It still makes me feel odd when ChatGPT says something like "I feel the same way", "I love xyz", "I think ...", exactly because it can't really feel anything. It defends this behaviour as an abstraction to make the conversation more natural, but that makes it easy to forget that there is no feeling or opinion - only the inputs/outputs resembling one.

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ForceBru a day ago | parent | next [-]

I think this is the entire point, you're supposed to subconsciously believe that you're talking to a human, not a matrix multiplication algorithm

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throwaway277432 a day ago | parent | next [-]

I recently got into an argument on HN when I said that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002491

They already believe.

	▲	nozzlegear 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Hilarious critique. If you weren't as mathematically illiterate as you likely are, you would know how general matrix operations are, and how essentially any algorithm (including human cognition) can be implemented using them as an intermediate. This guy's got the secrets of human cognition figured out apparently.

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myaccountonhn a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Which is very misleading.

	▲	nicce a day ago \| parent [-]
		And the biggest risk with AI. There have been many posts about how dangerous it is.

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derpyzza 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It also annoys me that it uses the word "we" when talking about humanity