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> Generative AI is good at ~~cooperating~~ with people fooling FTFY

• skybrian 4y ago
  It follows the "yes, and" rule of improv. This is cooperative if you understand what it's doing. If you want to believe it has any fixed motivations other than that, you fool yourself.
  • chx 4y ago
    I fully understand what it's doing: it exploits the human brain being wired to see patterns where there is none. It vomits up words in such patterns humans have a high tendency to trust them. Of course , there is zero actual information content in it. It's a zeroday on human cognition, a terrible, a terrible danger to society but there's no stopping it. https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/ https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime...
    • pmoriarty 4y ago
      You could make the argument that communication between humans, or even human thought itself is nothing more than that.
      • chx 4y ago
        You could -- you could make any argument -- but it would be utter nonsense.
        • pmoriarty 4y ago
          Care to elaborate?
    • skybrian 4y ago
      Good ideas can sometimes be generated via play, without proper justification for them. There is chance involved, but if you test them and they hold up then they become meaningful.