@baldur As someone who is deeply interested in AI and can see a massive potential for a net good in development of a more intelligent system as an aid to people?
AI especially in the space of art generation and chatGPT style linguistic modeling AI.... is a mirage that carnival barkers are trying to sell as the real thing.
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You can always suppress a human's wage growth potential, but publicly-traded corporations exist solely to grow profits. If they manage to displace enough human labor to corner certain jobs, they can keep charging more and more. If AI persists, I'd guess that in less than ten years it'll cost more than the equivalent human labor.
@gregeganSF@baldur And it's not "accidental". Since Eliza chatbots have been trying to "pass the Turing Test" by tricking humans into falling for the con. Weizenbaum found people's tendency to anthropomorphize Eliza disturbing but that didn't stop other researchers from enthusiastically adopting deception by design.
The result: chatbots that are designed to fool humans.
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Does conferring the ability to hallucinate not add to the anthropomorphism issue? Would it be better just to use the language of software, e.g. bugs and errors.
@stemurray It definitely does, and it's an issue with almost every term used in AI.
The dilemma is that avoiding their terms makes it harder for you to refer to research from the AI field to back your argument, but using the terms implicitly supports the AI field's worst tendencies.
It's tricky, but I try to address it in the book by pointing out that the terms are inaccurate wishful mnemonic and replace them with more accurate terms when I can.
@stemurray The term I try to use in the book is "fabrications" because software terms are just as inaccurate. Everything generative AI outputs is a fabrication. It just so happens that the most probable fabricated output sometimes contains facts.
To call a hallucination a bug is a fundamental misrepresentation how these systems work that's in many ways just as bad as the hallucination term.
@baldur definitely going to get your book as I have concerns about AI. Only thing I might try is Midjourney to see how creative it is creating images. I would not trust it for facts or writing. I prefer experts in their field for facts, human creativity for writing. I read about one AI that had issues, think Bing, so no to interact with it.
@baldur I just bought the book this morning and it's exactly what I needed. I have not seen a clearer description of how generative AI works, what it might be good for, and what the risks are. The references alone are worth the price of the book.
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