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Kind of this. That was one of the themes of the movie Westworld where the AI in the robots seemed magical until it was creepy. I worry about the 'cheery intern
by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Kind of this. That was one of the themes of the movie Westworld where the AI in the robots seemed magical until it was creepy.
I worry about the 'cheery intern' response becoming something of a punch line.
"Hey siri, launch the nuclear missiles to end the world."
"That's a GREAT idea, I'll get right on that! Is there anything else I can help you with?"
Kind of punch lines.
Will be interesting to see where that goes once you've got a good handle on capturing the part of speech that isn't "words" so much as it is inflection and delivery. I am interested in a speech model that can differentiate between "I would hate to have something happen to this store." as a compliment coming from a customer and as a threat coming from an extortionist.
- tsunamifury 2y agoPositivity even to the point of toxicity will be the default launch tone for anything... to avoid getting scary.
- rrr_oh_man 2y agoTell that to German customers (Classic: https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/26/germany-chokes-on-walmart/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/26/germany-chokes-on-wa...)
- throwaway11460 2y agoYeah people around me here in Central Europe are very sick of that already. Everybody is complaining about it and the first thing they say to the bot is to cut it out, stop apologizing, stop explaining and get to the point as concisely as possible. Me too.
- hnburnsy 2y agoI have do that now with every AI over explaining or providing loosely related info I did not ask for. I hope there is a verbosity level = minimum. Even in the demo today, they kept cutting it off.
- rrr_oh_man 2y agoI cloned my voice on play.ai and it’s an excellent conversational partner in terms of reactiveness and verbosity, much better than ChatGPT.
- smugma 2y agoOne of the demos has the voice respond to everything sarcastically. If it can sound sarcastic it’s not a stretch to believe it can “hear” sarcasm.
- indigoabstract 2y agoIt's probably just me, but the somewhat forced laughs & smiles from the people talking to it make me feel uneasy. But enough of that. The future looks bright. Everyone smile! Or else..
- Dig1t 2y agoThis is basically just the ship computer from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. "Guys, I am just pleased as punch to inform you that there are two thermo-nuclear missiles headed this way... if you don't mind, I'm gonna go ahead and take evasive action."
- throwup238 2y agoChatGPT is now powered by Genuine People Personality™ and OpenAI is turning into the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (who according to the HHGTTG were "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came") The jokes write themselves.
- gnicholas 2y agoI did wonder if there's a less verbose mode. I hope that's not a paywalled feature. Honestly it's possible that they use the friendliness to help buy the LLM time before it has to substantively respond to the user.