Which is why the Turing Test needs to be updated. These text models are getting really good at fooling people.
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Poggervania@kbin.social 6 months agoCyberpunk 2077 sorta explores this a bit.
There’s a vending machine that has a personality and talks to people walking by it. The quest chain basically has you and the vending machine chatting a bit and even giving the vending machine some advice on a person he has a crush on. You eventually become friends with this vending machine.
When it seems like it’s becoming more apparent it’s an AI and is developing sentience, it turns out the vending machine just has a really well-coded socializing program. He even admits as much when he’s about to be deactivated.
So, to reiterate what you said: predictive text and LLMs are not alive nor a mind.
billwashere@lemmy.world 6 months ago
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
The Turing test isn’t just that there exists some conversation you can have with a machine where you wouldn’t know it’s a machine. The Turing test is that you could spend an arbitrary amount of time talking to a machine and never be able to tell. ChatGPT doesn’t come anywhere close to this, since there are many subjects where it quickly becomes clear that the model doesn’t understand the meaning of the text it generates.
Corgana@startrek.website 6 months ago
Exactly thank you for pointing this out. It also assumes that the tester would have knowledge of the wider context in which the text exists. GPT could probably fool someone from the middle ages, but that person wouldn’t know anything about what they are testing exactly.
dlpkl@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Brandon 🥲