I suspect that the fact that the participants could in most cases tell
they were arguing with an AI is very significant. If you lose the
argument to an AI it just means you were persuaded. If you lose to a
person they are "one up" on you. They may be trying to sell you
something beyond the argument.
Brent
On 5/21/2025 5:32 AM, John Clark wrote:
*An article in the May 19 2025 issue of the journal Nature reports
that if GPT-4 knows just a few facts about the person it is talking to
then it is 64% better than a human with similar information at
convincing another person that their conspiracy theory is wrong, and
to do that the AI had to use more than just logic because the
conspiracy theory was not originally caused by logic. *
*/"The results showed that when neither debater — human nor AI — had
access to background information on their opponent, GPT-4 and people
were about equally persuasive. But if the basic demographic
information from the initial surveys was given to the opponents before
the debate, GPT-4 out-argued humans 64% of the time. When provided
with even just this very minimal information, GPT-4 was significantly
more persuasive than humans. It was quite simple stuff that normally
can also be found online in social-media profiles.”/*
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*John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*
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