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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/03/gpt4-arrival-human-artificial-intelligence-blur/673399/>
"The question will be simple but perpetual: Person or machine? Every encounter
with language, other than in the flesh, will now bring with it that small,
consuming test. For some—teachers, professors, journalists—the question of
humanity will be urgent and essential.
Who made these words? For what
purpose? For those who operate in the large bureaucratic apparatus of
boilerplate—copywriters, lawyers, advertisers, political strategists—the
question will be irrelevant except as a matter of efficiency. How will they use
new artificial-intelligence technology to accelerate the production of language
that was already mostly automatic? For everyone, the question will now hover,
quotidian and cosmic, over words wherever you find them:
Who’s there?
At its core, technology is a dream of expansion—a dream of reaching beyond the
limits of the here and now, and of transcending the constraints of the physical
environment: frontiers crossed, worlds conquered, networks spread. But the
post-Turing-test world is not a leap into the great
external unknown. It’s a
sinking down into a great interior unknown. The sensation is not enlightenment,
sudden clarification, but rather eeriness, a shiver on the skin. And as AI
systems become more integrated into our lives, they will alter the foundations
of society. They will change the way we work, the way we communicate, and the
way we relate to one another. They will challenge our assumptions about what it
means to be human, and will force us to confront difficult questions about the
nature of consciousness, the limits of knowledge, and the role of technology in
our lives.
The above was written half by myself and half by ChatGPT. Perhaps you could
figure out which half is which if you parsed it closely or if you used an AI
text detector. But how sure are you? Do you have the time or energy to figure
it out? And in the end, how clear can you, or anyone else, be? We are entering
a big blur, and its challenges are practical as much as philosophical."
Via
The RISKS Digest Volume 33 Issue 66:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/33/66#subj5
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
