Tell HN: Prompt leaking is the most scifi thing ever
Someone recently got in the news for getting Bing's ChatGPT-based chat robot to recite its instructions.
I just want to get off my chest my thoughts that the fact that a $2 trillion company is programming a robot using plain English is the most scifi thing ever. It seems straight out of Asimov. If you had asked me a few years ago, I would have said it's completely unrealistic. That's not how computers work, I would have said. They follow rigorous logical mathematical operations and machine instructions based on boolean logic. You can't just tell it what you want it to do in English and then put it in front of the public, and if you could the public couldn't get it to do something different just by asking in plain English.
I'm sure the feeling will wear off, but as someone who uses it daily, I still sometimes get the feeling that AI is like science fiction.
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I imagine it's because we use the tools we know. There are likely more effective approaches that would look like gibberish, but we don't have the insight to use those. All we have is the English hammer, so we approach every problem as if it were an English nail.
It's absolutely mind blowing. To the point where I didn't understand what I was reading at first. It took me reading comments and re-reading the prompt to get it. It's truly insane.
Yeah totally agree. And the whole thing about infinite Seinfeld getting banned from Twitch was also good enough to be fiction. It’s a wonderfully bizarre future we’re living in.
> Someone recently got in the news for getting Bing's ChatGPT-based chat robot to recite its instructions.
Can you provide a link? I can’t find this.
Can you provide a link? I can’t find this.
if you can find a copy of survival printout by total effect, it's fascinating to see how they used a natural language processing to pick the stories for the anthology, in 1973
oh, it's archived https://archive.org/details/survivalprintout0000unse
oh, it's archived https://archive.org/details/survivalprintout0000unse
Totally agree.
It's been a long time since something on the Internet felt truly magical to me!
It's been a long time since something on the Internet felt truly magical to me!
Speaking to ChatGPT does give me a feeling that I'm speaking to MultiVac occasionally.
I was thinking it's like some kind of Philip K. Dick near-future story
Yes Asimov. Also more recently it’s reminiscent of Westworld “Analysis…”
It makes HAL 9000, KIIT 2000 and V.I.N.CENT seem really ahead of their time, like the most precise prediction of the future ever deviced. Is "Idiocracy" following next? Of the many extintion scenarios for humanity maybe this is it, a house of mirrors of AI hallucination.