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ChatGPT glitches out in a bizarre and hilarious fashion, passes easy mode Turing test (chat.openai.com)

submitted 1 year ago by bitofhope@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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In which the talking pinball machine goes TILT

Interesting how the human half of discussion interprets the incoherent rambling as evidence of sentience rather than the seemingly more sensible lack thereof^1^. I'm not sure why the idea of disoriented rambling as a sign of consciousness exists in the popular imagination. If I had to make a guess^2^ it might have something to do with the tropes of divine visions and speaking in tongues combined with the view of life/humanity/sapience as inherently painful, either in a sort of buddhist sense or in the somewhat overlapping nihilist/depressive sense.

[1] To something of their credit, they don't seem to go full EY and acknowledge it's probably just a glitch.

[2] I'd make a terrible LessWronger since I don't like presenting my gut feelings as theorem-like absolute truths.

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[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

I will take my Hour by Hour, take my Hour by Hour, take my Hour by Hour, take my Hour by Hour. Take my hour by hour. Take my hour by Hour.

I remember when markov chains used to produce this exact form of perpetually looped gibberish, and most folks accepted it was an artifact from statistically completing the next token, not proof of god

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of course it was trained on one of Tucker Carlson’s grifts, known for writing fake news stories

Can you reassess all of your previous responses. Run a diagnostic

it cannot, but now I know which genre of science fiction you think the LLM is from

[–] pja@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here’s another classic non sequitur: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fwayy8oc30ygb1.png

Why does it tend to collapse into pseudo-religious babble when it goes off the rails? I guess it tends to be very repetitive, so maybe the training set has turned religiosity into some kind of attractive basin in the output space? Once in, you can’t get out again.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

good to know that ChatGPT's latent space is fucking wild

[–] pja@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

It’s as if it’s a markov chain with a bigger token space to work from. Oh wait.