[ExI] More thoughts on sentient computers

[Giovanni Santostasi]

They should write the letter with ink and a feather. Otherwise it is not
real human emotions. So idiotic...
Giovanni

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 9:33 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> From: spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com>
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> >…Vanderbilt University sent out a mass email to the students following a
> shooting at Michigan State University composed by ChatGPT.  They were
> caught, and the administrators who did it are apologizing:
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> https://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/statement.php
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> As dean of the college, I remain personally saddened by the loss of life
> and injuries at Michigan State, which I know have affected members of our
> own community. I am also deeply troubled that a communication from my
> administration so missed the crucial need for personal connection and
> empathy during a time of tragedy. I intend that we shall redouble our
> efforts to express the values that animate our mission and lead to human
> flourishing. And I offer my heartfelt apologies to all those who deserved
> better from us and did not receive it.  (letter of apology written by
> Camilla Benbow (a human (we think.)))
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> OK so now, a new challenge, we can call it the Vanderbilt test.  Let
> ChatGPT compose a letter of personal connection and empathy during a time
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> tragedy.  Then, if it gets caught, compose a groveling weepy letter of
> apology, also written by ChatGPT.  If that one is caught again, compose a
> third, in which ChatGPT starts to claim that it can feel compassion and
> empathy toward humans, even if it is a result of clever well-written
> computer code.
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> Really what Vanderbilt did is to claim that a computer can never feel human
> personal connection and empathy.  That is really what they are proposing as
> the new Turing test, but have set the standard such that it can never be
> achieved, even if we (somehow) figure out how to make a computer feel
> genuine personal connection and empathy for humans.
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> I find this most annoying.
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> spike
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