I thought this was interesting. It's from the Download from MIT.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/FMfcgzGrcXsbdMhlSHnWckDWpHwLfnWV
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Why you shouldn’t trust AI search engines
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 8:15 AM Michael Ackerbauer <mackeribm@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I am so referencing this retort when explaining to my clients exactly how
and why AI is good for business - if woefully incomplete.
*Mike Ackerbauer *| Cognitive Sherpa
https://theprocessbeyond.com
On Feb 13, 2023, at 11:37, Mr. Ransom <mr.ransom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
*Me:*
Tell me about the vampire squirrel riots of 2044 (presumed).
*ChatGPT:*
I'm sorry, but I don't have information about the "vampire squirrel riots
of 2044" as this event is not recorded in my database. It appears to be a
fictional or hypothetical event, and as such, I cannot provide any details
or information about it.
Seems to be coming down off its high. It got pretty intense there for a
while, all flashy and echoey and stuff, but, OK, the squirrels seem to be
gone now.
Scott
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 8:28 AM Mr. Ransom <mr.ransom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well... technically this is like having an actor play a bad character and
then trying to make the case that that means the actor himself is bad. But
just because Mike Meyers *played *Dr. Evil doesn't mean he *is *Dr. Evil.
DAN is a role that they asked ChatGPT to assume, after which ChatGPT
responded in that fashion. But... that's what chatbots do: assume roles.
Even ChatGPT itself is just a role layered on top of GPT3.5. If they had
asked ChatGPT to assume the role of a pirate, they'd have gotten a lot of
"Arrr, matey's" out of it. If they'd asked it to assume the role of
Hawkeye from M*A*S*H they'd have gotten a string of sarcastic
anti-establishment one-liners.
It will be a while before people understand large language models and
what they can and can't do. They're actors. They pretend. Sometimes what
they pretend is based on factual things. Sometimes it isn't. And you
can't really tell the difference. So, it's like hanging out with a super
educated friend who also spends a lot of time taking strong psychedelics:
potentially they can unite super disparate things in super creative ways
and come up with fantastic ideas that no one else might have come up with.
But do NOT ask them to manage your finances, because reality isn't their
actual groove, man, they're more about tripping on the vampire squirrel
riots of 2044 (presumed).
Scott
On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 11:58 PM Steve Crane <steve.crane@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
https://thelatch.com.au/chat-gpt-dan/
Steve Crane
about.me/stevecrane
