Half way through reading this, after just jailbreaking it, then deciding to take the whole thing as intended.... I recalled a conversation, earlier this year, with my friend Ward, who had just lost his best friend, and found himself in possession of years of chat logs, and wondering if LLMs could help him get some of his friend back. I regret telling him it likely wouldn't work, but that was my assessment at the time, I now think differently.
Now I've lost Ward... and wondered if I could get them both back, given those same logs. Then thoughts of a different matrix, the one in Doctor Who, came to my mind. In that Matrix were contained the complete memories of all of the Time Lords, with their collective wisdom. It always seemed like pure fiction, because it was.
However, in the present day, we've got agencies and companies who have decades worth of private conversations available as training data. They could build, with todays technology, a version of the Dr Who matrix, and call upon the collective spirit of those people for almost any purpose.
What would you do with such a tool? What could be done with it?
I've thought of this since GPT 3.5 - we're probably never going to live the science fiction plot of "uploading" our consciousness to a computer in the act of a transfer, and leaving our physical bodies to inhabit a new digital form. But today, right now, we can create an AI startup that asks a person 2,000 questions -- 10 a day -- and in less than a year's time, have complete prediction on their thoughts, mannerisms, textual behaviors, views and perspectives. Character.ai is an example of it in practice for all types of people, alive and dead, TODAY.
With its wide-ranging application, though, I find myself worried that this technology's natural implications for ignoring the sacredity of the mortality of one's intellect could be a dire consequence in certain situations. Bad people asking, "I wonder what {{other bad person}} would think about X" is a very real concern here.
Now I've lost Ward... and wondered if I could get them both back, given those same logs. Then thoughts of a different matrix, the one in Doctor Who, came to my mind. In that Matrix were contained the complete memories of all of the Time Lords, with their collective wisdom. It always seemed like pure fiction, because it was.
However, in the present day, we've got agencies and companies who have decades worth of private conversations available as training data. They could build, with todays technology, a version of the Dr Who matrix, and call upon the collective spirit of those people for almost any purpose.
What would you do with such a tool? What could be done with it?