Artificial Intelligence Gpt Quotes

“But AI language models, being mere parrots, do not have communicative intent. They neither represent an individual perspective nor model the perspective of a potential reader. They language they emit is all signifier, stripped of significance; any significance we perceive is a mirage. In the line of 'Ghosts' in which my sister holds my hand, it might seem, at first glance, that GPT-3 is conjuring my perspective. But there's a problem with that interpretation--because what it described never happened. I don't remember any moment when we were driving home from Clarke Beach and my sister took my hand. And it's not just that. The trust is that I can't even easily imagine something like it; my sister and I were never so sentimental. Maybe that's why I found myself so attracted ot the line. it was a kind of wish fulfillment. Yet it wasn't true, which is the reason that, with each iteration, I kept deleting GPT-3's words and replacing them with mind. The machine-generated falsehoods compelled me to assert my own consciousness by writing against the falsehoods.

In 'Ghosts,' I diminished GPT-3's role over the course of the nine attempts, writing a growing proportion of the text myself. In the version of the essay published in The Believer, I gave GPT-3 the last lines. In the final paragraph, I wrote, 'Once upon a time, my sister taught me to read. She taught me to wait for a mosquito to swell on my arm and then slap it and see the blood spurt out. She taught me to insult racists back. To swim. To pronounce English so I sounded less Indian. To shave my legs without cutting myself. To lie to our parents believably.' GPT-3 continued, 'To do math. To tell stories. Once upon a time, she taught me to exist.' But after its publication and subsequent reception, I decided to revise the piece, reclaiming the last lines for myself. The revised version is the one in these pages. I wanted to make sure it came across that the essay is as much about what technological promises us as it is about the perversion, and ultimate betrayal, of that promise. GPT-3 couldn't satisfy me as a writer. That was, for me, the point.”
― Vauhini Vara, Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age