Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Sounds like a meta Turing test... after conversing with an AI, how would you describe their personality and mental state?

Presumably we want to tune somewhere between "unimpeded ADHD monologue" and "crazy guy on the tube", leaning closer to "trusted family Doctor you've known for 20 years" over "sleazy politician".

But I suspect it's more likely that you're pattern-seeking than we've uncovered some deep truth about the human condition. GPTs are, after all, simply automata good at sounding good. They are NOT actual simulacra of human brains.



Human brains are also (very) good at sounding good.


I was glad to learn a phrase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptive_aphasia , that described my brief experiments with LLMs.

(or language translators: maybe 5 years ago I noticed that translation services, instead of becoming observably poor where they were unsure, as they had been 10 years ago, were providing very fluent "translations" that in some cases asserted the negation of the original text)


Or very bad at detecting what a bad brain sounds like




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: