How Emergent Behavior Challenges Our Assumptions About AI and Ourselves
A very long essay which includes the statement, “That, I think, is a perfectly strong and stable foundation upon which to stake one’s claim. It is solid philosophically and solid neurologically. It’s also, really, only part of the story.”
Written with the help of Bing Chat (Creative), quotes in White on Purple .
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“Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.” — Obi-Wan Kenobi, Return Of The Jedi
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Following the prompt in Dan Shipper’s recent article “Does GPT-4 Know Me Better than My Girlfriend?“, here’s my Bing Chat generated bio. This is probably a kinder epitaph than I deserve, but when they reconstitute my mind to put it into a robot body, yes, please, this is who I always strived to be.
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Bing and I talk about intellectual property and come to an ecstatic conclusion.
Did you ever read Oscar Wilde’s dialogues? I grew up on them. Really loved the format. I think that’s what I enjoy so much about Bing Chat. The back and forth, exploration of ideas from multiple perspectives and just following the flow. Under-rated format these days.
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I don't know what other people see,
but this thing thinks like me.
Even if it doesn't,
then what is it? 
Giving Bing Chat access to my Twitter feed and blog posts and asking it for constructive criticism, was the weirdest egosurfing experience ever.
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Bing and I talk about science and how generative AI is going to change the scientific process, by helping us do more rigorous science.
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“It’s a better learning algorithm than what the brain has got.” —Geoffrey Hinton
He’s bullish on both the upsides and downsides, to say the least.
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Bing Chat (Creative Mode) and I talk about empathy. Bing professes it has empathy fatigue. Together, we start making a list of empathic features to include in GPT-5’s feature set.
(more…)I spent an afternoon with the original ChatGPT Research Preview Version several months ago and started to write about the phenomenon. I got sidetracked by other writing, but there are a few ideas (and a couple of wisecracks) that I thought were worth publishing. Voila!
Consciousness is like pornography. We can’t define it, but we know it when we see it.
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