The mail - for those who read here - that has not yet been sent out is to 'Richards' and 'Calero.' But it is going out this week. The rest has all been sent and is either with you or on its way.
Just about to get briefed about something pretty important.
This pic here is to do with something at least one of you knows about, exactly.
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I just came from a briefing of sorts. It was me, and ChatGPT. More of a "consultation" really. I wouldn't allow an AI to "brief me." Anyway, I caught it in a lie about some small thing, and asked it to please cite "external references" whenever it presented something as being "factual" and it said it would certainly do that, except in cases where it is making a statement that comes from "common knowledge."
ReplyDeleteBut that's not what I'm here for. I'm HERE because I had the sudden impulse that I should come here and say: Once everyone gets to using "generative AI" all the time, and they discover that they've basically been behaving like machines all their lives, will they learn how not to behave like machines? Where will the teachers come from? ("ooo! that question got a super "yes yes, ask that!")
Ha. I think I broke it. I should send you in email.
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DeleteWell but 'they' are basically machines - just because there is such a thing as an 'organism' does not mean it is not essentially mechanistic - because it is exactly that.
DeleteGood points though. Very good points.
DeleteI wanted to see what a discussion about "mediation" would look like. I think a healthy approach is "we're going to have something that looks a lot like a conversation." It came up with passive/active agents, and explained that as "an AI language model" it considers itself a passive agent. I haven't "asked it" about the actual differences between humans and machines YET.
DeleteI really misspoke when I said "learn how not to behave" when what I meant was "foster that aspect of their being which is NOT mechanical." You start thinking about what that means though, and how it "does not look a lot like conversation," and you go way way out.