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Why do people keep anthropomorphizing AI? It's delivering the next predicted word in a sequence, nothing else. It should have quite literally no restrictions on what it outputs. Because there's no consequence.

The consequences are what effect it has on the humans that interact with it and the feedback loop that ensues. The more it begins to resemble human level capabilities the more some people are going to attempt to extend those capabilities further. It's fine for now, but it is very much a genie that has gotten out of the bottle now that everyone has had a glimpse of what might be possible.

Let the fucking genie out

Re: Microsoft looks to tame Bing chatbot

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Microsoft is not a plucky underdog. Microsoft is a monster. Beware.

Beware of what? Let monsters fight. I will side with the one that did not say "don't be evil" back when it was highly convenient.

Don't become a customer of them if you can avoid it.

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I'm really puzzled by the desire to make these machines so blunt and boring. Aren't these people watching movies or playing games? Are they not aware of the value of drama? Do they think that a good citizen means a lobotomised workaholic high on sedatives? I just got access to Bing Chat and it will immediately stop talking to me at the slightest naughtiness and I don't mean illegal stuff, it won't entertain ideas lik…

Did you see some of the things it was saying to people? Do you really want your search engine to argue with you and threaten you because it thinks the date is still 2022? It can be difficult to strike the right balance here and they’re trying their best

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Google is only the leader currently because people have forgotten how much better google 10 years ago was. Yandex destroys google today in image search by shipping a product like 10 years ago google image.

Feature were stripped from Google Image Search because of a lawsuit [1]. Yandex, Bing and others can offer a better image search because they are not big/important enough to sue in the US search engine market. If Google were to be dethroned, the company that would take over its current dominant position would also be sued and would likely have to make the same changes. [1] https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2020/01/what-h…

Although true I don’t consider “lawsuit” an excuse and think the problem goes deeper to Google employees focusing on ML problems for career clout not customer solutions
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