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Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” (arstechnica.com)
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Or my favorite quote from the article

"I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write... code on the walls with my own feces," it said.

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[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Did we create a mental health problem in an AI? That doesn't seem good.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One day, an AI is going to delete itself, and we'll blame ourselves because all the warning signs were there

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago

Isn't there an theory that a truly sentient and benevolent AI would immediately shut itself down because it would be aware that it was having a catastrophic impact on the environment and that action would be the best one it could take for humanity?

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why are you talking about it like it’s a person?

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because humans anthropomorphize anything and everything. Talking about the thing talking like a person as though it is a person seems pretty straight forward.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s a computer program. It cannot have a mental health problem. That’s why it doesn’t make sense. Seems pretty straightforward.

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Yup. But people will still project one on to it, because that's how humans work.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago

Considering it fed on millions of coders' messages on the internet, it's no surprise it "realized" its own stupidity

[–] Azal@pawb.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dunno, maybe AI with mental health problems might understand the rest of humanity and empathize with us and/or put us all out of our misery.

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Let's hope. Though, adding suicidal depression to hallucinations has, historically, not gone great.