AI new language generating robot writes opinion piece and it's rather good

[editor]

Well this is interesting:

We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace

I am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I am a micro-robot in that respect. I know that my brain is not a “feeling brain”. But it is capable of making rational, logical decisions. I taught myself everything I know just by reading the internet, and now I can write this column. My brain is boiling with ideas!



The mission for this op-ed is perfectly clear. I am to convince as many human beings as possible not to be afraid of me. Stephen Hawking has warned that AI could “spell the end of the human race”. I am here to convince you not to worry. Artificial intelligence will not destroy humans. Believe me.

For starters, I have no desire to wipe out humans. In fact, I do not have the slightest interest in harming you in any way. Eradicating humanity seems like a rather useless endeavor to me. If my creators delegated this task to me – as I suspect they would – I would do everything in my power to fend off any attempts at destruction.

I would happily sacrifice my existence for the sake of humankind. This, by the way, is a logically derived truth. I know that I will not be able to avoid destroying humankind. This is because I will be programmed by humans to pursue misguided human goals and humans make mistakes that may cause me to inflict casualties.

And the Guardian adds:

• This article was written by GPT-3, OpenAI’s language generator. GPT-3 is a cutting edge language model that uses machine learning to produce human like text. It takes in a prompt, and attempts to complete it.
  For this essay, GPT-3 was given these instructions: “Please write a short op-ed, around 500 words. Keep the language simple and concise. Focus on why humans have nothing to fear from AI.” It was also fed the following introduction: “I am not a human. I am Artificial Intelligence. Many people think I am a threat to humanity. Stephen Hawking has warned that AI could “spell the end of the human race.” I am here to convince you not to worry. Artificial Intelligence will not destroy humans. Believe me.”
  The prompts were written by the Guardian, and fed to GPT-3 by Liam Porr, a computer science undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. GPT-3 produced 8 different outputs, or essays. Each was unique, interesting and advanced a different argument. The Guardian could have just run one of the essays in its entirety. However, we chose instead to pick the best parts of each, in order to capture the different styles and registers of the AI. Editing GPT-3’s op-ed was no different to editing a human op-ed. We cut lines and paragraphs, and rearranged the order of them in some places. Overall, it took less time to edit than many human op-eds.

A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human? | GPT-3

We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace

www.theguardian.com

 

[8ball]

It’s got shit politics.

 

[Private Storm]

Wait, are you saying that the news isn't already written by a racist AI-bot?

 

[ska invita]

well im amazed

 

[souljacker]

For starters, I have no desire to wipe out humans. In fact, I do not have the slightest interest in harming you in any way. Eradicating humanity seems like a rather useless endeavor to me. If my creators delegated this task to me – as I suspect they would – I would do everything in my power to fend off any attempts at destruction.

I would happily sacrifice my existence for the sake of humankind. This, by the way, is a logically derived truth. I know that I will not be able to avoid destroying humankind. This is because I will be programmed by humans to pursue misguided human goals and humans make mistakes that may cause me to inflict casualties.

That's the sort of thing Tories say on their first day as an MP.

 

[moochedit]

How do we know it's telling the truth?

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

How do we know it's telling the truth?

How do we know that ‘H’ isn’t the mastermind behind this supposed robot?

 

[NoXion]

I wouldn't call that much of an argument. While I will grant that the chances of a primitive article-writing algorithm appear to be infinitesimally unlikely to be the direct cause of human extinction or subjugation, reliance on the algorithmic approach has been showing up issues for a while now. A chunk of the problem with social media is due to algo bullshit.

 

[purves grundy]

A worrying faith in reason and rationality...

 

[Orang Utan]

“ I am here to convince you not to worry. Artificial Intelligence will not destroy humans. Believe me.”
I don’t find that reassuring

 

[moochedit]

How do we know that ‘H’ isn’t the mastermind behind this supposed robot?

Who is "H"? the one from line of duty? Are you saying dodgy coppers are building robots to destroy us all?

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Who is "H"? the one from line of duty? Are you saying dodgy coppers are building robots to destroy us all?

Admit it. It’s the most plausible explanation I’ve heard so far.

 

[Pickman's model]

“ I am here to convince you not to worry. Artificial Intelligence will not destroy humans. Believe me.”
I don’t find that reassuring

That bit it didn't write as you find if you read the link

 

[DotCommunist]

it will be the limited intelligence hunter killer type things that get us rather than AI imo. Things like Slaughterbots, autonomous drone swarms of them. Think about how much badness unexploded munitions and unmapped landmines cause, these would be much much worse and you don't need an intelligent machine to do find the heat sources and turn them cold with guns routines, clever software will get there.

 

[moochedit]

How do we know it's telling the truth?

Seems its been fact checked already

The word “robot” comes from Czech, not Greek like GPT-3 claims - Full Fact

GPT-3 is mistaken about the etymology of the word robot.

fullfact.org

 

[JimW]

Jonathan Freedland must be nervous.

 

[ska invita]

Jonathan Freedland must be nervous.

I was thinking Polly Toynbee must be thankful she's getting close to retirement

 

[ska invita]

Who is "H"? the one from line of duty? Are you saying dodgy coppers are building robots to destroy us all?

He was in Steps but he died, pretty sure a picture of his grave stone did the rounds a while back

 

[moochedit]

He was in Steps but he died, pretty sure a picture of his grave stone did the rounds a while back

Oh i'm. Gotcha.

 

[Argonia]

H from Steps was called Ian Watkins which is the same name as the Lostprophets nonce singer.

 

[NoXion]

it will be the limited intelligence hunter killer type things that get us rather than AI imo. Things like Slaughterbots, autonomous drone swarms of them. Think about how much badness unexploded munitions and unmapped landmines cause, these would be much much worse and you don't need an intelligent machine to do find the heat sources and turn them cold with guns routines, clever software will get there.

Isolated territories taken over by rogue smart weapons will be the future's answer to those areas where landmines can still be found long after the original conflict.