LLMs are spontaneously developing theory of mind and nobody knows why or how, meaning that now ChatGPT and the like are able to consider what the user is thinking, opening some avenues for actual manipulation. GPT-4 can solve 95% of ToM tasks that a 7-year-old could.
Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083
Sometimes I’m taking a shower in the morning before work, and I want to enjoy it but I know I can also lose track of time. So I just yell, ‘hey Siri, what time?’. Also when cooking, hands dirty, ‘hey Siri, thirteen minutes’ and she sets the timer
“instant knowledge of everything”, except people’s true intentions, that’s my point
Funny, but my point is that if humans could’ve always had the power of telepathy, we wouldn’t need to invent languages and probably neither create most of the ideologies, tribalism, or belief systems necessary to gather a group of people together as one. If we didn’t have the capability to hide our true intentions, we might’ve evolved to follow the person / idea purely because they make most sense
Wouldn’t it be a more honest world?
Nightcall by Kavinsky is just so good