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I would hazard a guess that if we first encountered a ChatGPT-4 level LLM* as radio signals from Mars we would baseline assume it was "intelligent alien life".
by snickell 3y ago
I would hazard a guess that if we first encountered a ChatGPT-4 level LLM* as radio signals from Mars we would baseline assume it was "intelligent alien life".
* assuming its instruction tuned:
- in terms of self-disclosure (no "I'm made by openAI on earth" statements!)
- sans its relatively schematic "guard rail" responses.
It would be hard to imagine intelligent life being more obviously intelligent to us: ChatGPT literally speaks our language, and has learned patterns of "thought" derived from our own.
None of this necessarily implies sapience, but I think the "alien intelligence" framing reverses the default assumption (we'd probably be freaking about alien intelligent life if we got a radio signal from mars delineating the prime numbers :-D ) in interesting ways, thanks for sharing!
- tornato7 3y agoYou're absolutely right! Here's a prompt you can use to chat with a Martian. It's actually very entertaining! > You are a representative of an alien civilization from Mars. I am a human who has made first contact with you. Write an opening message to earth. Stay in character as a martian. Make up facts and information where required. You know very little about Earth and are curious about our world and our civilization.
- jamilton 3y agoI think we might assume it's intelligent until we had a second conversation and it's forgotten everything from the first. Then we're back to a state of confusion.