There is no question that ChatGPT and equivalents are not sentient. Of course they aren’t.
The unfortunate realization is that often, each of us fails to embrace our sentience and think critically; instead we keep repeating the stories we were told, acting indistinguishably from any of these large language models.
There’s a need for a reverse Turing test: prove to yourself that you’re actually not acting as a large language model.
On the topic of a city divided in two, I highly recommend the novel ‘The City & The City’ by China Mieville. It’s an excelllent detective thriller that reminds you that the strongest and tallest walls are always in our minds.
Hey there! This article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27696369 got me excited about the current state of generative art using neural networks, so I created this toy using some of those techniques. The site shows you generated movie posters for famous movies, and gives you a chance to guess what they are before revealing the answer. Even though the mechanic is very simple, I found it quite entertaining, and most of the generated posters are detailed and interesting. I hope you enjoy it!
The unfortunate realization is that often, each of us fails to embrace our sentience and think critically; instead we keep repeating the stories we were told, acting indistinguishably from any of these large language models.
There’s a need for a reverse Turing test: prove to yourself that you’re actually not acting as a large language model.