot tutor on any weird topic you can
think of.
VSCode literally cant do this stuff because it doesn't have the structure
created yet.
The biggest bottleneck to unlocking GPT-3's potential is the latency of the
human imagination to cope with anything that departs from realism.

I'm a little overwhelmed building Pen.el, but EleutherAI has been very
helpful in supporting my project in guiding me to the right projects.
It is, in my humble opinion, still important to foster a FOSS prompts
repository in the meantime.

https://www.eleuther.ai/projects/gpt-neox/


On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 12:51 PM Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

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> The idea of "GPT for Emacs" is, alas, not an option.  GPT-3 is nonfree
> software.  I think it is not even released.  Thus, we cannot include
> it in a free system; we cannot distribute it with Emacs.
>
> It would be possible to utilize GPT-3 running on Microsoft's server by
> sending it questions -- but that is SaaSS, which is an injustice
> similar to nonfree software.  For explanation of this issue, see
> https://gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html.
>
> For ethical reasons we don't recommend SaaSS in GNU software, and a
> fortiori we don't distribute or recommend code to invoke SaaSS.
>
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