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So occultism seems to be a thing with the openai leadership. I’m not sure if i wanna trust anyone anymore an AGI.
by siva7 3y ago
So occultism seems to be a thing with the openai leadership. I’m not sure if i wanna trust anyone anymore an AGI.
- xena 3y agoOccultism and cult-like behavior are different things. Occultism is a system for dealing with that which physics cannot explain. Cults can form around anything from supposed divine inspiration from golden plates nobody has seen to pony hypnosis.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoWeird beliefs about AGI seem to be a common pitfall for people who spend a lot of time with chatbots of any sophistication. There were users who believed ELIZA was actually intelligent back in the 60s. It happened to Blake Lemoine more recently (speaking of what became Bard) and now it's apparently prevalent at OpenAI.
- 15457345234 3y agoArguably a factor of the personality type that wants to spend a lot of time with a chatbot. I played with ChatGPT maybe thirty or so times, when I discovered that it would reliably return nonsense and incorrect answers to simple questions I moved on from it. I think anybody that engages with it at length and tries to have 'serious' conversations with it has... well, I don't want to use the word 'issues' but... issues.