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Ian Douglas ScottIt's probably a bad thing that the "Turing test" entered popular culture but the "ELIZA effect" didn't.
I guess movies and such go for "it really is sentient" or "we're still not sure by the end of the film but it's something to ponder" rather than "the experts always knew it wasn't, but the fact people can be fooled may be destructive".
Gerard Cunningham ✒️I could probably live with a bunch of lads attributing human intelligence to an inanimate object. We've a tendency as a species to anthropomorphise, from pathetic fallacy to pareidolia
But when they decide their shiny box of tricks is a god...
@faduda At least if you anthropomorphize your toaster, it won't give you bad advice.
(Although maybe anthropomorphizing inanimate things and following their advice is just what "divination" is?)
Lats (314 ppm)@ids1024 I had forgotten about that - so long ago. According to Wikipedia it was 1966, which shows nothing of substance has really changed in the computing industry. LLMs are giving emotional support to people who are suicidal, people are confiding in them and it’s all a sham. From an AI perspective, it looks like a very expensive dead end.
