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by SrslyJosh 1293 days ago
Don't scare your family like that. You're talking to a statistical model, not an intelligence. FFS, it's just regurgitating stuff from its training corpus, and you're leading it to generate the answers that you expect.
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There was no intention to scare them, I was just talking about what it has been doing, my daughter was the one who worried about what it could do, not what it is doing. As I said I immediately down played it to calm her concerns, but you have to agree they are valid
Who cares what it is called if it can generate content as good as the best human can create?
But it can't. A long way from it. So ... don't worry.
On artistic generation, I think it's very close. On everything else, it's just a matter of time, honestly.
Has the mechanical Turk obsoleted human chess?
Chess is not a productive activity and its sole objective is just entertainment.