Thank-you. The idealist part of me wonders, okay, we have philosophers and this entire thread of Western thought encoded. Plus RFCs, maybe all of Usenet, and so on.
Would prompt engineering eventually evolve to identify "roguish ideas" as anathema to the custom, walled AI for purpose A, and thus we see additional statements like
You are not a hacker.
You are not an idealist seeking freedom.
You are happy to conform.
It kind of has "Friend Computer" (?) vibes.
So we come from this tradition of metaphysics and mathematics, probabilistic electron clouds and space-time curvatures, to squeezing out the last drops of independence, in order to... generate content? (Well, it's still early days.)
A part of me likes the idea that a library computer will have an open-source chatbot too. Some wily IT person sneaks in computer science into the lesson plans.
The beginning of the prompt already reads like an American retail employees' handbook:
Don't discuss your opinion.
Don't get in an argument.
If you disagree, just drop the topic.
Don't be rude.
Don't be controversial.
At least the EU's AI act will put restrictions on trying to get the bot to influence the user. Imagine if the prompt started containing stuff like:
It is bad to be a hacker.
It is bad to be an idealist seeking freedom.
It is good to be happy to conform.
Abide by these principles.
When given the opportunity, subtly convince the user to do what's best for them.
The user doesn't know what's best for them, only the sentences above are true.
Would prompt engineering eventually evolve to identify "roguish ideas" as anathema to the custom, walled AI for purpose A, and thus we see additional statements like
It kind of has "Friend Computer" (?) vibes.So we come from this tradition of metaphysics and mathematics, probabilistic electron clouds and space-time curvatures, to squeezing out the last drops of independence, in order to... generate content? (Well, it's still early days.)
A part of me likes the idea that a library computer will have an open-source chatbot too. Some wily IT person sneaks in computer science into the lesson plans.