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lucash.dev 2y ago

The existential threat isn’t Artificial Intelligence

It’s Natural Stupidity

Ask ChatGPT to write something in reverse character order, or upside down and you’ll see how much “intelligence” that thing actually has.

The problem isn’t that it can’t do that, that would be a huge improvement. It actually produces utter nonsense, like it had a stroke or something.

It can’t abstract anything, only repeat patterns it has seen millions of times.

Yet you can be sure there’ll be people who’ll try to force us to obey those things bc the AI is the “expert”

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lucash.dev 2y ago

Ask ChatGPT to answer a problem that has two levels of recursion and it might work.

Ask it for something that has 10 levels of recursion and it will either produce nonsense or get stuck in an infinite loop until it exhausts the maximum number of characters

It can be anything simple like write code that writes code that writes hello world.

Once you understand the nature of the limitations, it’s funny how stupid the thing actually is.