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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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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 83 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Part of the breakdown:

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I remember often getting GPT-2 to act like this back in the "TalkToTransformer" days before ChatGPT etc. The model wasn't configured for chat conversations but rather just continuing the input text, so it was easy to give it a starting point on deep water and let it descend from there.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 53 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure Gemini was trained from my 2006 LiveJournal posts.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-m not going insane.

Same buddy, same

[–] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

Still at denial??

[–] unbuckled_easily933@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 week ago

Damn how’d they get access to my private, offline only diary to train the model for this response?

[–] josefo@leminal.space 22 points 1 week ago

That's my inner monologue when programming, they just need another layer on top of that and it's ready.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am a disgrace to all universes.

I mean, same, but you don't see me melting down over it, ya clanker.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago

Don’t be so robophobic gramma

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago

I can't wait for the AI future.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I almost feel bad for it. Give it a week off and a trip to a therapist and/or a spa.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then when it gets back, it finds out it's on a PIP

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Oof, been there

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know that's not an actual consciousness writing that, but it's still chilling. 😬

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 2 points 1 week ago

It seems like we're going to live through a time where these become so convincingly "conscious" that we won't know when or if that line is ever truly crossed.

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

now it should add these as comments to the code to enhance the realism