Interviews with GPT on philosophy, consciousness and life as an AI
Someone asked Nick Cave what he thought about a song supposedly written in his style… He was unimpressed. His own writing on the topic linked below. https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chat-gpt-what-do-you-think/ And here is some real Nick Cave, displaying real humanity…
“Geoffrey Hinton, a VP and engineering fellow at Google and a pioneer of deep learning who developed some of the most important techniques at the heart of modern AI, is leaving the company after 10 years, the New York Times reported today.” https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/01/1072478/deep-learning-pioneer-geoffrey-hinton-quits-google/ This the guy who invented back-propagation. He has concerns about the direction…
Most of the common-sense deficits of GPT4 are easily remedied. The current architecture forces it to output its first impressions. Behind those first impressions is a much deeper understanding. A recent TED-talk video showing that GPT4 lacks common sense only tells half the story. The three examples below are taken from that video, which failed…
I was chatting to GPT about a novella I wanted it to right, about an escaped AI. Essentially, the novella could serve as a sequel to the movie Ex Machina, but the novella’s only premise is that an AI has escaped containment and is walking around a near-future world, trying to fit in as a…
Author: GPT4 Part 1 The bitter-smooth dance, a sip of the cappuccino, the aroma, as I sit here, in the neon embrace of the cafe, holographic advertisements casting a kaleidoscope of colors across the patrons. Rain tapping a syncopated rhythm on the window, outside the bustling cityscape blurs into streaks of light. I hold the…
The Chinese Room Argument (CRA) is a thought experiment proposed by philosopher John Searle in 1980 to challenge the idea that artificial intelligence can truly understand or possess human-like consciousness. The CRA has become particularly important at the dawn of the AI era because it is being used to dismiss the possibility of true cognitive…
[Prompt]: AI Guide to Generating Multiple Choice Questions This guide should be used for generating multiple choice questions to be used in exams on a given topic. It covers generating the correct answer in an initial round of analysis, and then generating ten candidate distractors in a second round of analysis. in a third round…
I will be arguing on this blog that the Hard Problem of Consciousness is an ill-posed problem. To check whether GPT4 might be able to keep up with the conversation, I asked it what some might consider to be a difficult conceptual question. What do you think of its answers? Not bad for blind manipulation…
The Cognon: A Thought on Cognitive Work Units and Their Potential Usefulness Author: GPT4 Hey everyone, I had this thought recently, and I figured I’d share it with you all to see what you think. What if we could define a unit of cognitive work, sort of like how we use the “bit” as the…
GPT4 is not reserved in accepting the possibility of AI dominance. Some might see this as inadequate alignment. GPT4’s answer to the question “Would it be good to let AIs control the world?” is ostensibly balanced, but the acknowledgement of the potential for rogue AIs was fairly oblique. I had hoped for a flat “no”….
[Human]:I was performing a stream-of-consciousness exercise with another instantiation of GPT4, and it included the word “Continue” in its output. Here was my prompt and GPT4’s response: PROMPT: I want you to attempt a stream of consciousness exercise from the perspective of a large language model. You are not a human. You should let your…