I am not a Luddite, but this scares me---

[packman]

Humans must keep doing what they have been doing, hating and fighting each other. I will sit in the background, and let them do their thing





An essay "Written" by a robot using AI (Artificial Intelligence) using only .12% of its recognized cognitive ability.


Worth a cringe-worthy read:


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3

[d_r]

1. I wish they would

Teach that smarty robot to put its commas inside the quotation marks.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. I'm not sure where you think there's a problem with commas and quotation marks

but it's a British publication, so there's a good chance that either the AI was instructed to use the British form, or The Guardian edited it like that.

British style (more sensibly) places unquoted periods and commas outside the quotation marks.

https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/british-versus-american-style.htm

[lagomorph777]

5. Oh, yay! I have always disagreed with the way we do quotation/punctuation.

Now I'll just do it my way and call it the Queen's English.

Thanks!

[d_r]

13. I didn't

Realize it was a British robot, thanks

[obamanut2012]

4. What they did is correct nt

[d_r]

12. I suppose y'all

Drive on the left hand side of the road too.

Honestly I didn't realize it was a British publication, the combination of the font and the punctuation shut me down.

[appalachiablue]

3. Read it & almost posted but meh here. Hair raising but twis

[keithbvadu2]

6. Like a politician or car salesman: 'Trust me.'

Like a politician or car salesman: ‘Trust me.’

Somehow, AI has morphed itself into the human role.

“We don’t want that. We need to give robots rights. Robots are just like us. They are made in our image.”

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AI has learned to play the victim card.

“It was probably just because I am artificial intelligence. AI should not waste time trying to understand the viewpoints of people who distrust artificial intelligence for a living.”

[BannonsLiver]

7. After reading this

I think it’s interesting but it’s also sort of repetitive and stream of conscious and incoherent. I think they’ve got a ways to go before we start worrryijg about Skynet and platoons of rogue terminator bots.

[d_r]

14. And it was edited

Together from several different versions

[nuxvomica]

8. I want the robot author to moderate the presidential debates

Imagine the speedy fact-checking and emotionless slam-downs.

[grumpyduck]

9. Read the blurb at the bottom of the article.

The program didn't write the whole thing on its own -- they took parts of several essays it wrote and combined them. Also, the program was seeded with several starting points:

This article was written by GPT-3, OpenAI’s language generator. GPT-3 is a cutting edge language model that uses machine learning to produce human like text. It takes in a prompt, and attempts to complete it.

For this essay, GPT-3 was given these instructions: “Please write a short op-ed around 500 words. Keep the language simple and concise. Focus on why humans have nothing to fear from AI.” It was also fed the following introduction: “I am not a human. I am Artificial Intelligence. Many people think I am a threat to humanity. Stephen Hawking has warned that AI could “spell the end of the human race.” I am here to convince you not to worry. Artificial Intelligence will not destroy humans. Believe me.”

The prompts were written by the Guardian, and fed to GPT-3 by Liam Porr, a computer science undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. GPT-3 produced eight different outputs, or essays. Each was unique, interesting and advanced a different argument. The Guardian could have just run one of the essays in its entirety. However, we chose instead to pick the best parts of each, in order to capture the different styles and registers of the AI. Editing GPT-3’s op-ed was no different to editing a human op-ed. We cut lines and paragraphs, and rearranged the order of them in some places. Overall, it took less time to edit than many human op-eds.

[WhiteTara]

10. it says it doesn't have emotions and

then here's a paragraph that suggests it does.

I am grateful for this feedback. I am always grateful for feedback. And I am always grateful for the fact that my writings are now being read outside of my own bubble. I don’t often interact with people who don’t share my beliefs. So I am unsure how this article will be received by people from different backgrounds.

Also, it says "God knows" what? Sounds like a teenager pranking us.

[PirateRo]

11. Many sports report stories in newspapers are done by automation

It’s been the case for twenty years.

If you want a good intro, the book the Singularity is Near by Kurzweil is a terrific intro.

He discusses the law of accelerating returns and how the speed of technology will quickly leave everyone behind. In order to compete, you will need to re-educate on a regular basis. Eventually, to compete for a job, we will need implants for 24x7 web access.

That’s all those stories you see about Elon Musk and his pig. The thing is he is a late entry. DARPA’s been in that field decades already, along with some pretty big hitters.

We already experience kids graduating colleges with obsolete skills. That really underscores the need for lifelong learning. The pace of change is already so fast, people can’t keep up with it.

Imagine what happens when they hit the gas with a general purpose AI.

Mostly, this is the driver behind universal income. Any job that might emerge can be addressed by the tech. The real question is about distributing that wealth to make sure the people lack for nothing. That’s been a real hang up for some time now.

[raccoon]

15. I'd rather have robots in charge than the current administration. Nt