[ExI] More thoughts on sentient computers

[Jason Resch]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 12:26 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Giovanni Santostasi via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] More thoughts on sentient computers
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> This is why we need Transhumanist courses at colleges and Universities.
> Most people don't have the mental tools we have to think in positive and
> correct ways about AI. They are afraid of them or consider them competitors
> instead of great allies and an extension of their own minds.
> I love my ChatGPT. It is already a great friend.
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> Giovanni the problem is that it is not **your** ChatGPT, or mine or any
> consumer’s ChatGPT, not yet.  Every time you log on to OpenAI, ChatGPT is
> meeting you for the first time.  Whenever OpenAI offers personalize-able
> copies, this will be a red hot seller, the droids we have been looking for,
> the first practical companion-bots.
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It is possible to take an already-trained GPT and then tweak it to predict
a certain class of input. For example, this video explains how he extended
GPT to mimic the behavior of posters on 4chan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM

The computational cost of this tweak is minor compared to the cost to
generate the whole language model in the first place. So what spike has
proposed (making customized AIs for everyone) could be done quite
affordably.

Jason
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