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superluminary t1_j99gj8i wrote

There’s nothing in any example I could solve that demonstrates actual reasoning in my neural net. LLMs are a black box, we don’t know exactly how they get the next word. As time goes in, I’m starting to suspect that my own internal dialogue is just iteratively getting the next word.

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Sculptorman t1_j99ffnm wrote

Consider not getting too attached or dependent. I would say that you should expect OpenAI to alter the way it responds and even add filters to make it more restrictive over time. In other words, of you treat ChatGPT as a personal friend, when they make changes it will feel as though they murdered it. I say this only because that's the trend right now across multiple chat bots. People get "close" to it, then it gets gutted and people want to kill themselves. As in literally. It sounds like I'm making this up, but it's happened with Replika and Character.ai. Replika even has a suicide hotline set up for those who can't handle the changes.

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NothingVerySpecific t1_j99ddng wrote

>caring in any way.

Wow, I wish I had your friends. My friends are too busy stopping their kids from unlifeing themselves by accident, getting divorced or chasing skirt, to have time to care about me.

Edit: Was a comment about the magic of friendship & how AI can't replace real caring human connection. You know, the usual fluff spouted by people who are NOT socially isolated OR surrounded by assholes.

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Captain_Clark t1_j99bx6b wrote

This is nothing new. ELIZA had similar effect upon users decades ago, despite its far cruder capabilities at language construction.

>>Shortly after Joseph Weizenbaum arrived at MIT in the 1960s, he started to pursue a workaround to this natural language problem. He realized he could create a chatbot that didn’t really need to know anything about the world. It wouldn’t spit out facts. It would reflect back at the user, like a mirror.

>> Weizenbaum had long been interested in psychology and recognized that the speech patterns of a therapist might be easy to automate. The results, however, unsettled him. People seemed to have meaningful conversations with something he had never intended to be an actual therapeutic tool. To others, though, this seemed to open a whole world of possibilities.

>> Weizenbaum would eventually write of ELIZA, “What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.”

ChatGPT is lightyears beyond ELIZAs capabilities. But Weizenbaum’s concerns remain, and it’s how we got here; to a point where you are entranced in exactly the same way ELIZA’s users were.

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Ok_Sea_6214 t1_j998w9w wrote

2015: "AI won't beat top human players at Go for another decade."

2017: "AI won't beat top human players at Dota for another decade."

2019: "AI won't beat top human players at Starcraft for another decade."

2020: "AI won't be anything close to general intelligence for another decade."

2022: "It looks like general intelligence but that's not real intelligence, that'll take another decade."

ASI already exists, we're just being slowly made aware as not to cause a panic.

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