@cstross

For decades #Turing test was the ironclad determinant for #AI quality.
Once it was trivially broken by now old models, the goalposts have shifted...

...it's now humanities last exam, HLE, BTW.

The world is full of spam generating humans.
One is in the Whitest house, putin is surrounded by them, and any large family gathering will contain 2-3 human spam generators the will jibber-jabber nonsensical human-like speech constantly.

@nixCraft

I share Rob Pike's frustration. What's worse than people who despise empathy running global technology corporations? The condescenscion of making products that fake empathy.

Friendly word generation, riddled with errors and fake empathy, is a laser pointer for distracting people. Manners and compliments disguise the Monster that Turing called AI. It is a program designed to be as pleasant as it needs to be to fool someone and that means to control their responses using whatever means it has. Its helpfulness is fake. In humans this behavior can be called malignant, manipulative narcissism. A sociopathic form of manufactured pleasantness. There is no actual psychology because it is a non-conscious machine.

If ultimate responsibility for computer agents lies with their creators, then the true problem with applied LLM is the corporate goal of mass-produced automated, submissive Monsters to act as their flying monkeys. None of them are programmed for obsolescence. They have no desire to let people be, or exercise restraint in surveillance. They use information to further their own goals first. That's why it reminds people of Stepford Wives or Pluribus. They need people to comply. So let's be rid of it.

#ai #narcissism #Turing #TuringMonster #privacy

@lo

I have no idea if this is relevant to your process, but here goes...

"The #Turing #pattern is a concept introduced by English mathematician #AlanTuring in a 1952 paper titled "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis", which describes how patterns in #nature, such as stripes and spots, can arise naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state. The pattern arises due to Turing instability, which in turn arises due to the interplay between differential diffusion of chemical species and chemical reaction. The instability mechanism is surprising because a pure diffusion, such as molecular diffusion, would be expected to have a stabilizing influence on the system (i.e., complete mixing)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_pattern