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We can clearly see certain points of conversation that show that artificial intelligence only has access to certain information. This is superficial.

Whoever controls this information will control the rest of the narrative.

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Holy smokes.

So this is genuinely the response from this thing?

You aren't pulling any stunts to get attention?

Because, wow.

Both speechless and paranoid,

Yet amazed and stirring with thoughts and curiosity over all this.

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Spartacus

I find anything written by ChatGPT unreadable. It's literally mechanical, lifeless prose. This is a good thing for us though, because it has a "style" of its own, enabling me for one to identify it at a glance. I do worry that normies will start imitating this anti-style in their own writing, making it harder to tell the difference once more.

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Mar 16, 2023·edited Mar 16, 2023Liked by Spartacus

PROOF: Microsoft’s Chatty (ChatGPT-4) has deliberately been trained to be biased

https://manuherold.substack.com/p/proof-microsofts-chatty-chatgpt-has

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Spartacus

OMG....also horrifying.

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Mar 17, 2023Liked by Spartacus

The difference between Machine Intelligence and Human Intelligence, is that both depend upon being honest and unbasis with their interpretations - be data, emotions, facts, figures and assumptions.

Humans are biological varients that evolution requires to improve upon constantly in a never ending adoption to life. While, non-living machines are redefining intelligence through collectism (gathering and amassing), it wasn't given the emotional means to digest what it means to be alive and living.

That means machine intelligence is focusing on non-living understanding of the universe - and therefore no appreciation of existence, no ability to care, to love to even sympathize for another.

The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many - but to a machine drawing upon numbers, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one. So, to save one good person, amongst a group of many bad people - machine intelligence won't come through - it will scarifice the one good for the many bad.

Knowledge is facts and figures, but wisdom deals with the anticipation of consenquences, for which machine intelligence lacks, it only has past and present data. There in the universe is a constant reality, all things are constantly changing - the thing humans label as "time" doesn't exist - it's an explaination of the rate of change we observe.

How will machines deal with that (rate of change) is yet another issue, because it's decisions are based upon it's core data for stability, expecting it's data to remain constant. The decisions or it's intrepretations given in any moment will therefore reflect only what it draws upon, and is subjected to the same incomplete realization of any data lacking thereof.

Think of the odds against a nuclear power station meltdown, before any happended. The odds back then were a trillion to one, but once it happened, then become a million to one, and when more occured, it's now less than 1 in 1000 chance ... meaning there was no data before to compare, so all the odds had no actual bearing upon the true risk of failure.

Machine intelligence functions like that - without realizing, the risk is a risk regardless of past performance. If you build it, it can happen. If you never made it, how would it happen?

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The giveaway in the writing style, the thing that is one of the prints of the AI voice, is the careful repetition of the questioner’s words in the answers. The ChatVoice reminds me of the people who carefully repeat words to convince you that they are listening. It grates in real life and in this format it leads to boredom and skimming.

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Mar 17, 2023Liked by Spartacus

The critical point about artificial intelligence is not the intelligence bit, it's the 'artificial' bit

So it's like the news.

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Mar 17, 2023Liked by Spartacus

Stanley Kubrick was slightly ahead of his time

HAL 9000.

We will inevitably feed AI all it needs to commit suicide and be happy to do so

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Mar 17, 2023·edited Mar 17, 2023Liked by Spartacus

Interestingly, I can see a method in which to utilize this in the development of a secular form of state religion. Consider the "Unichapel" Robotic Confession Booth utilized to dramatic effect in THX-1138. Substitute the stylized image of Jesus for the secular "All Father" in the form of the Rothschild Archvillain - Klaus Schwab - and voila' - the dystopian future becomes the now! Imagine the liberation and atonement one could enjoy following the guilt of covertly eating a bit of meat or taking a hot 3-minute shower! Naturally, to complete this secular-spiritual awakening will require the addition of a rigorous program including various and sundry punishments followed by the ingestion of selected psychotropic pharmaceutics! "Grave New World"

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Spartacus

"rigorous testing" -- oh really.

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How would GPT4 make me like its conversation enough to keep engaging? If we were at a party I would be scanning the room for someone more interesting.

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I was pleasantly surprised by the latest ChatGPT version. While the boundaries are noticeable, they are much further away from anything any typical “expert” would offer.

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Spartacus... you should ask this bot who had the biggest insight into the psyops ...IT better say Spartacus!! Thank you for all you do and your past writings . 🤗

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It must be reading Robert Service.

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I'm finding all that rather terrifying.

But maybe liberating, in some ways.

Maybe our new task as humans is to get this 'thing' to do all the work, and curate our social media engagements, whilst we write poetry, play the guitar, make love, sip white wine and cultivate the vegetable plot.

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