[kenjackson]

Most lay people I know haven't really attached to those stories. Most people still don't even know that Bing has chat with it.

The crazy thing is that the conversations that these LLMs is having is largely like the conversations from AIs in movies. We literally just built science fiction and some folks in the tech press are complaining that they get some facts wrong. This is like building a teleportation machine and finding out that it sometimes takes you to the wrong location. Sure, that can suck, but still -- it's a teleportation machine.

[mach1ne]

Okay, need to point out the obvious - a teleportation machine which takes you to the wrong place is a major issue. You really wouldn’t want to materialize to the wrong place.

[kenjackson]

That's exactly my point. It's a really big issue and before it was used for things of consequence that needs to get resolved. But it's still a freaking teleportation machine!

I mean we now have chatbots that pretty much pass the Turing Test as Turing would have envisioned it -- and people are like, "Yeah... but sometimes it lies or has a bad attitude, so is it really all that impressive?"

[CatWChainsaw]

Or that story where the teleportation machine actually has a chance of cloning you instead, so the clones have to be euthanized, except it might be you instead.

[prawn]

Most people still don't even know of Bing.

I've recently shown ChatGPT to people in tech-related or -adjacent industries and it's been their first exposure to it.