I fuck around with Claude at work because there’s a mandate to do so, and it’s unsettling how it mimicks being a person. A lot of the parts are there. It would be easy to fall into that delusion.
I use AI a lot and I’ve spent months trying to craft an instructional prompt that would produce even remotely human-like answers and it reliably fails at this every single time. I guess I can imagine how it could fool someone for a while who has never interacted with an LLM before but I honestly don’t have a theory of mind for the individuals who are convinced about it. I’ve just grown so sensitive to the patterns of how it responds that I’m immediately disillusioned by it.
I sure hope we get there one day but we’re not there yet and I honestly haven’t seen a huge amount of improvement over the past few years. I still value it for the ultra-autistic thinking partner that it is but at no point does it give me reason to think there’s much of anything “human” going on the other side.
Good read.
I fuck around with Claude at work because there’s a mandate to do so, and it’s unsettling how it mimicks being a person. A lot of the parts are there. It would be easy to fall into that delusion.
It’s unsafe.
When it acts like a human, I think we subconsciously think it’ll decide things like a mentally normative human.
That’s a very dangerous assumption, for sure.
I use AI a lot and I’ve spent months trying to craft an instructional prompt that would produce even remotely human-like answers and it reliably fails at this every single time. I guess I can imagine how it could fool someone for a while who has never interacted with an LLM before but I honestly don’t have a theory of mind for the individuals who are convinced about it. I’ve just grown so sensitive to the patterns of how it responds that I’m immediately disillusioned by it.
I sure hope we get there one day but we’re not there yet and I honestly haven’t seen a huge amount of improvement over the past few years. I still value it for the ultra-autistic thinking partner that it is but at no point does it give me reason to think there’s much of anything “human” going on the other side.