On speaking to AI

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I think--I hope, at any rate--that widespread use may help accomplish that demystification: The more people use A.I. with some regularity, the more broad familiarity they’ll develop with its specific and and consistent shortcomings; the more people understand how LLMs work from practical experience, the more they can recognize A.I. as an impressive... See more

Max Read • The A.I. backlash backlash

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Joe Smith • 2 highlights

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as conversational AI agents become more interactive and personalized, they will surpass human influencers in their ability to shape our decisions without us realizing it.

AI agents will outmaneuver salespeople by optimizing persuasion

“The kind of computing these LLMs are doing, this kind of intelligence, is just different. Is that an existential risk? Well, I come back to the fact that we have no idea how the human brain works.” It’s easier to imagine catastrophic things than see the opportunities, he points out.

That said, it'd be good to better understand when the transfer works and when it doesn't. Even better would be a memory system that integrates into my actual working environment. For instance, it could query me on Unix commands, while placing me at an actual command line. Or perhaps it would ask me to solve higher-level problems, while at the comma... See more

Michael Nielsen • Augmenting Long-Term Memory

Instruct your AI to adopt a persona to help address its lack of perspective.

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