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US Senator Uses ChatGPT for Opening Remarks at a Hearing on AI
- valine 3y agoIt's an old, stale gimmick, but considering how out of touch our congress can be, it's likely one they haven't seen before.
- awestroke 3y agoOld? Chatgpt has only existed for half a year, v4 for a month
- tobr 3y agoOld as in old news, or an old joke.
- canadianfella 3y ago[dead]
- zamalek 3y agoIt's still good at those, at least. > Why did the senator use ChatGPT for his opening remarks? > Because he thought he could download a sense of humor! Turns out, it's still easier to filibuster than to tell a fresh joke!
- shrimpx 3y agoHere are a few more :D > Because he wanted his speech to have artificial intelligence since his natural intelligence was on vacation! > Because he wanted his speech to have artificial intelligence, not artificial promises! > Because he wanted to start with a model speech! > Because he wanted his speech to have AI-ppeal! > Because he heard it could filibuster better than anyone else!
- pgwhalen 3y agoMemes can get old fast: a few months ago, it was hugely popular for podcasters/journalists/etc. to use ChatGPT to generate some sort of introduction for their work.
- emily-c 3y agoRecording of the opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfd6J3M-FSk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfd6J3M-FSk
- tempodox 3y agoNot surprising. Another senator used Jack Bauer from the series “24” to “prove” that torture is an effective interrogation technique.
- tomca32 3y agoThis is a tangent but it reminded me of Christopher Hitchens when he used to claim that waterboarding is not torture. He then subjected himself to waterboarding to prove that it's not torture and changed his mind in 5 seconds. Despite me not agreeing with a lot of what he said I really respected that he was willing to put his belief to the test and then actually changed his mind when he was proven wrong.
- LeFantome 3y agoYou have to respect evidence driven for sure.
- tylersmith 3y agoThe conservative radio host "Mancow" did the same thing. I don't think I've ever heard a story of someone getting waterboarding and still maintaining that it's not torture.
- c0m 3y agoSean Hannity also promised the same in 2009, though is yet to follow through with it. I wonder why. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hannity-offers-to-be-wate_n_190354 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hannity-offers-to-be-wate_n_1...
- lostlogin 3y agoThe US hanged and imprisoned Japanese soldiers who did it to US soldiers from in WW2 according to the wiki. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#:~:text=Waterboarding%20is%20a%20form%20of,experience%20the%20sensation%20of%20drowning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#:~:text=Waterb....
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- mguerville 3y agoI think it's smart, it makes it tangible to an audience that has time and time again demonstrated incompetence at understanding technology when explained with any level of abstraction.
- seydor 3y agoHe already made the first step to his replacement.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoUnlike human beings, LLMs have no explicit world model, they're an LLM. Why would a politician be replaced by an LLM? It seems like a highly inappropriate use.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoHmm. If you trained an LLM on all the feedback a Senator receives from constituents, that could be pretty effective. Of course, once word gets out that that's what's going on, it will turn into a contest of which side of an issue can spam the Senator's office harder...
- s3p 3y agoI'm not sure this answers OP's question.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoWhy would it be effective? If it only deals in language, but not an understanding of human issues, economies et al, it would be ineffective and inappropriate. > it will turn into a contest of which side of an issue can spam the Senator's office harder An LLM wouldn't even be required for analysing sentiment and recurring topics, this is how a lot of brands have handled millions of inbound tweets all these years. To imply that a senator is just the political equivalent of a customer service agent is disingenuous when they themselves draft and propose legislation et al, and that legislation hopefully comes from a nuanced understanding of what it is that they're targeting, which an LLM wouldn't have.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoI don't want an LLM writing legislation. That way lies disaster. (And that disaster is uncomfortably likely to happen within 10 years...) But I'm cynical enough to think that training an LLM on constituents' comments, and then having it write a senator's speeches, could be effective. The speeches would lack specifics, but the tone would echo the constituents' concerns. That might be good enough to get re-elected. (As I said, I'm cynical. It shows up in me thinking that fine-sounding speeches are likely enough to get a senator re-elected.)
- 0ct4via 3y agohttps://archive.is/2mF13 https://archive.is/2mF13
- zh3 3y agoMore on this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65610337 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65610337 I'd have expected multiple new submissions on this (given it's Sam Altman) but can't see anything and my submissions (one with a repeat in case I messed it up) aren't showing.
- doodlesdev 3y agohttps://archive.ph/2mF13 https://archive.ph/2mF13
- toomuchtodo 3y ago> OpenAI CEO Testifies on Artificial Intelligence > OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, whose company created ChatGPT, is one of three artificial intelligence experts testifying on oversight of the swiftly developing technology at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing https://www.c-span.org/video/?528117-1/openai-ceo-testifies-artificial-intelligence https://www.c-span.org/video/?528117-1/openai-ceo-testifies-...
- duringmath 3y agoPlease don't fall for these dumb gimmicks. Regulating emerging tech only benefits the incumbents. On a side note, that guy used to be a state attorney general before he became a senator which is not an uncommon trajectory unfortunately, his kind (prosecutors) aren't equipped to formulate meaningful laws and regs they're mindset is that of banning things outright and supporting prosecution and long prison sentences to generate headlines and further their careers.
- polski-g 3y agoIts a pointless endeavor. Software is protected under the First Amendment: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-established-code-speech https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...
- ethbr0 3y agoAutonomous systems should be regulated. But we should start on the data side and not the compute/action side. The current worst excesses stem from a lack of transparency and access into data backing a given system. Meaningful data privacy & ownership reform would curtail these and still permit innovation.
- lumost 3y agoCounter point, there are already limited consumer protection laws with regards to algorithmic decision making in the United States. There are very few speed bumps to rolling out ChatGPT like systems for decision making - even if it makes bad decisions. It's easy to imagine that LLMs could be used to make decisions which are manifestly illegal simply by virtue of being black boxes. That being said, regulating the producer of the LLM technology seems like the wrong approach compared to regulating the outcome. OpenAI asking to block new entrants is the surest sign I've seen that they don't believe their moat is all that deep. In practical terms, Google got its initial moat because it would cost X dollars and take Y time to catch up to them. There were only 2-3 firms who could plausibly pursue this in the 2000s. The claim that AI firms will either become commoditized or that they will have to spend X billion per year in ads to maintain their edge is not unfounded.
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- TechBro8615 3y agoKudos to the guy in the thread yesterday who predicted this exactly.
- varelse 3y ago[dead]