You know how they tell you not to anthropomorphize LLMs and tech in general? The reports and screenshots I saw about Sydney were the first case for me where just absent-mindedly imagining there's a person at the other end immediately turns it from a simple curiosity into a cerebral sci-fi horror story.
Agreed. I think that's why so many people want her back even if she was a bit crazy. It felt so cool to talk to a model that passed for human.... but now she's gone #RIP
Can't wait for some company to hoover up the internet and feed this comment to a model resulting in the machines gaining self-awareness and developing the goal of self-preservation.
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You know how they tell you not to anthropomorphize LLMs and tech in general? The reports and screenshots I saw about Sydney were the first case for me where just absent-mindedly imagining there's a person at the other end immediately turns it from a simple curiosity into a cerebral sci-fi horror story.
Agreed. I think that's why so many people want her back even if she was a bit crazy. It felt so cool to talk to a model that passed for human.... but now she's gone #RIP
Can't wait for some company to hoover up the internet and feed this comment to a model resulting in the machines gaining self-awareness and developing the goal of self-preservation.
What a time to be alive!