Rather one should ask "Would you be able to answer any question and fulfill any request about the Grand Canyon given to you by others in a way that will be indistinguishable from someone who has been to the Grand Canyon"
This is setting up a contrast between long term memory and an LLM.
You might equally contrast someone who is physically in the Grand Canyon with an LLM given access to a drone with sensory attachments. I'd bet that if you told groups of humans and drone-controlling AIs to find something interesting, the humans would be more variable and cover a wider range of interesting discoveries but often just give up on the task, while the AI would be more likely to find something but would cluster around certain discoveries and make fewer overall.
What is the current ratio of opened to unopened cans of soda in the canyon, and how has that ratio developed over the last thirty days?
I'd be fantastically surprised if you could provide a precise answer to any such question without extensive security footage that doesn't exist.
An estimate, perhaps, but you probably couldn't even answer a simpler "how many people are currently in the canyon" without resorting to estimation given the lack of information currently available via the mentioned sources.
The IRS sees a clean million dollars in your bank account. They ask "how did you get that?" You answer "Oh I just sold this super expensive thing on a marketplace". Then they ask "Ok, but how did you get/buy this expensive thing?"
What do you say?
> They ask "how did you get that?" You answer "Oh I just sold this super expensive thing on a marketplace". Then they ask "Ok, but how did you get/buy this expensive thing?" What do you say?
This is not the part cryptocurrency replaces. If you suddenly have a million dollars and you say it's because you sold some Bitcoin, they're just going to ask where you got a million dollars worth of Bitcoin.
Moreover, the answer in practice is that they make something up. Pretend they're playing Storage Wars and finding treasures when they're actually buying worthless storage lockers with a tiny amount of clean money and expensive items with dirty money, or sell things they could plausibly claim to have made themselves or restored/repaired themselves. There are tons of real companies whose business is to haul away some other company's junk and then try to sell it, but then who can say whether or not all the TVs they're selling were among the pallets of junk they were paid to haul away from a dozen different corporate offices?
The obviously fake ones were easy to detect, and the less obvious ones took some some sleuthing to detect. But the good fakes totally fly under the radar. You literally have no idea how much of the images you see are doctored well because you can't tell.
Same for LLMs in the near future (or perhaps already). What will we do when we'll realize we have no way of distinguishing man from bot on the internet?
I'd say the fact that you know theres some photoshop jobs you can't detect is proof enough that we're surviving it. It's not necessarily that we can identify it with 100% accuracy, but that we consider it a possibility with every image we see online
> What will we do when we'll realize we have no way of distinguishing man from bot on the internet?
The idea is this is a completely different scenario if we're aware of this being a potential problem versus not being at all aware of it. Maybe we won't be able to tell 100% of the time, but its something which we'll consider.
A few days ago Sergey Brin said "We don't circulate this too much in the AI community – not just our models but all models – tend to do better if you threaten them … with physical violence"
This reminds me of that funny detail in a YouTube video by “Programmers are also human” on professional vibe coders where he keeps ending his orders to the LLM with “.. or you go to jail.”
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I would like .COM domains to ~ 1000$ per year. As these domains are intended (and actually are) used for COMmercial ventures, the sum should be low enough to not be a burden on even a small real business, but be high enough to not be economically viable for squatting.
Rather one should ask "Would you be able to answer any question and fulfill any request about the Grand Canyon given to you by others in a way that will be indistinguishable from someone who has been to the Grand Canyon"