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This LaMDA story reminds me of another article I found last year about a man who fed his deceased girlfriend's chats to GPT3 [1] and believed the system was giv

This LaMDA story reminds me of another article I found last year about a man who fed his deceased girlfriend's chats to GPT3 [1] and believed the system was giving the answers she would have. Both articles rely on the operators taking the smallest amount of evidence and ignoring everything else, which I guess is what this article calls "the gullibility gap" (awful name). Getting your audience to do the heavy lifting for you is a great trick. If it works for theater and video games, I don't see why it shouldn't work for tech too. Just don't call it "sentience". [1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation-artificial-intelligence/ https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation...

jonathankoren 4y ago
Sadly, this is the very inspiration of Replika. https://replika.com/about/story https://replika.com/about/story How this company has remained an ongoing concern for 5 or 6 years, I’ll never understand.
- jimhi 4y ago
  I used Replika in their first few months. They were a chatbot for restaurant recommendations in SF believe it or not. Their machine learning and language processing at the time was some of the best. They have since pivoted a ton clearly
  - jonathankoren 4y ago
    Yeah, that’s when I heard of it too. It was such a weird pivot. Given that they’re pretty much the only consumer indie chat bot left (RIP Ozlo), it was apparently a successful one.
- nootropicat 4y ago
  People know you can't pay a human to love you, but it's in principle possible to make an AI that loves you, assuming a human level AI exists.
  - jonathankoren 4y ago
    I think you’re vastly over estimating the technological complexity needed when you have a motivated audience. Just look at the people that buy RealDolls.
    - nootropicat 4y ago
      As AIs become more lifelike the pool of humans that consider it enough grows. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if relationships with human level AI won't dominate eventually.
pyuser583 4y ago
> fed his deceased girlfriend's chats to GPT3 [1] and believed the system was giving the answers she would have Isn’t that what AI does? Repeats back what it’s “heard?”
- deaddodo 4y ago
  No, and that’s precisely the point. A “true AI” would have an independent intelligence and the ability to form self-referential thoughts. Regurgitating statistically sound data in an intelligent-seeming manner is not what these researchers are referring to when they refer to “AI”.

jonathankoren 4y ago

Sadly, this is the very inspiration of Replika. https://replika.com/about/story https://replika.com/about/story How this company has remained an ongoing concern for 5 or 6 years, I’ll never understand.

jimhi 4y ago
I used Replika in their first few months. They were a chatbot for restaurant recommendations in SF believe it or not. Their machine learning and language processing at the time was some of the best. They have since pivoted a ton clearly
- jonathankoren 4y ago
  Yeah, that’s when I heard of it too. It was such a weird pivot. Given that they’re pretty much the only consumer indie chat bot left (RIP Ozlo), it was apparently a successful one.
nootropicat 4y ago
People know you can't pay a human to love you, but it's in principle possible to make an AI that loves you, assuming a human level AI exists.
- jonathankoren 4y ago
  I think you’re vastly over estimating the technological complexity needed when you have a motivated audience. Just look at the people that buy RealDolls.
  - nootropicat 4y ago
    As AIs become more lifelike the pool of humans that consider it enough grows. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if relationships with human level AI won't dominate eventually.

pyuser583 4y ago

> fed his deceased girlfriend's chats to GPT3 [1] and believed the system was giving the answers she would have Isn’t that what AI does? Repeats back what it’s “heard?”

deaddodo 4y ago
No, and that’s precisely the point. A “true AI” would have an independent intelligence and the ability to form self-referential thoughts. Regurgitating statistically sound data in an intelligent-seeming manner is not what these researchers are referring to when they refer to “AI”.