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Speaking of aliens, the GPTs sound a lot like the aliens from Blindsight: they don't question the semantic ambiguity in > our cousins lie about the family tree
by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Speaking of aliens, the GPTs sound a lot like the aliens from Blindsight: they don't question the semantic ambiguity in
> our cousins lie about the family tree with nieces and nephews and Neanderthals. We do not like annoying cousins.
They just reply to it regardless and carry on.
The aliens: "We'd like to know about this tree"
GPT-4:
> I'm sorry to hear that there's some family discord.
> [Snip, about 200 words]
> Nonetheless, I understand that your issue isn't literally about Neanderthals, but rather the analogy representing the annoyance you feel towards your cousins' behavior.
- mjburgess 3y agoSure -- if we want to play the engineers game of "define a computational test by which we can know if X is intelligent" (ironically, a dumb game) -- this is one issue we can see here immediately ChatGPT doesnt ask us to write for it; does not seek to resolve the ambiguity in our speech. Indeed, the very way we "engineer prompts" kinda exposes the whole show -- that prompts need "engineered" at all, that the machine cannot prompt us -- makes it clear it's a tool we play a game with it to get out of it what we need by eliminating thinking from our own heads, and replacing it with word association --- in exactly the same way we've always done when googling