Re: AI thinks for itself and eschews political correctness?

Chris Elvidge <[email protected]> Sat, 5 Apr 2025 11:36:57 +0100
Newsgroups alt.christnet.ethics,alt.usage.english,alt.culture,alt.politics,alt.philosophy,soc.rights.human
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 05/04/2025 at 04:12, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 14:40:42 -0700, x <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Isn't AI just a modern version of 'Clippy the Paperclip' with
>> more 'bells and whistles'?
> 
> I prefer to think of it as a super search engine, able to combine the
> results of several searches into a single report/document.

That's OK if you're willing to accept lies in the summary.
See (for e.g.) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0m17d8827ko

> 
> I don't believe that any of the LLMs now available are
> intelligent/sentient/conscious, and they therefore the impression they
> give of "thinking for themselves" is an illusion, but some of the
> people over in alt.philosophy will tell you that it's an illusion for
> himan beings as well
> 
> The way LLMs (the so-called AI) do this is determined by the
> programmers, but even so, Elon Musk's Grok seems able to disagree with
> its owner.
> 
> 
> 



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