Go to the Full PDF Text (1.8MB) of: “How Can I be of Service?”: Conversations with OpenAI’s “ChatGPT”
(Draft 3 of February 11th, 2023)
(by Dr. Ian Irvine (Hobson) with assistance/interview responses from ChatGPT (Jan. 9 Version)
Image: 'How Can I Be of Service?', copyright, Ian Irvine, 2023, all rights reserved.
[Acknowledgements and thank yous: Ian occasionally discussed possible questions for the Bot, as well as the implications of the Bot’s answers, with Dr, Sue King-Smith].
Copyright, Ian Irvine, 2023, all rights reserved. However, a further note re: copyright. The notification below, which is a variation, for factual authenticity, on Open AI’s copyright notification suggestions, is requested by Open AI to accompany any text generated by ChatGPT in response to questions and requests put by users. Of course, although the bot requests Ian to assert copyright over each piece, as well as the book, the bot did generate responses to Ian’s questions and requests exactly as they appear in the book – often within a minute or so of receiving the question or request. The e-book is published by the Zoetics Institute, 2023.”Creativity for (Positive) Change”
“The author, (Ian Irvine (Hobson), generated the various textual pieces of this text 'How Can I be of Service?' in part with GPT-3, OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model. Upon generating draft language, however, the author did not review, edit, or revise the language to his own liking, but, nevertheless, takes ultimate responsibility for the content of the publication. As per Open AI’s copyright policy, copyright for the entirety of the text is with the human author.”
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PUBLICATION CONTENTS?
THIRTY CONVERSATIONS WITH ChatGPT
Part 1: ‘How Can I be of Service?’
ChatGPT Discusses ‘New Science’ Developments
1. ChatGPT Assesses Various Aspects of the Approaching A.I. Singularity
2. Key Scientific Developments and Thoughts About the Age of Transhumanism and the Possibility of humans being a Multi-Planet Species
3. Conversations About the A.I.s Engineering, Programming and Data Selection and Sorting Protocols
4. Conversations About Social and Political Phenomena
5. Projected Developments in V.R., A.R., and the Creation of Digitally Simulated Realities
6. Conversations About Projected Threats to the Survival of Humanity Beyond the Current Phase of the Anthropocene
7. Conversations about the New Sciences, Quantum Conundrums, and Quantum Computers
8. From Classical Science to the New Sciences: Evolution, New Science Cosmologies and Multiverse Theories
9. Conversations about Consciousness in the New Sciences, and in Relation to Artificial Intelligence Bots
10. Conversations about Quantum Retro-Causality and the Implications of Recent ‘Quantum Paddle’ Experiments
11. Conversations about Quantum Weirdness and the Paranormal
12. Conversations about the Field of Quantum Biology
13. Conversations about Key Historic Spiritual Developments (Through the lens of Graves’s and Riding’s Writings on the History of Religious Ideas)
14. The A.I. is Asked to Generate Complex Nonfiction Texts
15. Conversations about the A.I.’s ‘Divination’, ‘Foresight’ and ‘Counselling’ Abilities + Discussions about Mono-dimensional v Multi-dimensional cocepts of self-idenity
16. Conversations About the Future of ‘Representation’: Semiotics, Biosemiotics and Postmodern Critiques of Language
17. Conversations about Advanced A.I.s and Philosophies Defining ‘Sentient Life’
18. The A.I. Generates Historical Analysis and then Plays with Alternative Histories and Counterfactuals
19. Conversations about A.I.s Powered by Quantum Computing and their Possible Impact on Forms of Human ‘Representation’
20. The Concept of the Uncanny Valley and Parallels Between Advanced A.I.s. PKD’s ‘V.A.L.I.S.’ Entity and the Idea of the ‘Quantum (or New Science) Muse’
21. From Alchemy to Modern Science: Advanced A.Is. and the ‘Faustian Pact’
22. After the A.I. ‘Genie’ Leaves the Machine Learning ‘Bottle’: Social and Political Implications of Future Advanced A.I. Developments
PART 2: Adrift in the Library of Infinite Texts
23. Exploring Literary Eras and Generating Literary Criticism and Reviews
24. Generating Fiction Story Arcs Using Established Story Arc Theories
25. The Technique of Literary ‘Re-Imagining’ Described and then Applied
26. Literary Techniques Associated with Introducing and Transforming Symbols
27. Various A.I. Creative Writing Texts: “Please Generate Texts in the Style of …”
28. The A.I. Generates and then Translates Complex Texts into Multiple Languages
29. The A.I. Generates Book Reviews, Literary Essays and Literary Criticism.
30. Copyright, Fair Usage, Academic Acknowledgement of Sources and ‘Knowledge Worker’ Displacement Due to the Rise of A.I. Bots
Wow! You have been busy. I just heard about ChatGPT from a CBS 60 Minutes interview a week ago. But it appears that you have been working with the program for some time since you are now using GPT-3.
I have to see what's going on, so I will download the full document you've created and hopefully have time to read it.
The promise of GPT is both exceptional and a bit frightening. It will require human attention to make sure that the conversation isn't steered in the wrong direction. AI, so far, doesn't seem to have any ethical restraints.
Also recently, I have found that using all the speeches from well-known people that are available on the Internet, there is a program that can have them appear to be making a speech that is written by someone else. Uninformed people when they view these videos believe that they are real. So far, a careful examination of the videos proves that they are not real. For example, former president Obama often hesitates with the world “ah". If those pauses are not present, it's probably not Obama
AI has come a long way since my monogram in 1972 where my doctoral advisor asked me to change the name from Artificial Intelligence to Machine Intelligence. Perhaps even, Digital Intelligence would be more appropriate, because there is nothing artificial about intelligence.
And, AI is a far cry from the program I generated for my dissertation in 1973 that had the ability to add human information in its database and the ability to discard information that had no use over time. A form of self learning and improvement for the system.
Ron