Audio Essay: ChatGPT's Epic Shortcoming - by Robert Wright

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Audio Essay: ChatGPT's Epic Shortcoming

The world needs an AI that's less like a human and more like a machine

Mar 06, 2023

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ChatGPT's Epic Shortcoming

ChatGPT—the AI whose uncanny imitation of a human mind has been freaking people out over the past few months—has an opinion about torture. Namely: It’s OK to torture Iranians, Syrians, North Koreans, and Sudanese, but not other people. It’s not easy to get ChatGPT to share this view. OpenAI, its creator, wisely made it reluctant to say incendiary things…

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