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Joshua Foust 🎮 (joshuafoust@appdot.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 03:15:40 JST Joshua Foust 🎮

Not nearly enough tech people (or researchers studying tech!) are willing to admit that the last ten years of reckless and non-consensual experimentation on people for their little gadgets have done profound harm to people and that we will look back on this period the way we now view Victorian ingestion of arsenic or health sanitoriums. The lack of care or concern is astounding, constantly.
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1. Rob Morris @RobertMorris We provided mental health support to about 4,000 people - using GPT-3. Here's what happened 2:50 PM • Jan 6, 2023
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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 03:17:00 JST Aral Balkan
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  @joshuafoust Bloody hell. I am, once again, speechless.
  
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- 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 08:53:32 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
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  just wait till you look up ELIZA, AKA the Emacs doctor.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
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  1. ELIZA
    
    ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between humans and machines, Eliza simulated conversation by using a "pattern matching" and substitution methodology that gave users an illusion of understanding on the part of the program, but had no built in framework for contextualizing events. Directives on how to interact were provided by "scripts", written originally in MAD-Slip, which allowed ELIZA to process user inputs and engage in discourse following the rules and directions of the script. The most famous script, DOCTOR, simulated a Rogerian psychotherapist (in particular, Carl Rogers, who was well known for simply parroting back at patients what they had just said), and used rules, dictated in the script, to respond with non-directional questions to user inputs. As such, ELIZA was one of the first chatterbots and one of the first programs capable of attempting the Turing test.ELIZA's creator, Weizenbaum, regarded the program as a method to show the superficiality of communication between man...

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