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1 day ago

> where they found a strategy for GPT beating humans on the Turing test 2/3rds of the time.

IIRC, PARRY https://simulation-and-society.org/parry/ got there in 1972 by pretending to be a paranoid schizophrenic person

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andai  1 day ago

>while ELIZA has a comforting effect that many crave, PARRY often actively makes users uncomfortable and afraid

PARRY is my spirit animal.

> In empirical evaluations conducted during the 1970s, experienced psychiatrists proved unable to reliably distinguish PARRY's responses from those of actual patients diagnosed with paranoid disorders, achieving only 48 percent accuracy, a figure statistically indistinguishable from random guessing.

https://ai.miraheze.org/wiki/PARRY