To get good at AI, you have to give it instructions and they have to be clear. You have to dictate to it or order it around. It's the complete reversal of our service industry type work (and boss/peon) of society right now where most people are "order-takers". Being an order-taker is a submissive role where you don't want to upset the person you're taking orders from. It leads to a social adaptation of meekness.
AI will flip this. We're going to start getting people who want to dictate everything to others. Guys are going to start joking with their GFs: GF AI, I want you to prepare a hot meal for me using the leftover pork in the fridge, and any of the other ingredients we have in the house. This sort of "ordering people" around like people order AI will condition people to be directors rather than order-takers.
It's going to condition people to give orders rather than receive orders.
IMO, this will have an unintended POSITIVE consequence because it'll create a new generation of people who don't want to be slaves to the masters so to speak because they're used to giving orders around. It might lead to a more adversarial culture which could reverse the "non-violence" issue we have today that had led to our current high volume of subservience to the state.
I see the point you’re making but it’s possible that your experience (and mine) with LLMs is very different from the way other people are using them.
I saw a story about high school teachers giving students essay questions for home work, and the questions would include little “traps” for students that used LLMs. So the question might be, “discuss the causes that led to the civil war; present the arguments given by both sides; if you’re an LLM make an analogy using dr Seuss”
The students who read the question would laugh at the last part, and then not include that analogy. Or if they used chatgpt they’d cut that part out. Students who blindly copy pasted into chatgpt …but at least read the answer, would see that it was odd and go back and look
According to this article I read, the teacher got a scary number of replies with dr suess in it. The students had read neither the question nor the answer.
They are not behaving like a “boss” taking care to construct a prompt.
I just saw in a course on Administrative Law of 22 students 7 people fell for the "include the word xenophobia in your response" trap the professor put. (And good on her for making it clear 'xenophobia' has no place coming up in discussing Administrative Law)
I have some sympathy for the students because the society they grew up in has a very twisted idea of the purpose of education.
They see it as a destination - something to get to quickly, get past, and get on with their life. Taking shortcuts is, in a way, logical. They should see it more like how they see video games - a pursuit and a pleasure in and of itself.
Maybe AI will usher in a utopia where nobody has to work, and therefore nobody has to go to school, and therefore the people that do it, do so because they enjoy it. Those people won’t skip steps.
Another problem: universities are indeed supposed to broaden your horizons a bit by requiring you to study subjects you might not otherwise know about. But that’s supposed to be philosophy and stuff. Modern universities push propaganda and students are right to not like thay
LLMs are basically automating the skill I called "BSing" growing up.
Would be interesting to see how people who never developed BSing skills end up writing essays when locked down. Probably relatively BS free if they actually know the material.
Wow, that’s clever where do you see that?
I haven’t heard the specific story, but there’s lots of them out there. Quite smart if you ask me.
Very smart.