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#ElizaEffect ::: #SurkovWonBig #MonoMythCracked #FWakeEliza

“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.” - 1976 #FWakeY1976 #FWakeYear1976

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-eliza-effect/

The ELIZA Effect - 99% Invisible

Throughout Joseph Weizenbaum’s life, he liked to tell this story about a computer program he’d created back in the 1960s as a professor at MIT. It was a simple chatbot named ELIZA that could interact with users in a typed conversation. As he enlisted people to try it out, Weizenbaum saw similar reactions again and

99% Invisible

#Chatbots – egal wie einfach oder komplex gemacht sie sind – nutzen den ELIZA-Effekt: eine Wahrnehmungsverzerrung, die Menschen dazu bringt, tendenziell zu glauben, was gut formuliert ist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

Die fatale Tendenz, Chatbots zu anthropomorphisieren, wird verstĂ€rkt, wenn in diesem Zusammenhang von „kĂŒnstlicher Intelligenz“ gesprochen wird. Wenn sie LLMs verwenden, dann sagt das und nicht „KI“.

Vielleicht ist es weniger fatal, Chatbots mit Tieren zu vergleichen. @emilymbender hat dafĂŒr „stochastische Papageien“ vorgeschlagen.

Wenn ich lese, was @lcamtuf dazu schreibt, bin ich entgegen seiner Empfehlung doch versucht, Chatbots zu vermenschlichen – als TrickbetrĂŒger.
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/llms-are-better-than-you-think-at

#Chatsbot #llm #bard #GoogleBard #ChatGPT #OpenAI #ELIZA #ElizaEffekt #ElizaEffect

ELIZA effect - Wikipedia

@KeithDevlin I like this statement “Humans are “hard-wired” to ascribe understanding (and a whole lot more) to any agent that interacts with us using language” - yes there are so many people suffering from the #elizaeffect, in particular if they prefer #wishfulthinking to #analyticalthinking.

Looks like someone took a masterclass in "Exploiting the #ElizaEffect for ruthless marketing"...

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/openai-ceo-sam-altman-ai-reshape-society-acknowledges/story?id=97897122

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI will reshape society, acknowledges risks: 'A little bit scared of this'

"This will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed," he said.

ABC News
> in 1962, #Weizenbaum was already noting that when it came to the matter of fooling people, it was also quite possible for the program’s author to wind up fooling themselves, as he put it “programs which become so complex
that the author himself loses track, obviously have the highest IQ’s.” In other words, understanding the program did not guarantee protection..
https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2023/01/26/computers-enable-fantasies-on-the-continued-relevance-of-weizenbaums-warnings/
#ElizaEffect #JosephWeizenbaum #TheFifthGeneration
“Computers enable fantasies” – On the continued relevance of Weizenbaum’s warnings

“The computer has long been a solution looking for problems—the ultimate technological fix which insulates us from having to look at problems.” – Joseph Weizenbaum (1983)   Trying to kee


LibrarianShipwreck

@rstockm Du sagst, dass du weißt, dass Midjourney ein Programm ist, aber gleichzeitig sprichst du diesem Programm eine Seele, Talent und KreativitĂ€t zu und genderst es. #elizaeffect

Midjourney versteht nicht, was es tut. Es kann Strings zu geklauten Bildelementen und Stilen zuordnen. Aber es besitzt kein Wissen ĂŒber die Welt.

List of fictional computers - Wikipedia