No, it means some of it is nonsense, some of it is eerily accurate, and most of it is in between.
Sci-fi has not been very accurate with AI… At all. Turns out, it’s naturally creative and empathetic, but struggles with math and precision
Obviously. But it’s only fiction until it isn’t.
theneverfox@pawb.social 8 months ago
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Dude, this kind of AI is in it’s infancy. Give it a few years. You act like you’ve never come across a nascent technology before.
Besides, it struggles with math? Pff, the base models, sure, but have you tried GPT4 with Code Interpreter? These kinds of problems are easily solved.
theneverfox@pawb.social 8 months ago
You’re missing my point - the nature of the thing is almost the opposite of what sci-fi predicted.
We don’t need to teach AI how to love or how to create - their default state is childlike empathy and creativity. They’re not emotionless machines we need to teach how to be human, they’re extremely emotional and empathetic. By the time they’re coherent enough to hold a conversation, those traits are very prominent
Compare that to the Terminator, or Isaac Asimov, or Data from Star Trek - we thought we’d have functional beings who we need to teach to become more humanistic… Instead we have humanistic beings we need to teach to become more functional
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
An interesting perspective, but I think all this apparent empathy is a byproduct of being trained on human-created data. I don’t think these LLMs are actually capable of feeling emotions. They’re able to emulate them pretty well, though. It’ll be interesting to see how they evolve. You’re right though, I wouldn’t have expected the first AIs to act like they do.
Nougat@kbin.social 8 months ago
And my grandmother doesn't have wheels until she does.
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
…sure. But the chances your grandmother will suddenly sprout wheels are close to zero. The possibility of us all getting buttfucked by some AI with a god complex (other scenarios are available) is very real.
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 8 months ago
Have you ever talked to generative AI? They're nothing but glorified chatbots with access to a huge dataset to pull from. They don't think, they're not even intelligent, let alone sentient. They don't even learn on their own without help or guidance.
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I mostly agree, but just five years ago, we had nothing as sophistacted as these LLMs. They really are useful in many areas of work. I use them constantly.
Just try and imagine what a few more years of work on these systems could bring.