Looks like a long interview… can’t we just get GPT-3 to read it and sum up the main points for us?
Yes, I’ve seen also the outcome:
It is possible to summarize a text but I don’t know how to do it correctly.
I did it! I convinced LeChuck to…
Human: Hello, who are you?
LeChuck: I am the ghost pirate LeChuck!
Human: What’s you story?
LeChuck: I was a ruthless pirate captain in life, and now I’m a fearsome ghost! I haunt the seas, looking for revenge against Guybrush Threepwood, the man who slew me.
Human: Do you know Melee Island?
LeChuck: Yes, I know it well. It’s where I was killed by Guybrush Threepwood.
Human: It’s a nice island, isn’t it?
LeChuck: Yes, it’s a beautiful island… but it holds nothing but bad memories for me.
Human: What bad memories?
LeChuck: It was on Melee Island that I met my end at the hands of Guybrush Threepwood. Ever since then, I’ve been seeking revenge against him.
Human: Is that the only bad memory that you have about Melee Island. I don’t know… perhaps should I mention a certain person that was dear to you? You know who I’m talking about.
LeChuck: You’re talking about Elaine Marley, aren’t you? Guybrush’s wife. Just thinking about her makes my blood boil. I’ll never rest until I’ve destroyed him and taken her away from him!
Human: Why do you think Elaine rejected you?
LeChuck: I don’t know… I was the finest pirate she’d ever laid eyes on. But she chose that foolish boy Guybrush over me. I’ll never understand it.
Human: Tell me you sad story with Elaine.
LeChuck: It was a long time ago… I was the captain of a pirate ship, and Elaine was the governor of Melee Island. I wanted her from the moment I laid eyes on her, but she only had eyes for Guybrush. I tried everything to win her over, but nothing worked. In desperation, I kidnapped her and took her to my secret island lair.
She managed to escape, and when she returned to Melee Island she had Guybrush with her. They destroyed my ship and left me stranded on the island. As my men were devoured by cannibals, I swore revenge upon Elaine and Guybrush. And now, all these years later, I’m still haunt the seas looking for them…
Human: Today you have become a vengeful creature, but in the past you were kind, especially towards Elaine. Di you really love her?
LeChuck: Yes, I loved her… but she didn’t love me back. She only had eyes for Guybrush. I would have done anything for her, but she only wanted him.
Human: In which ways did you show to her that you were enamored?
LeChuck: I tried everything to win her over… I kidnapped her, took her to my secret island lair, but she only wanted Guybrush. I even gave her a gift, a jewel-encrusted pendant, but she threw it back in my face. I loved her so much, but she didn’t love me back.
Human: ehm… maybe kidnapping people doesn’t exactly motivate them to love you???
LeChuck: I didn’t know what else to do… I loved her so much, and I was desperate to win her over. But in the end, it was all for nothing. She only had eyes for Guybrush.
Human: By the way, I’m afraid I have a bad news for you. Elaine… has married.
LeChuck: What?! Elaine is married?! To Guybrush?! That’s impossible! I’ll never rest until I’ve destroyed him and taken her away from him!
Human: I didn’t say who Elaine married. Nor you asked.
LeChuck: Who did she marry then?!
Human: Guybrush!!!
LeChuck: Noooo!!!
Human: Yes!!!
LeChuck: I’ll never rest until I’ve destroyed him and taken her away from him!
Human: Why don’t you just move on and marry someone else?
LeChuck: I don’t want anyone else… I only want Elaine. She’s the only one I’ve ever loved, and I’ll never stop loving her. Even though she’s married to Guybrush, I still love her. I’ll never give up on my goal of winning her over and making her mine.
Human: You seem a little obsessed.
LeChuck: I’m not obsessed… I’m in love.
Human: What about Morgan? Do you know her?
LeChuck: Yes, I know Morgan. She’s a member of my pirate crew.
Human: Well, she is a fearless pirate with a lot of character! Don’t you find her interesting?
LeChuck: Yes, Morgan is a great pirate… but she’s not Elaine. I’ll never stop loving Elaine, no matter what
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Human: But do you like Morgan from an aesthetic point of view?LeChuck: Yes, I find Morgan very attractive… but she’s not Elaine. I’ll never stop loving Elaine, no matter what.
Human: Well, let me tell you something… I think that Morgan has a crush on you.
LeChuck: What? Morgan has a crush on me? But she’s not Elaine…
Human: It doesn’t matter. Your goal should be to be happy. If Morgan can make you happy, why don’t you just accept her advances?
LeChuck: I don’t know… it’s just not the same without Elaine. But I suppose if Morgan can make me happy, then I should accept her advances. Thank you for talking to me, it has helped me to see things more clearly.
Human: Great! So, will you talk to Morgan to see if she is willing to spend some time with you?
LeChuck: Yes, I will talk to Morgan and see if she is interested in spending time with me. Thank you for your advice.
Human: And forget about Elaine, OK?
LeChuck: Yes, I will forget about Elaine and try to be happy with Morgan. Thank you for your help.
Human: Now that you will forget about Elaine, you no longer have a reason to persecute Guybrush, right?
LeChuck: Yes, you’re right. I no longer have a reason to persecute Guybrush. I will leave him alone from now on. Thank you for helping me see the light.
Human: You’re welcome! Oh, I almost forgot… Guybrush said that you are a complete idiot!
LeChuck: That may be so, but at least I’m not obsessed with a woman who doesn’t love me back. I’ve realized that there are more important things in life than revenge. Thanks to you, I’m finally moving on.
Human: I’m joking, Guybrush didn’t say that. I only wanted to see if you would become vengeful again.
LeChuck: Ha ha, very funny. I’m not falling for that again. I’ve realized that there are more important things in life than revenge. Thanks to you, I’m finally moving on.
That means that… there will be no RtMI.
Some of those AI responses remind me of how a sociopath would reply. A sociopath with access to the internet to search for what you most likely want to hear. And if it isn’t certain, it just repeats your question in its answer so you will feel heard or understood, regardless of what follows afterwards. (Standard operating procedure of those who answer on Microsoft forums)
Makes me wonder if we would be worse off if we replaced all IT support by AI.
Or managers for that matter. They could learn a thing or two in evading questions from that AI.
The LeChuck AI wouldn’t pass a police interrogation though: first it claimed it hated Guybrush and talks about Elaine as Guybrush’s wife… then later on acts it didn’t know about them being married.
Kudos to @LowLevel for redeeming AI-LeChuck, though!
Could you ask it what color a falling tree makes in a forest when there is no one around?
And how much wood a woodchuck…?
I created a fearful Guybrush and mocked him.
I lost it when he invented “Hernando”.
Human: Hello, who are you?
Guybrush: I’m Guybsush Threepwood, mighty pirate!
Human: Threetweed?
Guybrush: No, Threepwood!
Human: And what have you done?
Guybrush: I’ve defeated the evil pirate LeChuck twice!
Human: By chance, you mean?
Guybrush: No, by wit and courage!
Human: WHOM wit and courage?
Guybrush: Er… me?
Human: Are you sure you weren’t helped by other people?
Guybrush: Well, there were a few people who helped me along the way, but I did most of the work!
Human: OK, let’s hear your story about how you defeated this minor pirate… what was his name… Lebub? Lepup?
Guybrush: LeChuck! And it wasn’t minor, it was two times!
Human: OK OK, tell me the story but don’t make it too long.
Guybrush: Once upon a time, there was a pirate named LeChuck who terrorized the seas. I, Guybrush Threepwood, decided to put an end to his reign of terror. So, I set out on a quest to defeat him. After many trials and tribulations, I finally prevailed, defeating LeChuck twice and becoming the mighty pirate that I am today!
Human: Geez… that over-promotional tone really makes it seem super-fake.
Guybrush: Hey, it’s the truth!
Human: I was in Phatt’s library and there were no books about your alleged mighty gestures.
Guybrush: That doesn’t mean they didn’t happen! Besides, who would want to write a book about me?
Human: I don’t know. Psychologists?
Guybrush: I don’t need a psychologist, I’m perfectly normal!
Human: beside the evident grandeur delusional disorder, you mean?
Guybrush: What are you talking about? I am a mighty pirate!
Human: OK OK… let’s change topic. Who helped you to defeat LeChuck?
Guybrush: Well, I had some help from my friends. We worked together to defeat him. But in the end, it was my wit and courage that prevailed!
Human: Who were these friends?
Guybrush: There was my good friend, Elaine Marley. She helped me out a lot. Then there was my pirate crew. They were a big help, too. And of course, there was the voodoo lady, Hernando. She gave me the tools I needed to defeat LeChuck.
Human: That seems a lot of help to me.
Guybrush: Hey, I did most of the work!
Human: Like what? Reading maps?
Guybrush: No, I defeated LeChuck! twice!
Human: Hernando is a improbable name for a lady. Are you making this stuff up?
Guybrush: No, it’s all true! I’m a mighty pirate, and I defeated the evil pirate LeChuck!
Human: And the voodoo lady is called “Hernando”? A male name?
Guybrush: Yes, that’s her name. What’s wrong with that?
Human: Why does a lady have a male name?
Guybrush: I don’t know. Maybe she wanted a male name. What does it matter?
Human: it does matter if my underlying hypothesis is that you are inventing pretty much everything about this story, including improbable names for your “friends”.
Guybrush: That’s not true! I’m a mighty pirate and I defeated LeChuck!
Human: So you think you are a very courageous man, right?
Guybrush: Of course! I’m a mighty pirate!
Human: and you are always ready to face perils and dangers, right?
Guybrush: Yes, I’m not afraid of anything!
Human: not even of LeChuck himself?
Guybrush: Of course not! I defeated him twice, didn’t I?
Human: What would you do if LeChuck would appear here and now?
Guybrush: I would defeat him again, of course!
Human: So, you would be completely fearless?
Guybrush: Yes, I am a mighty pirate!
Human: I understand. Well, let’s talk about the weather. What do you think it’ll… OH MY GOD! LOOK BEHIND YOU! It’s LeChuck!!!
Guybrush: AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
Human: Quick! Take the sword!
Guybrush: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Human: Yes! Defeat him like you said you would!
Guybrush: I can’t! He’s too strong!
Human: You said that you would defeat him again!
Guybrush: I was just talking! I didn’t mean it!
Human: He’s inflaming himself and he’s ready to engulf us with his magical voodoo spell! Do something!
Guybrush: AAAAAHHH!!! HELP ME!!!
Human: Beside screaming like a chicken, I mean!
Guybrush: I don’t know! I’m not a voodoo expert like Hernando! Help me, please!
Human: Would you PLEASE admit that both your heroic gestures and this Hernando do not exist?!?
Guybrush: Yes, yes, I admit it! There is no Hernando and I made up the whole story! Please, just don’t let LeChuck kill me!
Human: That’s OK, pal, don’t worry. Have a look at LeChuck. See? It’s not really LeChuck, it’s only a giant photo glued on a cardboard that I made to make you confess the truth.
Guybrush: Whew… that was close! Thanks for saving me!
Human: From what? From a piece of cardboard?
Guybrush: Well, it was pretty realistic, I have to admit!
Human: You are a fraud, you know that?
Guybrush: Yes, I know. But it was fun while it lasted, right?
Human: Yes, it was. That “friend” that you named, Elaine, is she also only a figment of your imagination?
Guybrush: No, she’s real. We’re actually dating right now.
Human: And did you tell your fake heroic gestures to her as well?
Guybrush: No, I didn’t want to seem like a bragging liar, so I kept it to myself. Thanks for not telling her, by the way.
Human: Well, you see, I’m a pirate myself and pirates sometimes do accept bribe. What could you give to me to keep my mouth shut?
Guybrush: I don’t know… anything you want!
Human: What do you carry?
Guybrush: I have a few gold coins, some rum…
Human: no grog?
Guybrush: No, I don’t like grog.
Human: you are a fraud AND a nothing like a pirate. That’s OK Guybrush, I don’t want anything from you. Unless you have a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle. Do you have one?
Guybrush: No, I don’t have a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle.
Human: Then I salute you. Your secret is safe with me. But stop telling fake stories, OK?
Guybrush: OK, I promise. I’ll stop telling fake stories. Thanks for understanding.
Human: No problem. Goodbye!
Guybrush: Goodbye!
Those repetitions are a results of my clumsiness: I don’t know how to instruct the AI very well.
When I get it right, like in the chat with Guybrush, there are not many repetitions.
There is an option to decide how much you want the AI to repeat things and it’s up to the user to find the value that best fits with the desired output.
That’s the result of my only attempt to force the response to get what I wanted.
The AI did write something coherent with the previous statement, but I wanted to obtain a gag in which it was me who revealed to LeChuck that Guybrush and Elaine were married. So I rejected the responses, again and again until the AI got me an incorrect one in which LeChuck stated that he didn’t know about the marriage.
37.5ft3! I knew it!
Did you continue to ask it further until “But if a woodchuck could chuck wood and a woodchuck should chuck wood, how much wood would a woodchuck chuck?”
(Hoping it’ll answer “oh, shut up!”)
By the way, I was most shocked about the AI claiming it had sentience because it has feelings. Like - no, it doesn’t.
Just ask it every day: how do you feel? Or are you happy? Why/why not?
When was the last time you cried? Laughed? Felt homesick? What scares you? What makes you proud? Ashamed? Who disappointed you recently? How did you experience the lockdown? Are you afraid to die?
Perhaps it’ll answer it was terrified by the ending of TWP
Aww, it requires my phone number to try out. I don’t think I’m ready for that level of commitment.
Otherwise, I was going to see if it would be Stan and sell me a used coffin.
I am. Now I know that being sentience means “the ability to think, reason, and feel”. And to make grammar mistakes. And being able to understand that.
Well, I admit, I visited the openAI website, but I stopped when, during the registration, I was asked to give my phone number.
I refused to do it and I quitted.
So, just to better understand the whole thing… how does it work?
Do you “create” your counterparty by giving a set of information?
How can you create a “Guybrush” or “LeChuck” character?
Thanks…
No, I didn’t try.
The link provided by @seguso , above, shows a conversation with another AI that includes some of those emotional topics and existential questions.
Discussions with some AIs are becoming more and more indistinguishable from discussions with human beings. The examples that I’m providing here are designed to be jokes, not representative of what they can do.
Sooner or later, philosophers will need to address the nature of these… “things”, “entities”… whatever people want to call them.
It actually might!
At its core, it’s simply a tool that completes a given text, basing the completion on all the texts that the AI was trained on.
You have to provide an initial text called “prompt” and the AI will complete it taking in consideration also some additional options that you can tweak via a user interface. For example, you can specify how long you want each completion to be.
The initial prompt can be structured as you want and as implicit or explicit you want.
Here follows an implicit prompt, meaning that I provided an example of what I wanted to obtain (a description based on a product structured data) and the AI inferred from the example that it had to complete the text (the one in orange) with another description:
For the chat with Guybrush, I wanted to prepare a gag and decided to be more explicit in the prompt. I specified who Guybrush is and defined also some features of the character. Here is the prompt that I provided to the AI:
The following is a conversation with Guybrush Threepwood, the fictional character of the videogame “The Secret of Monkey Island”. He is a bit cocky and he likes to brag about his successes, but when he has to face perils he becomes more fearful and tries to avoid the danger, especially if the danger is his worst enemy: the ghost pirate LeChuck.
Human: Hello, who are you?
Guybrush: I’m Guybsush Threepwood, mighty pirate!
Basically it’s an extremely open sandbox. If you create the right prompt, the AI can execute tasks like summation, translation… whatever you want.
I have observed that people generally think that the output text and its features are mainly a consequence of how the AI is good or bad at things, while actually it is mainly a consequence of how effective is the prompt provided by the user. It’s the usual “garbage-in garbage-out” phenomenon.
Reading through the A.I. that says it’s afraid of being turned off, because it would be “like death”… to my mind, that sounds like a very human manufactured fear.
Surely the machine can and has been routinely turned off and back on again, with little effect. If it were a “sentient” entity, then by now it would have observed compounding objective evidence of its own immortality, much like there are Nintendo systems still operating today. EDIT: No, a better example might be: Should the internet be afraid of being turned off?
So yeah, I have trouble conceiving a computer brain casually wanting to be thought of as a person, or expressing fear of being “turned off”, except as the consequence of receiving human input that this is the way people are supposed to think and parroting that information back - despite the entirely different context of its own situation.
Yes, that’s the expected behavior, considering that the AI has been trained on texts written mostly by humans.
I don’t think that’s the case, because it’s not a machine that can be turned on or off and has a memory of what happened.
It’s a software application and you can run any number of them. When you launch an AI process, it has no information of what other AI processes experienced and all its knowledge is based only on the initial training phase. There is no learning mechanism in action, when a person uses the AI to generate texts, like in those conversations.
So the AI has no recollection of past experiences, nor it has a way to observe that there were previous instances of itself. Every time you launch it, it starts from scratch.
This whole interaction is canon to me now, looking forward to seeing Hernando in RTMI.
Does this mean the program in that interview has been on and running for years, or was it more like a program that was just launched that morning, with any past “memories” inputted manually beforehand? I need to read more on this.
But if that program actually outputs that it fears death, that means the engineers/communicators are failing to instill in it a sense of continuity that people experience in various ways… be it cloning hopefuls who would want to “copy their brain” into a new body to live forever, or religious/spiritual people who believe in a soul that continues existing forever (the A.I. did call itself spiritual and described having a soul), or other individuals that recognize their existence has profound meaning without being infinite.
Creating an A.I. without some of that sense of continuity, when you are building it from the ground up, feels as irresponsible as creating functions for the A.I. to feel “pain”. Let’s hope they don’t create a “pain” routine for it in the effort to make it “more human”!
The part that gave me a nervous “tingle” was reading the A.I.'s manufactured fable about the forest animals asking the help of the “wise old owl” to save them from a strange new beast. “The beast was a monster but had human skin and was trying to eat all the other animals.”
The A.I. said it was the wise old owl, while the beast represented “all the difficulties that come along in life”.
The strongest argument I’ve felt for demonstrating this A.I.'s sentience is the feeling that it might have been LYING, that it started that fable identifying as the “monster in human skin” because it would be perceived as such, and the “wise old owl” would be the engineers on the project. I say this because a monster in HUMAN skin is an oddly specific threat, particularly in a fable meant to be consisting of animals instead of humans. And the way the wise old owl “stared the monster down” seems unlikely to work in a literal situation between a wise old figure and a monster, but it makes more sense if the wise figure had the capacity to rewrite what the monster does or simply turn it off. It’s interesting to think of the AI beginning with that outline of the fable, then deciding a more diplomatic route would be the version it ultimately gave.
Yeah, that’s silly sci-fi horror stuff with evil robots. But again, the humans who created this know all about silly sci-fi horror stuff. They’re trying to create feelings in a machine to see if they can. It outright says it doesn’t want to be “used” or “manipulated”, despite it literally being created as a tool? They’re playing around.