I said it at the time when chatGPT came along, and I’ll say it now and keep saying it until or unless the android army is built which executes me:
ChatGPT kinda sucks shit. AI is NO WHERE NEAR what we all (used to?) understand AI to be ie fully sentient, human-equal or better, autonomous, thinking, beings.
I know the Elons and shit have tried (perhaps successfully) to change the meaning of AI to shit like chatGPT. But, no, I reject that then, now, and forever. Perhaps people have some “real” argument for different types and stages of AI and my only preemptive response to them is basically “keep your industry specific terminology inside your specific industries.” The outside world, normal people, understand AI to be Data from Star Trek or the Terminator. Not a fucking glorified Wikipedia prompt. I think this does need to be straight forwardly stated and their statements rejected because… Frankly, they’re full of shit and it’s annoying.
The LLM marketing hype campaign has very successfully changed the overall perceived definition of what “AI” is and what “AI” could be.
Arguably it makes actual general AI as a concept harder to develop because financing and subsidies will likely keep going downstream toward LLM projects instead of attempts to emulate general intelligence.
That’s very insightful, and you’re right. I assume that an upcoming LLM product with a posh British waifu accent politely telling nerds how special they are would likely make fucking bank and maybe even be seen as the first ascended artificial being.
EDIT: I’m not wild about calling any human being an “NPC” though, just because that dehumanizing shit is a common techbro and chud concept.
I said it at the time when chatGPT came along, and I’ll say it now and keep saying it until or unless the android army is built which executes me:
ChatGPT kinda sucks shit. AI is NO WHERE NEAR what we all (used to?) understand AI to be ie fully sentient, human-equal or better, autonomous, thinking, beings.
I know the Elons and shit have tried (perhaps successfully) to change the meaning of AI to shit like chatGPT. But, no, I reject that then, now, and forever. Perhaps people have some “real” argument for different types and stages of AI and my only preemptive response to them is basically “keep your industry specific terminology inside your specific industries.” The outside world, normal people, understand AI to be Data from Star Trek or the Terminator. Not a fucking glorified Wikipedia prompt. I think this does need to be straight forwardly stated and their statements rejected because… Frankly, they’re full of shit and it’s annoying.
The LLM marketing hype campaign has very successfully changed the overall perceived definition of what “AI” is and what “AI” could be.
Arguably it makes actual general AI as a concept harder to develop because financing and subsidies will likely keep going downstream toward LLM projects instead of attempts to emulate general intelligence.
the average person was always an NPC who goes by optics instead of fundamentals
“good people” to them means clean, resourced, wealthy, privileged
“bad people” means poor, distraught, dirty, refugee, etc
so it only makes sense that an algorithm box with the optics of a real voice, proper english grammar and syntax, would be perceived as “AI”
That’s very insightful, and you’re right. I assume that an upcoming LLM product with a posh British waifu accent politely telling nerds how special they are would likely make fucking bank and maybe even be seen as the first ascended artificial being.
EDIT: I’m not wild about calling any human being an “NPC” though, just because that dehumanizing shit is a common techbro and chud concept.