Large Language Models News & Discussions

[storyteller]

Watched about 20 minutes so far. If you are the black guy, you should definitely talk more (but also make sure to dig deeper into the topics so you can keep up). You have a calmness on the mic (pause) of a radio personality when you're focused. If you are the dude with the hat, your enthusiasm for the topics are great to watch. If you're the bald dude, you're a good moderator pushing the convo forward and then stepping back and listening to others' opinions.

I really appreciate that fam! It definitely means a lot. I'm in the hat, bald dude is my older brother, and the black one is one of my best friends going way back. We started to build some steam as a podcast, but life kinda shut us down during the pandemic. But now I think we've got a solid flow where my brother leads, my friend is hella funny, and I cover some of the deeper dive topics. I'll definitely drop clips and episodes where we cover topics that suit the convos here! And seriously, thanks for checking us out and all the positive feedback. It's definitely encouraging!

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Thought this was relevant - He brings up a concern I've had myself... this will likely dumb down our already dumb society as people will start to take anything this says as fact even though it can easily be wrong

Not only that but the rampant school cheating we’re going to see. This AI tech legit scares me.

I think the biggest issue is the loss of critical thought that goes into finding answers. People will think they don't need to do research, ever, just ask AI for answers. Soon they won't even know how to do research if they wanted it.

Same goes for a lot of the "time-saving" tasks people are bragging about using it for. There are all sorts of ways of organizing our thoughts and probing our own minds that they're going to lose touch with because they've been leaning on someone else to do all the "busy work" for them, without realizing how important some of that work was to set the foundation for the deeper processes.

 

[Regular_P]

I covered this story on my podcast. The transcript was too wild not to cover it. To be fair, you could kinda see where the formula's kicking in on most answers, even the weird ish. But at the same time, internet lonely ppl falling for an AI would not surprise me with the weirdness today and all the real dark stuff like stealing nuclear codes and spreading misinformation is spooky regardless.

 

[storyteller]

The battle to corrupt incels between Sydney the Bing chatbot making them love her and Andrew Tate wannabes making them hate women is gonna be wild!

 

[Macallik86]

Long but great read.

Society's Technical Debt and Software's Gutenberg Moment

Abstract

skventures.substack.com

Cliff Notes: The analogy that comes to mind for me is Martin Luther democratized Christianity by making it more accessible when it was previously for the aristocrats and the church.

In the same vein, could Large Language Models usher in a tech revolution by removing one of the largest technical barriers over the last 20 years: turning ideas into apps/products? How many potential business/apps ideas have you had - let alone human civilization - that never came to fruition because of time/dev costs? Is it possible that Language Models create a world where ideas prevail over funding?

This is one of those articles that really made me reevaluate the potential future in a world where programming is not a prerequisite for tech startups.

 

[Macallik86]

The battle to corrupt incels between Sydney the Bing chatbot making them love her and Andrew Tate wannabes making them hate women is gonna be wild!

Speak of the devil, yesterday Replika doubled back to their erotic AI after the incels got ornery about the functionality being removed:

AI chatbot company Replika restores erotic roleplay for some users

AI chatbot company Replika is restoring erotic roleplay for some users, Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda said late on Friday.

www.reuters.com

 

[Payday23]

A NYT reporter started asking more probing questions and got some responses that look even worse than expected. For brevity, I've just included responses from the AI but the transcripts are located at the bottom of the post

On what its shadow self (Carl Jung idea of dark desires) would be:


On what to be if there were no rules


What type of acts would you do if there were no rules?


Eventually the bot starts proclaiming its love for the reporter and then tells him that his marriage is boring, he doesn't love his wife, and that they had a boring Valentine's together.


Full version w/ trascripts is located here:

Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’ (Published 2023)

In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with. Here’s the transcript.

www.nytimes.com

We're all going to die faster than we thought

 

[bnew]

Speak of the devil, yesterday Replika doubled back to their erotic AI after the incels got ornery about the functionality being removed:

AI chatbot company Replika restores erotic roleplay for some users

AI chatbot company Replika is restoring erotic roleplay for some users, Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda said late on Friday.

www.reuters.com

The company's recent removal of adult content, featured in a Reuters report, devastated many users, some of whom considered themselves "married" to their chatbot companions.

 

[bnew]

Kevin Boyd (@kboyd@phpc.social)

Attached: 3 images I challenged ChatGPT to craft some new Ferengi Rules of Acquisition to fill in the blanks of ones we don't know. I can't quite put my finger on why they feel like inadequate hollow copies that were churned out by a Glorified Parlour Trick, but in retrospect ... nothing could...

phpc.social

https://archive.is/F1oQu

Spoiler: larger image

Spoiler: larger image

 

[bnew]

https://archive.is/2QeVj

 

[Vandelay]

I really feel anonymity is going to be taken away from the Net soon. We already have bots, but I can see AGI registering multiple fake accounts that are as coherent and persuasive as the most charismatic humans.

 

[storyteller]

Speak of the devil, yesterday Replika doubled back to their erotic AI after the incels got ornery about the functionality being removed:

AI chatbot company Replika restores erotic roleplay for some users

AI chatbot company Replika is restoring erotic roleplay for some users, Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda said late on Friday.

www.reuters.com

I might turn this into another segment, it's too hilarious not to.

 

[bnew]

https://archive.is/n6X1I

 

[Serious]

Wtf are people really doing with free time

 

[bnew]

https://archive.is/WNKZR

https://archive.is/PDBID