Companies that promote chatbots should never have created these stupid "friendly flattery" programs, as they are bound to lead naive users down psycho-holes.
Instead, all such systems should be modified so that they:
1. provide only factual information, like Google but providing more sophisticated queries, or
2. provide support to research and industry
One way to help that would be to reject any queries that request personal advice.
"If you do not read what I wrote but instead hallucinate something that sounds similar, you will obviously reach flawed conclusions."
gweihir has been spinning this sort of supercilious nonsense for more than 20 years whenever the issue of computer consciousness come up on
That's true: you can't rule out a computer program being conscious, and you never will. It's also true that you can't rule in a computer program being conscious, and you never will.
Computers are real physical objects, and so philosophical bullshit concepts like "consciousness" have nothing to do with each other.
And there is zero reason to assume that our "consciousness" is or isn't deterministic.
More women than men have been entering college/university AND graduating than men.
And overwhelmingly in arts, not STEM.
>Now this isn't automatically going to be "Kill all humans"
Until someone hacks it to do that.
And it will be hacked, like everything else.
Put no trust in cryptic comments.
