Author: “write me a 4000 word article on why microplastics are bad
ChatGPT: generates 4000 words of text explaining what micro means, what plastic means, and paraphrasing the “controversy” section of the Wikipedia page on microplastics
woah woah woah, lets have less of this looking at reality here. We all know generative AI is a fad that never works for anything and anyone using it is an idiot, we don’t need to have our prejudices challenged
We’re in an online echo chamber, we don’t need to look at reality. Just find the opinions that we agree with, and agree with us, and put 'em at the top!
People don’t like it when you tell them that despite what they personally believe modern AIs are a bit more sophisticated than Machiavellian chains.
Now there are people running around saying that we will have a super intelligence by 2030 and it will make us all immortal and build a Dyson sphere, and a faster than light spaceship. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but really it has nothing to do with the conversation about if AI are useful now. We don’t need something to be intelligent to be useful.
Author: “write me a 4000 word article on why microplastics are bad
ChatGPT: generates 4000 words of text explaining what micro means, what plastic means, and paraphrasing the “controversy” section of the Wikipedia page on microplastics
Reader: “Summarise this article”
GhatGPT: “Microplastics are bad”
And in reality: https://chatgpt.com/share/66f519a6-1348-8002-96eb-bb61fb25287b
woah woah woah, lets have less of this looking at reality here. We all know generative AI is a fad that never works for anything and anyone using it is an idiot, we don’t need to have our prejudices challenged
We’re in an online echo chamber, we don’t need to look at reality. Just find the opinions that we agree with, and agree with us, and put 'em at the top!
whatever shortens everyone’s attention span the quickest: it makes for efficient hoodwinking
People don’t like it when you tell them that despite what they personally believe modern AIs are a bit more sophisticated than Machiavellian chains.
Now there are people running around saying that we will have a super intelligence by 2030 and it will make us all immortal and build a Dyson sphere, and a faster than light spaceship. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but really it has nothing to do with the conversation about if AI are useful now. We don’t need something to be intelligent to be useful.