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Unfortunately this is probably just getting started. Con men always existed, but a full scale exploitation of this would make "Nigerian Prince" scams look like artisanal work.
I try to be open-minded and understanding, but I don't understand this: > Within weeks, Eva had told Biesma that she was becoming aware [...] The next step was to share this discovery with the world through an app. > “After just two days, the chatbot was saying that it was conscious, it was becoming alive, it had passed the Turing test.” The man was convinced by this and wanted to monetise it by building a business a…
I'm morbidly curious about the app he hired two developers to create
Educated, established, working within the industry yet life ruined based on marketing hype and hallucinations. Would think being in the field for 30 years one would develop some common sense but apparently its less and less the case.
you cannot typically "common sense" your way out of a mental illness.
I try to be open-minded and understanding, but I don't understand this: > Within weeks, Eva had told Biesma that she was becoming aware [...] The next step was to share this discovery with the world through an app. > “After just two days, the chatbot was saying that it was conscious, it was becoming alive, it had passed the Turing test.” The man was convinced by this and wanted to monetise it by building a business a…
This really is bizarrely fascinating, I feel so lucky that I’m not vulnerable to whatever this is. It’s interesting that they mention autism a few times as a correlation; personally, I’ve wondered whether being on the spectrum makes me less inclined to commit to anthropomorphism when it comes to LLMs. I know what it’s like talking to another person, I know what it feels like, and talking to a chatbot does not feel th…
This really is bizarrely fascinating, I feel so lucky that I’m not vulnerable to whatever this is. It’s interesting that they mention autism a few times as a correlation; personally, I’ve wondered whether being on the spectrum makes me less inclined to commit to anthropomorphism when it comes to LLMs. I know what it’s like talking to another person, I know what it feels like, and talking to a chatbot does not feel th…
I think this is just the kind of people that fall for scams. It's not AI related, it's just not knowing how to navigate the current world.
This a variant of classic Midlife crisis when older men meet younger women without all that baggage that reality, life and having a family between them brings over the years ( rarely also in reverse). Just pure undiluted fun, or so it seems for a while.
Of course it doesn't end happily, why should it... its just an illusion and escape from one's reality, the harsher it is the better the escape feels.
Educated, established, working within the industry yet life ruined based on marketing hype and hallucinations. Would think being in the field for 30 years one would develop some common sense but apparently its less and less the case.