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by recursive
29 days ago
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There is overlap in the things that humans and machines can do. But to me, humans enjoy a special position regardless of what they can do or are doing. If I'm using a ball-point pen (a machine) that's leaking ink, I'm just going to throw it in the trash. If I'm using a hand-made slingshot made as a gift, and one of the straps breaks, I will endeavor to fix it. To me, the chief difference between a fast food worker and a machine is that one is a human. To me, humans deserve more respect than machines simply because they are humans. If a human successfully tricks me into thinking they are not a human, then I will also erroneously afford them less respect than I intended to. What you call the biggest value of ChatGPT is what I'd call its biggest threat. |
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I value people for being people but it's completely orthogonal with anything else. I might at the same time value fast-food worker for being human with full kindheartedness I have for any stranger and find them completely useless for taking my order in comparison to the self-checkout kiosk. One doesn't influence the other and the other way around. I won't think worse of them as humans, because they don't fit my needs when it comes to taking order. And I won't think they are better at taking my order just because they are human.
> What you call the biggest value of ChatGPT is what I'd call its biggest threat.
I didn't mean LLM is a biggest value of ChatGPT system in terms of appreciation. I was just stating a fact that without LLM ChatGPT is just a lame chat app with some text filters that we pretty much had for the last 3 decades, so not very valuable. And that part of little value is the machine part of ChatGPT system. LLM itself is not a machine. It doesn't have machine flaws any more than a fast-food worker, or a dining experience or literal walk in a park could have machine flaws. LLMs are math. If you want to look for their flaws, you need to look for math flaws. You can be angry at them not in a way you are angry at machines (or people, or park walks, or dining experiences), only in a way you could be angry at math.
I can't really remember if I was ever angry at math.