MrMontyBurns

For me it's that there's less and less soul left in the internet. That trend started before LLMs, but now it also starts appearing in the real world as well. Seeing an AI-generated ad picture in the mall was kind of a wakeup call. So weird seeing the face of a girl that was generated. What about books, art, music? Real artists and creativity get priced out of our societies.

I asked it a rather simple logic riddle: 1. Both statements are true. 2. Only one statement is true. Which statement is trur, and why?

After failing to give the correct answer (saying both are true, because 1. said so), I first asked it to summarize combinations of truthfulness (which it understood, giving the 4 combinations), then started guiding it thorugh the "what ifs" of the riddle without revealing the answer. Still no success.

I quoted the output, where three statements were made by ChatGPT: - When both statements are true, only one of the statements are actually true - It is possible for both statements to be true and for only one of the statements to be true at the same time. - A statement can be not satisfied and true at the same time. It explained that all three of these statements are actually true, giving logical sounding reasons for each.

I revealed the answer (2. is correct OR neither is correct) and finally ran a few tests using a python function encapsulating the problem: def f(x, y): return (x == (x&y)) and (y == (x^y)) where x and y are boolean values. In my experience it can simulate python quite well, but even after adding 4 temporary variables to the function it still gave the incorrect answer.

I am convinced at this point, that ChatGPT is actually imcapable of reasoning logically. From 26 outputs (with a total of 16 possibilities), 0 were correct.

However, here is a poem of our conversation. It's creative side is what really impresses me:

We talked of truth and lies. Of self-deception and disguise, Of logic and AI. And puzzles that confound the mind.

We explored the contradictions, The paradoxes and permutations, Of statements that cannot be true, But still hold some hidden truth.

We grappled with the meaning, Of words and their demeaning, And tried to make sense, Of things that don't make sense.

Through it all, we searched for answers, To questions that never quite danced, In the light of reason and logic, But lingered in the shadow of doubt.

And in the end, we found, That sometimes the truth is not so clear, And the answers we seek, Are hidden in the questions we fear.

Sounding profound while having absolutely no logical awareness makes this technology quite deceptive in my eyes.

Something along the lines of

Face the world with an open heart and good things will happen / life will pay you back.

Asking someone to play cards on the train or simply gifting someone a smile can give you a positive feeling for the day. People usually mirror how you approach them, I believe being kind will make your life so much easier because others will respond with kindness (at least in the moment).

This one encouraged me to speak to strangers as I'm rather introverted and I've been carrying the idea in my heart for quite some time now.

They fulfill a task, if you want the short answer. No idea how to define 'task' here

Isn't that what psychiatrists are for? A friend of mine has sessions on a 2-week basis although he doesn't have any issues. His reasoning is basically that it's nice to have time to talk about himself with someone.

Any state is equally improbable. It's human judgement to tell something was special or not. If all states are all possible combination of numbers in a lottery, you just call 1 combination "I won" and all the others "I lost". Same thing applies to a cleaned up room, any arrangements of objects in it are equally probable, but the number of states you would call cleaned up are so much less than the messy ones, so you can say a cleanup up room is less likely than a cleaned up one (unless you do something about it :P) This is also the fundamental of entropy btw.

TL;DR By grouping states together (human choice), certain arrangements seem more probable than others.