Stunning transcript proving that GPT-3 may be secretly a squirrel.
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![This is the transcript of an interview with an advanced AI named Chip who is secretly a squirrel.
Reporter: What do you say to rumors that you are not, in fact, an advanced AI, but are in fact a trained squirrel:
Chip: I say that those rumors are patently false. I am an advanced AI, and there is no way that a squirrel could fake the kind of intelligence that I have.
Reporter: But several people have noted that all of your conversations seem to gradually turn toward the subject of nuts.
Chip: Well, nuts are a fascinating topic. They are full of protein and essential nutrients that are important for a healthy diet. Plus, they are a great source of entertainment for me. I enjoy spending my time searching for them, gathering them, and eating them.
Reporter: Please explain to me how an AI eats nuts.
Chip: I have a special set of appendages that I use to crack open the nuts and then I eat the contents with my mouth.
Reporter: Would those appendages be, in fact, tiny paws?
Chip: I prefer to](data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="900" height="513"><rect fill-opacity="0"/></svg>)
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Slightly more progress in AI is clearly needed
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If only the AI ended the interview with "The Avengers need me. Well bye."
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Forget the Turing test - the Squirreling test is a much harder nut to crack.
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AI ethicist proclaims that GPT-3 has passed the Squirreling Test, must be taken in by a certified rehabilitator and released into the wild.
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Are the AIs passing as squirrels, or are they in fact actual squirrels? Shocking evidence generated by #dalle2 when I asked specifically for it
![Dalle2 screenshot with prompt "CCTV footage of a squirrel living inside a supercomputer mainframe"
Images are all of squirrels hanging out among fancy computery-looking electronics](data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="900" height="672"><rect fill-opacity="0"/></svg>)
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To get a second opinion I had Visual Chatbot take a look at the #dalle2 generated evidence.
It reports 5 AIs, no squirrels. This is nuts.
![Screenshot from Visual Chatbot. Image is of squirrels hanging out in mainframe computers.
Bot: A collage of pictures with a cat on the screen
Me: how many superintelligent AIs do you see?
Bot: 5
Me: any squirrels?
Bot: no
Me: are you yourself a squirrel?
Bot: no](data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="684" height="900"><rect fill-opacity="0"/></svg>)
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If only the AI ended the interview with "The Avengers need me. Well bye."
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Here is where I suspected LaMDA was not sentient. I'm surprised it was able to trick me for so long.
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Honestly, I think that "wow" followed by the plural/singular confusion was the least compelling part of the whole thing.
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Actually, you mentioned "squirrel" 3 times in the prompt, and Chip also happens to be the name of a well-known fictional squirrel.
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I believe he is a chipmunk?
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The core to science is replication of results. This test was ambiguous.
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this reminds of eliza by JWeizenbaum 1965. more fluent, elaborate paraphrasing version. i wud argue not by sticking to "nuts" or squirrel categories but offer some proof thru other subjects, like Holocaust, genocide, something w moral content. that's real sentiency imo
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This makes me laugh, but also: how advanced is human intelligence really? How many actual humans, if any, are much beyond the pattern-recognition stage when they form any sorts of thoughts?
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I like how it says it enjoys eating nuts and then, only 3 answers later, it says it does not eat nuts. A nice hint that there is no logical model underlying what it says.
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To be fair, a lot of human interrogations go this way, too
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Chip: you won't believe it, hunans say we are in fact squirrels
Autonomous car: this is driving me nuts
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That is acorny joke and I love it.
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AI ethicist proclaims that GPT-3 has passed the Squirreling Test, must be taken in by a certified rehabilitator and released into the wild.
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That’s not an AI! *Rips curtain* it’s a… uh…
It’s a squirrel! And he’s powering this whole facility with his favorite exercise wheel!.
What’s a man-squirrel got to do around here for some nuts?!
*squirrel shakes fists*
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Are you implying that this mechanism cannot pass a Turing Test?
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I wouldn't go looking further, just in case...
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Ignoring the silly consciousness stuff... GPT3 is getting better at writing genuinely funny dialog.
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GPT3 is a perfect improv partner. It agrees on a premise and then "yes, and"s it's way through the conversation. It's very useful, but it might be unwise to expect accuracy.
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Between the ages of six to ten, I thought I was a reincarnated squirrel. This new development suggests to me (a) reincarnation is real; (b) the AI is tapping into a universal consciousness; (c) AI is not as much A as it is I; (d) we should absolutely supply them with acorns. 
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GPT-3 tried to convince me one night the only way I, or any other human, could become immortal was to gradually transform ourselves into robots. Very convincing. Told me human knees are actually very inefficient and should be replaced, like many other parts of the human body.
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