Artificial intelligence officially gets scary

Mr. Tea

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yyaldrin said:
i went on a date the other day with someone who described herself as an e-girl and she told me she uses ai as her therapist
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Didn't Adam Curtis say in one of his shows years ago that there were text-based programs people were using for this purpose all the way back in the 90s?
 
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It's telling, isn't it, that this Torres guy wasn't told by ChatGPT to start taking ketamine, but to increase his dose.

I can imagine dissociatives would be extremely conducive to thinking you're basically living in the Matrix, even before you started messing around with an AI chatbot.
 
yyaldrin

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Mr. Tea said:
Didn't Adam Curtis say in one of his shows years ago that there were text-based programs people were using for this purpose all the way back in the 90s?
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probably a very simple program that would return pre-programmed answers on questions? do you remember from which of his movies it was?
 
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luka said:
but i think it was the 60s not the 90s
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Both wrong - it was the 80s.

Edit - though as version points out, it was 20 years old by that time - crazy to think programs were already that sophisticated that long ago.

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BBC - Adam Curtis, Short Extract from BBC Horizon - Never Mind the Computer 1983 about the ELIZA program

Short Extract from BBC Horizon - Never Mind the Computer 1983 about the ELIZA program
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I like the comment he quoted from a woman user who said one advantage of it over a real therapist was that it wasn't going to try and chat her up...
 
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yyaldrin said:
probably a very simple program that would return pre-programmed answers on questions? do you remember from which of his movies it was?
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Yeah, it would obviously have been very primitive compared to what exists today, but users apparently felt that they got a real benefit from it all the same.

There's a clip here:



Edit: it was Hypernormalization, from a few years ago.

I was watching "HyperNormalisation" by Adam Curtis for the second time. In his segment on Eliza, an early example of a chat bot, I realized that Curtis makes a mistake in his interpretation of Eliza. For Curtis it's narcissism that makes Eliza attractive. Curtis levels the charge that Westerners are individualistic and self-centered often.
But when an interview with the creator Joseph Weizenbaum is shown starting at 01hr:22min, he never says that. He relates how his secretary took to it, and even though she knew it was a primitive computer program, she wanted some privacy while she used it. Weizenbaum was puzzled by that, but then the secretary (or possibly another woman) says Eliza doesn't judge me and it doesn't try to have sex with me.
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