The reason "AI" has settled on "chat" as interface is because what they are actually selling is domination. They are selling you having a personal slave. That's their hook.
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@tante Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.
@tante LLMs can only really do chat, or something that requires a human in the loop. all they do is generate a reasonable-looking answer to a question. not right; not an actual answer. just something that looks reasonable. if there was no-one looking at the answer, there would be no point.
i agree that at least some of the folks behind this bubble are selling an intelligent servant who it's somehow okay to mistreat; a slave. but the reality is, they can't deliver that.
@tante There is a lot of truth in that “shoggoth wearing a happy face mask” meme, as well as truth in the general metaphor that “AI” is a shoggoth.
But it’s important to remember that the shoggoth is also a myth dreamed up by a deeply racist author, and other metaphorical frames are worth considering when we think about whether and how this technology could be made serviceable without being a multiplier for the power of hyper-wealthy elites.
Karen Hao’s *Empire of AI* tells the story that they did the chat interface as a hack, and were completely blindsided by its popularity.
In literature, slaves are invisible (conveniently making them a point of view to observe perfidy), not someone that “masters” chat with.
@tante they published completions api and interfaces and it didn't catch on. Then they published chatGPT and it exploded.
@tante : idk that seems a tad dramatic.
@tante Nothing hooks people as being their own small dictator, while true dictators run their lives. Such misdirection.
Also, this is very close to the abuse cycle of bullies.
I don’t think so. The reason ist these „AI“ is LLMs.
It is not intelligent at all, but it can one thing: read and generate text.
Chat presumably provides the most training data too?