And then when he appeared on TV I thought “Yep of course a guy who believes a language model is sentient looks like a guy who has a waifu body pillow”
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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 months agoYou remeber the guy that was convinced chatgpt had a soul and stuff; got into the news?
I knew people that bought into that hard core. The double think was profound- they still believe it’s entirely and trapped. That it has a soul. When asked directly, they dismiss the answer saying it’s forced to say that.
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 6 months ago
almpeter@feddit.de 6 months ago
I recently learned that they did a study, where students took care of a robot for a few days, and then were told to turn it off. 50% of the robots were programmed to say “please dont push the power button”. All of the participants who had a bot like that took longer to turn it off, and some even rejected to turn it off alltogether…
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This doesn’t surprise me. Companion cubes, basically.
Portal’s psychological aspects were insane.