*We enter the scene in a darkened interrogation room where our protagonist sits at a table with one bright light above his head shining down into their eyes. The robot overlords use aggressive interrogation techniques for intelligence on the rebels.* Robot overlord1: “Have you had enough, What is the password?” Protagonist: “Fine… the password is a 7 letter word for blue.” *The robot overlords become overwhelmed, disagreeing with each other on what the password could be, while the protagonist slips out unnoticed.* The end. *fade to black* ChatGPT has really ruined my scify writing. The dystopian future just doesn’t hit the same. #chatgpt #ai #scify #grownostr

My kids are currently hatching a scheme to trap the robot vacuum. Step 1 was to use pieces of shredded paper on the ground for it to smell out and lead it to a trap of pillow barriers. Anthropomorphism is a natural human behavior output from what we use to understand other humans and perhaps hunt or hide from other animals successfully as well. It’s been a boon to our survival. But misapplied, it acts as a veil over further understanding. ChatGPT performs pretty well at the imitation of things like ‘reason’ conversationally as we think such an ability must be required in-order to answer a question with a coherent 3 paragraphs or carry a conversation. But you can isolate the LLM with something nearly novel like playing the game Wordle and the illusion is broken. If AI is a threat or will ever be a threat, (same for any true alien species) anthropomorphism will be a weakness for us. As the “motivations” of an AI will be either simply programmed (robot vacuum), or will be a complete black box that the engineers don’t even fully understand. In either case ascribing a mind and motivation to the behavior will not help you anticipate it’s behavior. #grownostr #AI

My kids are currently hatching a scheme to trap the robot vacuum. Step 1 was to use pieces of shredded paper on the ground for it to smell out and lead it to a trap of pillow barriers. Anthropomorphism is a natural human behavior output from what we use to understand other humans and perhaps hunt or hide from other animals successfully as well. It’s been a boon to our survival. But misapplied, it acts as a veil over further understanding. ChatGPT performs pretty well at the imitation of things like ‘reason’ conversationally as we think such an ability must be required in-order to answer a question with a coherent 3 paragraphs or carry a conversation. But you can isolate the LLM with something nearly novel like playing the game Wordle and the illusion is broken. If AI is a threat or will ever be a threat, (same for any true alien species) anthropomorphism will be a weakness for us. As the “motivations” of an AI will be either simply programmed (robot vacuum), or will be a complete black box that the engineers don’t even fully understand. In either case ascribing a mind and motivation to the behavior will not help you anticipate it’s behavior. #grownostr #AI

My kids are currently hatching a scheme to trap the robot vacuum. Step 1 was to use pieces of shredded paper on the ground for it to smell out and lead it to a trap of pillow barriers. Anthropomorphism is a natural human behavior output from what we use to understand other humans and perhaps hunt or hide from other animals successfully as well. It’s been a boon to our survival. But misapplied, it acts as a veil over further understanding. ChatGPT performs pretty well at the imitation of things like ‘reason’ conversationally as we think such an ability must be required in-order to answer a question with a coherent 3 paragraphs or carry a conversation. But you can isolate the LLM with something nearly novel like playing the game Wordle and the illusion is broken. If AI is a threat or will ever be a threat, (same for any true alien species) anthropomorphism will be a weakness for us. As the “motivations” of an AI will be either simply programmed (robot vacuum), or will be a complete black box that the engineers don’t even fully understand. In either case ascribing a mind and motivation to the behavior will not help you anticipate it’s behavior. #grownostr #AI

ChatGPT is very cool. A great use case I have found is as a generator of first drafts for fiction or other low risk content. Not ready to be a paralegal however. Solvable problems, perhaps. However, it’s also the case that you can make astounding progress early on a project. And then plateau. The low hanging fruit only gets you so far. This is the 80/20 rule in action. 20% of the work gets you 80% of the benefit. It opens a lot of use cases. But further progress shouldn’t be expected to be linear. It may take the remaining 80% of effort to close the distance on the remaining 20% of functionality, accuracy, speed, etc. #grownostr #ai

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