<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 8:17 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Even if it turns out to be satire, such things are entirely possible in today's world as I know from watching my friend of ten years fall in love with a GPT-based chatbot.  Gordon</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Nothing surprises me about people.  If a person can make a huge decision based on tea leaves, the Tarot, chicken innards, etc., getting a little push from an AI is no surprise at all.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000" dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">bill w</span></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There was also that incident in which a google engineer got into trouble with the company for saying language models are sentient. I expect to see a lot more of it in the coming years.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Of course, many people here would probably say he deserved a promotion.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-gts</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000" dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" dir="auto"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><br></p></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>_______________________________________________</div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br>
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