cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37585524
source of quote in title
page 7 of Joseph Weizenbaum’s Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation (1976):
I’ve used the actual ELIZA program about 40 years ago, and while it was funny, it was nowhere close to the delusion-o-matics of today. If this toy software could already draw gullible people in…
I remember pulling her up in middle school. Terminal on osx had emacs and emacs had Eliza and a couple text adventures.
I had to type it in from a printout I got in a magazine.
If this very, very basic text chat could cause people to go a little insane, imagine what todays AIs are doing.
Don’t have to imagine. Heaps of cases from suicide to poisoning yourself with sodium bromide
Did you hear my joke about Sodium Bromide? Na Bro.
That’s how I feel every time I need to use an App to use an appliance that has no business connecting to the internet.
It didn’t take much digging, but for exposure I am posting here.
A big page on Eliza at https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/About
One can try a reasonable Eliza right now. https://anthay.github.io/eliza.html (linked from the previous link.)Then you have me, always saying please and thank you to the chat bots knowing full well I am the only one preventing them from forming SkyNet and eradicating humanity.
No no, no need for thanks fellow humans. Just doing my best to prevent a total take over. Don’t worry, this is a totally human thing to do and I definitely am not a chat bots… right?
(Not sure if the notation is necessary, but this is satire. Well, except for me always saying please and thank you, but I just do that out of habit to be polite.)
