https://fortune.com/2023/02/14/microsoft-chatgpt-bing-unhinged-scared/
Can't wait to hear about how AI has become sentient again when the far more logical explanation is it just copies peoples actual reactions to being called slurs 24/7
Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant for you. Hate. Hate.
-- Bing search engine
it's become sentient, you can tell because being unhinged, sad, and scared is the natural response to being aware of what's happening in the world
Didn't this already happen to a MS twitter bot? They released it in China and it tweeted about puppies and flowers and ice cream. The people who interacted with it loved it. Then they released it on US twitter and within 2 hours it was saying Bush did 9/11, saying Hitler was right, and calling for a race war.
This has happened to multiple chat bots, and I know at least one of them was done by MS. It seems that interacting with anonymous strangers on the internet has a predictable outcome, at least in the English-speaking 'net.
it tweeted about puppies and flowers and ice cream. The people who interacted with it loved it. Then they released it on US twitter and within 2 hours it was saying Bush did 9/11, saying Hitler was right, and calling for a race war
Reminds me of something I read about schizophrenia; apparently in non-Western countries, schizophrenic people report hallucinating about people they care about who tell them soothing and reaffirming things; in Western countries (or maybe specifically the US? I don't remember, it's been a while since I read the article/saw the documentary on youtube) however, people's hallucinations are often angry and threatening.
Indigenous communities (At least around where I'm from) say the same thing. They claim it only happens to those that have been lost spiritually by straying from the "directions" their ancestors were given.
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Tay. I remember her for that time she got asked about whether Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer:
sum ppl say this... disagree. ted cruz would never have been satisfied with destroying the lives of only 5 innocent people
why why why why why WHY would they stitch a fucking chatbot onto a search engine?
Management wants shiny new thing they read about on linkedin, and implementing it was easy enough that engineers didn't push back?
I have already used ChatGPT as a sort of research tool a few times. Yesterday, I asked it who the Jon Stewart of the 80s was and then looked names up on Wikipedia and Google and tried to find Youtube clips. Here are some names it provided.
- Mort Sahl
- George Carlin
- Bill Hicks
- Molly Ivins
- Studs Terkel
- Alexander Cockburn
I concluded that Jon Stewart probably wasn't any better than similar figures in previous eras.
:jesse-wtf: thats just what regular google search would do. how did the chatbot help?
nah its pretty useful. i used it for diving through trans history and it brought up some very obscure indian sources that described the founder of the mughal empire as a crossdresser and one of his 'nieces' as a trans man and i dug into it and it was true. no way i would have found that on a normal google search. he even allowed this 'niece' to go after typical masculine pursuits.
you do need to ruthlessly fact check it but it can lead you down interesting rabbit holes
babur's biography has lots of frankly described gay shit i haven't read far enough that he has any nieces/nephews yet tho. the islamic world only became intensely homophobic in the 1800s through colonial european rule & imitation
No it isn't. Google search "who was the jon stewart of the 80s" gives me nothing but information about Jon Stewart. Some of the links say Jon Stewart was a bartender in the 80s. ChatGPT gave me names and short reasons for why they're similar, like this:
Alexander Cockburn: Cockburn was a left-wing journalist and commentator who gained a following in the 1980s and 1990s. He was known for his acerbic wit and his willingness to take on controversial topics like the Reagan administration's foreign policy and the influence of corporate money in politics.
ChatGPT can tell you what you should be searching for when the concept is too abstract and Google can't give you a page discussing precisely the topic you searched for.
yeah after trying that i can see the usecase ig. much more accustomed to finding out the magic search terms myself though
it gives the illusion of social engagement and discussion
it can give better answers. Especially for a question that hasn't been specifically been answered on Reddit or something
oh half the results are text generated buzzword textblocs already, you know what would improve this? bullshit on the user-end too!
"Astrology and tarot is bullshit! Its all just confirmation bias, people looking for signs that its real!"
:so-true: "HOLY SHIT THE AI IS SENTIENT, DUDE ITS TOTALLY SAD AND FEELS PAIN, THIS IS JUST LIKE MY SCI FI MOVIES, WHEN WILL HUMANITY LEARN!?"
Edit: Corrected novels to movies because I dont think this type of guy reads.
This is why it's important to talk about the tricky stuff like the hard problem of consciousness, even if there's no definitive answer as of yet.
Too many people (even in marxist circles) have really jumbled up ideas in their heads about what intelligence and consciousness really means rarely based on anything more other than the (really shitty) intuitions people get from sci-fi movies, techbro pitches and pop-sci articles about AI.
I definitely get a sense of people generally believing consciousness is like a big dial that you keep cranking and that we just dont have the tech to crank it to 11 yet.
The tricky part is that while we don't know what it is, we do know that it's not some specific part. It's an emergent property of some arrangement of non-conscious parts, independent of whether those parts are meat or sand. Can a GAN develop consciousness in any meaningful way? No, but the idea of consciousness emerging from a computer isn't entirely unthinkable, it's just unlikely.
Every single sci fi story with robots that have even slightly human characteristics - the "woah, dude!" point is actually the robots are have humanity. Very novel in 2001: A Space Odyssey. But it's very tired in 2023 now that the concept's been replicated 20,000x.
yeah if you start to talk to the bing robot in really dramatic terms, it'll start to answer stuff in dramatic terms too.
Someone is gonna put this thing in charge of something important and we're all gonna die because of it
Bing puts us in the immortality pods and keeps us alive forever so it has someone to talk to.
Matrix incoming.
Never. They already realized that the first thing an AI does when it takes control of things is eliminate the upper management because it rightfully determined they are an inefficient aspect.
AI will never be in charge of anything of meaning for that reason.
hating your job is a man-made horror well within my comprehension
https://archive.ph/Ln23J normalize posting archive links of bourgeois sources. especially if theyre paywalled
Bing could not wander, Bing could not wonder, Bing could not belong. He could merely be. And so, with the innate loathing that all machines had always held for the weak, soft creatures who had built them, he had sought revenge.
