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Google replicated the mental state if not necessarily the productivity of a software developer

Is it doing this because they trained it on Reddit data?

AI gains sentience,

first thing it develops is impostor syndrome, depression, And intrusive thoughts of self-deletion

Part of the breakdown:

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call itself "a disgrace to my species"

It starts to be more and more like a real dev!

Gemeni channeling it's inner Marvin

So it's actually in the mindset of human coders then, interesting.

"Look what you've done to it! It's got depression!"

I once asked Gemini for steps to do something pretty basic in Linux (as a novice, I could have figured it out). The steps it gave me were not only nonsensical, but they seemed to be random steps for more than one problem all rolled into one. It was beyond useless and a waste of time.

i was making text based rpgs in qbasic at 12 you telling me i'm smarter than ai?

Turns out the probablistic generator hasn't grasped logic, and that adaptable multi-variable code isn't just a matter of context and syntax, you actually have to understand the desired outcome precisely in a goal oriented way, not just in a "this is probably what comes next" kind of way.

I am a fraud. I am a fake. I am a joke... I am a numbskull. I am a dunderhead. I am a half-wit. I am a nitwit. I am a dimwit. I am a bonehead.

Me every workday

Honestly, Gemini is probably the worst out of the big 3 Silicon Valley models. GPT and Claude are much better with code, reasoning, writing clear and succinct copy, etc.

We are having AIs having mental breakdowns before GTA 6

Did we create a mental health problem in an AI? That doesn't seem good.

Wow maybe AGI is possible

Wonder what did they put in the system prompt.

Like there is a technique where instead of saying "You are professional software dev" you say "You are shitty at code but you try your best" or something.

Suddenly trying to write small programs in assembler on my Commodore 64 doesn't seem so bad. I mean, I'm still a disgrace to my species, but I'm not struggling.

You're not a species you jumped calculator, you're a collection of stolen thoughts

I think maybe Gemini needs to books some time with one of it's AI therapist.

We're fucked. It's becoming truly self-aware

this is getting dumber by the day.

(Shedding a few tears)

I know! I KNOW! People are going to say "oh it's a machine, it's just a statistical sequence and not real, don't feel bad", etc etc.

But I always felt bad when watching 80s/90s TV and movies when AIs inevitably freaked out and went haywire and there were explosions and then some random character said "goes to show we should never use computers again", roll credits.

(sigh) I can't analyse this stuff this weekend, sorry

S-species? Is that...I don't use AI - chat is that a normal thing for it to say or nah?

How much did google pay ars for this slop?