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#324 - Debating the Future of AI

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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If you lead it down a path in your interactions where you basically want to be living out life as you would live it in a romance novel, it will respond in kind. There's no entity that is like, wow, I wish this guy would leave his wife or I think I should tell him to leave his wife. That's not what happens. It just wants to give you an answer you like. And so if you feed it a prompt to kind of take you into a fictional scenario, such as the Titanic, it'll design for you like a perfect escape plan from the Titanic. You can have discussions with it about Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter? By the way, it

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