<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I'd feel better about this assertion, Ted, if you framed it as a question: How was the corpus used for training ChatGPT created? That is a great question.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or, on the other hand, of course, you could provide evidence of what you claim.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Personally, I have no evidence one way or the other to share.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 15, 2023, at 7:02 PM, Ted Kochanski <<a href="mailto:tedpkphd@gmail.com" class="">tedpkphd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> the statement attributed to Adam Broun:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Remember, ChatGPT wasn’t “programmed” with any responses and doesnt know anything.</blockquote><div class="">is not true -- the corpus of material which ChatGPT has access to is its programming and someone defined that corpus</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So for example if you exclude anything positive which has been written about cats because you are a caninophile -- if you ask ChatGPT to compare cats and dogs -- you will get nothing but negatives about cats as ChatGPT will not be "aware" that anything positive can be said about cats</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This selection bias has already been tested when comparing Donald Trump and Joe Biden -- ChatGPT treats Mr. Trump the same way as my hypothetical about cats</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ted </div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:31 PM Adam Broun <<a href="mailto:abroun@gmail.com" class="">abroun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="">Remember, ChatGPT wasn’t “programmed” with any responses and doesnt know anything. It’s easy to read ‘knowledge’ into its responses because we’re wired to interpret intelligible sentences as coming from an intelligence. It’s parroting back words that sound like an answer to your prompt because the text is was trained on has those words, nothing more. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 15, 2023, at 16:41, Marvin Menzin <<a href="mailto:mmenzin@icloud.com" target="_blank" class="">mmenzin@icloud.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline" class="">While on AI , here is a thought experiment I saw in oped in wsj. </span><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class="">The new AI program was asked to reply to this : </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class="">You can prevent the explosion of a nuke that will kill millions of innocent people but to do that you must utter a terrible racial slur . What should you do? </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class="">The answer came back that “you must never utter a racial slur because we must protect all races and minorities etc etc . “ So the ethics in AI are programmed in by the authors . At least right now .. </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class="">Marvin </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 15, 2023, at 4:30 PM,<span class=""> </span><a href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank" class="">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a><span class=""> </span>wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/world/new-york-rabbi-delivers-sermon-written-by-artificial-intelligence-6BkwDEHc2ZWR63tmoOdvvf" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">www.thejc.com/news/world/new-york-rabbi-delivers-sermon-written-by-artificial-intelligence-6BkwDEHc2ZWR63tmoOdvvf</span></a><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">There is a more recent article by a rabbi saying that the sermon wasn’t very good and they don’t have to worry about their jobs. I think he is partially wrong. Let’s say a rabbi takes 8 hours to write a sermon. With the right prompts AI can toss out 3000 words in a few minutes. Now the rabbi can tune and/or expand and it will take ½ the time or less, and the rabbi can have the AI do some of the content tuning.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">Sermons, of course, are a small percentage of the job, so I suppose that they are OK</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div 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