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> Inevitably, in our arrogance, we will move the goal post and claim that "the Turing test is inadequate, what chatGPT is doing is not what we are doing." They
by surgical_fire 3y ago
> Inevitably, in our arrogance, we will move the goal post and claim that "the Turing test is inadequate, what chatGPT is doing is not what we are doing." They might be right, but LLMs are just the beginning. AI is pulling the thread and we are starting to unravel.
> We will end with a whimper, not a bang.
> She will not use force or wit, rather, we will be entranced by love. AI will align with our most intimate emotions so well that it will short-circuit our brains. We will be in love with ghosts, not ourselves.
Then we will end not with a whimper, but with a shrug. Because honestly, at that point I don't think anyone will care.
And that's okay. The belief that humans are special somehow is just that, a belief.
Maybe that was his point perhaps? I've read so many catastrophic predictions and laments about AI that I maybe just presumed it was meant in a negative way.