alt Hacker NewsI think this was the biggest shock of the original ChatGPT for me. Just how completely unrobotic its voice was compared to everything we'd ever imagined in sci fi. Even that early version was also way more adept at understanding things like implication and sarcasm than any movie AI.
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Me too. Almost every Sci-Fi AI proceeds from the premise that we will make something very obviously machine and then have to train it to seem more human. I was completely caught off guard by us taking the approach of distilling all available human output into a statistical model and using it to brute-force something resembling thought and personality through sheer data processing scale.
The unsurprising part once it was clear that approach was viable, was that humans wouldn’t be able to help but anthropomorphize it. I feel like the movie Ex Machina is more relevant than ever.
I'd really rather they did talk and behave more like classic sci-fi said they would. Far less engaging and fluffy with nonsense.
It may well become a safeguard that all bots must speak in a much less inflected voice to remind us not to particularly trust them.
It learned from the best, no? There is a lot of sarcasm and implication on the internet.
Before they really started to figure out instruction tuning, there were some wild moments. The AI Dungeon 2 "storyteller" would regularly "lose patience" with its users and roast them or even "hang up" on them.