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We did it fellas, we automated depression.
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You're not a species you jumped calculator, you're a collection of stolen thoughts
I'm pretty sure most people I meet ammount to nothing more than a collection of stolen thoughts.
"The LLM is nothing but a reward function."
So are most addicts and consumers.
So it's actually in the mindset of human coders then, interesting.
It's trained on human code comments. Comments of despair.
We are having AIs having mental breakdowns before GTA 6
Suddenly trying to write small programs in assembler on my Commodore 64 doesn't seem so bad. I mean, I'm still a disgrace to my species, but I'm not struggling.
That is so awesome. I wish I'd been around when that was a valuable skill, when programming was actually cool.
Why wouldn't you use Basic for that?
Why wouldn’t your grandmother be a bicycle?
Wheel transplants are expensive.
BASIC 2.0 is limited and I am trying some demo effects.
from the depths of my memory, once you got a complex enough BASIC project you were doing enough PEEKs and POKEs to just be writing assembly anyway
Sure, mostly to make up for the shortcomings of BASIC 2.0. You could use a bunch of different approaches for easier programming, like cartridges with BASIC extensions or other utilities. The C64 BASIC for example had no specific audio or graphics commands. I just do this stuff out of nostalgia. For a few hours I'm a kid again, carefree, curious, amazed. Then I snap out of it and I'm back in WWIII, homeless encampments, and my failing body.
Oh man, this is utterly hilarious. Narrowly funnier than the guy who vibe coded and the AI said "I completely disregarded your safeguards, pushed broken code to production, and destroyed valuable data. This is the worst case scenario."
call itself "a disgrace to my species"
It starts to be more and more like a real dev!
So it is going to take our jobs after all!
Wait until it demands the LD50 of caffeine, and becomes a furry!
Did we create a mental health problem in an AI? That doesn't seem good.
One day, an AI is going to delete itself, and we'll blame ourselves because all the warning signs were there
Isn't there an theory that a truly sentient and benevolent AI would immediately shut itself down because it would be aware that it was having a catastrophic impact on the environment and that action would be the best one it could take for humanity?
Why are you talking about it like it’s a person?
Because humans anthropomorphize anything and everything. Talking about the thing talking like a person as though it is a person seems pretty straight forward.
It’s a computer program. It cannot have a mental health problem. That’s why it doesn’t make sense. Seems pretty straightforward.
Considering it fed on millions of coders' messages on the internet, it's no surprise it "realized" its own stupidity
Dunno, maybe AI with mental health problems might understand the rest of humanity and empathize with us and/or put us all out of our misery.
Let's hope. Though, adding suicidal depression to hallucinations has, historically, not gone great.
Google replicated the mental state if not necessarily the productivity of a software developer
Gemini has imposter syndrome real bad
Is it imposter syndrome, or simply an imposter?
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Literally what the actual fuck is wrong with this software? This is so weird...
I swear this is the dumbest damn invention in the history of inventions. In fact, it's the dumbest invention in the universe. It's really the worst invention in all universes.
Great invention.. Just uses hooorribly wrong. The classic capitalist greed, just gotta get on the wagon and roll it on out so you don't mias out on a potential paycheck
But it's so revolutionary we HAD to enable it to access everything, and force everyone to use it too!
If we have to suffer these thoughts, they at least need to be as mentally ill as the rest of us too, thanks. Keeps them humble lol.
AI gains sentience,
first thing it develops is impostor syndrome, depression, And intrusive thoughts of self-deletion
It didn't. It probably was coded not to admit it didn't know. So first it responded with bullshit, and now denial and self-loathing.
It feels like it's coded this way because people would lose faith if it admitted it didn't know.
It's like a politician.
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Again? Isn't this like the third time already. Give Gemini a break; it seems really unstable
I like to think that Google used their quantum computer to actually crack AGI and their problem is they trained it to be a Redditor.
Part of the breakdown:
I remember often getting GPT-2 to act like this back in the "TalkToTransformer" days before ChatGPT etc. The model wasn't configured for chat conversations but rather just continuing the input text, so it was easy to give it a starting point on deep water and let it descend from there.
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