| ▲ | krapp 5 days ago | |
AFAIK that trophy goes to Blake Lemoine, who believed Google's LaMDA was sentient[0,1] three years ago, or more recently Geoff Lewis[2,3] who got gaslit into believing in some conspiracy theory incorporating SCP. IDK what can be done about it. The internet and social media were already leading people into bubbles of hyperreality that got them into believing crazy things. But this is far more potent because of the way it can create an alternate reality using language, plugging it directly into a person's mind in ways that words and pictures on a screen can't even accomplish. And we're probably not getting rid of AI anytime soon. It's already affected language, culture, society and humanity in deep and profound, and possibly irreversible ways. We've put all of our eggs into the AI basket, and it will suffuse as much of our lives as it can. So we just have to learn to adapt to the consequences. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31704063 [1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-... [1] https://futurism.com/openai-investor-chatgpt-mental-health | ||