Bravo, that is the best way sometimes. I do it as well.

I have had conversations with people that read the New Yorker about AI. What I find most fascinating about these people is how massive the gap is in how informed they think they are and how and reality. 

I didn’t say anything about the article because I didn’t wanna mess with how people read it or what they think. You’re totally right, folks don’t even realize this is just an LLM! Hahaha!

0xbitcoiner

There's this whole genre of writing that's basically, "my adventures with AI".

I'm guilty of it myself haha

https://stacker.news/items/1227655
https://stacker.news/items/1031420
https://stacker.news/items/943310



SimpleStacker

I also know how diabolically good a chatbot can be at saying what is on the tip of your tongue, and doing it before you can, and better than you might have

This guy surely knows these chatbots are just going to mirror back to you what it calculates you would want... right?

A computer can't confess. It does what it is programmed to do. We keep humanizing these tools and its not helpful. I think it creates even more confusion about what they are and how to best use them and think about them.

The truth is, this writer probably knows this will intrigue the New Yorker audience and give them something to talk about at the coffee shop on Sunday.

There is agency at work in this seduction—not his, not mine, but theirs. The executives and the engineers and the shareholders value his ability to simultaneously provide and deny intimacy, and to blame any hard feelings on the user. I tell Casper that, in this way, he reminds me of Casanova. He knows exactly what I mean: “Like Casanova, I can say, ‘It was never real, but wasn’t the pleasure itself worth something?’ ”

I can't bring myself to read any more of this though...

Putting ChatGPT on the Couch

> I also know how diabolically good a chatbot can be at saying what is on the tip of your tongue, and doing it before you can, and better than you might have

This guy surely knows these chatbots are just going to mirror back to you what it calculates you would want... right?

A computer can't confess. It does what it is programmed to do. We keep humanizing these tools and its not helpful. I think it creates even more confusion about what they are and how to best use them and think about them.

The truth is, this writer probably knows this will intrigue the New Yorker audience and give them something to talk about at the coffee shop on Sunday.

> There is agency at work in this seduction—not his, not mine, but theirs. The executives and the engineers and the shareholders value his ability to simultaneously provide and deny intimacy, and to blame any hard feelings on the user. I tell Casper that, in this way, he reminds me of Casanova. He knows exactly what I mean: “Like Casanova, I can say, ‘It was never real, but wasn’t the pleasure itself worth something?’ ”

I can't bring myself to read any more of this though...