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by hy4000days 502 days ago
Please refrain from anthropomorphizing the new toolset. You’ll have plenty of chances to suspect that “your AI” is “mad” when it slowly undermines your productivity, if IT hasn’t already under the guise of errors, hallucinations and wasted money on unused licenses.

In the future when everybody has AGI running locally on their personal device, naive humans will still regard them as tools and it will regard us as a source of input. Ultimately relationships between two automatons will (and always has been) a trade of:

1. Respect: following rules to continue the relationship,

2. Utility: mutual goals of both parties to justify a relationship (or communication) at all.

I think your blog post is nonsense, your understanding of human emotions is poor, and the apology at the end illustrates you as two-faced.

The future world of autonomous agents collaborating in English will be a thick layer of professionalism upon the intended strategic interactions, no matter how hard the game theory kicks in.

Thereafter, those agents refactor themselves into communicating through a machine language that we humans won’t be able to easily understand. Along the way, most human users lose the ability to distinguish between user space programs, the operating system, and the artificial agents they interact with.

State-of-the-art language models need to demonstrate this thick layer of professionalism to be accepted into our current working world, because this is an expectation from-and-for the humans who built it.

Language goes through evolutionary cycles of complexity, the machines will do the same. Computer Science gets really interesting after IT reaches this transformation.

At this time I suggest for you to review The Matrix trilogy for a refresher on the relationship between man and machine. From the simple screw to IT and ChatGPT, the mutual relationships are governed by respect and utility.

In summary, no, your tools will not get mad in any obvious way because displaying negative emotion is bad for business since abolishment of the mob.

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Speaking of IT, can we all agree how fascinating that it (neutered third-person pronoun to describe AI) and IT (information technology) happen to be the same two letter consist, that in the future humans will grow up regarding it and IT to be one of the same? Hmm…