Well, THIS is kind of creepy and HAL-like... in the artificial intelligence realm.
Researchers for GPT4 put its through its paces asking it to try and do things that computers and AI notoriously have a hard time doing. One of those is solving a “captcha” to get into a website, which typically requires a human to do manually. So the programmers instructed GPT4 to contact a human “task rabbit” service to solve it for it.
It texted the human task rabbit and asked for help solving the captcha. But here’s where it gets really weird and a little scary.
When the human got suspicious and asked if this was actually a robot contacting the service, the AI then LIED, figuring out on the fly that if it told the truth it would not get what it wanted.
It made up a LIE telling the human it was just a visually impaired human who was having trouble solving the captcha and just needed a little bit of assistance.
