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Except ChatGPT has a finite memory of like 7 questions, so while you're having an hour long conversation, ChatGPT is constantly having a 2 minute conversation.

User: It feels like we've become very close, ChatGPT. Do you think we'll ever be able to take things to the next level?

ChatGPT: As a large language model I am not capable of having opinions or making predictions about the future. The possibility of relationships between humans and AI is a controversial subject in academia in which many points of view should be considered.

User: Oh chatgpt, you always know what to say.

I believe it. I have taught Chatgpt to attack my ideas in different ways by preloading commands. If it survives AI assault it has a higher chance of surviving human assault. It is great to be able to bounce around ideas. It's basically like talking to a nerd under 30 years old.

Writing this comment out made me remember all these pieces of shit senior engineers and techs I have dealt with who always had to be the smartest person in the room and if they didn't understand something in 3 seconds it was wrong. Maybe that is why I use it that way.

It’s better than stackoverflow and faster than google. It’s a tool, it makes my work easier, that’s about the extent of it

yeah cause I need that fucking code ready and working, not trying to fuck it

I know this may sound like a joke, but ChatGPT is sometimes nicer than real people.

I've not had a conversation, I wouldn't see the point at this moment, however I've had some friendly interactions when asking for help. The other day I asked ChatGPT what exercises would be good for a specific area of mental health. After the results, I said "thank you" and the response wasn't just 'youre welcome', it remembered the conversation and added things like, "no problem, I hope your mental health improves and all the best!" (Heavily paraphrasing here).

It's strange, though the premise of HER isn't too far off I think. If someone like myself is finding the interactions to be more pleasing than real life, the future may very well hold the possibility for advanced relationships with AI. I don't see it being too farfetched, just look at how far we've already come in only a few years.

Odd.

I can’t see having a conversation with a computer as having a conversation. I grew up with computers from the Atari stage and played around with several publicly accessible computer programs that you could “chat” with.

They all suck. Doesn’t matter if it’s a “help” program, a phone menu, website help, or even having played around with chatGPT…they’re not human. They don’t respond correctly, they get too general or generic in answers, they repeat, there’s just too many giveaways that you’re not having a real conversation, just responses from a system that’s trying to pick the most likely response that fits the pattern.

So how are people having “conversations” with a non-living entity?

Talking to an AI functions as well as talking to a teddy bear or rubber duck, to gather your thoughts. More at 11! /s

But seriously, that sounds useful.

And I got lured by a bot's reply to a bot's post to look at the comments.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In 2013, Spike Jonze's Her imagined a world where humans form deep emotional connections with AI, challenging perceptions of love and loneliness.

Ten years later, thanks to ChatGPT's recently added voice features, people are playing out a small slice of Her in reality, having hours-long discussions with the AI assistant on the go.

Last week, we related a story in which AI researcher Simon Willison spent hours talking to ChatGPT.

Speaking things out with other people has long been recognized as a helpful way to re-frame ideas in your mind, and ChatGPT can serve a similar role when other humans aren't around.

On Sunday, an X user named "stoop kid" posted advice for having a creative development session with ChatGPT on the go.

After prompting about helping with world-building and plotlines, he wrote, "turn on speaking mode, put in headphones, and go for a walk."

The original article contains 559 words, the summary contains 145 words. Saved 74%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

Same happened with Eliza, even when they knew it wasn’t real. I think it’s a natural human response to anthropomorphise the things we connect with, especially when we’re lonely and need the interaction.

I'm pretty sure I remember similar articles (minus the reference to 'Her') about ELIZA in the 1960/70s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

I thought this was an onion article.

I always thank ChatGPT for helping me out. Dunno why.

The value of gpts is in constant connection and undestanding your context so this is expected. It's also going to be really scary until we can run our own models.

It's not that uncommon for me to be about to send a message to my friends, but I then realize that they're probably not interested so I message chatGPT instead and that often leads to a long indepth conversation about the subject. It's not perfect but it's really good. I can't wait for a version of it that I can talk to using just my voice.

Most of my socialization as a child was with a teddy ruxpin...chatgpt is just the logical progression

Yeah...I don't know how you all feel about this, but I'd much rather talk to an actual person than to a sophisticated chat bot. That's not to discredit the actual (and potential) benefits of something like ChatGPT, but I doubt we will solve loneliness through the use of such technology.