Mike Conley (:mconley) ⚙️One of my favourite authors and thinkers, John Green, on ChatGPT and AI:
"I am not _that_ worried about attempts to make technology more similar to us, but I am _very very_ worried about attempts to make us more like technology."
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mhoye@mconley Bernard Avishai once said that "The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."
Hector Correa@mhoye @mconley Elena Esposito talks about this as "Artificial Communication" https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/5338/Artificial-CommunicationHow-Algorithms-Produce
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Oldenboom@jorgearanda @mhoye @mconley chatGPT seems right on track here. With many questions it will pass the Turing test compared with for instance 13 year olds. Yesterday I used ChatGPT to write a 2-minute drama play my daughter needed for school but didn’t manage to come up with one herself. I won’t share ChatGPT with here, she’d be using it daily for sure, killing all (human) creativity. That’s what’s I’m worried about.
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eribosot@mconley I read this long ago as a quote: "The danger is not that robots will become like us, but that we will become like robots."
Mark Hughes@mconley That quote could have been generated by #ChatGPT: sounds clever and plausible, but is wrong because there's not much difference.
ChatGPT shows us how easy it will be to get machines create human like interactions that convince us to think and do what the machine owners want, and we're already deep into that trap, which is to be like components in a machine.
Targetted ads give way to targetted AI: spam, phishing, online fraud, online 'news', AI QAnon...
Walter@mconley, there is something off, just a smidge, but I'm trapped in the uncanny valley.
I listened to a ton of content by the Green brothers and I was expecting something on those lines, but I was rooting for him to end with the generated script, I'm glad I was wrong. Though, who knows, maybe they were never real in the first place. #plotTwist #VLogBrothersAreNotReal
Hadi@mconley "The danger of past was that man become slaves. The danger of future is that man become robots." Erich Fromm
Caracabe@mconley I used to work as a software developer at a place where the manager said his goal was to be able to assign a development task to any one of us and know we’d produce exactly the same code any other developer on the team would.