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There's a scifi book I was reading a couple years ago that had this as a presence--models of people's personalities a la LLMs were a commodity, but they varied
by tenacious_tuna 4y ago
There's a scifi book I was reading a couple years ago that had this as a presence--models of people's personalities a la LLMs were a commodity, but they varied wildly in how accurate they were. Alphas were supposed to be 1-to-1 with the originating personality (to the point that they had legal protections? I can't remember), whereas gammas were used to menial things, like serving as a phone-menu style gatekeeper to the real person.
I can't for the life of me remember the name of the novel though... I'll have to go digging through my bookshelves later.
(Maybe Revelation Space, by Alistair Reynolds...?)
- rolisz 4y agoYes, Revelation Space had alphas (which were illegal if I remember correctly) and betas (which were less capable but legal)
- EarthLaunch 4y ago'Permutation City' by Greg Egan had this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
- famouswaffles 4y agoGPT-4 thinks it's "The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi or "Glasshouse" by Charles Stross. Correct ?
- tenacious_tuna 4y agoNope, I confirmed it's Revelation Space :) I haven't read either of those, though I have liked other works of Stross's! (I never considered using GPT-4 as a book recommendation engine... Curious how well that'd work.)
- int_19h 4y agoThe idea of "recreating" historical personas in sci-fi is very old, and the issue with accuracy has also been raised early. One that comes to my mind in particular is this one from 1950s, although the artificial personality is technically not an AI (it's hosted in a human brain): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Work_of_Art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Work_of_Art