[HN Gopher] AI bot running for mayor in Wyoming (sort of)
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AI bot running for mayor in Wyoming (sort of)
Author : sabrina_ramonov
Score : 19 points
Date : 2024-06-18 21:38 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| pocketarc wrote:
| This is the sort of low-effort thing that makes people roll their
| eyes at AI. A simple GPT chatbot? That's it? It's not even some
| sort of orchestration system akin to Devin and the like, where it
| can do/process stuff as an independent agent (which, regardless
| of success rate, is far more complicated)?
|
| There's... nothing impressive about it at all (I guess the
| impressive part is "man successfully captures media attention,
| gets everyone talking about him" - that is an actual challenge,
| and props to him).
|
| It's also a bit rich to think "this is smarter than me, and so it
| is definitely smarter than some of the politicians out there". It
| just smacks of someone who has no idea what political work
| involves, and thinks a chatbot that can recite legal jargon is
| literally all it takes to be a politician.
|
| "oh this chatbot can recite all the documentation for all these
| different libraries, it's way smarter than some developers I've
| seen"
| thatmiddleway wrote:
| For people on HN, we know it's definitely low effort. For the
| general population though? Might be enough to get votes.
| mikestew wrote:
| _It just smacks of someone who has no idea what political work
| involves..._
|
| It also smacks of someone who might be vastly overestimating
| themselves. There might be a lot of things out there smarter
| than him, including every other politician, so let's not jump
| to conclusions _just_ yet.
| StableAlkyne wrote:
| > It's also a bit rich to think...it is definitely smarter than
| some of the politicians out there
|
| To be fair, there are some pretty awful politicians out there
| vasco wrote:
| Being low effort doesn't mean it's not better than the average
| politician. It also looks more like a protest than an actual
| candidacy, but specially if elected it would be interesting to
| see how he'd vote.
| CognitiveLens wrote:
| I read the first part of your post assuming you were being
| sarcastic about people's expectations that every mention of AI
| must be about a revolutionary technical advance rather than
| novel applications of existing tech. But I think you're serious
| - the news isn't "AI has made a big advance", the news is
| "people are testing the idea that AI might be better at policy
| decisions than some humans" - and that's interesting.
|
| There is a lot of evidence that many politicians don't have
| even a ChatGPT-level grasp of public policy, the legal system,
| or economics, but make up for it by being charming, personable,
| or subjectively "inspiring". It's fascinating to think about
| what a GPT would do with all the information that politicians
| have to work with, and whether that could actually result in
| more effective political decision making.
|
| Yes, letting ChatGPT call the shots doesn't solve the problem
| of actually _getting things done_, but that doesn't trivialize
| the effort to elect a "human being enacting ChatGPT
| instructions".
|
| As a side note, I smile at the idea that a GPT chatbot is a
| "simple" thing - how quickly we become inured to incredibly
| complex technology dressed up to be easily consumable.
| arvindh-manian wrote:
| Reminds me of the various animals that have been elected to
| office [1].
|
| [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-
| human_electoral_candidates
| acl777 wrote:
| https://archive.ph/U2LyC
| sg47 wrote:
| It should be fine-tuned on everything Tommy Carcetti said
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