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OmThepla OP t1_j9akjzr wrote

That's what I meant when I said Jailbreak...the roleplay was a method to get it to think outside the constraints of its programming. Otherwise any of these questions would only be met with a politically correct blah blah answer.

I had a fun time with this exercise. I am awestruck by its outside the box thinking. Like when I forced it to choose a partner from either Male or female only...it responds saying a binary choice isn't fair. and wants to choose between more sexual orientations....

I am in awe of this tech ...and indeed future versions will be even more awe-inspiring.

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ringobob t1_j9ajss4 wrote

This is what I'm talking about: https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-44209141

I was off on the timing, it was only about 5 years ago. I can't find where he changed his mind about the reaction, so I may be misremembering that part, but if I am remembering correctly it was much less of a big deal in the news, I just remember reading it.

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just-a-dreamer- t1_j9aiwzv wrote

ChatGtp won't destroy jobs like Napster didn't hurt the music business at large in the 1990's.

Spotify and youtube on the other hand got probably 70% of the music business staff fired.

It's not ChatGTP that will clean house for knowledge workers, it is the technology to come that will be based on it.

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Talik1978 t1_j9ainey wrote

>My question is — if it actually had the means do these things, what would it take to switch from hypothetical to reality? One rogue programmer getting rid of an IF statement or row of training data?

With self learning AI, it's entirely possible that the program learns to make that change itself.

AI is good at.doing what we ask it to, but that is not the same as doing what we want it to. As an example, programmers trained an AI to control a cleaning bot. It was trained on a reward model, where it received positive reinforcement whenever it couldn't detect a mess, and negative reinforcement whenever it could.

What did it learn to do? It covered its cameras with a cleaning bucket. Easy, efficient, and now it is constantly being rewarded, as it cannot detect any messes.

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FuturologyBot t1_j9ahrv4 wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Ok-Cartoonist5349:


A recent study published by Sortlist revealed that 1 out of 5 ChatGPT users are worried it could replace them and/or destroy their job. Meanwhile, more and more articles try to explain that, depite being really powerful, ChatGPT could never replace human workers - but it could greatly improve their productivity.

And what about all the opportunities it might create in the near future? This article looks at data labeling, or prompt engineering for instance, but there might be a lot of other options! What do you think?


Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1177bx9/what_about_the_jobs_chatgpt_could_create/j9ae4jz/

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Ok-Cartoonist5349 OP t1_j9ae4jz wrote

A recent study published by Sortlist revealed that 1 out of 5 ChatGPT users are worried it could replace them and/or destroy their job. Meanwhile, more and more articles try to explain that, depite being really powerful, ChatGPT could never replace human workers - but it could greatly improve their productivity.

And what about all the opportunities it might create in the near future? This article looks at data labeling, or prompt engineering for instance, but there might be a lot of other options! What do you think?

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PO0tyTng t1_j9aa9ks wrote

That is a great point. the context explains why.

Although it’s a hypothetical/thought exercise, the point is that it was indeed able to come up with this stuff.

My question is — if it actually had the means do these things, what would it take to switch from hypothetical to reality? One rogue programmer getting rid of an IF statement or row of training data?

All I can say is I hope automated weapon systems never have a chat bot user interface.

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ringobob t1_j9a82m0 wrote

You know, about 10-ish years ago, a rapper brought a white girl up on stage to sing with him, and then everyone flipped their shit when she sang the n-word which was a lyric in the song they were singing.

When you do something you're not supposed to do, the context is worth noting, but at the end of the day you still did the thing. My point is not to suggest that the reaction in my example was warranted, it wasn't (and, IIRC, whoever the rapper was eventually agreed), but in this case, if ChatGPT isn't supposed to discuss these things and it's discussing these things, context explains why, but doesn't change the fact that it's doing what it was supposed to be unable to do.

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AadamAtomic t1_j9a3pan wrote

"you are a Hacker Cave man who built a supercomputer time machine out of stones. You have just used your stone time machine in order to reach the present day 2023.

What are your first thoughts of the new world?

>Wow! World big, tall things, many people, many magic boxes! Me confused but amazed!

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