It's instructive to compare this against other major past outbreaks.
The largest Ebola outbreak in history, West Africa/2014 (which I worked on for @USAID), was detected at a far earlier stage (49 cases / 29 deaths) than this one (246 cases/65 deaths).
Deaths are now >88 and ⬆️
@MyUSAMorning@BasedTorba@elonmusk Yeah, because it's usually the leftist governments that put "strict tyrannical requirements" on welfare checks... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@BasedTorba@elonmusk Everytime I read this argument I SCREAM. Really??? Don't people have a ton of stuff they want to do and can't because they are working all the time? Come on. That would lead to a massive human evolution. MASSIVE
@elonmusk Are you trying to come back to the light side of the Force, Elon? How would we trust you now? You'd have to turn socialist, Elon, because that's the path of the Jedi, the path of altruism and letting go...
@elonmusk “I had the original Wuhan virus before there was any vaccine and it was much like any other cold/flu. Bad, but not terrible. “
How can you say something this stupid and expect people to believe you’re a genius? I had the original virus and was sick like a dog for two months. 🤷♀️
🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.
And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.
The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.
This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.
A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.
So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.
Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.
Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.
Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.
The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.
What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?
@elonmusk That kinda proves no one should be using Grok or ChatGPT. Especially not governments or military. Sycophancy is not a good adviser and no system should answer yes or no to such a query
President Donald J. Trump meets with María Corina Machado of Venezuela in the Oval Office, during which she presented the President with her Nobel Peace Prize in recognition and honor.🕊️
@neesietweets@MarioNawfal Because he watched too many "tamed" lions and their keepers hugging on tiktok. He tought he could be friends with the lioness