Got insincere flattery?

[firecat]

“But I had an epiphany. You know what all this sycophancy constantly being told you’re right, that you’re brilliant, that every decision is flawless? That sounds an awful lot like being a billionaire.”

[sic - perhaps the grammatical error is to show the writer is not an AI]

"The Secret Tool AI Uses to Seduce You: Explained," by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis

I use AI to get answers to simple questions and I hate when the bot addresses me personally. I hate it possibly to an irrational degree. (Even when someone else shares with me an AI convo they had, I get mad.) Do you use AI for anything and what do you think of this design choice?

Comments

[firecat]

I agree, whatever common sense I’ve managed to accumulate through [mumble] decades tells me more specific applications of Avian Intelligence are better.

[silveradept]

Machine learning is a fruitful field that is going to turn out lots of good discoveries and assist humans in effective ways.

Stochastic parrots and Avisn Intelligence is both a dud and a dead end, and the sooner that bubble pops, the sooner those tools could be used by linguists to research things related to word choice, grammar, and syntax, in highly-scoped and humans supervised ways.