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> laypeople absolutely need to understand that it's not a human they're talking to That's hard when the bot either gets angry at you or declares its love if yo
by visarga 4y ago
> laypeople absolutely need to understand that it's not a human they're talking to
That's hard when the bot either gets angry at you or declares its love if you spend an hour with it. But is anthropomorphising AIs useful? that's the important question. I think it is useful. If you tell GPT3 it is a respected scientist, it will have higher accuracy solving tasks.
- qsort 4y ago> But is anthropomorphising AIs useful? No it isn't. It's disastrous. The bot declares your love for you if you spend an hour with it because it's trained on incel shit from reddit, thinking anything else is 100% a user problem. > If you tell GPT3 it is a respected scientist, it will have higher accuracy solving tasks. Even taking that statement at face value, what I think about AI has no bearing on what it does. You are giving input tokens to a machine and you are fooling yourself if you think of it as anything but. This is exactly the problem about natural language I'm pointing out. I don't want a friend, a coworker or an assistant, I want a mechanical slave to instruct in very specific ways, and natural language is a pretty lousy way to give orders.