<story><title>OpenAI Shuts Down Chatbot Project by Indie Developer</title><url>https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/openai-chatbot-gpt-3-samantha-shut-down-dilute-jason-rohrer-possible-misuse-2537388</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>option_greek</author><text>Humans barely agree with each other. Do you think are going to be persuaded by half baked chat bots like GPT3? (ya the cherry picked stuff looks good but rest is still not really there).&lt;p&gt;So far all OpenAI has done is generate more publicity (probably intentionally may be with an eye towards investors) by acting as if they are protecting the next nuclear weapon of some kind. Frankly, there is nothing to lose by not using their &amp;quot;ohh god its so dangerous&amp;quot; model.</text></item><item><author>jbuhbjlnjbn</author><text>I get the impression this story is warped quite a bit by the source Jason Rohrer.
If I understand correctly, the so called &amp;quot;censorship&amp;quot; were safety precautions for AI development.&lt;p&gt;The response of some posters seems to be to discard the safety topic alltogether as something &amp;quot;old&amp;quot;, that &amp;quot;neanderthals&amp;quot; do.&lt;p&gt;I think it is exactly those &amp;quot;curious&amp;quot; people AI research has to worry about most, who do not take the time to think about the consequences and possible outcomes of what they are doing.
Maybe a chatbot will not gain superpowers and take over the world, but it can surely do lots of other harm.
Then, when AI tech moves beyond narrow AI and includes more abilities, this will in fact lead to desaster, as the same careless people with the greatest &amp;quot;curiosity&amp;quot; will throw caution overboard as was the case with the narrow AI before...&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not a slippery slope, we are right in the territory AI safety researchers warn about for a decade now, write lengthy books about and try to create awareness for in the public and governments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SpicyLemonZest</author><text>I think any chatbot good enough that a guy can &amp;quot;turn it into a close proxy of his dead fiancee&amp;quot; is capable of persuading people, yes.</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenAI Shuts Down Chatbot Project by Indie Developer</title><url>https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/openai-chatbot-gpt-3-samantha-shut-down-dilute-jason-rohrer-possible-misuse-2537388</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>option_greek</author><text>Humans barely agree with each other. Do you think are going to be persuaded by half baked chat bots like GPT3? (ya the cherry picked stuff looks good but rest is still not really there).&lt;p&gt;So far all OpenAI has done is generate more publicity (probably intentionally may be with an eye towards investors) by acting as if they are protecting the next nuclear weapon of some kind. Frankly, there is nothing to lose by not using their &amp;quot;ohh god its so dangerous&amp;quot; model.</text></item><item><author>jbuhbjlnjbn</author><text>I get the impression this story is warped quite a bit by the source Jason Rohrer.
If I understand correctly, the so called &amp;quot;censorship&amp;quot; were safety precautions for AI development.&lt;p&gt;The response of some posters seems to be to discard the safety topic alltogether as something &amp;quot;old&amp;quot;, that &amp;quot;neanderthals&amp;quot; do.&lt;p&gt;I think it is exactly those &amp;quot;curious&amp;quot; people AI research has to worry about most, who do not take the time to think about the consequences and possible outcomes of what they are doing.
Maybe a chatbot will not gain superpowers and take over the world, but it can surely do lots of other harm.
Then, when AI tech moves beyond narrow AI and includes more abilities, this will in fact lead to desaster, as the same careless people with the greatest &amp;quot;curiosity&amp;quot; will throw caution overboard as was the case with the narrow AI before...&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not a slippery slope, we are right in the territory AI safety researchers warn about for a decade now, write lengthy books about and try to create awareness for in the public and governments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbuhbjlnjbn</author><text>Machine learning is synonymous with non-linear growth. So of course I think any chatbot will eventually have no problem persuading humans. 
The pivetal moment is when his persuation skills succeed that of the average human.
I have no clue how far away we are to that goal, but given accelerated growth, it will come rather sooner then later.</text></comment>