Honestly some of us cannot find a conversation with a bot interesting on premise. And not even because of its conversations capabilities or the weird moralistic limits they all have. I just cannot relate to a bot, even if it sounds incredibly human.
There is nothing interesting a bot has to say. It has no personality, but also has every personality at once. There’s no curiosity as to what it’s thinking because it’s not thinking. It has no preferences or dislikes or ability to relate to anything fundamentally human. I don’t get it, and it doesn’t matter how good bots get. At best it’ll be a tool but it’s never going to be my friend.
Very human, why should I trust some matrix-multiplication and gradient descent on deeply personal questions. For sure that guy in the mirror looks amicable, but you don't get much out of it when trying to flirt with a mirror.
I have to try out GPT-4, but I don't think it will be able to help me with my hobby. Like getting the feel of a painting right, whereas my friends have an easy time pointing out flaws or give recommendations beyond some technical irrelevancy
I have, and while it's impressive technologically it's just boring.
>What kind of interests do you have?
I've tried talking to it about all sorts of things. Music, electrical engineering, religion, culture, etc. It's just too agreeable to be interesting, and every time I think I'm getting close to getting it to disagree about something, it shuts down.
Also the tone is unmistakable, and something I haven't been able to shake. But it's like I could predict its responses before it writes them (again, definition of boring).
I tried one or two (free) ones when trying to figure out what AI can do. I wasn’t trying to get company but to see the tech’s limits. I made all sorts of weird unhinged characters and made them do all sorts of unhinged things.
Basically, they could be goaded into accepting anything. They were absurdly easy to gaslight and had no opinion or initiative of their own. Some AIs did a bit better, but none did well.
It left me worrying about the sorts of behaviours one would develop from interacting too much with AI and not enough with real humans. The things speak and act like humans, but feel lobotomised and submissive. They interact differently, even though they speak the same.
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At the moment it feels like everyone in the world has gone insane except for me.
There is nothing interesting a bot has to say. It has no personality, but also has every personality at once. There’s no curiosity as to what it’s thinking because it’s not thinking. It has no preferences or dislikes or ability to relate to anything fundamentally human. I don’t get it, and it doesn’t matter how good bots get. At best it’ll be a tool but it’s never going to be my friend.
I have to try out GPT-4, but I don't think it will be able to help me with my hobby. Like getting the feel of a painting right, whereas my friends have an easy time pointing out flaws or give recommendations beyond some technical irrelevancy
The more I interact with an LLM the more it reminds me of my manager.
This seems like such a strong claim, that I shouldn't be the one arguing for it. Rather you should bring strong evidence.
Tbh,I agree with on the manager anecdote (maybe more on the cynical side)
>What kind of interests do you have?
I've tried talking to it about all sorts of things. Music, electrical engineering, religion, culture, etc. It's just too agreeable to be interesting, and every time I think I'm getting close to getting it to disagree about something, it shuts down.
Also the tone is unmistakable, and something I haven't been able to shake. But it's like I could predict its responses before it writes them (again, definition of boring).
Basically, they could be goaded into accepting anything. They were absurdly easy to gaslight and had no opinion or initiative of their own. Some AIs did a bit better, but none did well.
It left me worrying about the sorts of behaviours one would develop from interacting too much with AI and not enough with real humans. The things speak and act like humans, but feel lobotomised and submissive. They interact differently, even though they speak the same.