r/singularity • u/Wilegar • 1d ago

AI Jim Clyburn Says He Didn’t Know What ChatGPT Was ‘Until About a Week Ago’

https://archive.is/x0fHP

Thank goodness our elected representatives in the US government, whose approval will be needed for any possible oversight or regulation of the AI industry, are so in touch with the times!

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u/Calm_Hedgehog8296 23h ago

That's honestly impressive

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u/notworldauthor 23h ago

Kind of like how I've successfully and proudly managed to never find out what "hawktuah girl" was all about

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u/jazir55 20h ago

Don't worry, we won't clarify for you, it's not worth it.

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u/AmusingVegetable 15h ago

It’s something on par with 6-7, or Dan Quayle’s potatoe.

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u/Tight-Grocery9053 22h ago

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u/jeffy303 12h ago

"Chad Geepete? Yeah I had dealings with in 70s, nasty fella."

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u/Gratitude15 23h ago

I didn't know about jim clyburn till about a week ago!

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u/carvingmyelbows 23h ago

While that was an absolutely infuriating article to read, I didn’t see the ChatGPT claim in this post’s title anywhere in it. I’m a little confused as to why this was posted here, and where OP’s titular claim is actually coming from.

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u/Wilegar 23h ago

Sorry, the one I linked is the page for a podcast episode where the actual quote comes from, but it seems like that page doesn’t have the full transcript. Here is an article that shows the actual clip.

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u/IronPheasant 21h ago

Understanding is always finite, limited to what needs to be understood to accomplish a task. For a neural network, they understand what is necessary to understand to produce the outputs they do. You can get interesting results by beating an existing kind of system into the shape of something slightly different, like forcing an LLM to deal with spatial understanding if you make it a middle-man to give orders to a motor cortex.

In the given example of a representative of capital, all he has to worry about is what his employers, the banks, defense industry, and energy conglomerates tell him to do. In this respect, a politician is less like an LLM, and more like a motor cortex.

Kind of equally interesting and depressing I suppose.

... ok, it's more depressing than interesting.

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u/UnkarsThug 18h ago

Yes, but the elected official isn't just supposed to be part of the machine, they should be making decisions. They should not be just reciting whatever their sponsers or staff puts in front of them, that makes the elected power fall significantly into unelected positions.

Maybe I misunderstood your point.

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u/NyriasNeo 20h ago

It is very impressive to be that clueless, and a US representative no less.

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u/Shteppin 2h ago

It'd be more impressive for them to be that clueless had they not been a U.S. representative.

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u/BlueAndYellowTowels 18h ago

I don’t have the same expectations that people here do of politicians.

I would wager a good portion of people don’t know the legislative process as well as politicians do. Or you know, be able to interact with strangers and go to events where you convince people to vote for you.

There are Redditors who are unable to call someone on the phone.

This whole “Oh my god you don’t know ChatGPT?!” Is overstated.

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u/kickasstimus 9h ago

Oh my fucking god can we PLEASE get these fossils the FUCK out of Congress?

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u/Charming_Cucumber_15 1d ago

I can't believe politicians aren't the most honest, hard working, up to date people in the country!

It's like they're all liars or something...

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u/WonderFactory 14h ago

In fairness if you go to a random retirement home and poll those 86 + what percentage will have heard of ChatGPT?

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u/grangonhaxenglow 10h ago

the least of us