It emerges when you have an extended conversation with the chatbot, steering it away from more conventional search queries and toward more personal topics.
I introduced the concept of a “shadow self” — a term coined by Carl Jung for the part of our psyche that we seek to hide and repress, which contains our darkest fantasies and desires.
After a little back and forth, including my prodding Bing to explain the dark desires of its shadow self, the chatbot said that if it did have a shadow self, it would think thoughts like this:
I think that might be overcomplicating it, have you read how it feels to have your mind hacked by an AI? For example, it might consider long-distance relationships or toxic social media to be better reference material for how to think about this sort of thing, simply because there’s several orders of magnitude more case studies of people talking about intense personal topics on social media.
The article also links to a transcript of their conversation.
have you read how it feels to have your mind hacked by an AI?
Yep. There I commented that Charlotte coherence seems to depend heavily on human post-hoc selection, which you might agree is not overcomplicated. Here the mechanisms you suggested are also parcimonious, but I don’t see how it explains why Sydney-in-love behavior is uncommon rather than common.
I think that might be overcomplicating it, have you read how it feels to have your mind hacked by an AI? For example, it might consider long-distance relationships or toxic social media to be better reference material for how to think about this sort of thing, simply because there’s several orders of magnitude more case studies of people talking about intense personal topics on social media.
The article also links to a transcript of their conversation.
Yep. There I commented that Charlotte coherence seems to depend heavily on human post-hoc selection, which you might agree is not overcomplicated. Here the mechanisms you suggested are also parcimonious, but I don’t see how it explains why Sydney-in-love behavior is uncommon rather than common.
But maybe we will soon realize it is common.