I own a 30-year-old copy of the Madhur Jaffrey book cited in the article (used it last night to make dinner). So I checked. And there it is on page 52.
Weighing in on that study that found #ChatGPT to be more empathetic than human physicians, @rebeccawatson finds the research lacked certain rigor - the authors participating in the "blind" study, and whether the diagnosis was even correct didn't feature very highly in their assessment of quality
In a blog post about ChatGPT I wanted to use the quote "It would be so nice if something would make sense for a change.", attributed to the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol.
So – in doing my due diligence and being curious about its context – I've been downloading several editions of the book and have found nothing like this quote in any of them. One of the most famous quotes from the book doesn't seem to appear in it.
Which is so incredibly apt for a blog post about ChatGPT. Anyway I'm still on the hunt for where that quote actually appears (my guess is one of the many Alice movies).
So the post I was originally working on at the start of this thread, where Alice in Wonderland was intended to play only a small part, is now published.
UX book authors through the ChatGPT looking-glass
Just a walkthrough of how easily I get books attributed to the wrong authors…
Oh, so you've been producing online content for a quarter of a century? Yeah we sucked up that content to build our tool. Now please be a good fool and pay a monthly fee to use our tool that we built on top of your labor.
Technology is improving. Technology is becoming cheaper. The porn industry is growing in all manners. Everyone is an actor.
It’s now possible to generate pornographic films at a low cost starring any person on Instagram who has a number of photos published. Heaps of films with celebrities’ faces are available for as little as five dollars. Those who want a customized video with any person on Instagram with less than 2 million followers, a so-called “personal girl,” will pay $65.
Yes, it’s fake, but it’s also abuse. And actually, those faces really belong to someone. Desperate young women are now being made aware of nude pictures and videos with people who look just like them. It’s hard to imagine what this does to their stress levels, wellbeing, mental health and self-image – and what further consequences this may lead to.
While the techbros in Silicon Valley garner attention with their wild theories about computers taking over the world, people are already suffering now, today, for real from these technological leaps.
Media needs to shift focus away from the white men’s fictional fear of being oppressed and focus on those who already are.
So, Chair Khan, are we going to finally do something about manufacturers dangerously exaggerating the capabilities of #AI-equipped automated driving systems?
Or nah?
Because this has been going on for nearly 10 years now.
You know... one almost has to admire the absurdity of how a goddamn #chatbot finally blew the top off of primordial safety issues that have long-existed in the "AI" industry.
In reviewing the signatories of this "open letter", I recognize many names.
While a couple of the signatories are an exception, there are far more signatories that I know were routining clapping like seals during #Tesla's "AI Days" without a care in the world that #Musk, a now-fellow signatory, was parlaying #AIHype into a outright deceptive and dangerous products that have actually killed people - a campaign that has only expanded in time.
Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/04/28/yuval-noah-harari-argues-that-ai-has-hacked-the-operating-system-of-human-civilisation
“it might destroy our civilisation. We should put a halt to the irresponsible deployment of ai tools in the public sphere, and regulate ai before it regulates us. And the first regulation I would suggest is to make it mandatory for ai to disclose that it is an ai. If I am having a conversation with someone, and I cannot tell whether it is a human or an ai—that’s the end of democracy”
I feel like I may have started developing an allergy to ChatGPT-generated texts.
They're most easily recognized by 3-5 paragraphs of generic, emotionless text where the final paragraph starts with something like "Lastly", "Finally" or "In conclusion".
It's like I'm back in 5th grade English class. My allergic reaction manifests itself as me closing my laptop lid, hard, and then screaming for 3-4 minutes.
Want to learn about all the BS that is flying around, with the AI and ChatGPT type tech? Watch this vid with @emilymbender@timnitGebru talking to @adamconover.
Get educated and stop recommending it. But also learn how bad what is being done really is for us (spoiler - it isn't robots will come and kill us).
To all those folks asking why the "AI safety" and "AI ethics" crowds can't find common ground --- it's simple: The "AI safety" angle, which takes "AI" as something that is to be "raised" to be "aligned" with actual people is anathema to ethical development of the technology.
#AIhype isn't the only problem, for sure, but it is definitely a problem and one that exacerbates others. If LLMs are maybe showing the "first sparks of AGI" (they are NOT) then it's easier to sell them as reasonable information access systems (they are NOT).