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Re:Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k gro... by tenacious_tuna on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:24PM (#35543343)
There's a scifi book I was reading a couple years ago that had this as a presence--models of people's personalities a la LLMs were a commodity, but they varied wildly in how accurate they were. Alphas were supposed to be 1-to-1 with the originating personality (to the point that they had legal protections? I can't remember), whereas gammas were used to menial things, like serving as a phone-menu style gatekeeper to the real person.

I can't for the life of me remember the name of the novel though... I'll have to go digging through my bookshelves later.

(Maybe Revelation Space, by Alistair Reynolds...?)

Re:Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k gro... by rolisz on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:32PM (#35543489)
Yes, Revelation Space had alphas (which were illegal if I remember correctly) and betas (which were less capable but legal)
Re:Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k gro... by EarthLaunch on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:17PM (#35544263)
'Permutation City' by Greg Egan had this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City

Re:Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k gro... by og_kalu on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @05:33PM (#35547284)
GPT-4 thinks it's "The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi or "Glasshouse" by Charles Stross.

Correct ?

Re:Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k gro... by tenacious_tuna on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:27PM (#35547908)
Nope, I confirmed it's Revelation Space :) I haven't read either of those, though I have liked other works of Stross's!

(I never considered using GPT-4 as a book recommendation engine... Curious how well that'd work.)

Re:Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k gro... by int_19h on Friday April 14, 2023 @03:00AM (#35566382)
The idea of "recreating" historical personas in sci-fi is very old, and the issue with accuracy has also been raised early. One that comes to my mind in particular is this one from 1950s, although the artificial personality is technically not an AI (it's hosted in a human brain):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Work_of_Art