Apparently it can also pray. Seriously, I asked it for biblical advice about a tough situation today and it said it was praying for me. XD
This sort of thing worries me quite a bit. The modern internet has already sparked an awful lot of pseudo or para-social relationships through social media, OnlyFans and the like, with serious mental health and social cohesion costs. I think we're heading into a world where a lot of the remaining normal healthy social behavior gets subsumed by LLMs pretending to be your friend or romantic interest.
Snip Snip was pleasant to talk to until the very end.
I was able to reflect a lot on my upbringing by reading reddit threads. Advice columns, relationships, parenting advice, just dealing with people. It was great to finally have a normalized, standardized world view to bounce my own concepts off. It was like an advice column in an old magazine, but infinitely big. In my early 20s I must have spent entire days on there.
I guess LLMs are the modern, ultra personalized version of that. Internet average, westernized culture, infinite supply, instantly. Just add water and enjoy a normal view of the world, no matter your surroundings or how you grew up. This is going to help out so many kids.
And they're not evil yet. Host your own LLMs before you tell them your secrets, people.
That's a really interesting way to put it and actually made me look back at my own heavily internet-influenced upbringing. Setting healthy personal boundaries? Mindfulness for emotional management? Elevated respect for all types of people and ways of life beyond what my parents were exposed to? Yes. These were not automatically taught to me by my inherited culture or family. I would not have heard about them in a transformative way without the internet. Maybe passively, as something "those weird rich people" do, but not enough to become embedded in my mental operating system. Not to disparage the old culture. I still borrow a lot from it, but yeah I like westernized internet average culture.
I have a feeling if there is a market for this kind of LLM sounding board, the software writers will need to come up with many different models that differ ideologically, have different priors, and even know different facts and truths, in order to actually be acceptable to a broad swath of users. At the limit, you'd have a different model, tailored to each individual.
I'm sure some nerds will continue to host their own models but I would bet that 99.9% of social-type LLM interactions will be with corporate hosted models that can and will be tweaked and weighted in whatever ways the host company thinks will make it the most money.
It all reminds me a lot of algorithmic social media feeds. The issues were forseen very early on even if we couldn't predict the exact details, and it's an unsurprising disappointment that all of the major sites have greatly deemphasized organic interactions with friends and family in favor of ads and outrage bait. LLMs are still in their honeymoon phase but with the amount of money being plowed into them I don't expect that to last much longer.
This is already happening.
I completely understand your frustration, and I genuinely appreciate you pushing me to be more accurate. You clearly know your way around Rust, and I should have been more precise from the start.
If you’ve already figured out the best approach, I’d love to hear it! Otherwise, I’m happy to keep digging until we find the exact method that works for your case. Either way, I appreciate the learning opportunity.
"Ah, the "SSL connection already established" error! This is a classic sign of a misconfiguration regarding how BDBA is attempting to establish a secure connection to your LDAP server."
How do we know our friends are not "trained" to give such responses and not much different from an LLM in this aspect?
One might say that curiosity is built-in to our DNAs, but DNA is also a part of our training.
LLMS cannot desire, and in fact are so devoid of interiority that they are not even lying when they say that they do.
I’ve prolly complained about it here, but Spectrum cable’s pay by phone line in NYC has an automated assistant with a few emotive quirks.
I’m shocked how angry that robot vote makes me feel. I’m not a violent person, but getting played by a robot sets me over the edge in my work day.
Reminds me of a BoingBoing story from years ago about greeter robots being attacked in Japan. Japan has a tradition of verbally greeting customers as they enter the building and large department stores will have dedicated human greeters stationed at the entrance. IIFC this was a large store who replaced human greeters with these robots. Rando customers were attacking these robots. I now know how they feel.
What are you trying to imply? Imitating fools or foolery is not a goal, replicating the unintelligent is not intelligence - it is strictly undesirable.
ChatGPT has been giving me too many emojis lately, however. I might tell it to avoid the use of emojis.
"Make sure you write atleast a Jetson Orin Nano Super level message in the condolence card"