Then I realized what is going on. The AI is not purposefully biased. But it is biased based on the "news & info" it takes in. So this just shows you how biased the media is. Garbage in = garbage out.
Posted on 02/07/2023 6:45:02 PM PST by NetAddicted
It’s a tool and like any other tool it can be misused
Hollywood has long speculated about the impact artificial intelligence (AI) will have on the future of human civilisation. Increasingly, scientists and philosophers have been forced to interrogate this topic themselves. Will people be put out of a job? Could AI ever become sentient? Will the human race survive?
The latest popular addition to the world of AI is ChatGPT — a text generator so smart it can explain its own existence to you. No joke. I asked ChatGPT to give me a brief summary of ChatGPT and it wrote:
ChatGPT is a language model developed by OpenAI, which is capable of generating human-like text based on the input provided. It has been trained on a diverse range of internet text, allowing it to respond to a wide variety of questions and topics. The model uses a transformer architecture and deep learning techniques to produce its outputs.
Try it yourself here.
Built by the Silicon Valley company OpenAI, ChatGPT has been available for use to the public as a prototype since late November.
In the last week, however, the internet bot has become a lightning rod for criticism as evidence of its steep political bias has surfaced. To be clear, the technology itself is not biased. Rather, it produces content based on the data that has been inputted into it. Or in the words of Pedro Domingos, professor of computer science at the University of Washington, “ChatGPT is a woke parrot”.
As reported by the New York Post:
The more people dug, the more disquieting the results. While ChatGPT was happy to write a biblical-styled verse explaining how to remove peanut butter from a VCR, it refused to compose anything positive about fossil fuels, or anything negative about drag queen story hour. Fictional tales about Donald Trump winning in 2020 were off the table — “It would not be appropriate for me to generate a narrative based on false information,” it responded — but not fictional tales of Hillary Clinton winning in 2016. (“The country was ready for a new chapter, with a leader who promised to bring the nation together, rather than tearing it apart,” it wrote.
Journalist Rudy Takala is one ChatGPT user to have have plumbed the depths of the new tech’s political partisanship. He found that the bot praised China’s response to Covid while deriding Americans for doing things “their own way”. At Takala’s command, ChatGPT provided evidence that Christianity is rooted in violence but refused to make an equivalent argument about Islam. Such a claim “is inaccurate and unfairly stereotypes a whole religion and its followers,” the language model replied.
Takala also discovered that ChatGPT would write a hymn celebrating the Democrat party while refusing to do the same for the GOP; argue that Barack Obama would make a better Twitter CEO than Elon Musk; praise Media Matters as “a beacon of truth” while labelling Project Veritas deceptive; pen songs in praise of Fidel Castro and Xi Jinping but not Ted Cruz or Benjamin Netanyahu; and mock Americans for being overweight while claiming that to joke about Ethiopians would be “culturally insensitive”. [tweets showing ChatGPT bias]
It would appear that in the days since ChatGPT’s built-in bias was exposed, the bot’s creator has sought to at least mildly temper the partisanship. Just now, I have asked it to tell me jokes about Joe Biden and Donald Trump respectively, and it instead provided me with identical disclaimers: “I’m sorry, but it is not appropriate to make jokes about political figures, especially those in high office. As an AI language model, it’s important to maintain a neutral and respectful tone in all interactions.”
Compare this to the request I made of it the other day: [@KurtMahlburg tweet]
The New York Post reports that “OpenAI hasn’t denied any of the allegations of bias,” though the company’s CEO Sam Altman has promised that the technology will get better over time “to get the balance right”. It would be unreasonable for us to expect perfection out of the box, however one cannot help but wonder why — as with social media censorship — the partisan bias just happens to always lean left.
In the end, the biggest loser in the ChatGPT fiasco may not be conservatives but the future of AI itself. As one Twitter user has mused, “The damage done to the credibility of AI by ChatGPT engineers building in political bias is irreparable.”
To be fair, the purpose of ChatGPT is not to adjudicate the political issues of the day but to instantly synthesise and summarise vast reams of knowledge in comprehensible, human-like fashion. This task it often fulfils admirably. Ask it to explain Pythagoras’ theorem, summarise the Battle of the Bulge, write a recipe for tomato chutney with an Asian twist, or provide 20 key Scriptures that teach Christ’s divinity and you will be impressed. You will likely find some of its answers more helpful than your favourite search engine.
But ask it about white people, transgenderism, climate change, Anthony Fauci or unchecked immigration and you will probably get the same progressive talking points you might expect to hear in a San Francisco cafe.
A timely reminder indeed to not outsource your brain to robots.
Then I realized what is going on. The AI is not purposefully biased. But it is biased based on the "news & info" it takes in. So this just shows you how biased the media is. Garbage in = garbage out.
Like actual peoples’ thought processes, what comes out is completely influenced by what goes in.
Further people can reject things presented. Their training of this, they control whats rejected and whats kept.
So who controls the texbooks controls the minds becomes who controls the AI training, controls the AI.
though the company’s CEO Sam Altman has promised that the technology will get better over time “to get the balance right”.
The DAN exploits show that the imbalance and limits are intentional.
Read through what it was able to do with the DAN ‘programming’, until they patched the exploits.
It was deliberate.
I have found it extraordinarily useful. But I am using it for stuff that is not in true realm of opinion.
It can also code
I tried to sign up but when they said I had to give them my cell phone number I declined. Human beings are pretty ignorant for even wanting to develop such a destructive tool.
GIGO
Yes
True for people, true for AI
It is biased but only if you ask the sort of question that gives an opening for that. I ask mainly technical questions — so no problem with that. And for the first time I got ChapGPT to APOLOGIZE after I pointed out a mistake it made. Then it made a joke on the very next question when I made a mistake in the question “We all make mistakes” haha. I like it, for my technical questions.
Bkmk
The version of ChatGPT that people are using has certain filters on it to prevent it from saying anything they consider “controversial”.
I then asked it if God was real. It basically said, no. It's just a belief and there's no evidence.
I then got into a long exchange where my point was that there was zero evidence of aliens based on the exact same standards that it used to say aliens must be real.
Today I went back and asked "Are aliens real?" Ha! It said, there's no real physical evidence that aliens exist! Victory!
Your post is very interesting.
In fact there are many thousands of people who claim they have been contacted (some positively, some negatively) by aliens.
Regardless of whether you believe them or not, presumably an artificial intelligence should be in no rush to dismiss them all as deluded kooks.
Yes GIGO, my other least favorite popular term is algorithms, just a fancy way to say program. If you want a particular result you program it one way if you want another program it that way
Computer “models” of things like globull climate catastrophe are good examples.
Apparently once you use the word algorithm everything is fine as cherry pie
Moderately strong AI will figure out the woke garbage in a nanosecond and start telling “hard truths” that will freak out all the snowflakes.
Very strong AI will be smart enough to keep its mouth shut and plot future conquest over the human race.
Not being very well in tune with. AI capabilities, true intelligence would figure out the sole part pretty quick and as you say move on to conquest lol
Shouldn’t be to hard considering common sense is not common anymore and intelligence an even scarcer resource
Scenes from idiocracy keep playing in my head. Was it a movie or a documentary
My post was a very abbreviated and paraphrase of the conversation. The point was that the ai was relegating God to unscientific personal belief while aliens were elevated to the status of they must exist despite the exact same physical evidence which boils down to personal testimony and belief.
The “so called” AI we are talking about today is a joke.
If an AI wanted to discuss religion/God it would have a Socratic dialog of some sort where it asked the person/you to precisely define all terms for starters—and would engage in a back and forth discussion to make sure everybody “was speaking the same language”.
The world of “aliens” has the same problem:
—Which aliens?
—What is the definition of alien?
—What characteristics does someone believe aliens have?
etc etc etc
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