SgathTriallair t1_jedbv4e wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:37 AM

Reply to comment by TMWNN in What were the reactions of your friends when you showed them GPT-4 (The ones who were stuck from 2019, and had no idea about this technological leap been developed) Share your stories below ! by Red-HawkEye

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 on March 31, 2023 at 5:34 AM

>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 on March 31, 2023 at 10:54 PM

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.