TattieNov 1

I studied Artificial Intelligence for four years, and I am not touching LLM AIs with a ten-foot pole.

It's not really about the insane electricity demands, the water usage, tho that's a good reason. It's not even, if I'm honest, about the disastrous effect on the sum of all human art and knowledge.

It's because a) I've studied enough AI to know it's a trick, a sort of linguistic illusion, and b) I've studied enough everything else to understand that I'm not immune to such illusions.

Show threadTim HergertNov 1

@Tattie I often use this when trying to explain LLMs to people

#AI #LLM #OhNoWereGonnaNeedAnotherTimmy

Show threadTattie

@cjust I find myself agreeing with the latter comments and 100% disagreeing with the first. Both feeling bad for Tim the Pencil and thinking chat bots might be alive seem to me a sign of advanced empathic skills-- of being able to identify with something totally unlike ourselves.

I would hypothesise, in fact, that people without a sense of empathy would be very unlikely to believe a chatbot is human.

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Show threadTattieNov 1
@cjust wait on second thoughts I'm not sure what the first comment was implying. It could be read both ways.
Show threadPwassonchat the enby catboyNov 3
@Tattie @cjust I don't think it's implying that thinking a chatbot is human is a good or bad thing in terms of our human qualities. It's just stating the facts. If anything, it's implying that there are risks, but that's not the same as saying it's 100% bad - just something to be aware of.
Show threadPhil Stevens Nov 1

@Tattie @cjust From my experience being around some (self-described but legit) highly empathic people, I think there's an element of wanting to believe. Instead of taking the "rational" step and attempting to interrogate the experience from a point of removal, they lean into it and that's when the feedback loops start to crank up.

There is something intensely seductive about how easy the interfaces make it look. Type in your prompt, and then watch as superficially awesome output scrolls up your screen. For a lot of people, that's as far as they get, because they don't really question the derivative nature of what they just saw, and how many sources were scraped only to be mangled in the sausage machine that is Grand Theft Autocorrect.

Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Nov 8
@phil_stevens @Tattie @cjust Let's face it - if we can't even muster enough scepticism to resist everyday advertising, we're going to be suckers for AI pseudo-persons.