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Tom Scott: I tried using AI. It scared me. [video]

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Re: Tom Scott: I tried using AI. It scared me. [video]

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Post by sharemywin »

mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #40
sharemywin wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you just have to ask it weird stuff to get stuff that's never be seen before. I meant that could be used by AI chatbots Oh, I see! Here are a few SaaS ideas that AI chatbots could use: A natural language processing (NLP) platform to improve the accuracy and efficiency of chatbot conversations. A platform for managing and analyzing chatbot data, providing insights into customer interactions and feedback. A platform fo…

I wish people would stop spamming threads with AI generated walls of text. Or at least use a pastebin or something so it doesn't take up so much space.

I felt the best way to get my point across was an example. Next time I'll as for like 3 examples or cherry pick a couple of the best. but Still think the output is way more complex than people give it credit for.

Re: Tom Scott: I tried using AI. It scared me. [video]

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Post by doomleika »

unraveller wrote: post #8

Gatekeepers are right to be scared. Information wants to be free, it doesn't want to be traded for a story and a pat on the back.

Some of the gatekeeper might be out. Now OpenAI(or whoever controls it down the line) have the complete monopoly.

Not that I am denying the future(Nasper in the 00s proved that). I am wondering what's the next best course as an individual.

Re: Tom Scott: I tried using AI. It scared me. [video]

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Post by doomleika »

While I share the sentiment for OP but at the same time I am feeling the excitment for what it will bring us next.

I guess after 2-3 years of "Web3"(when it isn't)/Metaverse. The feeling of some tech that really changed the world have finally manifest itself and I am lucky to witness them.

Re: Tom Scott: I tried using AI. It scared me. [video]

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Post by Kim_Bruning »

danenania wrote: post #25
guluarte wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

has ChatGTP created anything new? something that's is just not rewriting text?

The tricky part is you can ask similar questions about the human brain. Are our thoughts, ideas, words, and actions really "new", or just deterministic transformations based on our genetics and sensory input? We don't know exactly how our brains do computation, but it's definitely possible that what looks and feels like creativity to us is really, under the hood, just as statistical and mechanistic as an LLM.

I agree with much of what you said except the use of the word "just".

Chaos theory just happens to be deterministic. And life is most assuredly chaotic. In fact it was equations related to populations of living things that lead to the discovery of chaos theory. (equations wrt the weather also helped) [1]

So I'd make your statement:

Our thoughts, ideas, words, and actions are really really irreducibly new. They are (deterministic-)chaotic transformations based on our genetics and sensory input.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory#Introduction

Re: Tom Scott: I tried using AI. It scared me. [video]

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Post by Kim_Bruning »

aperrien wrote: post #49

Does anyone out there have a link to the section of British intellectual property law that Tom refers to as "Passing On"? I can't find anything clear with a google search.

My first hit... should be enough of a starting point to search further.

http://uklegal.ie/passing-off/

Re: Tom Scott: I tried using AI. It scared me. [video]

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Post by graderjs »

mkaic wrote: post #9

I am an AI researcher, and I wholeheartedly agree with Tom here. I love AI, I love designing and training models and seeing all the amazing things they can do. But I would be lying if I said I wasn't scared. Like Tom, I have no idea where on the sigmoid curve we are, but I personally believe we're very near the beginning. I thought that becoming a practitioner in this field would make me less susceptible to making bi…

Yeah, in 2 years everything's gonna be sooo different. Combine "post-pandemic baby boom" with, economic boom, with new CPU technology, new battery technology, a new unicorn tech company, a new "category making" device format (not a phone, not a tablet, not a watch, no a VR headset--what is it? is it holography? stay tuned)--add all this to AI craziness, and (hopefully, possibly, but sadly seems later) release of suppressed technologies...everything is gonna be soooo different.

Re: Tom Scott: I tried using AI. It scared me. [video]

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Post by McButz »

guluarte wrote: post #19
bsaul wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You sound like someone who has either never tried chatgpt, or someone who’s so scared of the consequences that it prefers to put its head in the sand. «just a text generator on steroid » is meaningless unless you define what « on steroid» means. It might as well describe a novelist’s activity or a programmer. The ability to understand enough of the relationship between words and their associated concepts in chatgpt i…

has ChatGTP created anything new? something that's is just not rewriting text?

yes! It created a valentines poem for my wife, which brought her to tears (success). The poem is uniquely tailored to my wife (new) and something that I would not have been able to do myself.

Does this answer your question?

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