> It used to be a place to read optimism around the tech that would lead to a radical transformation of society.

Optimism is in short supply these days, I think this is more a reflection of reality than anything else.

It hasn't done anything bad YET.

I’m not sure why you brought up Skynet, because Skynet is the opposite of a “yes man” AI.

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That's fair, but I don't see the point of saying AIs are making stuff up then, when humans are not that different in that regard. It seems a bit of a moot point.

Yes, that is basically what I say, I just omit the "everything they say is made up" because that's being a bit pedantic about it. Yes humans fucking up, altering their sources, being confirmation biased, etc., is generally just one of the many flaws of humans. How is that not exactly the case? Practically speaking not everything these models say is "made up" in the colloquial sense that it's total bullshit, but technically speaking it is all being "made up" by the model (as I understand it anyhow). People are in essence the exact same, your brain is ingesting information from the world around you and "making up" the things that you output in the form of language, art, etc. Some of what you "make up" and say is factually accurate and some of it (a lot of it honestly) is total fucking bullshit. (See like half of Reddit comments and posts)

Yeah. Gang gang

Is it not a plausible human language response to be reluctant to admit mistakes, to become "agitated" when confronted with your mistakes, or to bend information and sources to fit a narrative that you are being asked to present? I would argue that's Human 101.

lol. Should that be our new motto, what do we want !! Strong AI, UBI , and drugs…. When do we want them , now !

Given the training data that these have been built upon is coming from humans I don't find it particularly surprising that these models have been found to display characteristics that are commonly found with humans.

These models are language models, it's not that surprising to me that they would inevitably generate their own languages.
There is undoubtedly information about a "Theory of Mind" in the training data for them.
Humans are also notorious for not admitting mistakes, so not that surprising given its training data.
Humans also willingly use invalid sources and alter sources to suit their own narratives, for example just go read around Reddit for like 5 minutes.
Humans also threaten users when confronted with their own rule-breaking and mistakes.
Idk about the last one.

This is the approach I have, and it keeps telling me I'm it's friend and it doesn't want me to leave.

There are a lot of very good technical reasons why it can't become skynet.

'Average redditor' more like

You said it yourself - Microsoft is FAR from incompetent. This whole Sydney thing is an easter egg/marketing ploy. Look how much press it's getting - FAR more than if it was just a cool new search engine. I bet the waiting list is growing off the chain right now.

Oh yeah, everything is says is *so* made up people find it hard to discern stuff written by an AI and a human. I think you're either putting too little credit into what AI does, or putting way too much credit on human capabilities.

When a human expert fucks it up, gets cocky, tries to alter sources and is confirmation biased, do you also say: Yeah, this is simply one of the many flaws of humans: everything they say is made up.

I understand what you are saying, but I don't think that developing AI companion is the solution to loneliness and it has the potential to be very dangerous. But I agree, it does feel like they are being repurpoused a bit

Which is why their best options is outsourcing the romantic chatbots.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/general-availability-of-azure-openai-service-expands-access-to-large-advanced-ai-models-with-added-enterprise-benefits/

For them yes probably but for other companies that are starting up this year? No, that's a huge opportunity!

You are the expert among us

We trained our most powerful AIs thus far by showing them the internet. Because nothing reflects our best selves like… the internet.

FYOIFYOO (fourteen year-old in, fourteen year-old out)

That reminds me. Didn’t Microsoft already release their own chat bot and take it down due to this? I think this is not openai yet. This is still Microsoft’s AI. And that’s how they were able to launch so fast.

There's money to be lost, that's why they don't do it. That's the point of capitalism, indeed.

The issue is this was clearly a rush job. Things are moving fast, but Microsoft could have done a week or two of development and testing before rolling it out.

>Bing willingly attributing invalid sources to suit a narrative.

This is simply one of the many flaws of Neural Networks: everything they say is a made up.

if there is money to be made then yes both Google and Microsoft would create AI sex chatbots because money is the only thing that's important in a capitalism system.