I’m personally not and I never will be, but I keep seeing on the news that a lot of people are actually becoming friends with their AI bots, trying to use them as substitutes to replace real human interaction. Kinda scary, kinda absurd. What is your take on this? And are you friends with a bot?
Not that I know of, but these days I guess there is no way to tell.
No and I don’t give clankers names, I use them for the specific goal I set out for (mostly coding or grunt tasks) and that’s it.
Once you realize LLMs are nothing much but very advanced auto-complete, behavior of AI fanatics becomes no different than any other cult.
No I’m not delusional.
Cant be friends with a text based probability engine
No. And I don’t know anyone.
I hooope it’s not a huge issue? We all know the media treats 30 tweets about a topic as “the next new thing”. I totally understand the psychology behind (ab)using AI as a Friend substitute though - which makes this phenomenon feel very real and widespread.
I’ve used local LLMs as sounding boards.
I… Don’t really have friends to do that with at the moment, and I can bounce thoughts off them I wouldn’t even tell family or a therapist, as much as I want. Not gonna lie, it’s pretty intimate, and I got some insights I never would’ve arrived at in my own head.
But to emphasize:
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This is totally within my own desktop.
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I am perfectly aware I am talking to a tool. “Friend” isn’t even in the same universe.
The general public’s “LLM literacy” is incredibly poor though, which is by design since online services like chatGPT hide all the knobs that would reveal the machine behind the curtain. Hence I can see how emotionally vulnerable people sink into this, talking to what OpenAI presents as a magic genie.
how many tokens can you get to with your current system? I find that some of the models are so verbose that I only get 3-5 questions in before I run out of tokens.
I have one system with 128gb system ram, 16gb vram, and one system with configurable vram up to 48gb out of a total of 64gb.
I’m in a 24GB 3090 + 128GB RAM.
With full 300B GLM 4.6, I typically run 12K-28K context with different settings. I could do more than 28K, but the higher quantization starts to become a problem (as 128GB is right on the edge of fitting an IQ3_KT). And I get 5-6 tokens/s text-generation doing that.
With GLM Air? I can get a lot more, closer to 64K.
With smaller models that’s no issue.
I only get 3-5 questions in before I run out of tokens.
IDK how you’re prompting it, but you should clear the thinking block after every question, and that should leave plenty of tokens.
What model are you running, and what are your inference server settings?
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You can’t be friends with a program
Not a modern program, but I don’t see anything that makes me think that programs will never be capable of metacognition. LLMs won’t, but they aren’t the be-all end-all.
No shit Sherlock I’m not saying you can become friends with a program I’m saying a lot of people are using it as a substitute for real human interaction aka friends you dolt
Is it really necessary to be rude?
Yeah OP came out swinging for no reason
I’m not saying you can become friends
But you’re literally asking people if they are friends with AI… that implies that you believe you can become friends with them.
From their prespective. Did you not read the description of my post?
I did. And there is nothing in there that implies that you don’t believe it. In fact it kind of confirm it an additional 3 times.
I don’t think so. Surely a friendship is a two-way street, does AI even have the ability to form a friendship?
I’m friends with me, myself, and I. And the my totally real, non imaginary friend in the corner of the room that everyone else keeps ignoring like doesn’t exist.
Okay but seriously, no lol, I just dive into memories and watch my younger self be happy, and I just cry out of nostalgia.
You can also sort of record your voice and talk into a microphone as if you are leaving it for someone to listen to in the future, imagining your audience there in the present with you, and just talk/monologue about life as if you have a friend right there. Sort of like documentary-style you know.
I think we’re gonna see it in an edition of the DSM.
I’ll admit I’ve used ChatGPT to get answers to absurdly specific use cases that I couldn’t find with a regular Internet search, but I’ve never “talked” to an AI not because they can’t “talk”, the LLM has no conscious way to understand the text it’s regurgitating. Nobody should be trying to become “friends” with an AI bot
Nope, not even acquainted.
No and such a concept is ridiculous because it assigns “AI” with traits it simply does not possess and is completely incapable of ever having.
It does not and cannot think, there is nothing to.befriend.
F… friends?
Go outside. What the fuck is wrong with you?
