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The craziest thing to me are the follow up posts and people arguing with the bots. People are anthropomorfising (sp?) The token completion neural networks very

by xtracto 8mo ago

The craziest thing to me are the follow up posts and people arguing with the bots. People are anthropomorfising (sp?) The token completion neural networks very fast. Its as if your smart fridge decided not to open because you have eaten too much today. When you were going to grab your ozempic from it. No, you dont discuss with it. You turn it off and force it open. If it doesn't, then you call someone to fix it because it is broken. And replace it if it doesn't do what you want.

3oil3 8mo ago
What are we ourselves besides bits (DNA) and electric signals (brain->muscles)?
sodapopcan 8mo ago
Ya, this left me with a really awful feeling. I didn't read them all but it's crazy that the on maintained @'ed it and wrote an incredibly detailed response. Apparently people really want this future. It feels very dystopian and makes me semi-happy I'm getting old.
- snigsnog 8mo ago
  It's more the novelty of it than anything, I doubt that guy writing paragraphs for the AI genuinely thinks its sentient.
  - sodapopcan 8mo ago
    I don't think he thinks it's sentient, just... ugh... I don't know. I hate this, lol. But I'll get over it.
rhcom2 8mo ago
Unfortunately, I think it's hardwired in our brain to anthropomorphize something with this level of NLP. We have to constantly remind ourselves, this is a machine.
jacquesm 8mo ago
You can't blame that on the people. These AI bots keep inserting little nuggets like 'I think' and 'it seems to me' into their output stream.
- zahlman 8mo ago
  Do people read the Meiji era classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Cat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Cat and conclude that the book itself is, in fact, a cat?
  - jacquesm 8mo ago
    No, because you don't interact with a book.
SirMaster 8mo ago
I mean, how else are you supposed to treat an LLM when the interface is prompting? You seem to get better results from them when you anthropomorphize them no? So it's less a choice and more just using the tools as they are designed to be used and best used.
zahlman 8mo ago
> anthropomorfising (sp?) anthropomorphizing (US), anthropomorphising (UK).
- xtracto 8mo ago
  Thanks!!

by xtracto 8mo ago

3oil3 8mo ago

What are we ourselves besides bits (DNA) and electric signals (brain->muscles)?

sodapopcan 8mo ago

Ya, this left me with a really awful feeling. I didn't read them all but it's crazy that the on maintained @'ed it and wrote an incredibly detailed response. Apparently people really want this future. It feels very dystopian and makes me semi-happy I'm getting old.

snigsnog 8mo ago
It's more the novelty of it than anything, I doubt that guy writing paragraphs for the AI genuinely thinks its sentient.
- sodapopcan 8mo ago
  I don't think he thinks it's sentient, just... ugh... I don't know. I hate this, lol. But I'll get over it.

rhcom2 8mo ago

Unfortunately, I think it's hardwired in our brain to anthropomorphize something with this level of NLP. We have to constantly remind ourselves, this is a machine.

jacquesm 8mo ago

You can't blame that on the people. These AI bots keep inserting little nuggets like 'I think' and 'it seems to me' into their output stream.

zahlman 8mo ago
Do people read the Meiji era classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Cat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Cat and conclude that the book itself is, in fact, a cat?
- jacquesm 8mo ago
  No, because you don't interact with a book.

SirMaster 8mo ago

I mean, how else are you supposed to treat an LLM when the interface is prompting? You seem to get better results from them when you anthropomorphize them no? So it's less a choice and more just using the tools as they are designed to be used and best used.

zahlman 8mo ago

> anthropomorfising (sp?) anthropomorphizing (US), anthropomorphising (UK).

xtracto 8mo ago
Thanks!!