Stoplookinatmeswaan t1_jec3y5b wrote
houstonhoustonhousto t1_jecdqef wrote
A main character duh
Cr4zko t1_jecenyo wrote
>Who talks like this lol
Terminally online people
lurking_intheshadows t1_jeckife wrote
right??, people just have different interests. the whole npc meme is weird and is basically just people wanting to feel superior to people that doesn’t share their interests.
i get where it comes from though.
TMWNN t1_jed7ucn wrote
There absolutely are human NPCs, who react in predictable ways without intelligence.
A recent Reddit post discussed something positive about Texas. The replies? Hundreds, maybe thousands, of comments by Redditors, all with no more content than some sneering variant of "Fix your electrical grid first", referring to the harsh winter storm of two years ago that knocked out power to much of the state. It was something to see.
If we can dismiss GPT as "just autocomplete", I can dismiss all those Redditors in the same way that /u/AvgAIbot did; as NPCs.
SgathTriallair t1_jedbv4e wrote
Dehumanizing language that equates any disagreement with non-personhood is shitty and you should feel bad for doing it.
This is the kind of mindset that leads to real world violence.
TMWNN t1_jedgyc5 wrote
>Dehumanizing language that equates any disagreement with non-personhood is shitty and you should feel bad for doing it.
As I indicated, I am among those who don't automatically dismiss the likes of GPT as "just autocomplete". On the contrary, pattern matching is a fundamental part of intelligence. I doubt there is a Redditor who has not replied with a meme or copypasta. That's normal and natural.
Being unable to do anything else is not normal or natural, or at least should not be. I wish I could find the Reddit post; it was astounding how many, many hundreds of comments all said the exact same thing. That they used slightly different wording made it worse, not better; at least if they had all used the exact same words it would be clear that doing so is part of collectively participating in a larger metajoke.
Instead, hundreds of allegedly sentient human beings a) immediately posted the first and only thing that came to their minds in response to TEXAS = BAD, and b) did not bother to check (or did not care) whether anyone else might possibly have come up with the same brilliant riposte. That is behavior that the term "NPC" well describes.
activatore t1_jegwzwc wrote
You get it dude don’t listen to them. I had this revelation recently too, while trying to explain the implications of AI. I realized that they couldn’t understand what I was talking about simply because they don’t actually generate novel things. Predictors can be very intelligent, but at the end of the day they are not much more than big encyclopedias that draw on genuine thinkers’ knowledge. It is not wrong to acknowledge this and not waste your time speaking into air.
RaisinToastie t1_jedbl04 wrote
It’s how you dehumanize people you don’t like.
Stoplookinatmeswaan t1_jeddmh1 wrote
I know it just sounds so incredibly lame
FoniksMunkee t1_jed2pev wrote
An AI...
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