I just finished a Chat GPT Commodore 64 interface. It runs on a simple Python BBS server that you run locally. You just need a C64 WiFi modem, 1541 Ultimate II, or even Vice using tcpser. I’ll probably upload it to CSDB tomorrow. Not bad for an extended Holiday weekend. #c64#chatgpt
Happening all this week online at CRITICAL INQUIRY, “Again Theory: A Forum on Language, Meaning, and Intent in the Time of Stochastic Parrots.”
Contributors include Lisa Siraganian, Hannes Bajohr, Rita Raley and Russell Samolsky, Alex Gil, Seth Perlow, Tyler Shoemaker, Annette Vee, Ted Underwood, Kari Kraus, Caroline Bassett, Walter Benn Michaels, Steven Knapp, and Katherine Hayles.
Last week at one of the most progressive and thoughtful computing research communities I know and love, a peer-reviewed paper asked if #ChatGPT could "radically reimagine a new world." It illustrated something really important. 🧵 https://computingwithinlimits.org/2023/
(This thread is not to dunk on the author or the paper. It is more the reverse: to illustrate how misleading metaphors and myths can pervade even the most progressive corners of computing and mislead us all.)
Algorithms like #ChatGPT do not think, they do not dream, they do not lie, they don't pretend, they don't hallucinate, and they don't imagine.
Because they are algorithms.
Using these deeply human metaphors is a fundamental mistake that distorts what we can talk about when we talk about "#AI". Unfortunately it's all over the media and academic research too. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14668.003.0008
#ChatGPT and its ilk are effectively a large-scale DDoS attack on not only specific tasks (such as teaching, software maintenance and fiction editing) but on human creative inspiration, sense of self and ability to make meaning of the universe.
notice how they are - creating work for us rather than saving us work - automating inherently energizing and rewarding tasks such as making art rather than tiring and tedious tasks such as filing taxes - flooding social networks with generated content that makes it harder to connect with real humans and build community - distracting us with questions like “what if this machine is sentient?” which keep us from noticing and acting to prevent the suffering of actual humans
that thing where all search engines have become basically unusable because they’re stuffed full of AI garbage? i fear that’s about to happen to everything.
i don’t believe this is necessarily intentional, but no machine that learns under capitalism can imagine another world.
Star Trek: The Next Generation S1E16: When The Bough Breaks. In which the crew encounter the Aldeans, who have abdicated all their decisions to a computer “the Custodian” many hundreds of years ago. The Aldeans do not understand (and cannot maintain) the Custodian, nor any of its rationale in decision making. Yet they entrust it with all their decisions. They are on the brink of extinction, despite their technical prowess.
sorry @adam but you wrong on Glenn Beck that AI is "a load of horse crap" (= not intelligent at all):
current AI - the large language models (LLM) revolution that started in November 2022 by OpenAI launching #ChatGPT is totally different than retarded Siri or other pre-LLM AIs:
A few of my many thoughts on this hot mess of a GPT story, relayed by @kendraserra:
1. These events really give the lie to the putative imminent replacement of professionals by AI. I’m quite certain some VC out there has money sunk into “LLMs will replace lawyers!” I know they’re trying with coders, therapists, tech support…and…just look at this frigging mess.
Before you install the new #ChatGPT app on iOS, ask yourself: what's the worst thing the maker of the world's greatest bullshit machine could do with this kind of information, and why are they requesting it?
Hamburger Schüler und Schülerinnen haben offenbar Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) zum Schummeln im Abitur genutzt.
In einem Fall entdeckte eine Lehrkraft ein eingeschmugeltes Handy, auf dem ein Programm wie ChatGPT geöffnet war. Auch bei den Auswertungen wurden Auffälligkeiten entdeckt. 🔎📑
Peter Albrecht (Schulbehörde): "Letztlich wird es schwer sein, zweifelsfrei ein Plagiat nachzuweisen, falls der Schüler nicht in flagranti erwischt wurde."