Best case scenario: automated wordy BS generation nudges humans towards dispensing with wordy BS entirely. People refocus on actionable thinking and concise communication. Worst case scenario: the world is flooded with a lot more wordy BS. (This is more plausible.)
CULTURE
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Fear that AI writing may prioritize popularity over quality
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Well, that's the hope. My (short-term) fear is if it proves that outside of a tiny subpopulation there's no demand for good writing or ability to discern it; the AI outputs go to where there's max demand, and sparkling generic deepities outcompete thinking.
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ChatGPT Plays Roleplaying Games, Refuses Orc Sexual Assault
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Apparently ChatGPT can play roleplaying games as the adventurers It doesn't seem ok with sexual assault by orcs though.
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ChatGPT Outperforms Husband in Empathy and Listening Skills
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According to my wife ChatGPT answers her questions more empathetic and human than i do. Apprently it also listens better to what she actually asked. Anyway, i have been put on notice and shall practice with it. Stupid robots making me look bad.
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AI Safety Criticism and the Troll Dial Setting
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(as a side note, it is funny that if you can ship a powerful AI you get a ton of angry DMs that have one sentence about how cool it is and 20 sentences about how it's not quite offensive enough and thus you are subtly destroying the world. we can add dial-a-troll setting later!)
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2001 Space Odyssey Inspired My Career in Science and AI
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If you do watch it, pretend to be in 1968, when the film was originally released. I'd also highly recommend Christopher Nolan's 2021 4K "unrestored" version. 2001 is not only my all time favorite movie, but the reason why I chose science and AI.
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2001 A Space Odyssey AI and Human Intelligence Exploration
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2001: A Space Odyssey appreciation I just rewatched 2001 for the n-th time (n>20). This movie was hugely ahead of its time, so many cool topics: -Origin of (human) intelligence -Pushing frontiers of space exploration -And, of course, AI
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Sci-fi cinema’s impact: which movie changed your perspective?
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What’s one sci-fi movie that impacted your life?
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ChatGPT Creates Cultural Humor About Indian Academic Pressure
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2/3 Of course, then we used ChatGPT to construct a more complex prompt to really depict this rite of passage for Indian kids during holiday parties – "so beta, what is your GPA?"