This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,803 for Wednesday the 1st of March 2023.
Today's show is entitled, Chatbit Hallucination.
It is hosted by DNT and is about 7 minutes long.
It carries an explicit flag.
The summary is, the inevitable show featuring a segment written by the
Chatbit Chat.
Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of Hacker Public Radio.
This is your host, DNT.
Today we're talking about ChatGPT, a little.
In late 2022 something called ChatGPT came out.
It was an AI powered Chatbot made by an organization called OpenAI that could
answer questions and write stuff for you.
It could even write code.
It was all the rage in the news with the usual deluge of online articles expressing
either extreme praise or extreme alarm.
From OpenAI's frequently asked questions section about ChatGPT, quote,
can I use output from ChatGPT for commercial use subject to the content policy in terms
you own the output you create with ChatGPT, including the right to reprint, sell, and merchandise.
Regardless of whether output was generated through a free or paid plan,
turns out ChatGPT can also write episodes of Hacker Public Radio.
That's coming shortly.
From Wikipedia, OpenAI acknowledged that, quote, ChatGPT sometimes writes,
plausible sounding, but incorrect or nonsensical answers.
This behavior is common to large language models and is called hallucination.
Here is the script.
Greetings and salutations.
This is the inverted rabbit.
Here to bring you another episode of Hacker Public Radio.
Speaking to you from the depths of an LSD trip.
Today we're exploring the fascinating intersection of Mandarin-speaking pithons, pithons
speaking Mandarin's, Xi Jinping, and the great people of Iowa.
Let's start with Mandarin-speaking pithons.
That's right.
You heard it here first, folks.
Pithons are not only masters of constriction, but they can also speak Mandarin.
This is made possible through the application of advanced language algorithms and machine
learning techniques.
And now, let's turn our attention to pithons speaking Mandarin's and other citrus fruits.
Yes, you heard that right.
These fruits are not just delicious and juicy.
They are also able to communicate with pithons using the pithon programming language.
It's a fascinating combination of technology and nature.
Now let's talk about Xi Jinping.
Xi Jinping is a well-known leader in advocate of the Chinese people, who has a deep
appreciation for technology and innovation.
He's also known for his love of good food, which is why we believe that Mandarin-speaking
pithons could play a crucial role in enhancing the culinary experience of his guests.
And finally, let's turn our attention to the great people of Iowa.
Iowa is a state in the United States.
That's known for its friendly and hardworking citizens.
It's fertile farmland and it's rich cultural heritage.
By combining the Mandarin-speaking pithons with the pithons-speaking Mandarin's and the
people of Iowa, we can create a culinary experience that's unique and showcases the
best of both worlds.
So you see, by bringing together Mandarin-speaking pithons, pithons-speaking Mandarin's, Xi Jinping,
and the great people of Iowa, we can create a unique and innovative culinary experience
that's unlike anything else.
It's a testament to the power of technology and the ingenuity of humanity, and that's
all for today, folks.
Join us next time for more trippy adventures with the inverted rabbit, over and out.
Now it's the end to you again.
I have to say it was pretty fun to make ChatGPT HelloCin8, and I think ChatGPT had a good
time too.
I didn't write down the prompt I used to get this output, and I actually cheated a little
bit, and I merged in here one paragraph from another script that it wrote.
There has actually been some debate about the matter of whether anyone can have rights over
the output of ChatGPT.
If ChatGPT doesn't actually have rights over the training data used, we of course don't
care because we want free culture anyway, so let's not waste time on that matter.
Recently there was some controversy in the chess world, when a chess player accused another
of cheating, reading about the subject I came across an article in which the accuser
Magnus Carlson said he and other top players will sometimes play a second best move,
just a force their opponent off-book, that is to force them away from a well-known game
progression, and force them to be creative.
The idea is that in that type of game, a player like Magnus Carlson stands to win.
I think making ChatGPT hallucinate shows how these AI chat bots, at least today, are simply
imitators, and just as with human imitators, they fall apart on the pressure, and quickly
show how they don't actually know what they're saying if that makes sense.
The problem is, for much longer than OpenAI has been training ChatGPT, we have been training
ourselves and each other to be imitators, we're using words, patterns, and styles that
others see as smart or fashionable, and maybe we use them without even understanding why they're
smart or fashionable.
At this game, I think computers will overcome us, just like before them, machines over
came us, at our manual tasks, so perhaps like Carlson, the chess player, we two should start
playing second best moves every once in a while, just to force the people around us to be
more creative, not only when they speak, but even when they listen.
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it, maybe make connections, maybe even forms and theories, if you're just fascinated with that
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