@QasimRashid Me: "I should probably subscribe to this."
<reads Substack privacy policy>
Me: "I should never let Substack anywhere near my information."
@RickiTarr My wife ran an adult science education lecture series for years, and many of the events were produced as a podcast.
Thus I can offer this to the conversation: forensic psychiatrist Dr. Octvio Choi discusses the neuroscience of psychopathy. It'll take 90 minutes of your time, and is well worth that.
"Grok" being the name for an AI chatbot is just the latest example of tech bros not understanding science fiction. In "Strangers In a Strange Land", the famous 1950's novel the term comes from, to "grok" something is to understand it on a deep level. AI chatbots, as we all know by now, do not grok—they bullshit.
I'm really tired of sci-fi terms being used by people who read the books and got nothing from them beyond “lol this word sounds cool”. (See also: “metaverse”.)
REMINDER: ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and other large trained neural models are NOT "artificial intelligence", they're just stochastic parrots, remixing and regurgitating what they've been fed. There's no theory-of-mind involved, so no understanding: there's no "there" there. (A real live parrot exhibits more intelligence than this.)
Don't call it AI; call it parrot-tech. That way you'll have a better perspective on what it can (and can't) do.
@cstross After observing how LLMs can expound confidently about any topic without prior knowledge or even a mote of genuine understanding, presenting truth and fiction both with profound confidence, my friends dubbed ChatGPT "mansplaining as a service."
