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Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves

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Re: Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves

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Both B) and C) is because these small businesses, most of them have no website. The barrier to entry for businesses to go online from a resource perspective (time, training, cost etc.) is much, much lower to just have a Whatsapp business account. Whatsapp is just an amazing bang-for-your-buck proposition, but we are limited to the constraint of that ecosystem.

If a small business can pay someone else to develop and host a turnkey WhatsApp bot, they can pay someone else to develop and host a turnkey website, no?

But...what if they don't know how? Hiring for things you don't know how to do, or why you would, is very difficult.

Re: Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves

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I recall an AI playing a game that, just before losing, would press the "menu" button to pause the game and then stop doing anything. It fulfilled it's goal (not lose). That behavior should set expectations when it comes to AI. Also, am-I the only one that thinks this whole "chat bot having a natural conversation to book an appointment" is useless when a simple date-picker would do?

> am-I the only one that thinks this whole "chat bot having a natural conversation to book an appointment" is useless when a simple date-picker would do? Nope. I find being forced to converse in English with a machine to be absolutely infuriating. I know what I want and how to tell it to a machine. Being forced to add noise words to allow my request to pass through a useless extra layer is a disrespectful waste of my…

> I know what I want and how to tell it to a machine.

Yeah, Google search is not that great when you want to do conditional search in a topic with many false positives. For example I want to find a light electric scooter, under 10Kg of weight. Google will happily report all the pages that contain scooter and kg, but the kg would be for the max weight of the person, not the scooter itself. How do I tell it that in keywordese?

Re: Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves

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Another fun one is when the programmers accidentally give the AI the wrong goal. I have no idea if this actually happened, but I've heard of a chess program that was playing in a tournament that started making really weird moves in the endgame. Before that point, it was playing excellently. It took the developers a while to figure out what was going on. They had made a mistake when doing some last minute tweaks befor…

For anyone curious, this variant of chess where both players are trying to lose is simply called "anti-chess" and many chess programs have an anti-chess mode. Playing it is really weird.

I looked it up, but that’s the known variant where the opponent has to take your pieces. Playing to lose a normal chess is uncomparably harder.

Re: Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves

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I recall an AI playing a game that, just before losing, would press the "menu" button to pause the game and then stop doing anything. It fulfilled it's goal (not lose). That behavior should set expectations when it comes to AI. Also, am-I the only one that thinks this whole "chat bot having a natural conversation to book an appointment" is useless when a simple date-picker would do?

Another fun one is when the programmers accidentally give the AI the wrong goal. I have no idea if this actually happened, but I've heard of a chess program that was playing in a tournament that started making really weird moves in the endgame. Before that point, it was playing excellently. It took the developers a while to figure out what was going on. They had made a mistake when doing some last minute tweaks befor…

The chess computer story you’re half remembering sounds a lot like Kasparov playing against deep blue. I can’t find a link right now but somewhere on the internet there is an article where Kasparov describes the match in his own words and its really quite beautiful.

Re: Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves

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post #83

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> am-I the only one that thinks this whole "chat bot having a natural conversation to book an appointment" is useless when a simple date-picker would do? Nope. I find being forced to converse in English with a machine to be absolutely infuriating. I know what I want and how to tell it to a machine. Being forced to add noise words to allow my request to pass through a useless extra layer is a disrespectful waste of my…

> I know what I want and how to tell it to a machine. Yeah, Google search is not that great when you want to do conditional search in a topic with many false positives. For example I want to find a light electric scooter, under 10Kg of weight. Google will happily report all the pages that contain scooter and kg, but the kg would be for the max weight of the person, not the scooter itself. How do I tell it that in key…

Altavista had the "near" operator.

Re: Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves

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I recall an AI playing a game that, just before losing, would press the "menu" button to pause the game and then stop doing anything. It fulfilled it's goal (not lose). That behavior should set expectations when it comes to AI. Also, am-I the only one that thinks this whole "chat bot having a natural conversation to book an appointment" is useless when a simple date-picker would do?

My first role as a software developer was writing an elaborate chatbot that worked as a document retrieval and recommendation system that would conversationally collect the prerequisites to running SQL scripts. Many months in we added shortcuts to the system that essentially turned it into drop down menus for users who didn't want to talk to a chatty personality to get work done.

I loved ChatScript and filling templates with data retrieved through fact-triples tho, hope I get to work with it again someday.

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