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I think one of the points the author was making is that almost no one is going to make that distinction. And that's what makes the technology seem so transforma

I think one of the points the author was making is that almost no one is going to make that distinction. And that's what makes the technology seem so transformative; it's that so many people are compelled to respond emotionally to it and not logically as you have done. Everything you say is true. But it may not matter.

Jensson 4y ago
The vast majority are responding logically to it. Kids use it to do their homework, the kids don't think that it is a person doing their homework, its just a tool. I've only seen a few strange people online who argue it is like a person, meaning there likely are extremely few of them around. But since extremists are always over represented in online conversations we get quite a lot of those extremists in these discussions, so it might look like there are quite a lot of them.
- YeezyMode 4y ago
  I've seen kids respond the same way and I totally did not fully see the disparity in reactions until you pointed it out. It definitely looks like people who have spent years priming themselves for a singularity, intelligence, or consciousness at every corner are far more susceptible to equating the recent advances as parallels to conscious experience of humans. I read a highly upvoted post on the Bing subreddit titled "Sorry, You Don't Actually Know the Pain is Fake" that argued for Sydney possibly being just like a brain, and experiencing conscious pain. It was disturbing to see the leaps the OP made and the commenters who agreed as well, though I do agree that we should avoid purposefully being toxic to a chatbot nonetheless, but due to the consequences to our own spirit and mind.
- pixl97 4y ago
  Life and society progresses by the extreme. If you attempt to ignore the extreme without a warranted reason you quickly find they have become the mainstream. You can attempt to handwave a LLM that's hallucinating its a real (thing/person) with a life and feeling, but if you are in anyway involved in AI safety it is panic time.
snarf21 4y ago
But is that even new? A celebrity or news personality may act a certain way or say certain things. That doesn't mean that is who they "really" are. People already don't make that distinction for real people and frequently respond emotionally and not logically. The technology is amazing but so far it seems like it is just trying to be as good as spewing BS as a regular human. :shrug:

Jensson 4y ago

The vast majority are responding logically to it. Kids use it to do their homework, the kids don't think that it is a person doing their homework, its just a tool. I've only seen a few strange people online who argue it is like a person, meaning there likely are extremely few of them around. But since extremists are always over represented in online conversations we get quite a lot of those extremists in these discussions, so it might look like there are quite a lot of them.

YeezyMode 4y ago
I've seen kids respond the same way and I totally did not fully see the disparity in reactions until you pointed it out. It definitely looks like people who have spent years priming themselves for a singularity, intelligence, or consciousness at every corner are far more susceptible to equating the recent advances as parallels to conscious experience of humans. I read a highly upvoted post on the Bing subreddit titled "Sorry, You Don't Actually Know the Pain is Fake" that argued for Sydney possibly being just like a brain, and experiencing conscious pain. It was disturbing to see the leaps the OP made and the commenters who agreed as well, though I do agree that we should avoid purposefully being toxic to a chatbot nonetheless, but due to the consequences to our own spirit and mind.
pixl97 4y ago
Life and society progresses by the extreme. If you attempt to ignore the extreme without a warranted reason you quickly find they have become the mainstream. You can attempt to handwave a LLM that's hallucinating its a real (thing/person) with a life and feeling, but if you are in anyway involved in AI safety it is panic time.

snarf21 4y ago

But is that even new? A celebrity or news personality may act a certain way or say certain things. That doesn't mean that is who they "really" are. People already don't make that distinction for real people and frequently respond emotionally and not logically. The technology is amazing but so far it seems like it is just trying to be as good as spewing BS as a regular human. :shrug: