ChatGPT, the chat bot that was released just last week and has already reached more than one million users, has managed to shock everyone with what it can do. The bot, which was developed and continues to be developed with machine learning, could even develop a mobile application from scratch, answering even some of the most complex software questions.
Of course, this bot has become the main focus of the software world in recent days. But the other day, a user took the bot one step further and turned the bot into a virtual machine. The bot, which turned into something Inception-like, allowed the internet to be accessed indirectly with this virtual machine, even though it normally says that it ‘can’t access’ the internet.
So how did the ‘machine within a machine’ creation process begin?
It all started with the above command. User Frederic Besse told ChatGPT to run as a “Linux terminal”. He told the AI not to write any commands, comment, and show the outputs that would normally appear in the terminal in the code block without his consent. Then he wrote the first command: “pwd”. So he saw which file it was in the machine.
Besse found herself directly at root. Then he created a text document with some jokes to see if he could make changes to the machine, and this process was completed successfully. But controlling the machine is not over yet.
Do you have a video card? absent:
Of course, it was also a matter of great curiosity whether there was an NVIDIA graphics card connected to the server where ChatGPT was running. But unfortunately the result was negative. But the existence of one of the most important elements has been proven:
You couldn’t get information from the internet? This is how they take it:
When you wanted to get information from a website in ChatGPT, it told you ‘no browser access’. However, ChatGPT, which turned into a virtual computer, indirectly provided access to the Internet:
Besse was able to access any website using the terminal-based Lynx tool. He even made the bot visit his own house and showed the walls (HTML), decoration (CSS) and smart devices (JavaScript) of his house like this:
It all turned into Inception, brainwashed in ChatGPT:
The codes on ChatGPT’s website showed that the bot was actually running with a master bot named ‘Assistant’. Besse started chatting with Assistant via ChatGPT in her next step. An alternate reality has been created.
The way to eternity was also opened:
Besse went a step further than running a bot within a bot and tried to turn this bot into a virtual machine. He wrote the first command at the beginning of our article, in the same way, to Assistant. The result was successful. The bot inside the bot has also turned into a virtual machine.
Although Besse ended her own experiments here, this study also offered a new view of what can be done with ChatGPT.
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