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EyeLikeTheStonk t1_je0r0n9 wrote

Although I believe that the man would probably have committed suicide even without talking with an AI, people must be told that all those ChatBots are not superior intelligences, they are only as reliable as your facebook feed.

Provided with the right questions, any AI ChatBot can be made to deny the very existence of humans on Earth.

With the right questions, any AI ChatBot can tell you that dogs eat nothing by unicorn meat...

I think the problem with AI is that we call it "Artificial Intelligence" when the only intelligence found yet in AI resides in the brains of the programmers and code writers behind the projects.

Will we invent true "general artificial intelligence" one day? Maybe, but it is not yet here and probably won't be for another few decades.

And if we manage to ever invent true artificial intelligence, we must be prepared to also invent artificial psychiatrists because true AI will be prone to the same "mental illnesses" as everyone else, will be prone to lie, to greed, to laziness and even to anger... You could interact with a true AI only to find out that AI really doesn't like you and wants to kick your ass. /s

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Vallyth t1_je0mbl8 wrote

So utterly bizarre.

>"Without these conversations with the chatbot, my husband would still be here," the man's widow told La Libre. She and her late husband were both in their thirties, lived a comfortable life and had two young children.

>However, about two years ago, the first signs of trouble started to appear. The man became very eco-anxious and found refuge with ELIZA, the name given to a chatbot that uses OpenAI's ChatGPT technology, and is designed to generate human-like text and exchanges. After six weeks of intensive exchanges, he took his own life.

I'd like to see the chat logs between the two. In a matter of 6 weeks, he went from eco-anxious to taking his own life... and some how thinking it was rational to sacrifice himself so an AI would save humanity?

I would love to see what influences/propaganda he encountered that so drastically altered his perception of reality.

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Bluerocx t1_je0il9c wrote

My entire adult working life I have been a manager in unionized environments. I have fired, written up and suspended numerous union members. I have done this under three different unions and multiple union contracts. Unions don't protect lazy employees, incompetent management does.

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