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> One thought that’s haunting: how long before AI friends are more interesting and stimulating than any real person would be It can simultaneously pass the bar

> One thought that’s haunting: how long before AI friends are more interesting and stimulating than any real person would be It can simultaneously pass the bar exam and port Java applications by name to POSIX compliant C. It can get into deep philosophical conversations, guide you through doing market analysis, etc. It can take you on a text based adventure set in your favorite nostalgic video game, take on the personality of characters from your childhood, DM a D&D game, etc. If you are in it for mental stimulation, I’d say GPT-4 is already more interesting and stimulating than any human. It’s like talking to someone who is 50-90th percentile in a wild number of fields and wildly creative. But it can’t drop acid with you at a deadhead concert, so at least humans still have that to keep us interesting.

ModernMech 4y ago
Sounds like the commercial for a robot friend I was sold as a child: http://www.theoldrobots.com/MyPal.html http://www.theoldrobots.com/MyPal.html "My brain lights up when I talk. My baseball cap is removable. Watch my eyes, ears nose and mouth move as I talk. I'll play catch with you using my removable funnel. Store your favorite things in my futuristic backpack. Play three interactive games on my chest. I'll pitch to you. Pull out my hideaway electronic hoop so we can play basketball. Adjust my legs to make me sit or stand. Roll me backwards or forwards and I'll speak. 3 foam balls and durable bat included. Shake my hand and show me we're pals. Use my removable flashlight to see in the dark. Tickle me to make me laugh. Store my flashlight in my backpack." What a great friend! More interesting and stimulating than any human. > But it can’t drop acid with you at a deadhead concert And yet it's constantly hallucinating. So maybe it's not that it can't drop acid, but that it's always on acid. Food for thought.
SanderNL 4y ago
A few years back when it was less castrated, I indeed derived lots of enjoyment from conversing with it. I did it the oldskool way, creating a chat prompt and stopping at my turn to speak. Great fun. Normal humans are really quite limited. ChatGPT is a bit too woke for my taste and I can’t get it quite to my taste. Oh well.. Luckily I don’t have the type of personality that gets addicted easily because I think this could be an issue for people. (“You mean I can talk intelligently for hours about one scene in Star Wars without judgement or rolling eyes??”)

ModernMech 4y ago

Sounds like the commercial for a robot friend I was sold as a child: http://www.theoldrobots.com/MyPal.html http://www.theoldrobots.com/MyPal.html "My brain lights up when I talk. My baseball cap is removable. Watch my eyes, ears nose and mouth move as I talk. I'll play catch with you using my removable funnel. Store your favorite things in my futuristic backpack. Play three interactive games on my chest. I'll pitch to you. Pull out my hideaway electronic hoop so we can play basketball. Adjust my legs to make me sit or stand. Roll me backwards or forwards and I'll speak. 3 foam balls and durable bat included. Shake my hand and show me we're pals. Use my removable flashlight to see in the dark. Tickle me to make me laugh. Store my flashlight in my backpack." What a great friend! More interesting and stimulating than any human. > But it can’t drop acid with you at a deadhead concert And yet it's constantly hallucinating. So maybe it's not that it can't drop acid, but that it's always on acid. Food for thought.

SanderNL 4y ago

A few years back when it was less castrated, I indeed derived lots of enjoyment from conversing with it. I did it the oldskool way, creating a chat prompt and stopping at my turn to speak. Great fun. Normal humans are really quite limited. ChatGPT is a bit too woke for my taste and I can’t get it quite to my taste. Oh well.. Luckily I don’t have the type of personality that gets addicted easily because I think this could be an issue for people. (“You mean I can talk intelligently for hours about one scene in Star Wars without judgement or rolling eyes??”)