I’ve been playing around with using ChatGPT to basically be the main character in Star Trek episodes. Similar to how I’d build and play a D&D game. I give it situations and see the responses.
It’s not mirroring. It comes up with what seems like original ideas. You can make it tell you what you want to, but it’ll also do things you didn’t expect.
I’m basically doing what all these other people are doing and it’s behaving exactly as they say it does. It’ll easily drop you into a feedback loop down a path you didn’t give it.
Personally, I find this a dangerously addictive game but what I’m doing is entirely fictional inside a very well defined setting. I know immediately when it’s generating incorrect output. You do what I’m doing with anything real, and it’s gonna be dangerous as hell.
Yes, I was writing a piece on LLMs and asked one about some of the ideas in my piece and it contributed something new, which was pretty interesting. I asked if it had seen that in the literature before, and it gave some references that are tangentially related. I'll need to dig into them to see if it was just repeating something (and also do a broader search). Still it was interesting to see it able to remix ideas so well in a way I would credit to a contributor.
This kind of thing I can see as dangerous if you are unsure of yourself and the limitations of these things... if the LLM is insightful a few times, it can start you down a path very easily if you are credulous.
One of my favorite podcasts called this "computer madness"
I’ve been playing around with using ChatGPT to basically be the main character in Star Trek episodes. Similar to how I’d build and play a D&D game. I give it situations and see the responses.
It’s not mirroring. It comes up with what seems like original ideas. You can make it tell you what you want to, but it’ll also do things you didn’t expect.
I’m basically doing what all these other people are doing and it’s behaving exactly as they say it does. It’ll easily drop you into a feedback loop down a path you didn’t give it.
Personally, I find this a dangerously addictive game but what I’m doing is entirely fictional inside a very well defined setting. I know immediately when it’s generating incorrect output. You do what I’m doing with anything real, and it’s gonna be dangerous as hell.