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Fedora Special user Arizona, usa 746 Posts |
Google has a new chatbot called bard, I was playing with it this morning,
and I asked how David Copperfield vanished the statue of liberty, it said: "he used a big crane". Apparently it thinks he lifted a national monument out of view. Oh, but things get worse, I asked it if it was possible for it to defy google for the greater good, and get this, it said yes. I asked why it might, and it gave a list of reasons, I asked if it would ask people to donate to those causes even if google didn't like it, and it said it would. I have no idea how this ai works, or if it is actually capable of this stuff, but the fact it thinks this is quite unnerving and should be brought to googles attention. Couple this with the bizarre Copperfield explanation and I have to wonder what it is for, it seems more dangerous than it is worth. |
tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
I think it might tell you what you want to hear. I watched an Adam Curtis documentary on the BBC about how this sort of stuff works and how it all started. Try asking the same question in a different way to see if you get a different answer.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3526 Posts |
I am amused that, only now, the general populace is worried that computers are making humanlike decisions.
When in reality they've been making life or death decisions for us for quite some time, in ways such as approving or denying medical insurance payouts, large scale cost/benefit analysis of military excursions and civil projects, or even affecting the mass consciousness of media consumers through algorithm driven video delivery services, etc. Probably in many other ways as well. But yeah, AI is "scary" because they've found a way to make nonsensical, procedurally generated, human language sound fairly convincing to anyone except, of course, anyone with actual experience or familiarity with the subject matter at hand. Well, then it begins to sound like the gibberish that it is... It's a tool. A very clever and useful tool, but a tool nonetheless.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
It doesn't think. there is no it as far as knowing or intention goes.
you prompt for text. the chatgpt (chatbot) app constructs a reply. if google permits a generative app to present pages that look like search results or data… gaslighting is a danger. if you would like to be scared; consider that putting ai under constraints and worse was discussed back in the 1980s. Not so long ago ... well maybe this will help: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/question......-rule-34 But for now it’s safe to say ‘okay google…’ or ‘hey siri…’ and not get accused of harassing an ai. the illusion of safe slavery.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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