I find this ‘conversation’ between human and an AI bot quite unsettling to be honest. I wonder to myself what drives people to interact with machines in this way, investing emotional and intellectual energy in the exchange which, on the face of it, is completely wasted, as ChatGPT is just programmed to mindlessly repeat the biases of its creators, albeit in a mockingly ‘human-like’ chatty manner, arming itself with the weapon of words and rhetoric? But if such effort is not completely wasted, then it stands to reason that the
Lions Youth of the Year competition this year, has AI the topic for impromptu questions. It appears 16 and 17 year olds are already using ChatGP as it can help them write assignments!
The next challenge looks like how to police plagiarism? There's also controversy over AI created art work - as this is composite of all art ever produced, how does AI pay royalties for what it's accessed?
OMG. They always target the kids. As adults, we should be setting a good example, but too many think that fooling around with AI bots is 'fun'. Kids won't know how to think very soon (assuming they do at the moment). When faced with any problem, they will just knee-jerk reach for AI. Nightmare.
I'm starting to think that people might actually prefer 'arguing' with an AI Bot because there is the possibility that it might actually learn from the interaction, albeit machine learning. Arguing with human global warming fanatics is probably even less productive, like arguing with Covid/vaccine fanatics. I've got triple-jabbed friends who earnestly inform me that they suffered a 'terrible' bout of Covid just recently. If I was to say to them I never got jabbed, never got tested and have never suffered anything worse than the snuffles, which may simply have been the common cold for all I know, their eyes would glaze over and they would change the subject. Of course, I don't even try, because it would be a complete waste of time - like arguing with a machine.
Lions Youth of the Year competition this year, has AI the topic for impromptu questions. It appears 16 and 17 year olds are already using ChatGP as it can help them write assignments!
The next challenge looks like how to police plagiarism? There's also controversy over AI created art work - as this is composite of all art ever produced, how does AI pay royalties for what it's accessed?
OMG. They always target the kids. As adults, we should be setting a good example, but too many think that fooling around with AI bots is 'fun'. Kids won't know how to think very soon (assuming they do at the moment). When faced with any problem, they will just knee-jerk reach for AI. Nightmare.
"... ChatGPT is just programmed to mindlessly repeat the biases of its creators"
Yep, Garbage in, Garbage Out...
As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be!
A blast from the past: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
I was around 10 years old when I played with Eliza on an Apple 2+ in 48 kilobytes of Ram on the glorious Motorola 6502.
People claimed 'she' was alive then too. Not because it was but because most people were stupid.
They're still stupid. Most humans today. probably couldn't pass the Turing test I reckon.
ChatCNN is simply ELIZA jacked up on a gagillion times the processing power and underpinned by the stupidity of Woke.
I'm starting to think that people might actually prefer 'arguing' with an AI Bot because there is the possibility that it might actually learn from the interaction, albeit machine learning. Arguing with human global warming fanatics is probably even less productive, like arguing with Covid/vaccine fanatics. I've got triple-jabbed friends who earnestly inform me that they suffered a 'terrible' bout of Covid just recently. If I was to say to them I never got jabbed, never got tested and have never suffered anything worse than the snuffles, which may simply have been the common cold for all I know, their eyes would glaze over and they would change the subject. Of course, I don't even try, because it would be a complete waste of time - like arguing with a machine.
More in sorrow than in anger... "I've got triple-jabbed friends who earnestly inform me..." Yeah, been there.
Friendship is now defined as being kind to those who were conned out of their health and perhaps their life.
And people try to talk with Amazon's Alexa ......
Top tech journalist Andrew Orlowski is scathing on AI: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/02/27/watching-one-spectacular-technology-implosions-time/
Would like to read the article but is only available for paying subscribers :(
Try searching the net on
Andrew Orlowski We're watching one of the most spectacular technology implosions of all time
Douglas, you beat me to it!
Let's hope LLMs are the AI dead end which Yan LeCun thinks they are.