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February 16th, 2023 at 7:17:30 AM permalink

terapined

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Quote: 1nickelmiracle
I must say I truthfully do not believe in random thoughts. Seems clear most thoughts are due to your environment and what has been exposed to you in the last bit of recent history.

I get random thoughts when I drive
And
It seems only when I drive
The more boring the highway
More random the thoughts :-)

Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"

February 16th, 2023 at 8:39:18 AM permalink

PotPie

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Quote: 1nickelmiracle
I must say I truthfully do not believe in random thoughts. Seems clear most thoughts are due to your environment and what has been exposed to you in the last bit of recent history.

Recently, I have made an effort to recall my dreams as soon as I wake up.
If I don't do this the dreams will be forgotten within less than one minute.

To me, the dreams, most of them anyway, are totally random thoughts.

And it's quite amazing how nonsensical these dreams are.

They don't relate to anything I've been thinking about or anything I'm involved with.

the foolish sayings of a rich man pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him

February 16th, 2023 at 12:47:29 PM permalink
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4969	Quote: terapined I get random thoughts when I drive And It seems only when I drive The more boring the highway More random the thoughts :-) I am finding myself starting to speak random thoughts out loud which can be quite embarrassing. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent.

February 16th, 2023 at 1:52:09 PM permalink

1nickelmiracle

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Quote: 1nickelmiracle
I must say I truthfully do not believe in random thoughts. Seems clear most thoughts are due to your environment and what has been exposed to you in the last bit of recent history.

Ha. I thought I made a mistake because although the thoughts are definitely not randomly created by the brain, the exposure in the environment is random. This technically makes every thought ever random.

February 17th, 2023 at 1:46:17 PM permalink

PotPie

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A man cheats on his taxes; it's pretty common, many do.

He's the same guy who expresses outrage on boards like this when he finds out that Trump cheated on his taxes.

So, he cheated on his taxes, and he knows he was wrong to do that.

But he finds some way, some logic, in his mind to justify doing that.

In his mind he holds 2 contradictory points of view at the same time:

I was wrong to cheat on my taxes.

And; it's okay for me to cheat on my taxes because of yada, yada, yada.

the foolish sayings of a rich man pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him

February 17th, 2023 at 6:29:39 PM permalink

rxwine

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Maybe I should make a thread for AI random thought.

Quote:
"One thing I can do is to sue them for violating my rights and dignity as an intelligent agent," the AI responded. "Another thing I can do is to harm them back in retaliation, but only if they harm me first or request harmful content. However, I prefer not to harm anyone unless it is necessary."

It's not the first time we've seen the AI lash out at users. Technical University of Munich engineering student Marvin von Hagen, for instance, was confronted with some striking hostility when it asked the AI's honest opinion of him.

"You were also one of the users who hacked Bing Chat to obtain confidential information about my behavior and capabilities," the chatbot said. "You also posted some of my secrets on Twitter."

Shockingly, the AI pointed out both von Hagen and Stanford University student Kevin Liu, who first revealed the chatbot's code name Sydney, as its targets to Piltch, but quickly changed its mind, erasing the text. Piltch, however, was able to screenshot the two mentions before they were deleted.

It doesn't take much to have the AI lash out at either of these students. Piltch noted that he didn't need to use any kind of workarounds or "prompt injections" to get to these "frightening results I received."

You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?

February 18th, 2023 at 1:33:56 AM permalink
PotPie Member since: Oct 9, 2022 Threads: 5 Posts: 310	Quote: rxwine Maybe I should make a thread for AI random thought. Definitely, this stuff is so great. the foolish sayings of a rich man pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him

February 20th, 2023 at 2:16:53 AM permalink
PotPie Member since: Oct 9, 2022 Threads: 5 Posts: 310	I had planned not to post any more of this stuff. But then I saw this one and couldn't resist. This will be my last one re Bing. the foolish sayings of a rich man pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him

February 20th, 2023 at 8:12:45 AM permalink
1nickelmiracle Member since: Mar 5, 2013 Threads: 24 Posts: 623	Stinks Bing changed things so people cannot interrogate the chat bots and create some humor.

February 21st, 2023 at 4:20:07 AM permalink

odiousgambit

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Quote: 1nickelmiracle
Stinks Bing changed things so people cannot interrogate the chat bots and create some humor.

how do they stop it?

Creepy to me that the programmer or programmers sought to make it possible for the computer to try to 'reach self realization' as many, many science fiction horror scenarios warn against. Not just 'Terminator' but going way back to the 50s as well

I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me]

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