Why Do A.I. Chatbots Tell Lies and Act Weird? Look in the Mirror.
One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence argues that chatbots are often prodded into producing strange results by the people who are using them.
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Why A.I. Movies Couldn’t Prepare Us for Bing’s Chatbot
Instead of the chilling rationality of HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” we get the messy awfulness of Microsoft’s Sydney. Call it the banality of sentience.
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New technology, same old blind spot?
Don’t just look at what technology can do, look at what it helps people do to each other.
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Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT
The state’s hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs’ reluctance to invest for the long term. It wasn’t always that way.