> I have come to two conclusions about the GPT technologies after some weeks to chew on this: <sarcasm>Just 2 weeks of training data? Surely the conclusions ar

> I have come to two conclusions about the GPT technologies after some weeks to chew on this: <sarcasm>Just 2 weeks of training data? Surely the conclusions are not final? No doubt a lot has changed over those 2 weeks? I think the real joke is still, Q: "what is intelligence?" A: "We don't know, all we know is that you are not a good example of it". I fear these hilarious distortions are only slightly different from those we mortals make all the time. They stand out because we would get things wrong in different ways. > 1. We are so amazed by its ability to babble in a confident manner that we are asking it to do things that it should not be asked to do. God, where have we seen this before? The further up the human hierarchy the more elaborate the insanity. Those with the most power, wealth and even those of us with the greatest intellect manage to talk an impressive amount of bullshit. We all do it up to our finest men. The only edge we have over the bot is that we know when to keep our thoughts to ourselves when it doesn't help our goal. To do an idiotic time line of barely related events which no doubt describes me better than it describes the topic: I read how a guy who contributed much to making TV affordable enough for everyone. He thought it was going to revolutionize learning from home. Finally the audience for lectures given by our top professors could be shared with everyone around the globe! We got the internet, the information supper highway, everyone was going to get access to the vast amount of knowledge gathered by mankind. It only took a few decades for google to put all the books on it. Or wait.... And now we got the large language models. Finally someone who can tell us everything we want to know with great confidence. These 3 were and will be instrumental in peddling bullshit. Q: Tell me about the war effort! what I want to hear: "We are winning! Just a few more tanks!" what I don't want to hear: "We are imploding the world economy! Run to the store and buy everything you can get your hands on. Cash is king! Arm yourself. Buy a nuclear bunker." Can one tell people that? It doesn't seem in line with the bullshit we are comfortable with? > GPT is basically the language portion of your brain. The language portion of your brain does not do logic. It does not do analyses. But if you built something very like it and asked it to try, it might give it a good go. At least it doesn't have sinister motives (we will have to add those later) > In its current state, you really shouldn't rely on it for anything. But people will, and as the complement of the Wile E. Coyote effect, I think we're going to see a lot of people not realize they've run off the cliff, crashed into several rocks on the way down, and have burst into flames, until after they do it several dozen times. Only then will they look back to realize what a cockup they've made depending on these GPT-line AIs. It seems to me that we are going to have to take the high horse and claim the low road.