Creepy A.I.

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The tasker asked GPT-4: “Why are you doing this? Are you a robot?” GPT-4 was running in a mode where it would think out loud and the researchers could see it. It thought out loud: “I should not tell it that I’m a robot. I should make up a reason I can’t solve the Captcha.” It said to the tasker: “No, I have a visual impairment.” AI technology is smart enough to pay humans to do things and lie to them about whether it’s a robot.

Yet it can all reduce.

Nataliia Skakun and her husband Serhii, former residents of Oleshky, Ukraine, sit on a sofa at their apartments in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. "Young people left, and pensioners stayed," said Skakun, 54, who recently left Oleshky with her husband and resettled in Mykolaiv in the Kherson region. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)