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I'm not entirely sure what you mean here. People who are developing emotional connections to ChatGPT aren't devising/applying tests to...

Ok, my scenarios/what I am discussing is a potential future where they are actually indistinguishable from humans/sentient. I agree...

These aren't the same thing. For those, you are explicitly being promised something you aren't given. It's a lie. There's two basic...

See also: "Upload": a digital afterlife. But you didn't actually say what the problem is/why it matters. Maybe you intended it in...

I put the word in quotes because it's a word I don't subscribe to/think is irrelevant. In my view, if you are unable to detect/judge...

Evidentally you are unaware that chat therapy AIs exist, many not monitored. There is a growing awareness in the mental health field...

Different from @renormalize, I don't care about the semantics or criteria (there's nothing really to discuss about declared definitions...

Sure. A LLM is doing word association, repeating things it has heard based on context and probability. The basic/primary purpose is to...

This has been beat to death, but thought I would chime in that it actually does not matter whether the host knows what door the car is...

There might be a misunderstanding in the idea, trying to feed an AI with truthful information. Truth and lies are human concepts, which...

The AI will "believe" whatever most of its training data says. Majority rules. This is why I have no faith in AI and pay no attention...

Reynolds number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number Besides function, the shape/aerodynamics are dictated largely by a...

You can rewrite the force equation to f=w+ma to mostly avoid dealing with the concept of gravitational acceleration if it trips one up...

Instead of using those vague terms you should learn the simple formulas, and apply them.

If it's not obvious, do the math, systematically without any intuitive reasoning. Make sure you use a consistent sign convention. All...